Movie Review: Hood to Coast—a Woodstock of running races
By Philippe Theise Hood to Coast | Dirs. Christoph Baaden & Marcie Hume | 102min | Doc | 2011 | US IndieScreen through Thurs, 7/21 8pm Hood to Coast, a documentary playing through…
“Gabi on the Roof in July” (Bklyn Intn’l Film Festival)
Review by Philippe Theise The first time I saw “Gabi on the Roof in July,” the new film by Greenpoint writer/director/ actor Lawrence Michael Levine that was part of the Brooklyn International Film Festival,…
Cafe Au Sandwich Board News
For those of us who thirst for a daily drop of celebrity news, Champion Coffee, the slender, sunny corridor of a shop on Manhattan Ave between Dupont and Clay streets, always shares the…
Manh’ttan had Studio 54/Greenp’nt has Coco 66
MUSIC REVIEW Photo by Philippe Theise In terms of international celebrities and onsite sexual abandon, well, not exactly, but in terms of night people who love their music and crowd the entrance like…









Theatre in the ‘hood: “Cop Piece”
Review by Philippe Theise, and photos by Yuki Wakamaki Last night, in a dilapidated two-room storefront at 94 Norman Ave, local company lilac co and st john’s theatre ended its run of Cop…