WRITER/PRODUCER DANIEL NAYERI and co-directors BRENDAN CHOISNET and ADAM BROWNE have created a critique-laden tribute to Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Park Slope in “The Cult of Sincerity,” a film that highlights a hipster crowd and a spectrum of generational attitudes, and addresses the question, what does it mean to be good? Certain hotspots, such as Stain..
MUSICIAN, ARTIST, COMPOSER, DIRECTOR AND BIKING ENTHUSIAST DAVID BYRNE has designed nine bike racks for the city, eight of which are in Manhattan. Brooklyn’s rack — a shiny red guitar titled “Hipster” — was installed near North Sixth Street on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. According to the story told by the New York Times, Byrne,..
On Saturday, August 23, when the SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYNITES celebrates the centennial of “America’s First POWs” on the 232nd anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn, it brings together several important pieces of Brooklyn history that many neighbors, particularly newcomers to Brooklyn, may not know. First, the Society of Old Brooklynites, affectionately called ‘SOBs,’ was..
LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL will celebrate its 150th Anniversary Gala on October 4 at Steiner Studios. Reps from LICH say the entire medical staff will be feted on this momentous occasion, but in particular, CATHERINE GALLOGLY-SIMON, VP and chief nursing officer, will be honored. Gallogly-Simon began her nursing career as a staff nurse at LICH..
BOERUM HILL RESIDENT MATTHEW KELLS has intimately experienced a world few people ever will: For five weeks he lived in a monastery, learning and adopting the routines of the Benedictine monks. With the abbot’s blessing, he returned over the course of half a dozen years to document their peaceful existence on film. The final product,..
WITH ITS HUGE COLLECTION of popular restaurants and bars, Bay Ridge can also boast that it’s the birthplace of the largest number of pop music bands in Brooklyn. To name just a few: Frankie Mara Band, Pill Hill Radio, Prodigal Child (also played in Bay Ridge as City Kids some years ago), John Schmidt Band,..
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS’ RESIDENT LAURA WALKER takes seriously her mission to strengthen WNYC, New York City’s NPR outlet. This was brought home recently when Eagle columnist Charles Otey questioned in an open letter — albeit with admiration — the direction WNYC is taking: “At the risk of sounding like a troglodyte, I am puzzled as to..
THE WORLD-RENOWNED BROOKLYN MUSEUM, one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country, has permanent collections ranging from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, representing a wide range of cultures. Now and then, though, curators initiate more unorthodox exhibitions, drawing on the various talents of artists close to home. “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition,”..
OFTEN SEEN ON THE STREETS of Brooklyn Heights is a tall, athletic and intensely focused jogger whose tortoise-shell glasses and full head of dark hair bring to mind the character Clark Kent — the mild-mannered reporter and alter ego for Superman. To many of his Heights neighbors, this studious athlete really is a superman in..
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WATER is a revealing look into Haitian-American culture as it has manifested in Brooklyn — a rare glimpse into a world of music, spirituality and cultural activism. The film follows a group of young immigrants as they reinvent ancient Haitian music on the streets of Brooklyn in an experience that..