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It's been a wild start to 2011 and I couldn't be more thankful. I'm spending my days managing and editing the local New York City Inhabitat site, and the rest of my writing has been pushed to the back burner for the time being. But I spent the weekend watching people take ideas and turn them into reality, and it inspired me to put more time and [...]
Book Fest Brass: Johnny Temple On The Balance Between Art and Commerce
Johnny Temple is a man of many talents. He's played shows around the world as the bassist for Girls Against Boys, he founded an independent press Akashic Books in 1996, and publishes unsung urban authors. For the past five years, he has helped bring some of the most popular authors to Borough Hall for the Brooklyn Book Festival. This year's book [...]
Elastic City Art Walks Unveil A Multi-Sensory City Landscape
Todd Shalom wants you to walk down Carroll Street with your eyes closed. He wants you to write poems in the sand at Brighton Beach. He wants to stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge with you, marveling at the worn planks and angled wires. He wants you to experience this great city in a whole new way. Living in New York City, it's easy to take our [...]
Painting Like Pollock on the Coney Island Boardwalk
A lot has gone down on the boardwalk in Coney Island, that's for sure, but how about a woman painting circles with her wheelchair or a guy diving onto a slip-n-slide full of paint? This past weekend those were just two of the unique ways Brooklynites helped create ten large scale abstract paintings as part of an interactive performance art event [...]
The Greenpoint Food Market Says Goodbye For Now
At the Greenpoint Food Market, Joshua Kace launched his jerky business, Ross Hutchinson sold his first jar of bacon marmalade, and Laena McCarthy met a soda-making restaurant chef who wanted to use her jams in his cafe. The market offered a low-cost, low-key environment for home cooks and amateur chefs to share their homemade products, but not [...]
Filmmaker Cameron Yates Premieres ‘The Canal Street Madam’ at BAM
While vacationing in the South during the summer of 2003, Brooklyn filmmaker Cameron Yates read a local newspaper story about Jeannette Maier, a convicted New Orleans madam who had run a brothel with her mother and daughter. Intrigued, he tracked her down at a halfway house, and what started as a three-hour phone conversation turned into Yates’ [...]
Building Brooklyn: Habitat for Humanity Gets a Helping Hand
Just steps from the G train on a nondescript block of Lafayette Avenue, three black SUVs lined the street and cameramen held umbrellas over their equipment. As Bedford-Stuyvesant residents sloshed down the sidewalk through the rain, Spike Lee and Marty Markowitz stood with a small suited crowd under a white tent in front of a construction site. [...]
Book It! Get Ready for the Biggest Brooklyn Book Festival
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New York City’s biggest book festival is getting even bigger. Yesterday, the Brooklyn Literary Council announced a star-packed line up for this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, which will take place on Sunday, September 12. Brooklyn has long been a hub for writers and bookworms, but the festival, now in its fifth year, is attracting talent from [...]