Deep In the Heart of Brooklyn

Strolling around the World Trade Center, circa 1993 8 years later. We never forget but the memory, and the pain, becomes slightly faded. Per...

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." This year, whether owing to the passage of ti...

Angel proclaiming the end of time. 9/9/09 For NYC school kids, it is an end of the world of sorts. For others, 9/9/09 seems to resonate with...

Above, Moritz Bleibtreu, right, as Andreas ("Andy") Baader; Martina Gedeck as Ulrika Meinhof Bleibtreu and Johanna Wokalek as Gudr...

A little before 1 PM on a perfect late summer day in Brooklyn Heights. Sunny, not hot, with a gentle, cooling breeze wafting off the water d...

A great list of upcoming fall events at the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza: Friday, September 11, 2:30 PM -Tomas Rodriguez - Latin ...

While it shouldn't be a surprise, the iPhone, like the BlackBerry and other smartphones is ultimately just that -- a phone. Using a BB, ...

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...