WITH THE “YEAR OF HOMECOMING” just around the corner, Scotland’s Minister of Culture LINDA FABIANI is in New York to encourage everyone with an affinity for Scotland to “come home” as the country celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of “Scotland’s favorite son” poet ROBERT BURNS. As Scotland’s unofficial but universally recognized national poet,..
CUNY ENGLISH PROFESSOR CAROLE K. HARRIS has a few other passions in addition to French and American fiction. One of those, her photography of people, will be showcased Oct. 8 through Nov. 8 the Atrium Building of the Ursula C. Schwerin Library at City Tech. A resident of Park Slope, Harris has been taking photographs..
LONGTIME BROOKLYN HEIGHTS RESIDENT DOREEN HAZEL is a former schoolteacher who loves teaching and learning to the extent that she decided not to be done with education when she retired from Brooklyn’s PS 266. Now she is teaching teachers. For years Hazel has studied and traveled to pursue her interest in the Holocaust—to Poland, Israel,..
BROOKLYN-BORN JAZZ BAND WEE TRIO’s first album, released last month, has been described by impressed critics as ‘not-so-wee.’ The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “With JAMES WESTFALL’s vibes in the forefront, the group has a fresh sound, and bassist DAN LOOMIS and drummer JARED SCHONIG flow like the tides. Wee’s sound is not wee, it’s huge.”..
WHEN LYNN BELKIN WAS SIX YEARS OLD she survived an optic glioma — a cancerous tumor affecting the nerves behind the eye. Belkin’s parents had taken their three girls to a routine eye check, and when the doctor couldn’t refract one of Belkin’s eyes, he diagnosed a lazy eye and gave her an eye patch…
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..
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..