Forgive the hard sell, but I can pretty much guarantee that you want learn how to turn plain old construction paper into something that looks like this:
Right?
Great! Then you should definitely take our marbled papers class with Jessica from Happy Go Crafty this week, on either Tuesday, April 30 or Thursday, May 2nd. It's the last time we'll have it on the calendar for a good long bit, so don't miss out!
For those of you around during the afternoon, we've got a few daytime classes coming up at our Prospect Heights location. Look out for more througout the summer as well!
How to Be a Connector
Wednesday, May 1, 3pm
Everyone knows that one person who knows everyone. If you want to learn gardening, they have a contact. A job in finance, check. A voiceover artist to coach you in starting your new podcast? Easy....
Today I did a very adult thing and bought a membership to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which allowed me to spend the rest of the afternoon reading in the grass under a flowering cherry tree. Pretty much the best $50 I've spent in a long time.
It looked kinda like this:
When I wasn't hanging out under a tree, I was Instagramming a million pics of the annual bed of tulips, which happen to be plante...
Come on down to Public Assembly in Williamsburg on Tuesday, April 30, for our monthly Masters of Social Gastronomy lecture. This month we're talking about sugar and artificial sweeteners.
What'll we cover?
Brooklyn's had a long relationship with sugar, from Williamsburg's Domino Sugar factory to the Navy Yard's love child Sweet n' Low. We'll follow sugar's path from sticky brown foodstuff to pinnacle of modern sci...
Want to dig around in the dirt? Lug gravel from one place to another? Build planter boxes? This is the email list for you!
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Join the Brainery Backyard Work Crew to get emails about when we need a hand fixing up the backyard! Tomorrow, Wednesday April 17th we're gonna need a hand installing our patio.
Once it's done, we'll have outdoor classes galore, bu...
We're hosting a special class in conjunction with the awesome Brooklyn Contra group. Their next dance is Friday, April 26th, and you can sign up for a special Brainery group lesson starting at 7pm, before the official dance and lesson begin at 7:30pm. The $25 price gets you the extra 1/2 hour lesson and admission to the dance, which runs until 11pm.
Sign up here: http://brooklynbrain...
Until yesterday, I didn't know what a crocus was, even though I've seen hundreds of them over the past few days. I'm kind of ashamed of that, so I thought it would be useful to learn the names of a few of the common spring flowers we're starting to see while out and about. Onward!
Daffodils
Okay, they're yellow and everywhere everywhere everywhere. You've probably seen a handful of them today just walking t...
We have tons and tons of classes open for registration over the next week or so--instant learning gratification!
In Carroll Gardens
Serial Killers - Tuesday, April 2
Dreamcatchers: The Ultimate Summer Camp Craft - Tuesday, April 2
Bugs in the Kitchen: The Science of Cooking & Eating - Wednesday, April 3
In Prospect Heights
Playing with Power: Nintendo's Lasting Influence - Tuesday, Ap...
Every month, we do a free live food lecture up in Williamsburg with our Very Good Friend Sarah Lohman, author of the blog Four Pounds Flour. (The next one's Tuesday, March 26, and you should go.) It's called Masters of Social Gastronomy and Sarah covers the history side of the topic while Soma tackles the science. There's lots of beer and some samples and a generally good time. In the past year or so, we've covere...
New York has practically everything I need to research our monthly Masters of Social Gastronomy lectures. Weird meat? Chinatown sells alligator. Fake meat? Chinatown sells vegetarian alligator. Sweeteners? Sweet n' Low is made a half-mile from my house.
But researching this month's Masters of Social Gastronomy has put on full display a culinary weak point of NYC: cannabis edibles.
Unlike our friend...
