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It’s hard to know where to start with the artist Morgan O’Hara. Since the late 70s, she’s drawn over 4,000 pieces from everyday life — dinner with some lively Italians, a Noam Chomsky lecture, a Taiwanese Lion Dance performance — works she calls “Live Transmission.” On first approach, you’ll see a condense fog of scribbles or a soft web of […]
In an opinionated world, the conversation surrounding food and gender is openly voiced. One of our readers is exploring this correlation, dissecting her own body’s health while investigating society’s negative food stigma towards women. I have struggled with my weight since I was a child. Even at a young age, my stomach packed on bloat in a round balloon-shape, similar […]
“The House Children,” (April 2019) author Heidi Daniele’s debut novel, tells the story of the unlucky and illegitimate child, Mary Margaret, renamed Peg by the stern but not unkind nuns of the industrial school where she is sent. This is Ireland, and the year is 1937. As we hear, again and again, there was no choice for Mary Margaret’s mother, Norah Hanley, to give […]
The new romantic drama by A. R. Garcia will need work before it’s good to the last drop. “She Hates Coffee,” a new play written and co-directed by A. R. Garcia, is melodrama of a classical tenor. A passionate romance, the action follows the character Jaden (Kevin Grullon) on the rebound after being left by his bride (Segen Genesis) at the altar. Within his […]
Feb 17 was a chilly Sunday night in Red Hook but there was a hot party at the Peninsula Art Space at 352 Van Brunt: the opening of a show called Viel Feind, Viel Ehr. Passing through the folks who had spilled out on the sidewalk to smoke and chat, I found my way into the gallery where Red Hook’s […]
“If you can dance through this, Esme, you can dance through anything.” In The Lily in the Light by Brooklyn author Kristin Fields, the “this” to which the teacher of 11-year-old aspiring ballerina Esme Johnson refers is the disappearance of her 4-year-old sister, Lily. Don’t expect, however, a whodunit-cum-Law & Order episode where Queens, where the Johnsons reside, goes out […]
At the start of the Red Hook Civic Association’s February meeting at P.S. 15, Neighborhood Coordination Officers Krystal Class and Vegnel Jovin from the 76th Precinct announced that they’d distributed flyers to local truck drivers to inform them of Red Hook’s designated truck routes. For large vehicles, New York City’s official truck route map limits the neighborhood’s through-traffic to Van […]
Council Member Carlos Menchaca, who chairs the BQX Task Force in the City Council, issued the following statement on Feb. 7 in response to NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) executive committee’s unanimous decision (announced the day before) to hire an independent contractor to oversee the BQX project’s environmental review: “The City continues to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on a […]
Brooklyn-based professional opera company Regina Opera’s next production for the 2019 season is “La Bohème.” “La Bohème” is a four-act Italian opera that was composed by Giacomo Puccini (Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) and premiered at the Teatro Regio in 1896. As one of the most popular Italian operas of all time, it’s a tragic love story […]
Red Hook has a new Jamaican bistro! Jam’it, a block up from DeFonte’s, opened it’s doors last month. A lot of effort was put into the presentation of this Jamaican fusion restaurant. It took over two years after getting the property to finally open, since they had to build a brand-new kitchen in the back and get the building department […]