Serving the Nabe: Hopes for Indie Bookstores
By JOSEPH MODICA When Independent Bookstore Day kicked off on the last Saturday of April, the shop owners were hoping to ring in large crowds. …[read more]
Arts/Culture
A Memorable Publishing Debut
By JOSEPH MODICA When writer Benjamin Ludwig raised his autistic daughter, he never expected how much he would delve into the lives of children like …[read more]
From NY, a Treasure Returns to Mexico’s Jewish Community
By LINDA KRESTANOVA The national debate over immigration was inescapable at the closing ceremony of New-York Historical Society’s exhibit commemorating the first Jewish Americans as …[read more]
Builder Plans African Art Museum for Bed-Stuy
Vira Jones owns a construction and design firm. The three rooms of the future Bedford-Stuyvesant Museum of African Art were filled with ancient and modern …[read more]
Preserving `CaribBeing’ culture in Flatbush
By AMBER ALEXANDER Flatbush Avenue is home to a cool cultural space dedicated to preserving and showcasing Caribbean heritage. The CaribBeing House, as it’s cleverly …[read more]
Caribbean writers at Flatbush library
By AMBER ALEXANDER Three Caribbean women writers discussed the influence of their culture on their writing and the complexity of their Caribbean identities at the …[read more]
Free online photo course at MoMa
By LUIS GONZALEZ Photography has becoming an increasingly popular medium for young artists and the the Museum of Modern Art has taken notice: It is …[read more]
`SASSY’ Awards held at NJPAC
By KAILA STRICKLAND The fourth annual Sarah Vaughan SASSY Awards were held earlier this month at NJPAC in Newark, where five jazz vocalists competed for …[read more]
Film-fest aims to end stigma of mental illness
By KARI FORD Dozens of people attended the annual Mental Health Film Festival in Greenwich Village this weekend to watch films selected with the aim …[read more]
Jamaican dancehall music grows in Brooklyn
By CATCHCHA RICHARDS When Marion Hall was just a little girl in the parish of Saint Mary, Jamaica, she used to sit in her yard …[read more]