Celebrating Community
On April 2nd Barbara, a retired New York City school teacher, parked her silver 2021 Hyundai Tucson SE in a spot that had miraculously opened up, right across from her Park Slope home. Sadly, that night her car joined the ranks of the Hyundai TikTok Challenge. For numbskull young-ins, that Challenge is pretty easy to conquer. You see, Hyundai models […]
For most voters in Brooklyn, including virtually every Democrat in Brownstone Brooklyn and Sunset Park (outside of the vicinity of Chinatown) there will only be one race on the ballot in this year’s primary: a seat on the Civil Court bench. For most of you, this is a race involving candidates you never heard of the day before yesterday who […]
In mid-May, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that $7.6 million would be awarded to 21 animal shelters and humane societies across the state—through the New York State Companion Animal Capital Projects Fund—for capital projects that “will enhance animal care and health and help ensure adoptions for New York’s dogs and cats.” One of the recipients in this fifth round of the […]
“Community” is a word that arts organizations use a lot these days, and I in no way want to undercut the sincerity behind that when I point out that the word’s popularity is fundamentally driven by the kind of grant-writing-thinking that pretty much every arts organization has to adopt in contemporary American life in order to even hope for some […]
Going to the movies right now feels like huffing exhaust. The fumes of tired franchises, hyperfrenetic filmmaking, and cheap sludgy visual effects choke multiplexes and streaming services, strangling creativity and our own good judgment. But there are still rare clearings in the miasma, when a film can be a cleansing blast of the cleanest oxygen that reminds us why we […]
Review of Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew, by Jeremy Dauber Review by Michael Quinn Born in Brooklyn in 1926, Melvin Kaminsky was the youngest of four boys whom the fatherless family doted on. “Until I was six, my feet didn’t touch the ground,” he remembers. He was quick with a smile, a natural mimic, and good at making people laugh. He […]