Celebrating Community
Natasha Campbell, the founder of Red Hook’s charter school, Summit Academy, spoke eloquently about the consequences of a well-publicized incident on Halloween that involved some local children. After a cellphone robbery allegedly took place in Carroll Gardens, five local teenagers were arrested and taken to the 76th Precinct. While two were immediately released, three of them, the youngest being 12, […]
A new YouTube genre has gone viral in New York City. This fall, NYPD cops became social media stars inside the city’s subway stations, thanks to iPhone videos recorded by MTA passengers. At home, Facebook and Twitter users watched the officers – sometimes a dozen at a time – swarm fare-evaders, tackle a candy vendor, point loaded guns into a […]
NYCHA will soon demolish a row of shuttered storefronts on the west side of Clinton Street between Hamilton Avenue and Mill Street. Three evicted businesses – Frankie’s First Stop Deli, the Red Hook Pharmacy, and Smart Tax – will relocate to a newly rehabilitated structure, also owned by NYCHA, at the corner of Columbia Street and West 9th Street. The […]
Can you believe it’s been 20 years since there’s been an NBA Finals in New York City? The 1999 NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs, headlined by Patrick Ewing, Allan Houston, Tim Duncan and David Robinson, was the last time there was relevant basketball in The Mecca. For the past two decades – filled with nothing but disappointment, […]
The following is an interview with artist Dustin Yellin, founder of Pioneer Works. RHSR: What’s the genesis of your work? Yellin: The works in this building are of the three hands: the Descriptive, the Prescriptive, and the Impossible. The Descriptive being how do you use different mediums to tell stories, narrative stories, and that’s what you see happening in the […]
Juan Carlos Pinto is our artist. Originally from Guatemala, Pinto has made Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, his home for the past ten years. Pinto and I met at Vox Pop in Ditmas Park. Now closed, Vox Pop was an artist cafe-bar. A place where people gathered to create. Unlike other gentrified parts of NYC, Vox Pop was a home to Brooklyn […]
Werner Herzog, the German filmmaker and Baby Yoda enthusiast, doesn’t much like chickens. In his view, chickens embody “a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic, nightmarish creatures in the world.” Mr. Herzog is not alone in this estimation. Showmen and grifters train these birds to dance, play checkers, and perform tricks not because […]
Andro Wekua November 1 – December 21, 2019 515 West 24th Street, New York On the same block of Chelsea where I once spent a fantastic summer as an unpaid gallery intern is the W. 24th Street location of the infamous Gladstone Gallery. The gallery boasts a stunning roster of artists, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Amy Sillman. This month, I […]
December here in film town is just November, but more. Like last month, the major studios will drop awards contenders just before their submission deadlines. Aging auteurs will release overlong reflections on their encroaching mortality. When the holiday season hits, Disney IP will capture the imagination of every living child and man-child, and hopefully entertain the rest of us enough […]
American Dharma Documentarian Errol Morris interviews former Trump advisor and generally repugnant pit-stain Steve Bannon. In The Fog of War and Known Unknowns (films Bannon cites as personal favorites), Morris walked through Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeldt’s personal biographies to examine the personal and structural failings of American empire. Bannon, who prefers bloviating about his favorite films and his own […]