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BORDER LEGEND: Mexico City–based librettists Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol will perform several vignettes taken from the
turbulent life story of the larger-than-life revolutionary Pancho Villa. Alex Marks
City OKs rezoning
for towers near
Botanic Garden
Housing lottery open Chorus sings notes from a dad
at Coney complex
BY JULIANNE CUBA
Let’s hear it from the
boys!
A chorus of young men
will give voice to the troubles
facing boys growing
up in a chaotic world during
the fi rst part of a concert
series featuring socially
aware new tunes.
“Amplify,” playing at National
Opera tells Mexican
renegade’s story
No wall could have stopped him.
A bi-lingual opera will tell
the story of an enigmatic Mexican
to the poor.
“Pancho Villa From a Safe
Distance” opening at Bric on
Jan. 5, will feature a non-linear
collage of scenes from the turbulent
dictators and narrowly escaped
death numerous times before
his mysterious assassination in
1923 — all of which made him a
larger-than-life fi gure on both
sides of the Mexican-American
border, according to the show’s
composer.
“Even before he was assassinated,
than he was. You go through
west Texas or northern Mexico
how someone in their family
was either on Pancho’s side or
against,” said Graham Reynolds,
who created the show with direc-
Sawdust on Jan. 8 as
part of the Ferus Festival of
new work, will feature the
Brooklyn Youth Chorus’s
Concert Ensemble and its
Men’s Ensemble, which includes
male singers aged 12
to 21.
The latter group will
sing words drawn from a
letter from a black father
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
revolutionary who reportedly
stole from the rich and gave
life of Villa, who led rebellions
against several Mexican
his legend was larger
and everyone has a story of
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to his son, the fi rst song in
“A Songbook for Social Justice,”
its composer said.
“It’s a collection of
songs I’m composing, each
one by a different writer
created around issues
concerning social justice,
equity, and incarceration,”
said National Saw-
BY COLIN MIXSON
The city approved a developer’s
request to upzone land near the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden to
make way for two controversial
towers, after a Crown Heights
councilwoman hashed out a
deal she claims will nearly double
the amount of below-marketrate
housing included in the
project.
“This is nothing short of a
miracle to announce I have secured
commitments to increase
affordable housing,” Crown
Heights Councilwoman Laurie
Cumbo boasted at a Dec. 13
Council Subcommittee on Zoning
and Franchises hearing,
ahead of the body’s full vote on
Dec. 20.
Developers Cornell Realty
and Carmel Partners originally
sought to build two 16-story towers
near Franklin Avenue at 40
Crown St. and 931 Carroll St.,
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
There’s no place like a new
home for the holidays!
Eligible locals can now
apply for dozens of belowmarket
rate units inside a
new Coney Island building
via the city’s housing lottery,
which started accepting
requests on Dec. 27.
Builders of the in-progress,
mixed-use Surf Vets
Place complex on W. 21st
Street near Surf Avenue
set aside 52 units inside it
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SWEET SONGS OF YOUTH:
The Brooklyn Youth Chorus’s
Men’s Ensemble will perform
on Jan. 8. Radhika Chalasani
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