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Here’s a list of events across the area during the holiday weekend.

5 Boro PicNYC: How to get tickets to the all-you-can-eat food and drink fest Updated 3:47 PM; Today 3:47 PM Succulent pig with pickled red onions and a slather of creamy sauce on a hot dog bun. (Courtesy of Pig Island NYC and Sean Ludwig of NYC BBQ Weekly) Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — With plenty of pig and gourmet barbecue sauce on hand, the 5 Boro PicNYC lands next month on Staten Island at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston. The all-inclusive porcine picnic will happen rain or shine Saturday, May 29. Organizers from Food Karma Projects are calling it the...

Browsers stay masked and socially distant at Octavia Books in October. Independent booksellers ordinarily rely on foot traffic and in-person browsing for their sales. That all changed in March of last year. Two Uptown bookstores, however, have found ways to adapt and even thrive through the pandemic. Garden District Book Shop, in a historic building that once housed a roller rink on oak-canopied Prytania Street, and Octavia Books, set back on a diagonal on its quiet eponymous street near the river, have both continued to sell books to residents across the city. By altering their in-store brow...

— MA Answer: Black History Month, observed throughout the month of February each year, celebrates the historical achievements of African Americans. Black History Month grew from the idea Carter Woodson and other African American leaders had in creating “Negro History Week” back in the late 1920s. Every president since 1976 has recognized February as Black History month, and each year has had its own theme. For 2021, the theme is The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity. Because Winston-Salem has such a rich African-American heritage and history, Black History m...

Q&A with author Dantiel Moniz The UW–Madison MFA alum will appear virtually on Wednesday night to discuss her debut story collection "Milk Blood Heat." February 15, 2021 12:00 PM Maggie Ginsberg Updated: Dantiel Moniz is the debut author of short story collection "Milk Blood Heat." Dantiel Moniz’s debut story collection, “Milk Blood Heat” (Grove Atlantic) launched this month to rave critical reviews and “best of” picks — too many, in fact, to list here. And it’s no wonder. In exploring the complex inner lives of ordinary families in her home state of ...