Day: December 9, 2022

Feature Story

Vatican’s behind the scenes push to end the Russian war, by Dario “Pio” Muccilli

When Ukrainian missiles, at the beginning mistakenly identified as Russian, hit Polish (NATO) territory, leaders throughout the have started thinking about an end to the Russian war before it gets even more out of hand. The US stance on a negotiated end to the conflict seems to have shifted slightly after the rockets, as it did with most Western leaders, […]

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Am I Getting Old? No Way! By Joe Enright

Yesterday I stood on a step ladder to change a ceiling floodlight. The packaging said my new LED light would last fifteen years if it was used 8 hours a day. Doing some quick math, I realized this floodlight would probably outlive me. I decided to install an old incandescent bulb instead. For the third time on the same day, […]

Feature Story, Music, Religious News

Nationwide shortage of church organists a challenge, by Erin DeGregorio

Imagine not hearing the majestic sounds produced by thousands of metal or wooden organ pipes echoing around you during a wedding, funeral, or Mass. That’s the reality some houses of worship are facing as an organist shortage unfolds nationwide, on the heels of a pandemic that brought in-person services to a screeching halt for months and has since affected attendance. […]

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Kitchen designers open Dumbo showroom, by Brian Abate

Reform, a Danish Kitchen company formed by Michael Andersen and Jeppe Christensen, celebrated the grand opening of their flagship kitchen showroom in Dumbo this November. The address is 39 Main St. The new location in Dumbo is Reform’s largest showroom investment ever and marks the beginning of the brand’s expansion into the United States market with three more showroom openings […]

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Meet Brooklyn’s own homeboy! Jean-Michel Basquiat, by Blake Sandberg

The King Pleasure show organized by his family, an intimate portrait of a local artist who took the downtown New York art scene by storm.  Then he took his artwork across the globe. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born right here in Park Slope Brooklyn. To Matilde and Gerard Basquiat. Later they settled in Boerum Hill. His mother noticed his interest in […]