Borough President Marty Markowitz loves to make a splash – especially at his annual State of the Borough address, known for its fanfare. This year, Marty rode into the Sunset Park High School Auditorium on a tricycle to the tune of Queen’s “Bicycle Race.” Click through for the video and full text of Marty’s speech.
In the spirit of holiday giving, we bring you LIVE LEAK, our new video series featuring live acts from Southpaw and around the borough. We begin with leaks from our most recent event on November 11 at Southpaw featuring performances by Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye, Outernational, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers and singer Tamar Korn. Our first Live Leak feature is an acoustic performance of She Craves Spring by Outernational.
Author Rick Moody appeared at the Franklin Park Reading series in November and read from his latest novel The Four Fingers of Death.
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Extended through November, he has brought us two extra chapters from his return to Brooklyn series, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the final installment.
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Extended through November, he will bring us the final two chapters from his return to Brooklyn series, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury.
Shelly Oria is our guest contributor this month. She was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Israel. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Shelly’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Quarterly West, cream city review, and fivechapters among other places. She curates the series Sweet! Actors Reading Writers in the East Village, teaches fiction at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and is the co-producer of Literary Death Match Tel Aviv. Shelly was awarded the 2008 Indiana Review Fiction Prize for her story “New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,” and is currently completing her first story collection, which carries the same title. She is represented by Janklow & Nesbit Associates in New York. Watch her reading at the Franklin Park Reading Series in October 2010.
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the fourth chapter.
