Tag Archives: brooklyn

Greenlight Bookstore Enters VuVox

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Jose Bayona

The Greenlight Bookstore, located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, is an independent bookstore with a neighborhood focus that offers small time authors the opportunity to launch their books in a more intimate and casual environment. Entrepreneurs and authors Matt Lewis and … Continue reading →

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Books and Friends Find a Haven in Fort Greene

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Jose Bayona

Greenlight Bookstore, located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, is an independent bookstore with a neighborhood focus that offers small time authors the opportunity to launch their books in a more intimate and casual environment. Continue reading →

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In Brooklyn, They Think They Can Dance

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Alissa Ambrose

By 7:30 Tuesday morning, a line was already wrapped around the
corner of Lafayette Ave and Ashland Pl in Fort Greene. Dancers from as far away as
Nova Scotia gathered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for day two of
auditions for the reality show So You Think You Can Dance. Continue reading →

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Sound Art in New York City

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Jennifer Hamblett

What is sound art? How do we experience it?  What makes sound… art?  A recent exhibition at Brooklyn’s Diapason Gallery – the only gallery in New York devoted to sound art – gives us a cacophony of clues to answer … Continue reading →

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Creative Downsizing: A Piece of the Garment District Moves to Midwood

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Alissa Ambrose

Leon Shpelfogel has been in the sewing machine business for more than 40 years. He started out working in his father-in-law’s Garment District shop, learning to build, repair and install the machines used by the then flourishing New York clothing industry. As the garment industry went into decline in the 60s and 70s, Shpelfogel’s business survived when many did not. Continue reading →

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