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 delicious meal, and vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. All proceeds collected go to the winner, and fund the [...]
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 much needed addition to a neighborhood where purchasing large Polish beer’s at corner store’s is far too standard a practice.
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 [...]