Day: July 6, 2025

Arts

Music: Wiggly Air for July 2025, by Kurt Gottschalk

A Wolfe in Eno clothing. In 1996, Brian Eno published his 1995 diary under the title A Year With Swollen Appendieces. (A seond edition came out in 2021 with a new preface.) It was a revealing look at the producer/composer’s psyche and methodology, in more ways than he might have intended. It showed him, unsurprisingly, as an energetic and imaginative […]

Arts

Jazz: What freedom means, by George Grella

The first half year of these columns has been about how jazz fits into and reflects contemporary American society, because the music is fundamentally and immediately about this country and expresses the ideas and means for how we could be. It is music that, collectively, expresses a set of value about America. And oh yeah, it’s just fantastic for the […]

Feature Story

Pediatrician Sophia DeCambre, who left Addabbo to have another child, is back at work, by Brian Abate

Dr. Sophia Morisseau DeCambre, a pediatrician and Brooklyn native, returned to work at the Addabbo Center at 120 Richards St. DeCambre is from Flatbush but has already spent years working in Red Hook at the Addabbo. “I’ve always wanted to do this and it has always been pediatrics for me because I love children and I love babies,” DeCambre said. […]

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Talking about Iran and the rest of the world, Interview by Dario Pio Muccilli, Star-Revue EU correspondent

Francesco Tamburini is a Professor at the University of Pisa and a recognized expert in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) studies. We have recorded this interview on June 26th, worried that the news coming from Iran would soon make our conversation outdated, but eventually we ended up discussing much wider issues on the Western civilization, China and the westernization […]

Arts

Dean Haspiel’s Comix Block

This is part of our new center section featuring comics pages curated by Dean Haspiel from the neighborhood, Marc Jackson from England, and the rest of them, including two greats – Stan Mack and Michael Arthur.  This is the first of an ongoing committment to the comic arts by the Red Hook and the Village Star-Revue.