Brooklyn to host premiere of
quirkly police comedy fi lm
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
A new comedy fi lm is premiering
at a Brooklyn movie
theater next month ahead of a
nationwide release.
“Inspector Ike” is the latest
comedy from Factory 25.
Directed by NYC fi lmmaker
Graham Mason, the fi lm will
premiere at Brooklyn’s Spectacle
Theater, located at 124 S.
Third Street, next month.
The fi lm stars Ikechukwu
Ufomadu as Inspector Ike, a
police detective that fi nds himself
going after a conniving understudy
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of an avant-garde theater
group kills the star actor.
What ensues is a game of catand
mouse where the stakes
continue to get higher.
“Inspector Ike” is a satire
inspired by popular fi lms
“Columbo” and “The Naked
Gun,” celebrating detective
serials, mixing visual gags,
slapstick, heartfelt emotions
and more through absurdist
and deadpan comedy.
The cast includes several
‘Inspector Ike’ premieres Feb. 18 at the Spectacle Theater. Vimeo
New York City comedians,
including Matt Barats, Ana
Fabrega, Aparna Nancherla,
John Early (Search Party)
and Lorelei Ramirez
“Inspector Ike” opens at the
Spectacle Theater on Feb. 18.
Check out the trailer at www.
vimeo.com/447185079.
BY BEN BRACHFELD
Nearly two years after its
initially-scheduled showing
was cut short, the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden is again hosting
an artistic exhibition dedicated
to the medicinal properties
of plants.
Plant/Cure, a wide-ranging
showcase of mother nature’s
healing powers, as
interpreted through fi ve artists
in-residence, arrived at
the Botanic Garden’s Conservatory
Gallery in March 2020.
But the onset of the pandemic
that month forced it to go dark,
and despite the reopening of
the city’s cultural institutions
over the ensuing months, including
the Botanic Garden,
the Conservatory Gallery was
only reopened last October.
The exhibit, which includes
drawings, paintings,
sculptures, and written word
among other things, stood in
place in the interim, unable to
please the eyes of Garden visitors.
But all that time off gave
the artists time to refl ect, contemplate,
and do research in
the garden and in its library.
“To be at the gardens for
six months? We had total access
to the library and also the
grounds,” said Maddy Rosenberg,
founder of Central Booking,
the exhibit’s curator. “So it
was an amazing experience.”
Now, the exhibit is back on
and will be on display at the
Conservatory until the end of
March.
“I think it drives home
even more now,” Rosenberg
said. “The interaction between
the ecosystems and how
we rely on everything, and the
need for medicine, psychologically
and chemically that we
rely on. It couldn’t have been
better timing in that sense
and subject matter, though of
course, it wasn’t the best timing
in people being able to see
the exhibition.”
Rosenberg, who grew up
exploring the Botanic Garden,
originally wanted to bring
the project on the road, with
each exhibition containing a
mix of work from local artists
and work from artists at previous
stops. The pandemic put
a damper on those plans, but
now, she hopes to eventually
bring it to Los Angeles.
Lost the plot
‘Plant Cure’ returns to Botanic Garden
aft er a two-year pandemic pause
BROOKLYN
Nature’s healing
The Plant/Cure exhibition at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Photo by Central Booking
Bay Ridge will switch to the
Coney Island route and Sunset
Park will be on the Rockaway
line.
The incoming Coney Island
route will only make
stops at Coney Island, Bay
Ridge and Wall Street Pier
11 and the updated Rockaway
route would go from Rockaway
to Sunset Park to Wall
Street — taking away crucial
Brooklyn connections between
Bay Ridge, Sunset Park
and Red Hook. The Southern
Brooklyn line would no longer
travel to southern Brooklyn,
with the last Brooklyn
stop in northerly Red Hook.
Governors Island has
been increasingly accessible
throughout the course of
the pandemic as the city and
Trust for Governors Island
announced in September that
the island would be opened to
the public year round for the
fi rst time in history, and just
earlier this week announced
that dogs will be allowed on
Saturdays from 7 am to 3 pm
at the new dog park behind
Liggett Terrace starting Jan.
22.
“This past year, we made
historic progress in announcing
that New Yorkers
will now be able to enjoy all
that Governors Island has to
offer, 365 days per year, and
we’re thrilled that we’ll now
have expanded connections
to Brooklyn and Manhattan
through NYC Ferry,” said
Clare Newman, president and
chief executive offi cer of the
Trust for Governors Island.
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