Celebrating Community
“Come here, I show you some carpets” – “Where are you from? Spain? Italy? France?”….”Best Moroccan Quality!” As you start walking through the alleys and streets of the Marrakech city center, the wave of vendors trying to get your attention will hit you harder than the heat, which does not joke around in Africa’s July. Marrakech, the fourth largest city […]
Forty-something years of making it up, on the spot, in front of an audience. That’s Keith Jarrett’s legacy of improvised solo piano concerts on ECM. It’s an enormous and important body of musical work, a break—within the mainstream—with be-bop and hard bop conventions and the creation of an entire new idea of modern piano jazz. The first step was the […]
Power chord lunch. The sainted and venerated Joe Strummer warned us. We’d grow up and we’d calm down, he foretold. We’d start wearing blue and brown. Sorry to say, we’ve not yet aged out of the days of evil presidentes he sang about on “Clampdown” (recorded with the Clash for London Calling, one of the highest watermarks of punk) back […]
Happy Summertime everyone! It’s been a hot one, figuratively and literally speaking. Took a little vaca last month and put my musical musings on hold while I re-charged the proverbially batteries. But now your lovely Medea is back with a vengeance! Vengeance is a word that may bring aggressive images to front of mind. That’s a bit of a preview […]
Mike Fiorito’s latest book, “UFO Symphonic: Journeys into Sound”—his eighth, and a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards—isn’t only for people who “believe in aliens.” Blending memoir, testimonials and ideas from thinkers like psychologist Carl Jung and philosopher Aldous Huxley, the Brooklyn author taps into the idea of music as a universal language: one that connects us to each […]
The Red Hook Business Alliance is presenting Movies in the Park which includes movies in Coffey Park and Valentino Pier Park. There was one movie scheduled to be shown in each park in June and July, and The Great Dictator will be shown on August 9 at Valentino Pier Park, and Loving Vincent will be shown on August 13 at […]
Most people have a “bad roommate” story—an out-of-control college bunkmate, a Craigslist find gone wrong, or even a friendship that soured once shared chores came into the mix. But there are also plenty of happy pairings that go unreported. These pairings are critical in New York City, where affordable housing is hard to find; sharing a space can mean the […]
I’m standing on Columbia Street with my hundred-yard stare that overtakes me when I’m scanning the area for my first interviewee. A woman calls out to me – “Are you okay? You look like you might be lost.” I tell her I’m not lost, I’m a writer for the Red Hook Star Revue and I’m just looking for someone to […]
When harpist and composer Kirsten Agresta Copely talks about Kuruvinda, her latest album, she does it with the same focus you hear in the music itself. The record, released August 1, is ten tracks of harp-led meditations that travel from dark corners to moments of calm. It is personal, shaped by reflection, and unafraid to sit with what is imperfect. […]
