Day: August 6, 2020

Music

The Jazz Screen By George Grella

MTV launched in 1981 with a video for the Buggles song “Video Killed The Radio Star,” and the medium of music has never been the same. Most music that is. Music at the edges and in the niches that line mass, popular culture has been little affected by music videos. Opera and experimental Western art music have been working with […]

Music

The US’s Pandemic Acid Trip By Jack Grace

As we prepare for the long game here in the US, it’s hard to not feel frustrated with everyone that has put us in this situation. It is not a discussion anymore. It is an all out war over telling the truth or believing lies and building a larger grey area in between. Having Donald Trump as the President of […]

Feature Story

Keg & Lantern opens in Red Hook

Despite encountering setbacks due to the pandemic, Keg & Lantern Brewing Company opened its second location on 158 Beard Street (in back of Hometown and Brooklyn Crab) earlier this summer, following much success at its original Greenpoint location (97 Nassau Avenue) that opened in 2014. Neighborhood Reception and Inspiration When owner Kieran Breen applied for a liquor license in May […]

Feature Story

Sunset Park’s Frankel’s plans a reboot, by Michael Fiorito

Founded in 1890, Frankel’s began by selling clothes and goods to union workmen, such as longshoremen and ironworkers on the corner of Third Avenue and 40th Street. “My father, Marty, named me Erik to sound more Norwegian,” chuckles Erik, great-grandson of the founder. Erik, who spent years living in Hanoi, now lives above the store. “Many people don’t know it, […]

Arts

Dateline-Saigon remembers the journalists who revealed a dirty war by Dante A. Ciampaglia

Nearly 60 years ago, Associated Press reporter Malcolm Browne was sent to Saigon to report on the conflict between the Communist North and American-backed South. He was soon joined in the AP bureau by Peter Arnett and photojournalist Horst Faas, and they found themselves competing with upstart UPI reporter Neil Sheehan and brash New York Times journalist David Halberstam on […]

Arts

QUINN ON BOOKS: “Life of Brian(s)”

Review of Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood by Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova by Michael Quinn In the tradition of great comedy duos that include Bill and Ted, Beevis and Butt-Head and Abbott and Costello,  Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova bring playfulness, nuttiness, and irreverent, off-the-wall humor to the lifestyle and self-help space with Trixie and Katya’s Guide […]