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December 27, 2011September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
Goodbye to Aunt Suzie’s: a Pioneer Calls it Quits
No one will go hungry when Aunt Suzie’s restaurant closes on January 1st. French, Thai, Indian, Japanese and Mexican joints dot the blocks of 5th Avenue in Park Slope where Aunt Suzie’s sits. The area wasn’t always a culinary scene, though.
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December 19, 2011September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn As Muse: Why So Many Writers?
In the beginning there was Walt Whitman’s “Brooklyn Ferry.” Then came Henry Miller’s Williamsburg. The Brooklyn Bridge was Hart Crane’s, the Brooklyn accent Thomas Wolfe’s. Truman Capote and Paula Fox wrote their version of the Heights. Jonathan Lethem and L.J. Davis tapped onto 1970s brownstone Brooklyn. Paul Auster owned Park Slope. Brooklyn isn’t only a...
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December 5, 2011September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Live Wire
Book Review: “The Deal From Hell”
Tiffany Ap reviews The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers, by James O’Shea
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November 23, 2011September 27, 2019Arts & Culture, Live Wire
Brooklyn Museum Director Featured In Staten Island
Retaliation has come against the Brooklyn Museum director in the form of a picture. Arnold Lehman, who allowed a picture of a crucifix to be displayed at the museum earlier this month, now his name immortalized as a nude picture of himself over a toilet hangs in the Staten Island Borough Hall. The painting was...
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November 23, 2011September 27, 2019Arts & Culture, Live Wire
Famous Midwood Pizzeria Closed via Health Violations
Di Fara Pizza, which received a Zagat award for the best pizza in 2011, was closed last week after a city health inspection found a worrisome 67 code violations, according to the New York Daily News. The pizzeria, which serves slices for $5, has run into health problems in previous years, as in 2007 the...
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November 21, 2011September 27, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Business
The (not so) Little Bookshop that Could
BookCourt is something of a visual aberration for anyone walking down the northern part of Court Street. Sandwiched between a deli, a UPS store and a Starbucks, the bookshop stands out against the background. It’s too indie to be there, only blocks away from Barnes & Noble – and too nice. The store was already...
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November 14, 2011September 27, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Death in Brooklyn
Good Grief: In the Zine World, a Place to Mourn
I arrived with a friend at Death by Audio on South 2nd Street to find two women at the entrance asking for a sliding-scale donation. I asked them what lay at the end of the corridor they flanked, “It’s a fundraiser for The Worst Zine.” Still none the wiser, I handed them five dollars and...
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October 31, 2011November 1, 2011Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
A Love Letter Returned?
A new mural in Downtown Brooklyn leaves some scratching their heads.
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October 24, 2011October 25, 2011Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
At CMJ—Brooklyn, But More So
For one week in October, the CMJ Music Marathon takes over Williamsburg and Greenpoint with hundreds of bands looking for a break, giving music lovers in Brooklyn even more options than they already have.