Brooklyn Academy of Music

It’s a new year, which can mean only one thing: time to listen to better music so you can impress your friends with your next Spotify Wrapped! Do you really want people to see you listened to that much Taylor Swift? To help you out, we’ve included a number of great live music shows this…

Paul Mescal, the rising Irish actor who starred in Hulu’s Normal People and the Oscar-nominated Aftersun, is about to make his American theater debut in Brooklyn, according to the New York Times. Mescal will reprise his role as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ classic play A Streetcar Named Desire in a Brooklyn Academy of Music production…

PHOTOGRAPHY John Midgley The first time Jamie Hector visited BAM, in Fort Greene, he was 21. As the youngest of seven to a Haitian mother—who worked as a nursing assistant—Jamie lived in Brooklyn his whole life. Repping East Flatbush and Crown Heights, he had heard about BAM, and even passed it a few times, but…