THE FIRST ANNUAL GALA FUNDRAISER at Green-Wood Historic Chapel Oct. 3 honored Pulitzer prize-winning author DEBBY APPLEGATE with the DeWitt Clinton Award. Applegate has earned much critical acclaim since the 2006 publication of her biography, Henry Ward Beecher: The Most Famous Man in America. Applegate spent 20 years researching Henry Ward Beecher (including several years..
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WHEN THE CUTTING-EDGE IRONDALE CENTER is welcomed at its Oct. 11 open house, a new nexus of theater and education will be introduced to the BAM Cultural District. Two weeks later, when the Irondale Ensemble Theater opens its season with “Peter Pan,” (“unlike anything you’ve ever seen unless you’ve read the book”) it will undoubtedly..
CAROLYN GILLES KNOWS HOW TO bring people together. In fact, she’s made it her job. In 2006, with support from a small cadre of friends and volunteers, Gilles founded Green Edge NYC to be a social network between businesses and residents wanting to live sustainably and in partnership with their neighbors and global community. A..
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAM KATHY McDONALD and PASQUALE BIANCULLI have been making music together since 1977 when they met as students at SUNY Stony Brook. With McDonald playing flute and Bianculli guitar, they have toured throughout North America, Europe and the Caribbean, started a music festival, directed a Brooklyn ensemble, and taught their..
ARTIST ANDREA SPIROS HAPPENED to be walking by a Clinton Hill public school one afternoon when she saw workers removing the large, thin steel plates she had become obsessed with from the chain-link fence around the schoolyard perimeter. The plates, although beautiful in their green patina, had served for years as a barrier between the..
“BREAKING GROUND” IS AN INNOVATIVE annual dance extravaganza in which five renowned choreographers have five days to create a site-specific work. Each year, the location — which might be anywhere within the five boroughs — is kept tightly under wraps until the last minute, so no choreographer has an advantage. Today, it was revealed that..
THROUGH YEARS OF CHRONIC UNDERFUNDING and without a permanent headquarters, Irondale Ensemble Project co-founders TERRY GREISS and JIM NIESEN remained tenaciously committed to their programs of social outreach and education, to bring theater to students who otherwise wouldn’t have such exposure. The company endured on the generosity of grants and on loaned space from the..
FOR TWO DECADES, PARK SLOPER PAM McALLISTER has dedicated her musical gifts to a fortunate pair of Slope churches and the many Brooklyn students who received her private tutelage in piano. “I inherited my love of music, a piano and 10 boxes of music from my maternal grandmother, Mabel Guinn,” she says. “Music was her..
BOERUM HILL AUTHOR JONATHAN AMES has written his seventh book, a new graphic novel called “The Alcoholic,” to be published by DC Comics/Vertigo on the last day of this month. The work was illustrated by Ames’ good friend DEAN HASPIEL, who has given it a cover as distinct as those that preceeded it. A starred..
TOMORROW, SEPT. 23, THE HOPE AWARDS will pay tribute to several dozen “unsung heroes of Brooklyn” — seniors who have volunteered their time and effort to better our borough. Hosted by SUN-B (the Senior Umbrella Network of Brooklyn), The HOPE Awards (“Honor Our Phenomenal Elders”) will recognize these individuals for their contributions at a gala..