Fortnight Journal is a new web project that documents the promise of the millennial generation. On November 11, 2010 BrooklynTheBorough.com will partner with Southpaw to host a benefit performance to raise money for the project featuring rising Brooklyn singer Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, local rockers Outernational and the legendery Ms.Smtih with guitarist Lenny Kaye.
Brooklyn The Borough Posts
New York natives Josh and Benny Safdie are the Safdie Brothers. Remember the name, these kids are going places. This weekend marks the final days of the brothers two-week summer series Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema, which features films they directed and selected for screening at BAM. We spoke to Josh Safdie about his craft.
Signs advertising government food subsidy programs dot the awnings and windows of the small and decrepit mini-grocers that line poverty stricken streets throughout Brooklyn, where rotting produce and goods packed with corn syrup collect dust. With a new federal cut to food stamp subsidies signed into law this week, how can Brooklyn retailers provide better food to it’s most vulnerable citizens rather than just continue to cut corners?
Performance artist, producer and director Sini Anderson appeared last month at the Franklin Park Reading Series and recently announced she is directing a documentary about her long time friend Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre fame.
At the Forgetters show last Thursday, Blake Schwarzenbach and bandmates ex-Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon and bassist Caroline Paquita from Bitchin’ played a solid show at the Bell House, punctuated by short and sweet Hamlet riffs. Watch the video here.
Author David Goodwillie reads from his novel American Subversive at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights.
So here’s the thing: I live in Manhattan. I realize this admission may count as blasphemy in these parts, but I spend what seems like several night a week in Brooklyn, and well, there’s nothing like an outsider’s perspective to keep people honest. I also write about Brooklyn a great deal, in both my fiction and non-fiction, so why don’t we start there and see what happens.