Deep In the Heart of Brooklyn

Currently Carless in Gaza, since our daughter has use of "Dad's" Honda for her senior year upstate, Brooklyn Beat is getting r...

Above: Stew as The Narrator, left, and Daniel Breaker as Youth in Passing Strange. Stew and Spike Lee, above. Passing Strange, the film by S...

Above, Rimini Bakery, Bay Parkway Bay Parkway, beginning at 65th Street, is a great melange of Italian, Chinese and Russian Brooklyn. Chang ...

Not to give away spoilers, but by this point it is surely not news that Quentin Tarantino has re-written the rules of the World War 2 movie....

"He was a Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of white hair, his florid, oversize face, h...

The singer-songwriter discussed the possibility of his being featured as the voice of a GPS system. It was mentioned on his BBC Radio 6 Musi...

Top: Greg Miller's digital photo Panorama of the Hudson River by Greg Miller, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz Middle ...

Mars is inhabited by the Na'vi tribe, made up of ten-foot blue humanoids that are peaceful unless attacked. Humans cannot breathe Pando...

Filmed in part in Germany, "Inglourious Basterds" is according to Director Quentin Tarantino a "spaghetti western but with Wo...

Among all of the blockbusters from authors such as Richard Russo, Thomas Pynchon, et al, in release, Victor LaValle's "Big Machine...

Congressman Barney Frank takes the health care reform debate by the horns and shows that there is more than one way to respond to the one di...

NY Times Interactive Homicide Map: Select the location via zip and the mapping function provides detail on murders that have been perpetrate...

The play, billed as a stroll down Coney Island Avenue, through the neighborhoods of Turks, Pakistanis, Jews, Muslims, Italians, Sikhs, Russi...

Samantha Rahn as the Girl, above. Francisco Reyes as the Commandant A field of brown leaves. The production of Juan Mayorga's ...

The political conflict is brimming over as the pot is stirred by anti-democracy demagogues and, no-doubt, corporate interests. The fear and ...