How do you stay in touch with what is going on outside your community?
How often do you consult your news sources? How do you feel afterwards?
How do you respond? The answers to these questions can affect your
mental and physical health and form the basis of your media activism.
Many of us struggle to have a positive response to news affecting
people we don’t know. On the other hand, sometimes that far-off
sounding, mysterious entity
Just back from a pre-birthday and pre-race dinner at Two Boots. Carbo loading for me and Pizza Face for the girl. We’re both ready for our big day
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The race begins on the boardwalk at 8 a.m. The group is supposed to meet the team at 7:15 for last minute information and advice from the coach. That means calling Eastern Car Service at 6:30 to ferry me and two friends over there.
After I run 13.1 miles, the fun begins. She’ll be a big eight year old. And I’ll be someone crazy enough to have run a half-marathon.
The coach told us to get a great night’s sleep on Thursday because no one ever sleeps well the night BEFORE a race – pre-race jitters and all. Still, I’m going to try to catch a few winks tonight. My daughter is already asleep, exhausted from anticipation about all that other stuff in her mom’s closet. I’m jittery too with anxious visions of the Boardwalk, Ocean Parkway, the Prospect Expressway pulsing with the strides of thousands of runners. Including mine.
FEBRUARY HOUSE: The story of Carson McCullers, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Jane and Paul Bowles, and Gypsy Rose Lee living together under one roof on Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights.
by Sherill Tippins. Available at your local independent bookseller.
Purim Carnival at the Brooklyn Lyceum 277 Fourth Avenue near President Sunday March 27th, 2005 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Featuring Klezmer music by Golem and Jonathan Bayer Plus Arts, Crafts, Food, and Masquerade
BIG FUN FOR KIDS AT THE OLD STONE HOUSE Music by Jonathan Bayer and stories about the Battle of Brooklyn, the history of the house, singing, marching and MORE. $6 for adults. Kids are FREE. April 10, 2005 11 a.m. until noon.
The Old Stone House is located on Fourth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets.
WRITING AND PRODUCING FOR THE RADIO A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH IRA GLASS
Tuesday March 22nd at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $36. and all proceeds go to 826nyc’s writing lab for children. Tickets are available through NYU, Ticket Central 212-998.4941 Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South
The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. is part of 826NYC
THE NOMADIC MUSEUM, a temporary art museum on Pier 54 in Greenwich Village, is made up of 148 multi-colored shipping
containers. Inside is Ashes and Snow a multi-media exhibit by photographer, Gregory
Colbert. Through June 6th.
On April 14th, at 7 p.m., Park Slope resident, Alfred Gingold will read
from his new book; Dogworld: And the Humans Who Live There at The Old Stone House.
The Old Stone House is located in JJ Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Street.
CAPATHIA JENKINS AND LOUIS ROSEN,
both residents of Brooklyn, launch their exciting collaboration with
two concerts featuring the world-premiere of Phenomenal Woman, a song
cycle set to the words of American poet and writer, Maya Angelou. Joe’s Pub. 425 Lafayette Street. March 20, 27. There is a two drink minimum or a twelve dollar food minimum per person.
SCOOP DU JOUR_Weather. News. Stuff to Do. Subway service back to normal, Marty Markowitz in the New Yorker, Brooklyn-Half Marathon race course and MORE.
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD_Weekday Lunch on Fifth
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SIDE PANELS_Links to Brooklyn essentials: museums, movies,
theater, arts, recreation, fitness, city government, schools and MORE. Scroll
around and see. Check out HelloBrooklyn.com on right for movie times and other must-have info.
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