Author: A Star-Revue Contributor

Arts, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill

New York’s Most Popular Writing Method You’ve Never Heard Of 

  Even if you have zero interest in writing, you’ve probably seen a cab-yellow newsstand of catalogs for Gotham Writers Workshop, or the lime green advertisements for Sackett Street Writers Workshop. Since 2002, Sackett Street has worked with over 3,500 writers, and Gotham Writers (founded in 1993) currently averages 2,800 New Yorkers a year with their in-person classes. But trumping […]

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Spring at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, essay by Ramaa Reddy Raghavan 

Spring at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden An essay by Ramaa Reddy Raghavan  It is Spring, but where is the sun?  As I write this piece in mid-April, the temperature outside is a frigid 47 degrees and everyone around me is fed-up with this downright, depressing weather. After the long winter, filled with nor’easters, rain and snow, I find that I am ready for a change. So, with a spring […]

Arts, Books

Memoir queen Mary Karr delivers a new stunner with “Tropic of Squalor”

The queen of literary memoir releases an exquisite collection of poems on May 8. Best known for the memoirs “Lit” and “The Liars Club,” Karr displays her formal mastery and heartfelt innovations in this collection that looks at the commingling of ribald humanity and the potentialities of God. The first half collects poems on Karr’s usual themes—Texas memories, comic carnage, […]

Carroll Gardens, Feature Story, Food

Chef V Preps for a Street Food Revolution, by Sarah Matusek

A version of this story first appeared in the Star-Revue’s August 2017 print edition. A burnt out bulb. A busted car. A broken knee. Future biographers might note a theme laced through Vander Carter’s culinary career: things keep breaking. But Carter — a Carroll Gardens entrepreneur behind the food startup JestGreen — only sees crisis as a chance for growth. […]

Carlos Menchaca, Entertainment, Sports, Waterfront

Free Formula E fan zone tickets available, by Nathan Weiser

Brooklyn Cruise Terminal – July 5, 2017 1,000 free fan zone passes for the Formula E electric motor race this month will be distributed to Red Hook residents, Formula E and NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) representatives announced today. The Allianz eVillage fan zone will allow fans to have a close-up view of the course and of the cars that […]

Transportation, Trucks

How can Red Hook maximize waterways? One local has a plan

On June 1, aboard the NYC Ferry’s early-morning maiden voyage on the South Brooklyn route, Jim Tampakis felt inspired. “Look at the water,” he instructed a friend. “No traffic. There’s no boat traffic at all.” It being 7 a.m. rush hour, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway was likely bumper-to-bumper. The subway a series of overstuffed cars upset by delays. But here on […]