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DIME Best of Brooklyn Festival returns to Industry City on Jan. 26
BY THE QUEENS COURIER STAFF
editorial@qns.com
@QNS
Clear your calendars – the third-annual
DIME Best of Brooklyn Festival returns
this month with some of the borough’s best
bites and brews.
Th is one-day event will take place on Jan.
26 at Industry City, located at 274 36th St.
in Sunset Park.
Guests can choose from one of three sessions
where they can have unlimited tastings
of some of Brooklyn’s best craft brews.
Participating breweries include Island To
Island, Sixpoint, Coney Island Brewing,
Five Boroughs Brewing Company, War
Flag Brewing, Wartega Brewing, Brooklyn
Brewery and Coney Island.
Guests can also pair their craft beer with
any of the delicious cuisines that will be for
sale from some of the festival’s top chefs.
Grab a bite from Taste Buds Required,
Oaxaca Taqueria, Dinosaur BBQ Brooklyn,
Table 87 Coal Oven Pizza, Empanada Papa,
Th ree Little Pigs, Dining With Bee, Tojo
Kitchen and more.
DJ Get Summered will be heating up the
cold winter air with the hottest tunes. Plus,
guests can also enjoy break-dancing performances
by Wondrous Studio of Breaking.
Tickets start at $39 and are available at
BestofBrooklynFestival.com. Industry City
is easily accessible from the D and N trains,
M14A and X17 buses, and there is ample
parking nearby for drivers.
Queens artist to debut ‘glitzy’ paintings in Bayside
BY JENNA BAGCAL
jbagcal@qns.com
@jenna_bagcal
In less than two weeks, Lisa Gindi will
be adding a touch of glamor to a yearly
Bayside art show.
On Sunday, Jan. 13, the self-taught artist
will join 35 artists at Th e Castle at
Fort Totten to debut her newest works at
the 18th Annual Winter Art Show organized
by the Bayside Historical Society.
She fi rst began participating in the show
back in 2012.
Each artist will show two works each,
including sculptures, watercolor paintings
and photographs. Gindi’s paintings
are from her “Gindi Glitz” art collection
which she began working on in 2008. One
is a take on a Life magazine cover from
1962 featuring Marilyn Monroe while
the other is a surprise for the guests who
attend the event.
Gindi’s love of art began long before she
decided to pursue it as a full-time career.
In 1985 she won an award for best student
artist at Edward R. Murrow High
School aft er she decorated the school’s
display cases with her hand-drawn fashion
designs. Her hobby turned lucrative
when she decided to design tie-dye beach
cover-ups to pay her way through college.
“My mother didn’t have money for college
so I had to pay for my own tuition.
So I was making T-shirts for these women
on the beach and they the stores didn’t
have all the diff erent kinds of sizes,” Gindi
said.
She recalled how she would go to the
store to buy Hanes T-shirts in extra large
sizes and make attractive cover-ups that
the stores did not provide back in the
1980s. Gindi said that women were “fi ghting
over” her designs when she went to
sell them at a private beach in Brooklyn.
Gindi added that when the tie-dye
designs got messed up, she would paint
over them by hand and charge extra for
the added labor.
Th e artist went to the Fashion Institute
of Technology where she majored in fashion
marketing and sales and pursued that
straight aft er college in the 1990s. She
then transitioned to teaching and earned
her master’s of science in education from
Adelphi University.
But art was always something she practiced
even as a teacher, so she left her job
as a tenured high school math teacher and
decided to pursue art as a career.
Th e Winter Art Show will feature two
selections from her “Gindi Glitz” collection
which is based on a collage-style
that incorporates images from high-fashion
brands like Gucci, Louis Vuitton and
Coach. Her collection includes paintings
and mixed-media giclee prints that portray
pop culture fi gures, recreations of
fashion ads or her own original designs.
“Say I’m not doing glitter or stones anymore
and it’s plain. I have to have some
kind of aspect that still gives you the concept
of glitz, of the good life and things we
dream about but we really can’t aff ord,”
Gindi said.
Gindi’s works oft en include glitter,
magazine clippings and rhinestones and
jewels that she’s collected from old clothing
items over the years.
Her work is available for purchase on
lisagindiart.com. She donates parts of the
proceeds from her works to one charity
a year.
Th e art show will take place at 208
Totten Ave. on Jan. 13 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Admission is $5 at the door. For more
information visit baysidehistorical.org or
call 718-352-1548.
Photo: Jenna Bagcal/THE COURIER
Lisa Gindi will debut two new works in Bayside this month.
Photo courtesy of Festival Media Group
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