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Big Things Writ Small
Scale is a blade that cuts in two directions: Big often signifies importance, especially in an environment where space is at a premium. Conversely, we all know that “Good Things Come in Small Packages.”
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“Sculpture Garden” at Onderdonk House
Co-curators Leslie Heller and Deborah Brown have organized this year’s sculpture exhibit on the grounds of the historic Onderdonk House in Ridgewood/Bushwick.
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“All The Pretty Things”
At b. conte, Luisa Caldwell’s fruit sticker “mosaics” and exploding florals are displayed on rescued materials, and lined up like an architectural frieze above a rack of summer dresses that I could not help rifling through. At b. conte boutique through May 23 (167 North 9th St., Williamsburg).
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Nitehawk Features Live Scores to Accompany Classic Movies
A screeching violin can warn us that our favorite actress is in danger; a tapping drum can mimic the hoof beats of a trotting horse, and a sliding horn can tell us when to laugh when Buster Keaton braves death again. On Sunday, May 13, the Nitehawk cinema carried on a musical tradition, screening the F. W. Murnau’s 1927 film “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans,” and featured Morricone Youth live, accompanying film.
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Brooklyn Shows Off Its Bands at BAM’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Festival
If there ever will be a distinct Brooklyn sound, it just played last weekend in one big blast. From May 3rd through May 5th the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted over 35 local bands in its first-ever music festival titled Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.
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The Considerate Cyclist: The current state of cycling in NYC
Please be safe and cautious on your bicycle. While the city and the NYPD may not be eager to help you, there are bicycle advocacy groups like Transportation Alternatives (TransAlt.org), BikeBlogNYC.com, BikeNewYork.com, and BikeSafeNYC.com that can be excellent resources for New York City cyclists.
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Toughen Up at Green Fitness
In December 2009, Green Fitness Studio opened its doors on the short, two-block stretch of Varet Street. Amidst neighbors like Café Orwell, Green Fitness makes its unique contribution to the neighborhood through mind and body fitness combined with environmental sustainability.
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Tourist-burg-point-wick. Yes, It Is Happening—Tourism and Williamsburg Converge
Even after The Deluge, they kept coming. Tourism in New York City has never been more robust after 9/11. Back in 2002, while some tourists canceled their visits, there were more than enough curiosity seekers to take their place.
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OP/ED Property Rich and Under-Served
By Albert Goldson Our favorite 21st-century bad guys—banks and hedge funds—are aggressively entering the real-estate market nationwide, buying pools of foreclosed properties from Fannie Mae and selling them to developers at a profit,…
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Kyoung eun Kang’s “Steps” at HERE Arts Center
Installation artist Kyoung eun Kang explores the changing nature of the self in a world of blurred boundaries and cultural contradictions and makes this the subject of her multimedia installation “Steps” at HERE.
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Cinema of the Soul—Interview with Tod Wizon
Tod Wizon has shown extensively with well-regarded galleries like Bruno Bischofberger (Zurich), Annina Nosei, Jack Tilton, and Phyllis Kind; and he’s been reviewed in Art in America, ArtForum, and ARTNews. But more importantly, after 30-plus years of being “in” or “out” of the spotlight, he’s thoroughly entrenched in his craft.
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Lauren Olitski Poster, Susan Roth, Ann Walsh, “Color & Edge”
At the heart of this raucously colored, bumptiously optical show there’s a longtime (more than 30 years) friendship between the three women artists participating. Add to that equation the decade-long association of Sideshow gallery director Rich Timperio with one of the artists, and you know you’re in for lots of solid experience. But do the works get along?
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Toll Bros. sues contractors at One Northside Piers for $10 million
WG News + Arts reporter/columnist Phil DePaolo broke this story for WG in March 2011. We’re proud of Phil because of the significant accomplishment it served for residents of our community.
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“Hollywood Boulevard” excerpt from debut novel
“Hollywood Boulevard” a brand new debut novel by Williamsburg resident Janyce Stefan-Cole, in the noire tradition.
Available at WORD Bookstore
126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
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Hoppy Hour—Craft Beer Explodes onto the Scene
The baby boomers had their revolution—civil rights, women’s rights, anti-war, anti-poverty—and now their children are having their own: the craft beer revolution….
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After Many Years McCarren Pool Opens this Summer!
The mighty McCarren Park Pool – shuttered for almost thirty years – is set to reopen on June 28th, city officials confirmed.
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Grape and Cacao—wine and chocolate pairings at BOE
It used to be a simpler world for chocolate and wine, a world made up mostly of port and a lot less top-tier dark chocolate. As the chocolate industry shifted toward more artisanal producers that feature single-origin bars and unique infusions, the options for pairing table wines greatly increased.
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Alex Melamid, Artist Healer-in-Residence
Melamid split from Komar in 2004. At 66 years old, his work leans so far to the edge of irony that it makes Duchamp look conservative. These days, Melamid is concerned with reaching a greater public beyond the walls of museums…
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Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—March 2012
What makes these works most magical is Altas’s power to turn six boring numerals into things of grace and near limitless capacity. If Luhring Augustine keeps mounting exhibitions as good as this one, we should hope they stick around Bushwick for a long time
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Is There A Doctor in the House? Yes, Quite a Few
Following the tsunami of new galleries, restaurants, bars, developments, and people, like clockwork the next step in the growth of the neighborhood is that professional services—doctors in private practice and hospital satellites—follow.
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5 Things You Should Know If You Need An Ambulance
There are 410 ambulances stationed strategically throughout NYC, nine in Greenpoint and Williamsburg that can reach you in about six minutes. Although an accident might knock your body for a loop, you have more control over your fate than you think. Here are some ways to make the best of a bad situation.
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The Margabucha (a kombucha mixed drink)
I wanted to create a drink with the pleasures of a tall, cool, fruity, salty margarita, and just the right kickstart to a 5 o’clock Friday night out—sans the calories.
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Massive Attendance at Fountain Art Fair
This year’s Fountain attracted over ten thousand visitors in three days, including a packed opening night. “There was a line around the block to get in, and we did get Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith at our booth!” said artist Patricia Fabricant…
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“Where Were You Then?”—A New CD by Shelley Hirsch
What keeps Shelley Hirsch’s music coherent is her unique extended vocal style combined with her expressive narrative powers. Every song, no matter how abstract or literal, tells a story infused with emotion and personal truth.
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OP-ED What Charter Schools Were Meant to Be
COLUMN: PHIL ON FIRE
At a recent hearing, hundreds of local residents came out to oppose the opening of the Success Academy charter school. It’s been documented that Moskowitz bussed in hundreds of Harlem residents to give the appearance of community support. -
Recipe—Landhaus Bacon
Once the bacon is roasted it can be browned and used anywhere you would like thick delicious chunks of tender bacon: sandwiches, scrambled eggs, clam chowder, on macaroni and cheese—the sky is the limit.
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Co-Op 87 Putting a Good Spin on Vinyl
The sidewalk outside the entrance to Co-Op 87, covered with crates and boxes of $1 records, feels like your old college buddy’s apartment: stockpiles of stuff that live where it lands. But inside there’s a sense of cozy calm, like a warm library. That is, if libraries played loud post-punk albums.
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The Making of Maison Premiere
From the minute it opened, Maison Premiere made a big splash with food critics. “The New York Times” says it’s better than what it tries to imitate—an old seafood bar in New Orleans.
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Ground Control to Linda Griggs: long flight back from “cyberspace”
Is there such a thing as an altruistic person in our narcissistic art world? And, if there were a truly generous artist out there—a real artist, who still managed to promote his or her career while helping others—where or how would such acts of kindness take place?
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43 Magazine Launches—Interview with Allen Ying
Allen Ying, admired in skateboarder circles for his gravity-defying shots of skaters flying through the air, celebrated the results of a Kickstarter fundraising campaign this past August, earning more than the goal of $20,000. This means a green light for his brainchild 43 magazine…
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Natural Wine: A Welcome Throwback
Today, people tend to confuse natural wine with organic wine. In fact, they are two very different species.
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A Chocolatier in Our Midst
If anyone can sell luxury chocolate in a recession, it’s Maribel of MarieBelle Chocolates, with her deep-dimpled smile, her effervescent charm, and the inspiring story of a young woman who came to New York from Honduras to study fashion design, but ended up owning one of the most stylish chocolate companies in the big city.
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Ai Weiwei Recognized by an American Scholar 25 Years Ago
… it was Gould who’d given the now infamously incarcerated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei his first-ever U.S. group show. To my reporter’s mind, interviewing him while sitting somewhere between the bronze rooster and bronze dog’s head of Ai Weiwei’s newest public sculpture …
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Beauty and The Tattoo
This phenomenon now decorates a much wider slice of the population, including lawyers, bankers, doctors, and cops.
French Kissed by Kimchi
Though born and raised in Seoul, Sung Park’s ancestral home is North Korea, near the Russian border. “I remember my grandma making cheese every day. It’s not something that the South Koreans do,” he says.
Toughen Up at Green Fitness
In December 2009, Green Fitness Studio opened its doors on the short, two-block stretch of Varet Street. Amidst neighbors like Café Orwell, Green Fitness makes its unique contribution to the neighborhood through mind and body fitness combined with environmental sustainability.
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May 3, 2012
PHIL ON FIRE: What’s Up With Domino? / Problems at Northside Piers
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March 12, 2012
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December 15, 2011
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October 14, 2011
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September 15, 2011
Kid Flight: The “Education Mayor” causes children to flee with parents in tow (part I)
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March 20, 2012Alex Melamid, Artist Healer-in-Residence
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March 13, 2012
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September 13, 2011
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September 13, 2011
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September 9, 2010
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May 9, 2012OP/ED Property Rich and Under-Served
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May 3, 2012
PHIL ON FIRE: What’s Up With Domino? / Problems at Northside Piers
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March 13, 2012
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January 30, 2012
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December 8, 2011
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March 17, 2012Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—March 2012
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October 31, 2011
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January 29, 2011
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December 10, 2010
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