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Cat Cafe ‘WHITE’ ON TIME
ROOM WITH A VIEW: Lars Jan’s play “The White Album” stars Mia Barrow and will immerse 20 selected members of the
audience on stage in a set designed to look like a mid-century California mansion. Rafael Hernandez
BY BILL ROUNDY
Hop on the slopes!
A winter skiing-themed
beer festival will slalom into
Sunset Park next month.
The Juicy Brews Winter Invitational
Craft Beer Festival
, happening at Five Boroughs
Brewing Company
on Dec. 8, will feature fake
Activism takes
stage in play
Call it a drama for dramatic
times.
A new interactive play delves
deep into the turbulent 1960s,
drawing a connection to the
struggles of young political activists
opening at the Brooklyn Academy
on Nov. 28, adapts journalist Joan
Didion’s 1978 essay of the same
name for the stage and examines
how the dramatic changes of that
decade resonate today, according
to its director.
“I was interested to see
whether the most defi ning issues
youth in the 1960s resonate with
the issues of young activists today,”
said Lars Jan.
Didion’s essay takes a fi rstperson
events that challenged American
society in the fi nal years of the
decade, including the Black Panthers,
Manson Family murders, all of
snow, free hot chocolate,
a snowboard raffl e, neon
outfi ts, and samples of suds
from two dozen breweries,
turning the Sunset Park
brewery into a boozy ski
lodge from the 1980s. The
wacky theme is a reaction
to more prosaic beer festivals
that all feel the same,
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
in 2018. “The White Album,”
of Music’s Harvey Theater
that were questioned by the
look at the movements and
student protests, and the
Continued on page 6
said the event’s founder.
“I’ve attended too many
boring beer festivals where
I walk around with a plastic
cup and sample the same
tepid beer I could buy at a
local bodega. I was tired of
it,” said Kenny Gould. “We
wanted to create a wholly
BY JULIANNE CUBA
It’s meow-sic to cat lovers’ ears!
The do-gooders behind Atlantic
Avenue’s Brooklyn Cat Cafe
— where locals can pop in and
play around with pusses looking
for forever homes — said they are
shuttering the current location
on Sunday ahead of its move to
an even-bigger space in Brooklyn
Heights, which operators intend
to debut early next month.
“It’s a very good space that allows
us to do a lot more outreach,
rescuing, and events,” said Anne
Levin, who with fellow members
of rescue group the Brooklyn
Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition
opened the cafe in 2016.
The group will announce the
cafe’s new address as soon as paperwork
for the move is fi nalized,
according to Levin, who said the
rescuers hope the new space will
be up and running for furballs in
the next few weeks, and plan to
host a grand-reopening bash at
their new digs in February.
The group, which opened
its current storefront between
Henry and Clinton streets in 2016,
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
They want this hotel developer
to check out!
A builder must stop
work on its in-progress inn
rising along Kings Highway
in East Flatbush, locals
and pols demanded at
a recent protest.
Roughly 30 opponents
including Councilman Ju-
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WINTER WARMER: VIP
guests at the festival receive
this fancy glass.
Grace Weitz
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getting a
new home
Locals, pols rally Ski-themed beer tasting
against new hotel
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