Hungry to Support the Arts
FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a multi-disciplinary, community-based artist grant that’s funded by a monthly public dinner held at the Church of Messiah. Guests pay an entrance fee, eat a…
Bridgewalkers: A New Series
There’s something addictive about walking over the Williamsburg Bridge. There must be, as every day, so many of your fellow neighborhoodies walk the 1.4-mile walk, a hundred feet in the air. The industrial…
Bridgewalkers: A Love Story
Vacant and skeletal but a week ago, the Williamsburg Bridge filled up with warm bodies stretching their winter legs and warming themselves in the late afternoon last Saturday, on what will now be…
An Ironic Earthday Celebration
Earth Day has always been synonymous with cleaning road side debris, the “Leave No Trace Movement” and the mantra “reduce-reuse-recycle.” Despite its good intentions, the Go Green! Greenpoint! Earth Day Festival, held last…
Violent Bullsh*t at Death By Audio
Clad in a green plaid shirt and black jeans and sporting an Aniston-quality mane and a rather dashing moustache, Violent Bullshit lead singer Jayson Green looked like a friendly pirate as he called…
Passing By, Passing Over
I first entered the Greenpoint Shul of Congregation Ahavas Israel last year, when the shul’s president plucked me off of Franklin Street on my way to buy coffee. The congregation was struggling to make a…
Craft Brew on Greenpoint Ave
Photo: Tom Pavlich Ed Raven, a noted beer importer, recently opened his first retail store, Brouwerij Lane on Greenpoint Avenue. The store, which sells craft beer from all over the world, is a…
