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EAT PREY, LOVE Dog owners
GONE TO THE DOGS: The world is a dystopia fi lled with vicious killers in the abstract play “The Dog, The Night, and The
Knife,” opening at Irondale in Fort Greene on March 15. Photo by Caroline Ourso
Driver fatally hits BPL hosts comics class
Marine Park senior
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
It is more than a panel discussion!
A new cartooning workshop
will teach aspiring illustrators
how to turn their
ideas into complete comic
books, at the Brooklyn
Public Library on March
23. The class is designed to
A dystopian
play debuts in
Fort Greene
It’s a dog-eat-dog world.
A bizarre new play will use a
terrifying landscape of cannibals
and fl esh-eating canines to examine
“The Dog, The Night, and
The Knife,” written by the German
Mayenburg and translated into
English by Maja Zade, will have
its United States premiere at
the Irondale in Fort Greene on
March 15. It tells the story of
“M,” a woman who fi nds herself
pursued through a brutal dystopia
middle of the night, according to
its director.
“The play is her journey
through the night where she’s being
survive and trying not to become
provide support to artists
of all experience levels, according
to its curator.
“We want to lower the
barrier to entry for cartoonists
who maybe don’t have
the money, or don’t know
where to start. But also, we
want to allow cartoonists
to meet other cartoonists,
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
the selfi shness of human relationships.
playwright Marius van
where time is stuck in the
hunted and chased by bloodthirsty
creatures and trying to
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editors, and publishers,”
said Leigh Hurwitz, an outreach
coordinator at the library.
“Everything is Comics:
How to Make Anything
You Want” is the latest installment
in the monthly
“Cool Work x Interesting
fur-ious over
crack down
on leash laws
BY COLIN MIXSON
Call it paw enforcement!
Department of Parks and Recreation
patrolmen ambushed dog
walkers at a Carroll Gardens park
this month to crack down on pup
owners who walk their furballs
off-leash, according to one hapless
human, who said one minute
he was walking his dog Cassie,
and the next minute he was surrounded!
“It reminded me of ICE tactics,”
said a Carroll Gardener
Remko de Jong, referring to the
federal Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency. “It was
defi nitely an ambush — it came
out of nowhere. There was no way
to escape.”
Locals for decades have used
the gated black top at Carroll
Park on President Street as an
unoffi cial dog run, according to
De Jong.
The park is plastered with
signs strictly forbidding taking
dogs off their leashes at any time,
but rogue visitors who do let their
hounds loose are generally respectful,
cleanup after their four-
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
A driver hit and killed a
senior while backing into
the driveway of his Marine
Park home on March
6, police said.
The 49-year-old motorist
struck 85-year-old
Stella Clinton with his
Toyota Highlander at 4:30
pm, as she walked past the
driveway of his Avenue S
home near Brown Street
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DELIVERING COMICS: Learn
to draw at a class on comics
at the Public Library.
Laura Lannes
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