For fun, I went through New York Magazine’s FALL PREVIEW issue and circled everything Brooklyn in it.
On a first, quick read, it seemed that the borough (let alone any borough other than Manhattan) didn’t come up very much. So I thought, hey, let’s see how many times the County of Kings is mentioned.
Out of well over 100 listings throughout the magazine including an Event-a-Day calendar, movie, theater, music, art, and restaurant sections, Brooklyn (groovy, hipper-than-hip Brooklyn), come up exactly thirteen times. And that includes two mentions of THE SQUID AND THE WHALE. So let’s call it twelve.
Well, that pissed me off a little, though it is NEW YORK’S perogative to write about all the Manhattan events that they want to. But I spent my $3.99 hoping to hear about the fall in Brooklyn, too. Silly me. It’s called New York Magazine. And everyone knows New York means Manhattan.
So here are the big thirteen and in order:
1. On October 2: Across the Narrows Concert on Staten and Coney Islands with Oasis, Jet, and the Doves as headliners.
2. On October 5: THE SQUID AND THE WHALE with Jeff Daniels opens, described by New York as the Park Slopiest movie of the year.
3. On October 11: The BAM Next Wave Festival mounts a ballet version of RAISE THE RED LANTERN.
4. October 15: Art Under the Bridge Festival in Dumbo
Okay, that’s it – IT – for the Day-by-Day Event calendar (for September through November).
5. Opening September 16: EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED opens. The film, based on the book, by Park Sloper Jonathan Safran Foer, stars Elijah Wood and was directed by Liev Schreiber.
6. STAY, Marc Foster’s drama in which a Brooklyn Bridge car crash bonds Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, and Ryan Gosling opens in October,.
7. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE with Jeff Daniels as a bad novelist and even worse father is mentioned twice in the movie section.
8. PROTOCOLS OF ZION, a documentary aout the resurgance of anti-semitism was directed by Brooklyn native, Marc Levin. Opens October 21 – not sure where.
9. In the book section, only Myla Goldberg’s new WICKETT’S REMEDY (Doubleday) made the list. In that article, the Brooklyn band the Decemberists is mentioned for recording a song called "Song for Myla Goldberg."
10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, a Brooklyn band turned overnight sensation plays at the Bowery Bar on September, 9th.
11. Williamsburg’s Stellastarr comes out with a new album called HARMONIES FOR THE HAUNTED.
12. Another Brooklyn band, The Mendoza Line releases their new disc: FULL OF LIGHT AND FULL OF FIRE.
13. And in the restauarant section, there was exactly 1 mention of a Brooklyn restaurant and it’s called: Anthony’s at 462A Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. According to New York Magazine: "The Nick’s Pizza crew and a bona fide Neapolitan pizzaiolo plant a thin crust flag in the South Slope. C’est Tout!
There’s gotta be more going on in Brooklyn than this. Stay tuned for OTBKB’s Fall PREVIEW.