Posted in All-City, Brooklyn Heights, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Drugs, Dumbo, Flicks, Gowanus, Kensington, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Park Slope, Poetry, Red Hook, labor, politics on Nov 10th, 2009
In honor of the great contributions Brooklyn’s mostly proud blind people have made to our Armed Forces over the years, I’m delighted to reintroduce this interview between a monocle-wearing historian, Brian Berger, and the nearly sightless novelist Jim Knipfel. As for Woodrow Wilson, the Staunton, Virginia native who presided over the first Armistice Day, he [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Bushwick, Crime, Downtown, Dumbo, Flicks, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Navy Yard, Poetry, Queens, Religion, Sex, South Brooklyn, hip-hop, politics on Oct 5th, 2009
There’s a new book in town! Now that the professional mourners have put their veils and candles away, the enormity of the artistic life of Michael Jackson remains. To help us make sense of and celebrate those numerous achievements, Armond has put together a collection of his MJ writings under the title Keep Moving and [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Downtown, Dumbo, Literature, Manhattan, Navy Yard, Poetry, Sex, Subways, Transportation on Sep 16th, 2009
Mina Loy, in fact, has very little— I won’t say none— connection to Kings County. Nonetheless, I have included Mina Loy in the Brooklyn Dirty Book Festival this year because of her nearness to the still spry ticker of soon-to-be-86-year-old Caz Dolowicz. There used to be a cigar shop on Washington Street right by the [...]
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Posted in All-City, Crime, Crown Heights, Downtown, Dumbo, Flatbush, Irish, Manhattan, Navy Yard, Sex, Sports, The Dodgers, The Food Writer, Vinegar Hill on Sep 3rd, 2009
Post-apocalyptic? No. This is an apocalyptic posting! Like the smoldering heap of boundary stones marking novelist Jim Knipfel’s Park Slope Liebestod; like Combat Jack’s review of Brendan I. Koerner’s Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier’s Flight From Greatest Manhunt of World War II, which sounds a lot more interesting than those rightly wary of [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Dumbo, Fort Greene, Jazz, Music, Park Slope, Poetry, Religion, Sex on Aug 27th, 2009
Death loves a mystery. Death can’t get started. Death in high heels. Death makes the world go ’round. Death in a Class A uniform. Death at the Dakota. Death your magic spell is everywhere. Death is here to stay. Death goes to the movies. Death is marching on. Death travels to Samarra. Death and his [...]
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Posted in All-City, Brooklyn Heights, Dial J For Jewish, Downtown, Dumbo, Literature, Manhattan, Midwood, Sports, Transportation, Vinegar Hill, politics on May 7th, 2009
Jason Cohen is what Grammy Hall would call a real Jew. Time was, that wouldn’t have been a big deal, at least not in Brooklyn; the place was full of ‘em! Cohen even lived in his mother’s ancestral homeland of Midwood for a couple years in the early-1990s— Midwood! And let me tell ya’ll, Midwood [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Dumbo, Jazz, Poetry, Religion, Sex, Southern Thing, Sports, Vinegar Hill, labor, politics on Apr 6th, 2009
Dunedin Lanes, Florida Because of a minor but irksome arm injury sustained by Caz Dolowicz in a recent cosmic bowling accident, Caz is, by Cosmodemonic doctor’s orders, taking a few days off. During this involuntary furlough, I, Amber Tides, will be around if the old man just has to say something— ya’ll know how he [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Crime, Downtown, Dumbo, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Literature, Manhattan, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Transportation, Vinegar Hill, Weeksville, West Indian, politics on Mar 23rd, 2009
“The Brooklyn Speech of Booker T. Washington, delivered Feb. 22, before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, has been published in pamphlet form, and there is a tremendous demand for it from all parts of the country. It is the best and most complete statement of the Negro’s case that has yet been given.”— [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill, Bronx, Brownsville, Bushwick, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Crown Heights, Dumbo, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Queens, Red Hook, South Brooklyn, Sunset Park, Transportation, graffiti, hip-hop, labor, politics on Mar 13th, 2009
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ITEM: Just a friendly reminder to anyone with ears and a little wampum that WFMU, one of the two listener-supported radio stations WWIB has much love for (the other being WKCR— good morning Coconutter!) is running their figurative 26.2 miles now [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bronx, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Dumbo, Flicks, Fort Greene, Industrial, Jazz, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Sports, Transportation, Williamsburg, labor, politics on Feb 25th, 2009
Australian Peter Bishop— writer, scholar, traveler and jazz buff—is a fascinating guy. Currently an Associate Professor in Communication & Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia (UniSA) in Adelaide, Peter is also the author of Bridge (Reaktion Books). Don’t be swayed by the plain title, lacking even the article of Hart Crane gave us; [...]
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