By Jeanne Fury
Our latest cover artist is Linda Zacks, a Williamsburg resident for many years. An illustrious career to her credit, she rode the web boom, first at a Soho start-up and then as the Design Director for VH1’s website. Since going solo in 2004, she’s been hunkered down in her laboratory in Brooklyn, called [...]
Reid Pillifant profiles Pierogi gallerist Joe Amrhein, and his new project, The Boiler.
Michael McGregor highlights North Brooklyn’s 7″ vinyl resurgence.
By Athena Ponushis
P.J. McKosky stopped sorting the laundry of 60-something cats for a quick break in the back of Blackbird Parlour Cafe. As the 28-year-old cofounder of Empty Cages Collective drank his coffee with soy, one of the volunteers for his animal advocacy organization was carting two cats to the veterinarian. Another was rescuing a [...]
Puccini’s Suor Angelica by OperaOggi at the McCaddin Theater
By Jacqui Danilow
There is something truly magical when a performance of an opera that you know extremely well takes you back to the very first time you heard it. The production of Suor Angelica by OperaOggi on Sunday was a totally new and different experience, making it [...]
Debora Gilbert looks at the efforts to save the People’s Firehouse.
Firehouse Engine Co. 212 on Wythe Street on the Northside, an endangered part of neighborhood history and the focus of historical local activism, is in the process of being transformed and saved for posterity. A joint proposal from Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) and [...]
By Athena Ponushis
Diana Rodriguez was a year old when her father opened his restaurant at the Moore Street Market. As her “Papi” was cooking, she was sleeping under the counter at Ramonita’s, the name chosen to flatter her mother.
Now, at age 23, her dark eyes behind sleek-framed glasses, Diana conjures hide ’n seek memories, games [...]