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The crowd at Celebrate Brooklyn.

Wonderful World, Beautiful People: Celebrate Brooklyn Opens Its 30th Summer in Prospect Park with Jimmy Cliff

Summer doesn’t really begin in Brooklyn until a musical icon soothingly rocks throngs of Brooklyn’s gentrifiers and natives in the Prospect Park bandshell. This year was Jimmy Cliff’s turn.

“I look forward to most concerts and I’m certainly looking forward to tonight,” said Peter Aschkenasy, former mayor John Lindsay’s deputy parks commissioner and BRIC Arts’s vice chairman. “The fact that Cliff is still performing is pretty amazing. His hit song was 40 years ago. ‘The Harder They Come.’”

Mr. Aschkenasy and Celebrate Brooklyn executive director Jack Walsh were being honored at the concert’s annual gala on Tuesday night, where the borough’s royalty and BRIC Arts board members mingled before the show. Read More

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Philanthropy, Fashion and Canvas (But No Nick Cannon) at the Million Meals Concert for FEED

An exuberant-though-sleep-deprived Michelle Williams presided over the festivities last night at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, where Clarins sponsored a “Million Meals Concert” to benefit FEED, and their goal of providing one million school meals to children in need.

Williams was filling in for Nick Cannon, who at the last minute was unable to fill his role as emcee (yet Tweeted a photo of his and Mariah Carey’s toddler son, Roc, “big pimpin in Italy!” on Tuesday afternoon). Williams told The Observer that her Memorial Day weekend took her from Atlantic City (for Beyonce’s Big Post-Partum Concert) to Atlanta, where she got the call.

“So I went from Atlantic City, to Atlanta, to here today, hosting, performing, run-throughs, wardrobe fittings. Washed my hair today…hotel shampoo’s good, you should use it!” she said, adding, “That was a lack-of-sleep comment.” Read More

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Celebrities, Parents Attend Chet Haze Performance at W.I.P.

(Photo via Chet Haze’s Instagram)
While Tom Hanks has been making the New York rounds at Game Change premiere and on Saturday Night Live this weekend, his rapper son Chester “Chet Haze” Hanks has been busy as well. Following in his dad’s Saturday footsteps, the “Hollywood” performer took to W.I.P. early Sunday night to drop some flow in front of a throng of fans…including SNL star Jay Pharaoh. Read More