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BROOKLYN FILMMAKER TO SHOW FILM AT JJ BYRNE PARK
GREAT NEWS: There’s going to be one more show on the big outdoor screen in JJ Byrne Park on August 1st at 8:30 p.m. Should be a really interesting one, too. It was directed by local Brooklyn filmmaker, Charles Libin.On the night of Black Monday in October of 1987, a group of self-styled revolutionaries led by Paula, their ruthless and ravishing ringleader,
stage a coup d’etat at their World Trade Center firm.
AMERICAN COMBATANT
Officially Selected for the 30th São Paulo International Film Festival (Oct/Nov 2006). It will be screened on Tuesday August 1, 2006 in JJ Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue and Third Street.
SYNOPSIS:
On the night of Black Monday in October of 1987, a group of self-styled
revolutionaries led by Paula, their ruthless and ravishing ringleader,
stage a coup d’etat at their World Trade Center firm.
A board member is killed and the band of malcontents take-off with a bag of pistols and millions in stolen bearer bonds. One member, Fred White, leads them to hole-up at a Ludlow Street tenement belonging to his sister Maude. After a nerve racking game of cat and mouse with Paula, Maude is shot and killed on the roof of her building.
Almost two decades later, alcohol-soaked and guilt-ridden, Fred drives a film student and his camera on a twenty-four-hour odyssey through through the rolling golf courses of Westchester, to Lower Manhattan then Brownstone Brooklyn with a visit to Fred’s estranged family.
Tormented, Fred is convinced of the link between Maude’s death in 1987
and the events of 9-11. He confronts his enemy as dawn breaks over
Gardiner’s Bay on the Eastern End of Long Island.
EEK: SOMEONE ELSE SAW THAT HIDEOUS PLASTIC RAT AT THAT STOOP SALE
Thanks to OTBKB reader Krisin for writing in. Needless to say she didn’t buy the rat, which made it possible for my son to hand over thre bucks for that thing. BTW, that video was never made. Teen Spirit didn’t came home that night (slept over at a friend’s house). Next day he told us that he bought it for his friend, the drummer in his band, for his 16th birthday. The friend REFUSED to take it. Such a nice gift. grrrrrr. No Words Daily Pix promises a picture.
i saw this rat!! at the stoop sale! and i ogled, oohed and ahhed, was
grossed out and incredulous and laughing along with all those around
me. so happy this nasty plastic critter found its home in your home and
blog. . . don’t you think it’s a little tiny bit cute? ha! hardly, i
know–it’s ghastly. i’m thinking this disgusting plastic rat is
chuckling at starting yet another conversation. . . i would love to see
the video documenting this rat’s existence, come to think of it!
MOVIES AND ORGANIC ICE CREAM IN RED HOOK PARK
It seems like this is the summer for outdoor movies. Just heard about an outdoor movie series presented by Added Value, the community organic farm in Red Hook.
Dear Friends
This Saturday Night July 29th Added Value will kick off the nine week-long Red Hook Movies In the Parks Series.
JOIN US FOR DAVE CHAPPELLE’S BLOCK PARTY: An unforgettable and unbelievably hilarious movie about throwing the ultimate block party right here in Brooklyn. Truly, a celebration of music, New York City and our incredible borough.
Plus: Seeds, Hope and Concrete: a short documentary about urban
agriculture featuring Added Value and Red Hook Community Farm and a short film by local teenagers from The Red Hook Productions.Films begin at 8:15
The Farm opens at 7pmBring a blanket to sit on or saddle up to a hay bale. Feel free to
bring a blanket, a picnic dinner or purchase some local fruit from Wilklow family farm or a pint of IceCream from RonnyBrook Dairy. All proceeds from the sale of food will go to support our youth empowerment programs.These events are sponored by the City Parks Foundation and are free and opento the public and made possible by the hard work of our partner organizations, SuperProjects, The Brooklyn Greenway, The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Partnership For Parks and The Red Hook Community Justice Center, These events are are alcohol and smoke free. For a full schedule check out http://www.redhookmovies.org.
Other Films on the Farm include
August 19th @ Red Hook Community Farm
THE FUTURE OF FOOD: an in-depth investigation into the controversy over
Genetically Modified FoodSeptember 9 @ Red Hook Community Farm
WALLACE AND GROMMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (G)
plus short: The True Cost of Food: an educational and entertaining
animated film about sustainable food. www.truecostoffood.org/PLEASE NOTE
We are looking for 4 volunteers who would like to help with set up and breakdown. Please contact cloomis@added-value.org or call the office at
718-855-5531 if you’d like to help out.And as always feel free to join us at our Farmers’ Market. This week
will feature some fantastic Peachers and Plums, our first cherry tomatoes, and of course your favorite flavors of locally produced ice cream.
ATHLETES FOOT? COMMUNAL YOGA MATS MAY BE THE CULPRIT
Maybe yoga isn’t so great after all. This from the New York Times:
GREG E. COHEN, a podiatrist at Long Island College Hospital, hears
the same story a lot: women complaining about a flaky red bump or a
persistent itchy patch on a foot. By the time he sees them, they’re
embarrassed and horrified. A few years ago, Dr. Cohen, who also has a
private practice in Brooklyn Heights, didn’t know what to make of it,
but these days he doesn’t blink an eye.“The first thing I ask is, ‘Do you do yoga?’ ” he said. As often as not, the answer is a resounding “yes.”
In
the last two years, Dr. Cohen said, he has seen a 50 percent spike in
patients with athlete’s foot and plantar warts. The likely culprit?
Unclean exercise mats, he said.Gyms have long been hothouses
for unwanted viruses, fungi and bacteria, a result of shared equipment,
excessive sweat and moisture in locker rooms. Many facilities provide
disinfectant so clients can wipe down machinery, but they are often
less diligent when it comes to exercise mats. It’s common to see staff
members clean a stationary bike. It’s rare to see them disinfect a mat.This is starting to worry many yoga practitioners who go
barefoot on high-traffic mats. Half a dozen kinds of yoga-mat wipes are
now sold nationwide, and new products like hand and foot mitts, to
protect serial mat borrowers, have hit the market.
NEW LOOK AT A BROOKLYN LIFE
File this under: keeping abreast of what the other Brooklyn bloggers are up to:
A Brooklyn LIfe has a really nice new banner at the top of their page.
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DEN MOTHER MOI
So I’m a den mother now. Am I the last to know that Time Out has a cover story called, "The War For Brooklyn?" The article includes a box called: The Embeds: Brooklyn’s intrepid bloggers send continual dispatches from the front lines.
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: Louise Crawford is a den mother for bloggers in these parts—she recently arranged a "Brooklyn Blogfest" party. Her Park Slope-centric site is cozy, unpretentious, and well informed, always siding with the little guy in the development wars.
That’s a nice couple of sentences. I’m thrilled, of course. Reporter Sarah Goodyear also wrote about B61 Productions, Brooklyn Record, Brownstoner, Gowanus Lounge, Planet PLG, and Set Speed. Is it possible she left out No Land Grab and Atlantic Yards Report. That’s not possible. Is it?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO WRITE FOR OTBKB?
In August, OTBKB is going on vacation to California. Would you like to be a guest blogger? Please email me: louise_crawford@yahoo.com.
Your post doesn’t have to be long. Just a few interesting words about summer where you are. Unless you want to write about something else. Just let me know. Photo bloggers are welcome, too.
Dates needed: August 8-23, 2006.
HERE’S SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Just heard about this today. Sounds fun.
The third annual Tiger Beer Singapore Chili Crab Festival will bring sizzling Southeast Asian cuisine and culture to the streets of Brooklyn’s waterfront on Sunday, August 6 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The free street festival will celebrate Asia’s premier lager and the unofficial national dish of Singapore—Chili Crab cooked in a fiery sauce blended with chili peppers, soy, ginger, garlic and onion. Event admission is free with charges for Chili Crab, beer and other food and drink items.
Asian entertainment will be featured throughout the afternoon including kickboxing demonstrations, lion dancers, carnival games, pedicab rides and live bands. Visitors can enter to win a trip to Singapore and learn all about the exotic island-nation. The festival will be held in front of
Location: The Water Street Restaurant & Lounge at 66 Water Street, between Dock and Main Streets, DUMBO, Brooklyn.
STRANGE DAY
Terrible things happened to a friend of mine on July 27th for three years
running. It was many years ago when we were both teens. But I still
think of her every year on that day. No matter where we are. She’s
always in my thoughts on that day.
This year she is in the south of France, one of her favorite places
to be. You can bet that she’s taking it easy. After the third incident
all those years ago, she vowed never to even move on July 27th;
I’m sure she doesn’t take it that far any more. But I’ll bet she
doesn’t fly on airplanes or do anything risky. I just have a feeling.
The day has that kind of power over her. And me, too.
The first incident occurred on a hosteling trip in Camden, Maine.
The group was hiking when the group-leader fell off a mountain to his
death. That’s all I know. The teenagers had to find their way out of
the park to get help. I remember she told me about it a few weeks after
it happened and I was stunned that something so dramatic, so real could
have happened to her. And it seemed unspeakably sad.
The second incident came a year later. She was also on a hosteling trip. A
friend of hers fell into a glacier lake in Rocky Mountain National
Park. He couldn’t get out for more than an hour and nearly died.
Fortunately, he was saved and lived to tell the tale.
The third incident occurred in a national park in Washington State.
Again she was on a hosteling trip. This time the group was poncho
sliding down an icy pass. My friend went flying into a tree and broke
both of her legs. She had to be helicoptered out of the park (strapped
to the outside of the helicopter) to a hospital in Port
Angeles where she was wrapped in body cast; she couldn’t leave the
hospital for three months. Eventually, she was able to fly back to New
York having missed three months of eleventh grade.
The year after that, we were together on July 27th, which felt sort
of exciting and scary, too. We didn’t do anything on that day and
joked that we were just going to sit very still. Afterall,
the day was cursed. We were in a summer arts program in North Carolina
feeling far away from home and family and spent the day in a local park
having a picnic, swimming, taking it very easy.
When I was a teenager, I really looked up to this friend (and still
do) for her sense of adventure, her fearlessness, her drive. Some
people might say that going on hosteling trips three years in a row was
pushing it a bit. Strange to say, I think I actually envied her these
disasters: they seemed so dramatic even if they were tragic. Isn’t
that what teenagers live for: drama, the real stuff.
I imagined losing someone I’d only known for a few weeks but had
grown quite attached to and even called by a cute nickname. I pictured
her trying to save her friend who nearly died in that icy Colorado
lake. And her stories about the park ranger who visited her at the Port
Angeles hospital…It was all so…grown up and, dare I say it,
exciting. My life paled in comparison.
Ah, the strange logic of a teenage girl. But that’s how I thought
about things then. And I still take it easy on July 27th, try to
anyway. I wouldn’t want my life to take a dramatic turn. Not now
anyway.
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THE DOPE ON PHOTO BLOGGERS, JOE AND HUGH
Dope on the Slope has completed his podcast of interviews with photo bloggers, Hugh Crawford and Joe Holmes.
