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Sweetback Sisters host singalong
Call it the Jingle Bell House.
The Sweetback Sisters will
bring the gift of honky-tonk yuletide
on Dec. 19, while celebrating its
10th annual Country Christmas
the show, the seven-piece will
play holiday favorites arranged
for public participation and performed
and swing styles, in a red-andgreen
YULE LOVE IT: Ex-Brooklynites Emily Miller (left) and Zara Bode will return
to the borough for the “10th annual Sweetback Sisters Country Christmas
Sing-Along Spectacular,” which will fi ll the Bell House with honky-tonk arrangements
of holiday favorites on Dec. 19. Anja Shutz
BY BILL ROUNDY
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
tunes back to the Bell House
Singalong Spectacular. At
in country, Americana,
She’s keeping the party rolling
all year!
The host of a summer
roller disco party recently
opened a new indoor space,
offering skaters a chance
to spin all winter without
freezing their wheels.
The Dreamland Roller
been growing for the past decade,
according to one of the band’s titular
too much trouble for Christmas,
so we are defi nitely pulling out
everything we have,” said Emily
friend (and not relation) singer
Zara Bode.
Rink debuted inside Industry
singers.
“Our motto is that nothing is
Miller, who forms the centerpiece
of the band along with her
City with an sold-out
“Spice Girls in Xanadu”
party on Dec. 7.
Host Lola Star, known
for throwing elaborately
themed roller disco events
at the LeFrak Center in
Prospect Park, said that
opening the indoor space
extravaganza that has
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was the logical next step.
“In Prospect Park we
had our best season ever,
we were sold out almost
every night,” said Star. “It
was time for me to take my
dream to the next level.”
The new space, across
the courtyard from the
Ice Cream Factory
booted from park
BY JULIANNE CUBA
Time is quickly melting away for
this beloved creamery!
The owners of the Brooklyn
Ice Cream Factory in Brooklyn
Bridge Park must close their
store inside the historic fi reboat
station at Fulton Ferry Landing
by the end of the year, after
green-space stewards handed the
keys to the property to the folks
behind another borough scoop
shop, Ample Hills Creamery.
“They made a choice, I have
until the end of this month to vacate,”
said Mark Thompson, who
owns the Dumbo creamery with
restaurateur Buzzy O’Keefe of
the famous River Cafe next door.
News of the Factory’s imminent
end came as a cold slap in
the face to dozens of fans of the
creamery at the Dumbo end of
the park — which opened in 2001
back when the city’s Economic
Development Corporation operated
the station — many of whom
left comments lamenting the
change on an Instagram post announcing
its closure.
“Wait just one minute! I always
stop and get ice cream, even
got my friends hooked too,” Instagram
user Cetera D. said. “You
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
They’re making a bid for
change!
A contingent of Coney Islanders
this month kicked
off the formal process to
create a city sanctioned
business-boosting group in
the neighborhood, which
they say will stimulate the
local economy by beautifying
the area, providing support
to mom-and-pop shops
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SPIN CITY: Lola Star opened
her new roller rink in Industry
City on Dec. 7.
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Licked!
Coney locals push Indoor skate rink opens
‘bid’ plan forward
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