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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, MARCH 10, 2019
Your lucky days!
The borough’s best places to celebrate St. Patrick’s
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Brooklyn is going green!
Saint Patrick’s Day will
fall on a Sunday this year,
which means a full weekend
of Celtic celebrations!
We have found some of
Brooklyn’s fi nest shindigs
honoring the Emerald Isle,
in order to help you plan
your holiday!
Rhythm nation
The National Dance
Company of Ireland will
roll out a two-hour extravaganza
of song and step
dancing in “Rhythm of the
Dance.” The show uses 22
step dancers, three tenors,
and a live band to bring
the audience on a journey
through Irish history, from
ancient mythology in the
Old Country to the mass
emigration to New York
City’s glistening skyscrapers.
“Rhythm of the Dance”
at On Stage at Kingsborough
2001 Oriental Boulevard
at Quentin Street
in Manhattan Beach, (718)
368–5596, www.onstageatkingsborough.
org. March 15
at 8 pm. $32–$34.
Red hot
Instead of green beer
and Pogues cover bands, go
where the classiness is up
and the clothes are down!
The annual all-redheads
burlesque spectacular
known as “Nasty Canasta’s
St. Patrick’s Day for Sinners”
returns to Gowanus
on March 16, and the night
promises to be an alternative
to drunken douchebaggery.
The evening will star
Nasty Canasta, assisted by
Rita N Wink, and feature
STEPPING UP: (Above) The BEER FEST
National Dance Company of
Ireland will perform a twohour
performances by burlesque
beauties Clara Coquette,
Dandy Dillinger, Francine
the Lucid Dream, Gal Friday,
Gin Minsky, Pearls
Daily, and Tigger.
“Nasty Canasta’s St.
Patrick’s Day for Sinners”
at Littlefi eld (635 Sackett St.
between Third and Fourth
avenues in Gowanus, www.
littlefi eldnyc.com). March
16 at 8 pm. $15–$30.
Gaelic grub
Start your St. Patrick’s
Day off right at
Fort Hamilton’s Community
Club, which will host
an Irish-themed brunch.
Don’t forget to wear green
(and to bring photo identifi
cation so you can get
on the base)!
St. Patrick’s Day
Brunch at Fort Hamilton
MWR 207 Sterling Dr. at
Grimes Road in Bay Ridge,
(718) 765–7368, hamilton.
armymwr.com. March 17;
11 am–2 pm. Free.
Brogue brunch
Bushwick’s prime cider
spot will host an all-day
brunch with Irish-themed
additions to its menu, including
“Luck of the Irish”
— a shot of Jameson and
a glass of house cider —
along with green eggs and
ham, corned beef and cabbage,
and streams of green
cider!
St. Patrick’s Day Bash at
Brooklyn Cider House 1100
Flushing Ave. at Varick
Avenue in Bushwick, (347)
295–0308, www.brooklynciderhouse.
com. March 17;
11 am–11 pm. Free.
Young talent
Singer and songwriter
Ryan O’Shaughnessy was
Ireland’s entry to the Eurovision
Songcontest in
2018, an annual European
competition which has
produced notables such as
ABBA and Celine Dion.
You can discover Ryan’s
pop catalog and sing along
to Irish classics at this music
fi lled afternoon, presented
by Eurovision and
New York City Gay Craft
Beer Lovers.
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Other Half plans to
pour Cookie Kooks, an
imperial stout brewed in
collaboration with Swedish
beer-maker Omnipollo,
which will also be at
the festival with its medley
of sugary, breakfastinspired
brews. Cookie
Kooks boasts an intoxicating
15.4-percent alcohol
by volume, which is three
times more potent than a
Budweiser, but is typical
of the type of beers that
ticket holders can expect
at Pastrytown.
That big buzz is the
big reason that Monahan
and his crew worked
hard to ensure there
will be plenty of food options
— including Ample
Hills Creamery, Bien
Cuit, Coolhaus, Four and
Twenty Blackbirds, Milk
Bar, and Supermoon
Bakehouse — to help fortify
stomachs against the
effects of too much sugarladen
alcohol.
“Because of the high
ABV, we want to make
sure people aren’t completely
annihilated,” Monahan
said. “There’s a lot
of food and a lot of water
available at this thing.”
And because Other
Half just happens to employ
several professional
wrestlers, the warriors
of the New York Wrestling
Connection will be
on hand to duke it out in
a series of catastrophic,
blood-soaked free-for-alls
for the amusement of Pastrytown
revelers.
“It’s so much fun,”
said Monahan. “At some
point there’s 10 or 15 of
these guys in the ring at
the same time, they have
all sorts of props out,
they’re high fl ying — it’s
bust.”
Drink dessert and
watch pro wrestling at
Industry City 220 36th
St. Suite 2A, between Second
and Third Avenue in
Sunset Park, pastrytown.
otherhalfbrewing.com.
March 16; noon–4 pm.
$100.
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extravaganza of song
and dance on March 15 at Onstage
at Kingsborough. (Right)
A proper pipe and drum band
marched in last year’s Brooklyn
Saint Patrick’s Day parade
through Park Slope.
File photo by Jason Speakman
WHAT’S COOKIN’?: Other Half Brewing will pour its Cookie
Crisp–inspired stout at Pastrytown on March. 16.
Photo by Trey Pentecost
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