Celebrating Community
It’s finally time for me to figure out what exactly to write in this column I have given myself. I say that because in case you weren’t aware, George is me, George Fiala, who has been running this paper since I thought of it back in 2010. I very much enjoy the groove we’ve gotten into this year, with an […]
Less than a decade after surviving Hurricane Sandy, our local businesses have had to deal with another disaster. Here are how some are faring: NY Printing & Graphics NY Printing & Graphics (on 481 Van Brunt St., across the street from Food Bazaar) has been open for 18 years and survived Hurricane Sandy but has struggled with the new set […]
On the first Friday in November, World Arts East Red Hook (127 King Street) hosted a special action packedCapoeira workshop that was taught by Instructor Malandro, who is the founder and leader of Capoeira Terreiro da Lua. Malandro shared the history, basic movement and commonly played music of Capoeira. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines dance, music and […]
The sun was out, but the slanted light of fall did little to warm the small crowd gathered at the Carroll Street Bridge in Gowanus the morning of Nov. 16. But despite winds that whipped bare hands and quickly chilled the hot cider they held in paper cups, members of Gowanus Dredgers, an organization that promotes waterfront stewardship at its […]
35mm black and white film photographs by Piotr Pillardy 35mm color photographs by Joan Ronstadt (developed & scanned at Exposure Therapy in Brooklyn) For the first time since February, during a year that has felt somehow infinite and compressed, I was able to visit a museum in person (a sentence that exists only in 2020). Going to the Met […]
Artists, when they reach a certain age, can feel the tug of legacy and revisit and tinker with their work. That’s as true for painters and sculptors as it is for filmmakers. George Lucas fiddling with his original Star Wars trilogy is the most notorious example, but Lucas’ old friend and patron Francis Ford Coppola has been in a contemplative […]
Review of Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey Review by Michael Quinn Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, a collection of poems by the popular singer Lana Del Rey, wears its Beat-poet influences proudly. It reads like an unedited love letter to and from California, a place of “1,000 fires” and “scorched earth.” The small, hardcover […]