THE BIG BLUE HOUSE ON NINTH STREET: SLOPE MUSIC
You know the house. It’s on 9th Street between Fifth and Fourth Avenues and it houses something called Slope Music.
The house is bright blue and has a few flowers painted on it.
I’ve walked past dozens, maybe hundreds of time over the years. It aroused my curiosity. Sure, I wondered what went on in there. I guess I knew it was a Music School. But I just didn’t know what to make of it.
It had kind of a cool Charles Addams vibe. I wasn’t sure if it was spooky or fun.
That is, until today, when Charles Sibirsky, who programs jazz shows at the Brooklyn Buger Bar, mentioned in an email that he lives there.
I thought: he lives in THAT house. A French Second Empire house. On Ninth Street. WOW.
According to Sibirsky’s website, the house was built in 1850 "before brownstones, before Prospect Park, before the Brooklyn Bridge."
Sibirsky and his wife, Vita, moved to the house in 1981 and opened Slope Music, which has a staff of a dozen teachers.
The studios at Slope Music feature Steinway Grand pianos. According to the website: "the 9-foot piano is the same model that graces the stage at Carnegie Hall. All keyboard students have the opportunity to play these fine instruments. Voice students have the thrill of being accompanied by the finest pianos in the world."
Vita teaches piano to her students in a magical room at the top of the building:
Vita’s studio is the cupola at the top of the building. When the afternoon light filters through the 13 windows, one feels like they are momentarily suspended above the building. Vita tries to create a warm, welcoming space for the students. The unusual setting encourages people to relax and be open to learning. The unique space makes every lesson special.
I’ve never known anyone to study there. But hey, it looks like a great place to play music. Call 718-768-3804 for information or to set up an appointment if you’re interested.
LISTEN TO MY MUSIC: BALKAN BEAT BOX
I get a lot of emails about new music. My new policy is this: Write to me about your music and why OTBKB readers are gonna love it. I like to read it in your own words. Here’s something from Inaya of Balkan Beat Box.
Balkan Beat Box creates music that is derived from a mixture of culture (Arabic, Jewish, Gypsy, and American) fused together to form harmonious sounds. They are a unique group. Its different. They blend in electronic music with hard-edged folk music from across the globe inclusing Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Balkans (hence the name).
They have established a more elaborate and natural sound. Sometimes they would use odd sounds like horses but still make it work. Check it out. :)
Their bio and music is available on their Myspace o page. It sounds great.
WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK: SUSAN O’DOHERTY
I get a lot of books in the mail. I am running out of space in my office and my apartment. Running out. We ran out years ago and should have moved. But that’s another story. I also don’t have nearly enough time to read them all. I thank you all for sending them to me. But here’s a new way to get your books on the blog: if I think your book sounds interesting (and I often do) I will ask you to write a short blurb called Why I Wrote This Book.
The Landmark Commission gave landmark status to the SUNSET PLAY CENTER and SUNSET PLAY CENTER BATH HOUSE much to the relief of many of those in Sunset Park I’m sure. Information about SPC and SPCBH found by me on the Historic Council Districts Newstand, a blog dedicated to New York City’s preservation community. It’s an interesting blog. This includes a bath house, swimming pool, diving pool, wading pool, bleachers, filter house, perimeter walls and fencing enclosing these structures, linking pathways, street level fieldstone retaining walls, and the southernmost portion of the paved allee aligned with Sixth Avenue, Seventh Avenue between 41st Street and 44th Street, Brooklyn. SUNSET PLAY CENTER BATH HOUSE, first floor interior consisting of the domed entry foyer, and the fixtures and interior components of this space, including but not limited to, wall surfaces, floor surfaces, ceiling surfaces, doors, railings, ticket booth, chimney stack, signage, hanging lamps and clock, The Landmarks Preservation Commission has granted landmark status to four historic houses and three city pools. Amongst the buildings given landmark status are two townhouses on 56th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues constructed at the start of the 20th century for financiers on that block, which became known as “Bankers Row.” Two Federal-style, brick-clad row houses on Greenwich Street between Spring and Canal Streets were also granted landmark status. The houses were built nearly 200 years ago. The landmarked pools include the McCarren Pool in Williamsburg. It has been closed since 1983, but plans are underway for a $50 million renovation. The Thomas Jefferson Play Center in East Harlem and the Sunset Play Center and Bath House interior in Brooklyn will also become landmarks.
Longtime Park Sloper, Charles Sibersky, has lived on 9th Street since the 1970’s. He lives in that wild blue house called Slope Music. He says it’s the oldest freestanding house, not moved from another neighborhood like the Old Stone House, in the neighborhood. But not to digress, he’s programming jazz at the Brooklyn Burger Bar. The Brooklyn Burger Bar
Every Thursday and Saturday from 9-1 8/2 Anders Nilsson guitar, Isaac ben Ayala piano, Dan Shuman bass
8/4 Mike Kanan piano, Ben Street bass, Eliot Zigmund drums
8/9Bob Arthurs trumpet, Charles Sibirsky piano, Ray Parker bass
8/11Christiana Drapkin, vocals, Charles Sibirsky piano, John DeCesare bass
8/16 John Merrill guitar, Charles Sibirsky piano, Ray Parker bass
8/18 Jan Leder Trio
8/23 Eric Pakula sax, Charles Sibirsky piano,Ray Parker bass
8/25 Bob Arthurs trumpet, Charles Sibirsky piano, Dan Shuman bass
8/30 Charles Sibirsky , Robert Weiss drum, Ray Parker bass 9/1 Charles Sibirsky piano, John DeCesare bass, Robert Weiss drums Okay. So I’m a little nuts. I am doing it. Got started today. Send me any August events you’d like OTBKB readers to know about. Just for fun, I’ve included some events where we’ll be in Northern California. But mostly it’s Brooklyn. And maybe some Manhattan. Maybe. Park Slope’s John Schaefer spends most of the year as the host of WNYC radio’s music talk show “Soundcheck,” which features live performances and interviews with a variety of guests. Since 1982, Schaefer has also hosted and produced the popular new music radio program “New Sounds,” hailed as “The #1 radio show for the Global Village” by Billboard magazine. He is also a horse racing fanatic and spends part of his summer in Saratoga. As he said on WNYC this morning: “I work all year, I have a family, I have a house to renovate and a soccer team to coach. So I don’t get to say it often. But today, I have to see a man about a horse.” His reflections on horseracing are included in a recent anthology about horseracing called “Bloodlines: A Horse Racing Anthology” Here’s the blurb from what sounds like an interesting collection: A From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime. Editors Maggie Estep (Diary of an Emotional Idiot; Flamethrower) and Jason Starr (Twisted City; Lights Out) have brought together original fiction and nonfiction from some of our most beloved writers. Lee Child heads off the collection with a thrilling story about a hit man hired to knock off a horse mid-race. Laura Lippman contributes a vivid tale about a young man who makes money selling parking places at the Preakness and the intriguing woman he meets. Here is Bill Barich on the misfortunes of an Irish gambler, Joe R. Lansdale on one man’s ambition to win a mule race in east Texas, Laura Hillenbrand on the Kentucky Derby, and James Surowiecki on the wisdom of horse-racing crowds. Jonathan Ames adds his unique theory of horse love, Meghan O’Rourke shares her touching recollections of going to Saratoga as a child, and Jane Smiley tells of her experiences raising thoroughbreds. This standout collection on horse-racing featuring twenty authors, from national bestsellers to Pulitzer Prize winners, is as page-turning as it is diverse. Also includes pieces by Ken Bruen, Steven Crist, Maggie Estep, William Nack, Scott Phillips, John Schaefer, Jerry Stahl, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Wallace Stroby, and Daniel Woodrell. Ths from NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez: The barbed wire fence blocking the Williamsburg waterfront will soon be coming down, giving the community access to this area for the first time in more than a century. The fence sits on the site of the old Domino Sugar Factory – which closed in 2004. The plant, once one of the world’s largest sugar refineries, will now be turned into housing. “What’s best about New York is creating a community where people of diverse backgrounds, of diverse incomes, can live together and prosper as a community,” said Michael Lappin of the Community Preservation Corporation. “And this is what New York City is about. This is what the new Domino will be about.” The not-for-profit Community Preservation Corporation is overseeing the development, along with the Katan Group, a private developer – which bought the factory after it shut down. The Katan Group says it plans to invest more than a billion dollars to turn the former factory into 2,200 apartments, both rentals and condos. It says 30 percent of the apartments will be affordable for people making as little as $21,000 a year. Others will be set aside for seniors, moderate income earners, and those who can pay market rate. Community activists say they are pleased with this news. “This is the last hope of our community for affordable housing,” said community activist Luis Garden Acosta. “We’ve been under assault by the kind of development that only, practically speaking, responds to market forces.”
What’s Up Doc, last night’s outdoor film at Brooklyn Film Works in JJ Byrne Park, was photographed by Laszlo Kovacs, who is considered one of the great cinematographers in Hollywood. He died in his sleep on Saturday night. He was 74. In addition to What’s Up Doc, Kovacs shot more than 60 films, including “Easy Rider” “Five Easy Pieces,” “Shampoo,” “Paper Moon,” “New York, New York,” “What’s Up, Doc,” “Mask,” “Ghostbusters,” “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and many more. The man responsible for the look of all these ground-breaking American movies was born and raised on a farm in Hungary during the Nazi occupation of that country. According to Reuters, Kovacs, along with another great cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmond, documented the rebellion. They borrowed film and a camera from their school and hid the camera in a paper bag that had a hole in it for the lens. The pair carried 30,000 feet of documentary footage across the border. They eventually entered the United States as political refugees in 1957. In the early 1960’s Kovacs got his start in Hollywood with Roger Corman, called the King of the B’s. Bogdonavich, the director of What’s Up Doc, Peter Bogdanavich, met Kovacs while he was working on a film called The Girl in the Invisible Bikini. Bogdanavich hired him on the spot to shoot Paper Moon. At the time Kovacs went an Americanized version of his name: Leslie Kovacs. Bogdanavich told NPR that he told Kovacs that Leslie didn’t sound like a Hungarian name. Kovacs told him that no one knew how to pronoucne his real name. He told Bogdanavich that when he makes a good film, his real Hungarian name will go on it. His real name appears on the credits of Paper Moon and What’s Up Doc. And “What’s Up Doc?” is a great film. I forgot just how funny it is. It is perfectly entertaining from start to finish. Such fun, such perfect screwballism. Filled with great dialogue by Robert Benton and Buck Henry, the stars, Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neal make the perfect screwball pair. The crowd of nearly 100 enjoyed the film immensely. A great night at BFW. Next week: don’t miss Duck Soup with the Marx Brothers. July 31 in JJ Byrne Park. 8:30. I had a feeling that the Brownstone Bride story was going to be a sad one. The Brooklyn Paper did some investigation and came out with a story on their website yesterday. The Brownstone Bride, who was holding a teddy bear and a box, was taken to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation. According to a Brooklyn Paper quote from a policeman: the bride’s father lives on Fourth Street. A police source at the 78th Precinct told The Brooklyn Paper that the ring was indeed genuine. Cops called the Fifth Avenue gem merchant with the ring’s serial number and were given the name of the man who purchased it. The man later told cops that the woman had indeed been his fiancee, but that he had dumped her because “she was bi-polar and wouldn’t take her medicine,” the police source said. The woman was later released from the hospital and is in the custody of her father, who lives on the block, the source said. After being reported in The Brooklyn Paper, the story of the mystery bride was covered nationwide. There will be a Bugs Bunny short, a hot dog concession by Willie’s Dawg’s (which made New York Mag’s Best Cheap Eats list) and a funny movie directed by Peter Bogdanavich from one of the greatest eras of American filmmaking: the 1970’s. Come in your very best Charivari dress. Wear a little Jean Nate perfume. Put on some tan wedgie sandals. Pack a Blimpie picnic (or have a Willie Dawg). Remember a time before cell phones and Wikipedia (how did we live without you?): What’s Up, Doc? is a screwball comedy from 1972, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, and Madeline Kahn (in her first full-length film role). It was intended to pay homage to comparable motion pictures of the 1930s, such as Bringing Up Baby,[1] as well as the Bugs Bunny cartoons—which, like this film, were made by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was a huge hit in theaters, and became the third-highest grossing film of 1972. The film won the Writers Guild of America 1973 "Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen" award for writers Buck Henry, David Newman and Robert Benton. It was placed number 61 on the list of 100 greatest comedies published by the American Film Institute. Hairspray: 4 OTBKBs. Really fun, funny, entertaining. Rating system: 5 OTBKBs: Run to the theater and see it now! Judging from these photos by Fourth Street resident, Nathanial Harpaz (he’s only 9-years-old), my hunch is that there was something terribly wrong with that woman who was fast asleep on the ledge of a Fourth Street brownstone dressed in a wedding gown. I am guessing serious mental problems. What do you think or know? Self Absorbed Boomer, who was at the Brooklyn Blogade Roadshow, is one of the few people who knows that Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn is a take-off on Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, a short story by Thomas Wolfe. SAB writes about a train trip to the Adirondack’s while reading "Pages from a Cold Island" by Fred Exley. I’ve never read a word by Fred Exley but I found this post very interesting. I decided to bring Pages with me on this trip because I was Brooklyn Bitch, the writer behind Brooklyn Nester, is girl after my own heart. She writes today about CLEANING HER BEDROOM. Nesters, today is a difficult day. Today begins the horrible, horrible task of launching the The Brooklyn Project. Today Brooklyn Bitch motivates to take on the war zone that is my bedroom. With this wretched, awful, and fuckin’ disgusting task, begins the 5 stages of death as we know them here at The Brooklyn Nester: Doesn’t this dish called Calabicitas Tacos look amazing???? Last Night’s Dinner includes photos, recipes, and peeks-a-plenty into her kitchen. Pix by Last Night’s Dinner. Check out her Flickr page. Check out the State of the Subways Report from NYPIRG’s Straphanger’s Campaign. It’s a very interesting report. Here’s why the people at Straphangers do what they do: First, riders are looking for information on the quality of their trips. Second, our report cards provide a picture of where the subways are headed. This Continued Lastly, we aim to give communities the information they need to win better service. We For riders and For those This report is part Our reports can be found at www.straphangers.org/reports.html, as can our profiles. I like the sounds of that. The City Room Reports that landmark status is being considered for the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Greenpoint. The yellow pencils, roughly 10 feet tall and still sharp after 83 Note from the designer: This design is a tribute to my neighborhood home, Park Slope. It As The plan became Star76: Our Seeing Green is sick of Harry Potter. Find out why in one of Seeing Green’s best posts ever…. You see, I say to D., when you read a non-serialized book (or see such a movie,) you’re like an empty slate (a tabula rasa, But a serial, by definition, is constrained, which is why so many of I tell D. to avoid cliches in his nascent writing (which he does a Here are the quick deets: A big crowd, 50 or so, gathered at the restaurant. The restaurant was packed. The food at Casa Mon Amour was great. The owner, Beatrice, deserves all the raves she gets from customers. The slide show by Forgotten New York was fantabulous (post to come). The shout outs were wonderful (list to come). Miss Heather of New York Shitty is a great hostess!!! She should have her own television talk show or something. She’s very funny, a great speaker, with a very distinctive (and attractive) look. I fear she’s still mad at me for not publishing a piece she wrote two years ago. I forget now why I didn’t but I think we need to have a talk about that. I didn’t know her at all at the time and I’m sorry if that created a bad feeling. Miss Heather’s event was filled with unfamiliar and interesting new bloggers (as well as a few familiar ones of course). Brooklyn really is BIG and that’s why this roadshow thing is so necessary!!!! Hepcat and I loved the neighborhood!!!! We took a long walk along Franklin Street from Kent to Bedford and North Sixth. The walk along Franklin Street, which is quite near the river was breathtaking. It’s mostly industrial. As we traveled south towards Williamsburg we could see all the construction and the way that neighborhood is changing so dramatically. Needless to say No Words_Daily Pix took lots of pix. Including today’s Daily pix. See above. The area near Casa Mon Amour is very historical and residential. It’s a GEM and hopefully will not be tampered with. We stopped at a dress shop and Word Press, which is a lovely bookstore on Franklin. I haven’t been to Greenpoint since I lived in Williamsburg from 1984 until 1987. Things have really changed. I want to explore more. THANKS MISS HEATHER FOR A TRULY GREAT EVENT. A very valuable outreach to blogggers in Greenpoint, Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Bed Stuy. Thank you Wiki for this quick education in a film I saw when it came out and LOVED AND LAUGHED OUT LOUD OVER. Such a 1970’s feeling is in the air these days that this choice by Brooklyn Film Works is PERFECT. You won’t want to miss a night of American cinema under the stars in JJ Byrne Park. Come one, come all at 8:30. Willie’s Dawgs will be there, too. The movie’s start at dusk. What could be a more perfect Brooklyn night. From Wikipedia: What’s Up, Doc? is a screwball comedy from 1972, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, and Madeline Kahn (in her first full-length film role). It was intended to pay homage to comparable motion pictures of the 1930s, such as Bringing Up Baby,[1] as well as the Bugs Bunny cartoons—which, like this film, were made by Warner Bros. Pictures. Hugh Crawford took hundreds of portraits on Friday night, when he set up his portable camera studio in front of Community Bookstore during their overwhelmingly wonderful Harry Potter release party. These photos will be available for viewing very soon. Prints can be ordered directly from Hugh’s website when they are ready. He will also display some of the portraits in the window of the Community Bookstore (date to be determined). OTBKB will keep you posted. You can email hugh crawford at hugh(at)hughcrawford(dot com). I sat next to this blogger at the Blogade Roadshow in Greenpoint. Her blog, the-queries.com is an interview blog. It looks really interesting. She mostly interviews artists, I think. I plan to visit often to see what’s up. If you were at Hal Willner’s Doc Pomus Project at Celebrate Brooklyn featuring Lou Reed / Ben E. King / Howard Tate / Teddy Thompson / Shannon McNally / Steven Bernstein / Robin Holcomb / Joel Dorn / Mocean Worker / Pete Guralnick and Laurie Anderson on Saturday night do tell. His multi-artist concept shows (and albums) are simply the greatest. At Celebrate Brooklyn, he’s done: Leonard Cohen (2003) and Neil Young (2004). Send pix if you have them. Did anyone see Odetta on Friday night at CB? She was subbing for the Bobbie Blue Band which cancelled due to illness. On Saturday night it was all about Doc Pomus, the great Williamsburg born songwriter and author of classics like “Lonely Avenue” and “Youngblood.” If you were at the Siren Festival in Coney Island. Do tell. Or send pix. I know a bunch of Teen Spirit’s friends were there and I am hoping one of the photographers he knows got some pix. And let’s not forget the great Dan Zanes performed his Ezra Jack Keats songs at Celebrate Brooklyn at 5 p.m. on Sunday. It looked like a BIG crowd of little ones and their parents, all who love the GREAT DAN. SUNSET PARK POOL AND PLAY CENTER GETS LANDMARKED
It’s on Seventh Avenue between 41st Street and 44th Street in Brooklyn.McCARREN POOL GETS LANDMARK STATUS
NO WORDS_DAILY PIX BY HUGH CRAWFORD
CHARLES SIBIRSKY PLAYS PIANO AT THE BURGER BAR: HE PROGRAMS JAZZ SHOWS, TOO
499 9thStreet( at 7th Av)
No Cover. No Minimum.OTBKB’S SUMMER GUIDE: AUGUST
JOHN SCHAEFER’S SUMMER AT THE RACES
DOMINO IN WILLIAMSBURG: MAKING AFFORDABLE HOUSING OUT OF SUGAR?
BROOKLYN FILM WORKS: INADVERTENT TRIBUTE TO LASZLO KOVACS
BROWNSTONE BRIDE IS BI-POLAR?
NO WORDS_DAILY PIX BY HUGH CRAWFORD
FEEL THAT 1970’S VIBE AT BROOKLYN FILM WORKS TONIGHT
What’s Up Doc? With Ryan O’Neal and Barbara Streisand and Madeline Kahn. What could be more fun on a beautiful summer night? It’s playing tonight in JJ Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue at Third Street in Park Slope. A SUMMER OASIS: BAM ROSE CINEMA
Look what’s there now: Three first run films you’ll want to see:
Rescue Dawn: 5 OTBKBs. Very gripping, very intense.
Sicko: OTBKB hasn’t seen it.
Plus: their Leading Ladies of Italian Cinema series is a sublime selection of some gems of international cinema.
4 OTBKBs: Well worth a trip to the theater.
3 OTBKBs: Get it on Netflix.
2 OTBKBs: Get it at Hollywood Video sometime.
1 OTBKB: Don’t even botherSLOPE STILL BUZZING ABOUT BROWNSTONE BRIDE
TODAY ON SELF-ABSORBED BOOMER
headed into Exley country. He grew up in Watertown, New York, and, in
his later years, he sometimes stayed with his widowed mother at her
house in Alexandria Bay, the principal town of the Thousand Islands
region, to which Larry, my stepfather-in-law, had promised to take Liz
and me during our visit. Indeed, I thought I had read or heard that the
"cold island" of the title was one of the Thousand, where Exley had
camped out in a cabin while writing the book. Besides, Exley seemed an
appropriate companion for a train trip. According to his bio,
while still in high school he worked in the rail yards at Watertown.
Later, he did public relations work for the New York Central, and after
that for the Rock Island. So Exley at least shared, if not my love of,
at least an affinity for, railroads.TODAY ON THE BROOKLYN NESTER
BLOG OF THE DAY: LAST NIGHT’S DINNER
I didn’t get a chance to chat with this Brooklyn blogger at the Blogade Roadshow at the Casa Mon Amourbut her blog, Last Night’s Dinner, looks like loads of gourmet fun. HOW DOES YOUR SUBWAY LINE RATE?
The MTA has, unfortunately, resisted putting detailed line-by-line
performance measures on their web site. In June 2003, the MTA did begin
posting its quarterly performance data on its website, www.mta.info. However, none of this information is broken down by line. Our profiles seek to fill this gap.
report card paints a picture of a stalled system: Subway cars break
down a little more often, a troubling trend at a time when hundreds of
new technology subway cars have been coming on line. The subways have
shown no improvement in regularity of arrivals or in making accurate
and understandable subway car announcements. On one measure we found
there was significant improvement: subway cars became cleaner.
progress will be a challenge. The MTA is struggling to obtain all the
planned funding for its current rebuilding program, including rising
construction costs, a weak dollar and realizing $1 billion dollars from
the sale of its assets, such as its valuable Manhattan rail yards.
often hear from riders and neighborhood groups. They will say, “Our
line has got to be worst.” Or “We must be on the most crowded.” Or
“Our line is much better than others.”
officials on lines receiving a poor level of service, our report will
help them make the case for improvements, ranging from increases in
service to major repairs. That’s not just a hope. In past years,
we’ve seen riders — including on some of the lines we found the worst —
win improvements, such as on the B, N and 5 lines.
on better lines, the report can highlight areas for improvement. For
example, riders on the 7 — once the best in the system — have pointed
to declines and won increased service.
of a series of studies on subway and bus service. For example, we
issue annual surveys on payphone service in the subways, subway car
cleanliness, and subway car announcements, as well as give out the
Pokey Awards for the slowest city bus routes.
EBERHARD FABER PENCIL COMPANY HISTORIC DISTRICT
years, adorn the facade of 61 Greenpoint Avenue, once part of the
Eberhard Faber factory in Greenpoint, where No. 2 Mongol pencils were
made until 1956. Together with structures on West and Kent Streets, the
building is part of the proposed two-block Eberhard Faber Pencil
Company Historic District. Read more at The City Room. A T-SHIRT TRIBUTE TO PARK SLOPE
These look like nice t-shirts designed by local Brendon Manwaring. You can order one in chocolate brown or slate here.
depicts the area’s urban complexity and natural simplicity; the unique
beauty of classic Brooklyn that is Park Slope.
On the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, a landmark at the northern
entrance of Prospect Park, I’ve overlapped an aerial view of the Park
Slope Historic District. According to the New York Landmark
Preservation Commission, it is "one of the most beautifully situated
residential neighborhoods in the city." With this, I’d have to agree.-BrendonStar76 is a Brooklyn-based t-shirt company. Here’s what they have to say about themselves:
all good tales begin, ours started with a back-of-the envelope business
plan, scribbled out on the 4th of July 2006.
a collective dedicated to creating imaginative clothing and accessories
through collaborations with local emerging artists.
passion for fresh art and ideas coupled with our desire to change the
world (or at least make it a little more livable), also led us to
create the Ad Astra Initiative, Star76’s t-shirt driven program
dedicated to raising public awareness of and supporting causes near and
dear to our hearts. PARK SLOPER IS HARRY POTTERED OUT
I say, always eager to nudge his vocabulary,) and you let the author
work his/her magic on you as you immerse yourself in the writing. A
good author brings something fresh to every chapter, something new is
revealed, something old is borrowed.
Volume II’s are so disappointing. Rowling avoided the disappointments
magisterially, and was constantly inventive, constantly juggling the
many, many balls of her plot, constantly tying up or connecting loose
ends from previous novels. In this she was masterful and it worked well
through five books. VI and VII?…well…
lot of,) because cliches are like the wormholes in that apple, empty
but assertive. And, I continue, in an epic spanning, oh, what, some
3,500+ pages, how could an author not create her own cliches?
You start noticing these. I mention that, inevitably, the freshness
disappears, like taking another bite of the apple you’re saving for
some reason from the day before. Inevitably you see constructs seen
before, plot lines mentioned two volumes before, conceits you noted
three books ago. Formulas emerge…NO WORDS_DAILY PIX BY HUGH CRAWFORD
BROOKLYN BLOGADE ROADSHOW A BIG HIT IN GREENPOINT
Here’s a quick note about the Brooklyn Blogade Roadshow that met in Greenpoint on Sunday July 22nd at the Casa Mon Amour on Franklin Street. There’s much more to tell and I took copious notes so there will be more later today. WHAT’S UP DOC? AT BROOKLYN FILM WORKS OUTDOORS
The film was a huge hit in theaters, and became the third-highest grossing film of 1972. The film won the Writers Guild of America 1973 “Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen” award for writers Buck Henry, David Newman and Robert Benton. It was placed number 61 on the list of 100 greatest comedies published by the American Film Institute.PORTRAITS FROM HARRY POTTER PARTY TO BE AVAILABLE SOON
BLOG OF THE DAY: THE QUERIES
BIG MUSIC WEEKEND IN BROOKLYN