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We love when people unexpectedly stumble upon our roller disco parties & join in! Imagine going for an evening stroll and hearing fabulous 80s music blasting faintly in the distance. You follow the sound. Soon you begin to see rainbow disco lights reflecting off the leaves of the trees. You get closer & see a […]
http://youtu.be/1c5EiiVKTfg If you can-can-can skate you made your way over to Lola Star’s Moulin Rouge Skate Party at Lakeside in Prospect Park!!! We celebrated everything Parisian in style and expression. We had cabaret courtesans, dapper dandies and other Fin de siècle costumes amongst the crowd of fabulous roller disco attendees. Everyone came take part in […]
An American pastime is on a roll lately. Roller skating is making a comeback. Whether you know it from Charlie Chaplin’s “The Rink” released in 1916 or Olivia Newton-John’s 1980 film, “Xanadu,” roller skating is embedded in American culture. While the sport suffered in the last decade, 14 new rinks have opened across the country […]
The wonderful people from NY 1 love Dreamland! We are thrilled that Roger Clark came to bust a move on the Dreamland Roller Disco dance floor during his morning show!
BY ANNI IRISH DITMAS PARK CORNER Dianna Carlin, a Ditmas Park resident better known as Lola Star, is bringing the glitz and glamour of Coney Island to Lakeside in Prospect Park tomorrow, July 11. In 2008, when Carlin launched Lola Star’s Dreamland Roller Rink, she inspired many with her infectious love of roller skating, Coney Island, and artistic approach […]
BY NOAH HUROWITZ THE BROOKLYN PAPER It’s Friday Night Fever! Coney Island roller-skating diva Diana Carlin, known to many as Lola Star, is reviving her People’s Playground roller-disco parties as a weekly, Friday-night event at Prospect Park’s roller rink, starting on July 11. “My goal is to bring the magic of Coney Island to Prospect […]
By Noah Hurowitz BROOKLYN DAILY It’s Friday Night Fever!! “My goal is to bring the magic of Coney Island to Prospect Park,” Carlin said. “That’s who I am and where I’m from.” Lola Star’s Dreamland Roller Disco at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside will have a different theme every week, and Carlin encourages attendees to […]
BY MARY PARK SLOPE STOOP BLOG Lola Star, aka Dianna Carlin, is a roller skating dynamo — she launched the awesomeDreamland Roller Rink in Coney Island in 2008, and when it closed in 2010, she didn’t let that stop her. She kept her eye out for a place as magical as the Childs building, and now the opportunity […]
BY NATALIE MUSUMECI NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The disco era is rolling back to Brooklyn. Dianna Carlin, known as Lola Star, who ran the now-defunct Dreamland Roller Rink off the Coney Island Boardwalk, is bringing her beloved retro skate parties to Prospect Park. Lola Star’s Dreamland Roller Disco will kick off each Friday starting July […]