OF NOTE- People In The News: Wednesday, December 4
Some Brooklyn comedians are mining (allegedly) straight films for LGBTQ laughs. Each month, comedian VERONICA GARZA hosts Queer Film Theory 101 at the Downtown Brooklyn Alamo Drafthouse, where she and a team of guest comedians highlight the homoeroticism so often teeming just below a hetero plot line. The LGBTQ comedians “out” the mainstream movies, like “My Girl” and “Mrs. Doubtfire,” that helped shape their budding queer identities during their formative years. Wednesday’s performers are CAITLIN REESE, FOXY AFRIQ and ALEX KIM. The show is free and begins at 8 p.m. at the theater’s House of Wax bar, 445 Albee Square West.
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It’s hardly surprising that professional decorators are behind the over-the-top Christmas lights in Dyker Heights; The lights draw thousands of tourists to the neighborhood each year, and whole companies have sprung up to cater to residents who want their block’s most decked-out windows, extravagant light shows and elaborate animatronic displays — and are willing to pay for it. According to JAMES BONAVITA, a Bensonhurst native and owner of B&R Decorators, homeowners in the neighborhood regularly spend in excess of $1,000 in their bid to out-Christmas their neighbors. Bonavita has been decorating Dyker homes for 27 years. NANDO DIMEGLIO, who runs B&R’s main competitor, DiMeglio Decorators, says the companies have worked out an unspoken truce. “[They’re] more Bay Ridge and I’m more Dyker Heights,” he told Brooklyn Paper. “We don’t step on each other’s toes.”