Friday, July 27th, 2007
I was ‘interviewed’ by email about a new bike path in Park Slope for The Brooklyn Paper. A lazy reporter noticed a post I made in the Brooklynian forum and got in touch. Of course she quoted me out of context and actually put words into my mouth that I never wrote, but what else […]
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
On one of my trips to Kiev, I discovered a great instrument called the ‘bandura’, which looks a bit like a harp, but it’s more complex and it can give you the impression you’re listening to a few instruments at the same time. Bandura-player and composer Volodymyr Voit, whose work appeared in a recent Ukrainian […]
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Right across from the Dutch colonial Lefferts House in Prospect Park, where Sinterklaas makes an annual appearance for a handful of Dutch adults and a bunch of bewildered Brooklyn kids, the Brooklyn Museum is re-opening its period rooms from the Jan Martense Schenck House that stood in the town of Flatlands in 1672. The Brooklyn […]
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