Deep In the Heart of Brooklyn

Robert Crumb, visionary cartoonist and illustrator extraordinaire, produced 207 individual works of pen and ink on paper for his now landmar...

Brooklyn resident (and, according to his monologue on SNL, a self-described Brooklyn hater -- how cool is that) Zach Galifianakis hosted Sat...

After a few days of Orwellian-Outer Limits cable hijacking ("Do not attempt to touch your TV.We will control your horizontal") whe...

All Things Considered, Would the Founding Fathers Smile? Daily News reports on a poll that shows that Governor Patterson's public s...

Jerry Brown today (with Gov. Schwarzenegger) Gov. Brown's official State portrait 1975-1983 Tabbed as “Governor Moonbeam” by out-of-st...

Things seem a bit off-kilter? Bloomberg News reports that " The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 proba...

Empire Fulton Ferry State Park. Photo by Brooklyn Beat. Wall Street Journal: "The Decline of the Empire State" Excerpt: "M...

Like most New Yorkers, we greeted the rise of David Patterson, NY's Lt. Governor, as New York's first African American and disabled ...

Happily, our younger girls in high school and my Better Half, who has to drive to the school where she works on the Queens border,m are all ...

Although we hear in some neighborhoods (Flatbush, Staten Island and Queens) a bit of snow is piling up, here in Brooklyn Heights not much sn...

Well, here we are.  Weather.com's storm track and local travel advisories

Snow...Snow! SNOW!

We caught Stew, Heidi Rodewald and their great band (Marty Beller-drums, Michael McGinnis-woodwinds, Joe McGinty-keyboards, Dan Peck-tuba, ...

Duking it out on Mount Parnassus , l to r: Gore Vidal, Janet Flanner, Dick Cavett, Norman Mailer Last night I was thinking of the George Was...

Forget the snow in NYC. Sure looks like they are having fun in NOLA! The term Mardi Gras" , refer to events of the Carnival celebr...