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CHARMED, I’M SURE: Brooklyn goth-folk duo Charming Disaster will perform in Coney Island on April 19. Shervin Lainez Continued on page 14
City to spend $900K
on bathroom fi x
P’ Sloper fi ghts Celine Dion comes to Bklyn
deadly infection
BY MAYA HARRISON
Her tour will go on and on!
Legendary pop artist
Celine Dion will perform
at Barclays Center for two
nights early next year, but
if you want to get a seat,
you should get ready right
now! Dion will land at Barclays
on Feb. 28, 2020, as
Duo sings of
murder and
witchcraft
The road to Disaster ends in Coney
Island!
A Brooklyn duo known for its
murder ballads and witchcraftinspired
fi rst national tour with a ghoulish
Sea. The band Charming Disaster
act Cookie Tongue at Coney Island
on folk tales and mystical stories
for their songs, said Charming
Disaster’s ukulele player.
“The subject matter tends to
be on the darker side. We get a lot
of our inspiration from folk lore,
fairy tales, and ancient mythologies,”
sings and plays piano with bandmate
part of her Courage World
Tour — her fi rst tour of the
United States in more than
a decade.
The vocal star said that
the she is eager to get on the
road again after her 16-year
residency at Caesar’s Palace
in Las Vegas, the queen
said in a press release.
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
tunes will wrap up its
concert at the Sodom by the
will open for surreal rock
USA on April 19, launching
the 2019 “Music of Curiosities”
series. Both bands drawn
said Ellia Bisker, who also
and guitarist Jeff Morris.
“I’m so grateful to all
the fans who have come to
see my show in Las Vegas
for so many years, and now
I get the chance to create a
brand new show and bring
it to them in North America,
and around the world.
I’m very excited about this
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
Relief is en route.
The city will spend $900,000
to refurbish a comfort station
at a Gravesend playground that
has been non-operational for
more than 20 years, offi cials
announced last week.
The announcement marks the
end of the Parks Department’s
years-long effort to fi nd funding to
reopen the Marlboro Playground
toilet house, according to the agency’s
borough commissioner, who
added that the renovations will allow
youngsters and their parents
to spend more time enjoying their
playtime and less time worrying
about fi nding a lavatory.
“Our Commissioner Mitchell
Silver says it’s our business to
make sure you can do your business,”
Marty Maher told members
of Community Board 13 at its
March 27 board meeting. “We’ve
been waiting for a long time to get
this done.”
Board members voted 27–3 at
the meeting to signal their support
for the measure after the city Public
Design Commission requested the
board take an advisory vote on the
plan to update the structure at the
playground at W. 11th Street and
Avenue W.
The comfort station has been
BY COLIN MIXSON
He’s making a C. diff-erence.
A Park Slope man took
his crusade against a
deadly infection that annually
kills tens of thousands
of Americans to Washington,
D.C., on April 9, where
he and more than two dozen
other advocates lobbied legislators
to pass new laws in
the hope of saving lives.
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COURAGE: Celine Dion’s
Courage Tour will come to
Barclays Center in 2020.
Brian Purnell
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