Day: June 15, 2023

Arts

The Passenger – A Meditation, by Kelsey Sobel

For my book club, I suggested we read Cormac McCarthy’s newest novel, The Passenger. I’m not, by any stretch of the imagination, what you’d call a McCarthy expert. Over the years I’ve taught The Road to great success in high school creative writing classes, and it remains the first and only McCarthy novel I’ve read. I am, however, very aware […]

News

I’D HAVE BEEN HAPPY WITH 13 MONTHS!

After ten years working for a Brooklyn community news-paper publisher  I started my own business in 1988. My company, Select Mail, provided, as I dubbed it with my first sign, “Computerized Public Relations and Marketing.” This was somewhat of a new idea back then, as businesses were only just beginning to replace type-writers with desktop computers. My boss at the […]

News

Red Hook parks have been slow to reopen, but are looking good by Nathan Weiser

Last month the Brooklyn Parks Department gave an Zoom update on the progress of the Red Hook ball fields and the four phase construction project. Phases one and two are complete with the exception of a soccer field that will be finished this summer. Davey Ives, the chief of staff of the Brooklyn Parks Department, gave the update. Ball fields […]

News

Talking to the volunteers of Red Hook Mutual Aid by Brian Abate

Red Hook Mutual Aid calls themselves an “independent corps of local volunteers that helps connect community members to resources, information, and supplies in an accessible format.” I spoke to a few of them about their volunteer work. “I moved to Red Hook during the pandemic and about three years ago, I was sitting in Sunny’s and a volunteer overheard my […]

Feature Story

IS FRANCE BECOMING A UKRAINE HAWK? by Darius Pio Muccilli

Another French airplane for Zelensky (to go to the G7)” states a comic strip on the French weekly Canard Enchaîné, portraying Zelensky getting on an airbus and a French politician telling him “We’ve agreed that it’s just a loan.” Far from being just a comic strip, this little joke shows how airplane diplomacy is having an impact on the country’s […]

Arts

A REGINA OPERA OPERETTA

Brooklyn’s Regina Opera, known in recent years for some heavy lifting in productions such as Verdi’s Il Trovatore, and dramatic turns such as Puccini’s Il Tabarro, has ventured into the light side with their production of Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince. Romberg was a prolific tunesmith in the early days of Broadway, but he is best known for the three […]

Arts

Music: Wiggly Air, June – by Kurt Gottschalk

Cruel to be Khanate. The biggest news of last month, perhaps tied with Tina Turner and the debt ceiling, was the first new album by “drone doom supergroup” (so says Wikipedia) Khanate in 14 years. To Be Cruel popped up without prophecy on streaming sites on May 19, with a CD and the usual assortment of buy-me-please limited-edition vinyl designs […]