BROCHURES ARE TYPICALLY noteworthy for the news they hold, but the in-house designers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) have produced a beautiful summer catalogue as enticing to flip through as to read. Led by Director CLARA CORNELIUS, a longtime Brooklyn resident who lives in Midwood, the design squad shows us again that there..
OPENING NIGHT OF MACBETH AT DUMBO’S TOBACCO WAREHOUSE Thursday went off with nary a hitch, despite, as St. Ann’s Warehouse Creative Director SUSAN FELDMAN reminded the expectant crowd, the myriad superstitions surrounding the play. The opportunity for technical mishap was there aplenty, with fiery special effects, a headset per guest and a mesmerizing, two-story, open..
BROOKLYN’S IMAGE, or “brand,” might be as diverse as its population, not quantifiable in a single sentence or image. That seems to be one of the conclusions of a seminar orchestrated by ROSALIE RANCE and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce at a breakfast sponsored by Con Edison and attended by Con Edison’s STU LEFFLER. A..
YULIYA TALANOVA, a journalism major at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, has won a Kruglak Fellowship in International news reporting that will enable her to work as an intern in the Moscow Bureau of the New York Times in July and August. As she is a native of Russia, her responsibilities will include..
AS OF 11 A.M. MONDAY MORNING, 18 people were already in line with sleeping bags and tents outsde the Red Hook IKEA, set to open on Wednesday. The opening-day events (beginning 6 a.m.!) will offer more freebies than previously mentioned. The first 35 adults in line at the 9 a.m. opening will receive an EKTORP..
THE CHIEF NURSE EXECUTIVE AT NEW YORK HARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, CYNTHIA CAROSELLI, PhD., has good reason to be proud of her team. The ever-important Combined Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at the Brooklyn Campus of the NYHHS, run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, was recently presented with the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence for..
ON JUNE 16, DIANA J. SZOCHET will be sworn in as the Brooklyn Bar Association’s 93rd president and its sixth female president. She is taking over from RoseAnn Branda, who has served for the last year. In addition to her executive-board functions, Szochet is involved with numerous BBA committees, including the Pro Bono Committee and..
DURING SIX WEEKS IN APRIL AND MAY, BROOKLYN MUSEUM’S SHELLEY BERNSTEIN put the role of curator into your hands — and those of anyone who wished to vote on the web site where 389 photos taken by the public awaited evaluation. The votes have been tallied, and for the in-museum show, “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition,”..
How does one begin to capture the voice of a borough? The answer would seem to be by talking to its people. This is what author MARC ELIOT chose to do for his latest book. Eliot, who was raised by an aunt in Canarsie, has made a name for himself writing biographies of such people as..
German-born Park Slope resident CORDULA VOLKENING is many things. She is a mother of two and an artist known around the neighborhood for her construction and design work. Now, she is also a survivor. Volkening was diagnosed with advanced brain cancer last September. She has undergone two rounds of brain surgery and is currently in an..