Oriana Leckert

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Oriana is a writer, editor, and cultural hipstorian [sic] who is kind of obsessed with Brooklyn. She is the author of "Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture & Creativity" (Monacelli, 2015) and creatrix of the website of the same name. She is the events editor for both Brokelyn and Greenpointers, and her writing has appeared on Slate, Atlas Obscura, New York Post, Matador, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, Curbed, Brooklyn Magazine, Brooklyn Based, and more. Follow her at @orianabklyn.

Blunder through a burlesque show, and 18 more ways to have a wild weekend
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Blunder through a burlesque show, and 18 more ways to have a wild weekend

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1. Think Brooklyn is the only place artists get displaced en mass for condos? Think again at UnionDocs’ screening of Tomorrow We Disappear, the story […]

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Top 10: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, musical hydra edition
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Top 10: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, musical hydra edition

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1. Play hard at the Kickstarter panel Talking Shop: Building Community Around Games, with speakers from Babycastles, Bitsummit, and Indiecade. (Monday, FREE) 2. […]

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Browse a million zines, 24 more great weekend ideas
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Browse a million zines, 24 more great weekend ideas

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1. See the 1929 Russian film Man with a Movie Camera accompanied by an improvised live score by the Bakia Quartet. (Friday, $10) […]

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Top 10: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, time of your life edition
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Top 10: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, time of your life edition

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1. Never say die—head out to Coney Island to watch Goonies under the stars. (Monday, FREE) 2. Get literary in Dumbo with the Books Beneath the […]

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Glitz it up with Brooklyn Wildlife and 24 more ways to have a glamorous weekend
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Glitz it up with Brooklyn Wildlife and 24 more ways to have a glamorous weekend

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1. Watch some seriously creative kids perform dance, music, and spoken word at the Educated Little Monsters Summer Showcase. (Friday & Saturday, $10) 2. […]

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Top 10: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, fancy footwear edition
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Top 10: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, fancy footwear edition

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1. Launch some paperbacks at the Franklin Park Reading Series, this month featuring Will Chancellor, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Karolina Waclawiak, J. Robert Lennon, and Mira Jacob. […]

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Don’t let the frogs get you, and 26 more ways to have a killer weekend
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Don’t let the frogs get you, and 26 more ways to have a killer weekend

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1. Bid a sad farewell to Proteus Gowanus, the latest in an endless series of losses for alternative spaces in Bk. (Friday, […]

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The 10 best cheap things to do this week, patriarchy-smashing edition
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The 10 best cheap things to do this week, patriarchy-smashing edition

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1. Get a triple-word score at Freebird Books’ unique Books Beneath the Bridge evening, featuring an outdoor Scrabble competition on a 15-foot-square […]

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Celebrate 4 years of the Punderdome, and 16 more ways to have a playful weekend
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Celebrate 4 years of the Punderdome, and 16 more ways to have a playful weekend

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1. Get some global culture at the 44th annual International African Arts Festival, with world, soul, and reggae music, a craft bazaar, […]

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The 10 best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, bike rescue edition
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The 10 best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, bike rescue edition

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1. Haven’t gotten your fill of pride? Refinery29 launches their new webseries Queens of Kings, profiling Bk drag performers. (Monday, FREE) 2. […]

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