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By Gersh Kuntzman since the QM2 took up residence in April. The Brooklyn Papers The 3,080-passenger Crown Princess will fire make its maiden voyage — a two-day cruise to The Queen Mary 2 is going to have to share nowhere for media and cruise industry insiders her new Brooklyn digs — with mere a princess. — and return for the traditional champagne-bot- Ratner foe hit On Sunday, Princess Cruises new megaliner, tle sendoff on Wednesday, June 15. The Crown Princess, will set sail from the new Martha Stewart, who has taken the job of official Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal in Red Hook, the “godmother” to the Crown Princess, will be on over remark first cruise ship to call the $56 million pier home hand to break the bubbly over the bow next week. But which ship is Brook- By Ariella Cohen lyn’s true royalty? Depends on The Brooklyn Papers whether you like your boats really big or merely gargantu- The mud-slinging that surrounds the Atlan- an. tic Yards project returned to a classic wedge In this corner, is the cham- issue — race — this week, when the project’s pion, weighing in at 151,000 Greenhood / Aaron loudest opponent made what some on both tons and 14 decks, just a few sides of the development divide interpreted as feet shorter the Empire State a racially insensitive remark. Building, and with enough Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn spokesman restaurants to serve the Eighth Daniel Goldstein described the relationship between

Army — the Queen Mary 2! Papers The Brooklyn Yards developer Bruce Ratner and some of his black In the far corner, weighing in That’s some good grass: Sunset Parker David Cohen leads a band of modern-day Appleseeds. allies as one of “wealthy white masters” and slaves. at 113,000 tons and 19 decks, Goldstein later apologized for his wording. The Crown Princess is storming Queen Mary 2’s turf in Red Hook. See QUEEN on page 6 The comment came during a heated email exchange between Goldstein and Daily News political gossip blogger Ben Smith in which Goldstein criti- Let every pothole cized Smith for giving black-led organizations such as BUILD and ACORN a free ride. Both groups receive funding from Ratner (see editorial, page 4). “When are you going to start outing all the bulls—t on the other side of the Atlantic Yards issue?” Gold- stein asked Smith. “Or is their power too scary for bloom—with grass! you that you have to smack [Yards opponents] while … astroturf groups and their wealthy white masters [avoid] your wicked barbs?” The News’s coverage of By Ariella Cohen Queens Expressway underpass. Ratner’s project has been generally favorable; both The Brooklyn Papers Cohen’s seed has spread to include 139 people, the newspaper and its lead local columnist, Errol Brooklyn’s new graffiti is grass. mostly Brooklyn-based artists, and he expects the Louis, have strongly endorsed the project. And its principal artist is David Cohen. numbers to shoot up after a major seed event next Goldstein’s comments were a hot topic hours lat- “I live in one of the least-natural places I’ve ever week on the Lower East Side. er at a candidates’ forum. experienced,” said Cohen, a 37-year old artist who Cohen recruits members on a website linked to “I told Dan he should apologize, and he did,” said lives above a tire shop in the gritty nether-hood a magazine he publishes, Artworld Digest (www. Bill Batson, a project opponent running for Assem- some know as the South Slope and others as Sun- artworldigest.com/seedproject.html), and by ped- bly, disavowing Goldstein’s comment. set Park. dling seeds in artsy pockets of Fort Greene and But race has never been far from the surface of the / Tom Callan / Tom Being surrounded by gray infrastructure all Williamsburg. Atlantic Yards debate, with some noting that Ratner day encouraged Cohen to create the Seed Project, “Sometimes I go out with a metal folding table has played the game early and often. In April, former an online club that requires its members to plant and sign artists up,” he said, adding that the tactic Black Panther Bob Law, now a Prospect Heights mer- wheatgrass seeds all over — in plots as small as a failed in Soho, where he found “mostly tourists chant, charged Ratner with race-baiting for hawking pothole or as big as a junked Honda. and bankers.” his mega-project mostly via basketball.

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Cohen’s flowering movement of so-called He posts photographs of lush, green mini- “He has the audacity to talk about a basketball “seed bombers” plants trees, flowers or grass in yards on his website and, in the fall, plans to pub- stadium, like black people would be impressed,” areas long reserved for industry. lish them in Artworld Digest. Law said of Ratner. The Crooner’s old lady For example, a small plot of wheatgrass now On an academic level, he said his real and In that highly charged context, Goldstein defend- Kathryn Crosby, Bing Crosby’s widow, sits behind the Mighty Wurlitzer on the site of sits on a fence beneath the Williamsburg Bridge, Web-based fields are a comment on the fragmen- ed himself: “Our opponents are not black people. the old Brooklyn Paramount Theater, where her husband became a legend 75 years planted in a small pot by a Seed Project member. tation of the natural world. In reality, they’re a Our opponents are the powerful interests trying to ago. See story, page 6. Another lived briefly on the side of a Brooklyn- See SEED BOMBER on page 6 run roughshod over our neighborhoods.” MORE COWS THAN JEWS By Sara Vogel The Brooklyn Papers Kane St. Synagogue, now 150, Jewish people are as native to Brooklyn as the bagel. But historians from the Kane Street Synagogue say there was a time when more cows roamed the borough began when B’klyn was farmland than Jews. “[Brooklyn in the 1830s] was all farmland,” said Carol Levin, a trustee of the congregation, formally annual dinner dances — and in the process discovered factory owners. known as Baith Israel Anshei Emes, which is holding juicy details about their ancestors and Brooklyn’s past. They shared the pro-Civil War spirit of Brooklyn its 150th anniversary gala this week at the Brooklyn The Jews who founded the original congregation in poet Walt Whitman and other Brooklyn Democrats, Marriott. 1856, for instance, escaped the gangs of New York for despite the draft riots that burned through lower Man- To prepare for Wednesday’s gala, the synagogue’s the “suburbs” of Brooklyn. hattan, said Levin and former congregation president, historians sifted through the remains of a century and They were middle-class people, mostly of German Judith Greenwald. a half of prayer services, Sunday school picnics and stock — haberdashers, brewers, tailors, butchers and See KANE STREET on page 6 The Kane Street Synagogue’s original building, built in the 1850s, stood on Boerum Place. Yards rivals on same ‘path’ By Dana Rubinstein Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Markowitz The Brooklyn Papers said that the inductees differ on politics, but they do share a certain something. No need to clean your glasses — that “Like all celebrity path honorees, this is Steve Buscemi and Charles Gargano year’s inductees possess that unique posing together (photo right). Brooklyn combination of pride and Has hell frozen over? swagger, tinged with humility and self- Not quite. The anti-Atlantic Yards lessness,” said Markowitz. thespian and pro-Yards chairman of the Gargano was chosen for applying Empire State Development Corporation those “Brooklyn sensibilities to initiatives earned their leaves on the Brooklyn such as the redevelopment of the World Botanic Garden’s “Celebrity Path” last Trade Center site,” Markowitz’s office week in a ceremony that required some said in a statement. dicey commingling. Few would consider that stalled redevel- Some say such mixing and matching opment an accomplishment, yet Gargano’s is part of the beauty of Brooklyn. (Others name is now tucked between those of say Buscemi shoulda decked him.) George Gershwin and veteran character ac- “Only in Brooklyn would these people tor Vincent Gardenia on the Garden Web / Tom Callan / Tom be all together,” said Brian Vines, spokes- site’s list of inductees, and his bronze leaf man for Borough President Markowitz. lies along the Japanese Garden walkway. “Their love of Brooklyn was the guiding The Celebrity Path, the humble cousin / Kathryn Kirk principle.” of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was in- But many were mystified why Garga- augurated in 1985. In 2005, it was ex-

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn no, a bureaucrat, was even on a “celebri- panded to include both cultural icons and, ty” path. “I could think of better Brook- more broadly, “civic leaders.” lyn celebrities,” said one political insider. For his part, Gargano, who was born Hey, Bruce, listen up! “But, then again, the thought of stepping in Italy but grew up in Park Slope, said

Rocker Dan Zanes — the Bob Dylan of the under-10 set — packed an anti-Atlantic Yards benefit concert on his name is rather fulfilling,” he was thrilled to be honored. “Every- President Borough Brooklyn Saturday at Hanson Place United Methodist Church in Fort Greene. The former Del Fuegos frontman, a The three honorees were chosen by where I go, I carry Brooklyn in my heart, Empire State Development Corp. Chairman Charles Gargano member of the celeb-packed Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn advisory board, performed his folk-tinged Markowitz, Markowitz-appointed Bor- and am deeply grateful to be recognized (left) is kept from his archrival, actor Steve Buscemi (right), by anthems after being introduced by fellow board member Steve Buscemi (see story, right). ough Historian Ron Schweiger, and the this way.” Beep Markowitz and Wendy Wasserstein’s niece, Pamela. 2 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • (718) 834-9350 June 10, 2006 BROOKLYN DENTISTS DENTISTS BRIEFS General and Implant We’ve Moved! Dentistry PARK SLOPE FAMILY More charges ––––––––– Jeff C. Strachan, DDS DENTISTRY 189 Montague St., Suite #800A –– 245 Fifth Avenue –– Brooklyn Heights hit architect between Carroll & Garfield

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TEICHMAN, DDS ers couldn’t tell the events Generally speaking, the Defense Fund auction was the homier last physical? apart. one, with items including “homemade deserts for your next dinner Saturday & Evening Hours The Brooklyn Bridge Park party,” dinners at DUMBO eateries and a weekend in Cape Cod. 357 Seventh Avenue at 10th Street Anahid Nisanian, MD Conservancy, which is pushing Conservancy supporters whipped out their checkbooks for such Andras Fenyves, MD for a residential and commercial items as two weeks in a historic 17th-century farmhouse in Cameret- 768-1111 Rossana Dilmanian, MD development that promises to sur-Mer, France (which went for $5,000), three days on a 57-foot Primary Care include open space and water- yacht (also $5,000) and a dinner with Borough President Markowitz Internal Medicine front access, took in $350,000 and his wife Jamie at Tuscany Grill (a steal at $3,300). from its supporters on June 1. The grass-roots foes of the Brooklyn Bridge Park’s high-rise plan One night earlier, the Brook- chalked up the Conservancy’s lush offerings — and big cash — to lyn Bridge Park Defense Fund, real-estate developers, and their Brooklyn Heights neighbors, who which is suing to block the con- they say stand to make big bucks if the park is built as planned. dos-in-a-park scheme supported Conservancy folks attributed their larger haul to their wider COURTEOUS AND PROMINENCE in Quality Care and Service by the Conservancy and operat- support in the community and their skills as professional “SAME DAY APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE / ALL INSURANCE ACCEPTED” ed by a state agency, raised roughly $50,000. fundraisers. — Cohen COMPREHENSIVE 558 Atlantic Ave. 718-802-1110 bet. 3rd & 4th Aves. 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OFFICE HOURS BY APPOINTMENT • DMV Drinking Driver Program Evaluations Biking Brooklyn is Unlike the Greenpoint fire, though, such about to get easier. This week, District Attorney Charles • Department of Transportation DOT SAP Hynes hit Guttman and his son Jack, with blazes have not been solved. The Green- Back-To-work Evaluations The Department of Trans- 434 counts of failure to maintain property, point Market, like Guttman’s building on • Sliding Scale Rates •Insurance Reimbursable portation will create five one count for each day that the Guttmans Water Street, is slated for a lucrative rede- miles of new bike lanes link- (718) 436-3734 • (516) 521-3405 failed to make repairs ordered by the city, velopment. Now in Park Slope! ing Prospect Park, Fort Hynes said. Guttman’s office refused to comment. Park Slope Office • [email protected] • www.emoshuns.com Greene Park, the Manhattan Bridge and the Brook- — Brendan Mysliwiec lyn Navy Yard. The new bike Experienced Psychotherapist corridor — which Individual, family and couples. Specializing in treatment of will be completed adolescents and adults with depression, anxiety and rela- by this fall — will tionship issues. Tobi Peck, LCSW. Brooklyn Heights location create an easy near Boro Hall. Sliding scale fee. Insurance accepted. route between Pros- Clones to (212) 613-3006. pect Heights and Williamsburg, now only connected by the pokey FINEST DENTAL CARE B-61 bus and the G train. One new lane will connect have a ‘ball’ Superior Services for Adults & Children SKIN CARE existing lanes on Dean Street 10 Plaza St. East, Suite 1F and Bergen Street to a new The Brooklyn Papers bike corridor on Carlton Av- Evening (bet. Flatbush & Vanderbilt Aves) Most That’s a hell of a pitch. and weekend Insurance enue that will run to Flushing appointments accepted Avenue. Riders can then fol- To mark the Cyclones’ opening day available. (718) 622-8020 3AFETY low pothole-riddled Kent Av- on June 20, an oversized baseball will enue directly into Williams- be loaded onto a truck at Borough burg and Greenpoint. Hall and given a police escort as it 2ESULTS Another new lane will be makes its way through the streets of Brooklyn in time to be thrown out to Affordable Family Dentistry ,ASER6EIN2EMOVAL installed on Willoughby Av- Keyspan Park. ,ASER(AIR2EMOVAL enue from Washington Park The Cyclones are calling it the in Modern Pleasant Surroundings 6ALUE ,ASER7RINKLE at Cumberland Street going &ULL 4IME/N 3ITE0HYSICIANS 2EDUCTION “longest first pitch ever.” The ball will eastbound to Myrtle Avenue State of the Art Sterilization (autoclave) 3AFEAND$RAMATIC2ESULTS 4ITAN travel 24 miles, past 114 delis, 45 Emergencies treated promptly !DVANCED4ECHNOLOGY ,ASER#ORRECTIONOF in Bushwick, a hot destina- pizzerias and 247 traffic lights, the 3UN$AMAGED3KIN tion for young artists. team said. Special care for children & anxious patients )NTENSE0ULSE,IGHT But while DOT officials ,ASER!CNE3CAR The race will begin at 2:15 at Bor- WE NOW ACCEPT OXFORD 2EDUCTION believe the route will im- ough Hall, where Borough President !CNE,IGHT prove the connection be- • Tooth Bleaching (whitening) ¤ Markowitz will lead fans in a chorus 4REATMENT",5 5 tween the disparate neighbor- ¤ of “Take me out to the ballgame.” • Cosmetic Dentistry, Porcelain Facings & Inlays, "/4/8 hoods, at least one Fort Bonding Crowns & Bridges (Capping) ¤ From there, the ball will enjoy the /&& 2ESTYLANE Greene loyalist has his • Painless, Non-Surgical Gum Treatment ,ASER0ACKAGE -ICRODERMABRASION borough’s sites, including Grand Army 0URCHASE #HEMICAL0EELS doubts. 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Kramer "ROOKLYN(EIGHTS apartment to his job in counts against the Staten Island Yan- !TLANTIC!VE Greenpoint. kees — is 7:10. 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens "ETWEEN(ENRYAND#LINTON “But I don’t think it will This is the Cyclones’ sixth season in make me want to go to those 624-5554 624-7055 the Class A New York-Penn League. 3+). obnoxious bars [in Williams- ©$ERMACARE3KIN,ASER#LINICS Last season marked the first time the Convenient Office Hours & Ample Parking burg] anymore than I have Cyclones mascot Clones failed to make the playoffs. and insurance plans accommodated 3EEOURPROCEDURESONVIDEOAT WWW$ERMACARE53!COM to.” — Cohen Sandy the Seagull. — Gersh Kuntzman June 10, 2006 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • (718) 834-9350 DTZ 3 The Child Study Center of New York, Est. 1981 is proud to present No food, no cash in rob try First Class By Lilo H. Stainton The thug rushed the victim cards, $80 and keys to a Toy- The Brooklyn Papers as the man tried to enter his ota Highlander. Day Care POLICE BLOTTER home, near Fourth Avenue. He This time the food ban- Bag swap 167 Clermont Avenue flashed the knife, demanded the Within seconds, a thief man- dits left empty-handed. man’s wallet and bashed him in between Myrtle & DeKalb Aves. A trio of thugs tried to rob a were collared after robbing a June 2. When they arrived to aged to steal the seeds of one the face with his fist. The robber woman’s American dream. 28-year-old deliveryman after deliveryman from a Spanish- open up the following day, they ran towards Fourth Avenue, . . .Where Life Long Learning Begins . . . he dropped off an order on style restaurant in Park Slope. discovered the front-door lock The robber targeted a while the victim took a trip to Nigerian woman shopping on Serving ages 2.6 - 6 Columbia Street, near Presi- And police are still search- had been damaged, but not Long Island College Hospital. dent Street, around 8:30 pm ing for the man who stole $10 opened. The prowler had gotten Court Street near Joralemon ✔ ✔ The beating earned the rob- Street at 1 pm May 26, police Licensed by the Department of Fully Air Conditioned on June 2, police said. and a pizza from a teen in into the basement and taken an ber some credit cards, insurance Health Bureau of Day Care ✔ Indoor Gym The attack marks at least Boerum Hill on March 19. ax to the ceiling, chopping at said. 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With evi- and in-home 8440 Fort Hamilton Pkwy never saw the burglar, who es- head with a folding chair after It’s not clear what led po- dence collected by the store’s caped with three pairs of ear- he chased down pranksters consultation lice to the suspect, who now “loss-prevention team,” police rings, four gold rings, four who shellacked his car with faces grand larceny charges. officials will charge the Brook- metal chains, five bracelets the gooey, yolk-filled projec- FREE Installation But he did have one of the lyn man with grand larceny. stolen items with him: the (but left the partridge and the tiles. Gucci sunglasses. pear tree). 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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT Ratner buys friends t turns out that Bruce Ratner is paying pay salaries — and, in the case of a $50,000 of the CBA, she can’t say anything bad about a lot more for his friends than we grant to the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, to, well, Atlantic Yards), explaning that the money is I thought. it’s not really clear what. being used “to strengthen our infrastructures Ratner signed a so-called “Community All told, the previously known grants came and for support of ongoing operations of our Benefits Agreement” with eight so-called to $275,000. programs [and] figure out how to plan some “community” groups in 2005. The CBA But that was just the beginning, it turns out. mechanism to give continuous support to promises, among other things, that Ratner This week, Assembly candidate Freddie those organizations.” will create affordable housing at his Atlantic Hamilton, who is running to succeed her ally Read that comment twice if you like, but it Yards mega-project, and will make a “good- Roger Green, told The Papers that her group, never actually becomes clear what the six faith” effort to hire many minority workers. the Downtown Brooklyn Education Consor- groups that comprise the DBEC — three of In exchange, the eight signatories agreed to tium, will actually receive $350,000 — not which are not even registered with New York support the project. the previously announced $87,000 — from State — are doing with Ratner’s money be- And then the payoffs began. Ratner. sides giving the developer some imprimatur As reporters from The Brooklyn Papers The larger grant was first revealed by re- of “community” support. and other news outlets investigated the CBA, porter Norman Oder on his Web site, The more we find out, the more Bruce Rat- Ratner was forced to admit that CBA signato- www.AtlanticYardsReport.com. ner appears willing to pay for that “support” — ries had received grants to do such things as Hamilton defended the grants to DBEC and the more it will cost taxpayers, to whom distributing Ratner’s promotional flyers and (which is not surprising since, as a signatory Ratner will likely pass the bill in the end.

LETTERS Cristian Fleming YWCA is looking out for its geezers To the editor: Yards project and downsize develop- decades. In too many cases, projects Your article “YWCA squeezes Yards size matters ment. have been heavily subsidized by tax- Opting out of Downtown geezers” (May 27), missed To the editor: Our proposal retains the affordable payers, commonly known as corporate the critical fact that the YWCA’s bold Your article on a recent legislative housing by requiring at least 1,800 welfare. Between direct government home delivery refinancing and renovation plan will proposal to cut the size of the At- units of below-market rental housing, funding, low interest loans and long- save the homes of 214 Brooklyn lantic Yards project by one-third with the state partially subsidizing term tax exemptions, the bill to taxpay- Since the beginning of the year, women who live at the YWCA, many (“Bill: State should pay Bruce to these units. ers may be greater than the benefits. we’ve been home delivering Papers of whom are longtime residents in their Currently, FCR plans to subsidize There also is a relationship be- throughout Brownstone Brooklyn. build less at A’Yards site,” May 20) Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc. 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s. omitted significant information about these units out of profits it will make tween Pay-for-Play campaign contri- Our unique system limits deliveries from adding more space, and density, at 55 Washington St, Ste 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201 to two Papers per building (elimi- As a non-profit faced with rising the proposal. butions from developers to elected costs, the YWCA refused to take the to the development. The subsidy in officials looking for favorable legis- Phone (718) 834-9350 nating the kind of clutter caused by The environmental impact of such Established 1978. Copyright 2006. • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) circular and menu delivery services). easy way out. Instead of selling to the a large development is a major public our bill amounts to $600 per unit per lation, permits and subsidies. highest bidder and putting women on month, an amount sufficient to cover Too many mega-developers try to We hope everyone appreciates concern. The 8.8-million-square-foot PUBLISHER Celia Weintrob (ext 104) our free home delivery, but realize fixed incomes out on the street, the development includes nearly 7,000 the day-to-day routine costs of oper- purchase the support of local com- ating apartment buildings, but insuf- EDITOR Gersh Kuntzman (ext 119) there are exceptions to every rule. YWCA is expanding a vanishing housing units with a residential den- munity groups by making so-called housing resource for low-income and ficient for a profit. voluntary donations. They also make SENIOR EDITOR /PRODUCTION MANAGER If you’ve received The Paper at sity seven times that of Manhattan. Vince DiMiceli (ext 125) home and no longer want this working-class women in Downtown With virtually every major politi- promises for capital improvements, free service, you may “opt out” of The legislation my office recently cal leader in the city and state be- GO BROOKLYN/BROOKLYN BRIDE EDITOR Brooklyn. which don’t always happen. Lisa J. Curtis (ext 131) our delivery program by filling submitted in the Assembly would hind the project, alternatives short of If projects such as Atlantic The article also gave the impression ART DIRECTOR Leah Mitch out the online form at Brooklyn that non-profit tenants of the YWCA limit the size of the Atlantic Yards total opposition need to be presented Yards are so worthwhile, why can’t (ext 127) Papers.com/html/about/optout are being forced out without notice. project to 5.85 million square feet, a that would include high value items major developers such as Bruce Rat- OFFICE MANAGER Charna Brown (ext 101) .html The YWCA recognized the difficulties reduction of 34 percent. like affordable housing. Our propos- ner use their own funds or obtain Currently, Forest City Ratner has COMPOSITION OWNERSHIP: Copyright 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications these organizations would face in find- al does that. loans from banks rather than pick the Inc. All content prepared by our staff, including ARTWORK, DESIGN and ing new space. That’s why the YWCA committed $450 million to the MTA James Brennan, Park Slope pockets of taxpayers to pay a signifi- COPY, remain the sole property of The Brooklyn Papers and may not be re- Send a letter gave notice of its decision to all tenants [for site acquisition and railyard reno- The writer is a state Assemblyman cant portion of the bill? Can our phys- produced without the Publisher’s written permission. vation]. EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: The Brooklyn Papers assumes no responsibil- By mail: Letters Editor, Brooklyn in July, 2005. The YWCA has been Editor’s note: With all due respect, ical water, sewage, power and trans- ity for unsolicited materials. Articles, story ideas, letters, photography, and all Papers, 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, working to give the Montessori Day Under our proposal, FCR would our news article did not omit any of portation infrastructures handle all other materials delivered to The Brooklyn Papers, whether or not solicited NY 11201 School and other non-profits as much continue to pay about $170 million, the facts Brennan restates above. this additional stress on the environ- by Publisher or Publisher’s agent and whether or not they contain or are but the state would waive the remain- otherwise accompanied by restrictions on publication or use, will be treat- By fax: (718) 834-9278. time as possible to locate new space. ment from such projects? ed as unconditionally assigned to The Brooklyn Papers for publication and By email: The mission of the YWCA is to ing $280 million. To the editor Real business people who believe copyright purposes, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Publisher prior [email protected] eliminate racism and empower The expense of the new railyard Gersh Kuntzman’s recent article in capitalism build their companies on to publication. All submitted material becomes the property of The Brooklyn would not be shifted to the taxpayers Papers which may edit, publish and assign the material for use in any medi- All letters must be signed and women. The visionary plan we an- about James Brennan’s bill and Smart- their own. How sad that some don’t um now known or later developed. Submissions will not be returned and may include the writer’s home address nounced last year refocuses the work because the MTA had not included a mom’s column (“Ratner $$ can’t buy want to do it the old-fashioned way: not be acknowledged. and phone number (only the writer’s of the YWCA on being allies with new railyard in its capital plan. While love,” May 20) complimented each by sweat and hard work. They ADVERTISING: Subject to Terms Governing Acceptance of Advertising pub- name and neighborhood are pub- low-income women. it is true that taxpayers would not re- other. are looking for shortcuts in the form of lished in our latest rate card. CIRCULATION: Net, based on period norms. lished with the letter). Letters may ceive the benefit of the remaining Brooklyn prospered prior to the cre- huge subsidies at taxpayers expense NATIONAL AFFILIATIONS: The Brooklyn Papers is a member of Indepen- be edited and will not be returned. Barbara Turk, Downtown dent Free Papers of America (IFPA), Suburban Newspapers of America The earlier in the week you send The writer is executive director of the $100 million, the purpose of the ation of various city and state develop- and favors from elected officials. (SNA), National Newspaper Association (NNA). Lisited in SRDS. your letter, the better. 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By Gersh Kuntzman “And sometimes [it takes] a “If Frederick Law Olmsted leaving the existing rotary for idea is a non-starter. The Brooklyn Papers silly European.” could see how it is treated to- local traffic. “A lot of people will say In its original design by day — with all the asphalt and He admitted that such a those berms are inviolate,” Grand Army Plaza is Frederick Law Olmsted and the little islands with pedestri- scheme, while attractive, has said Neil Feldman. such a tangled mess of cars, Calvert Vaux, Grand Army ans jumping like Eskimos been rejected in the past as too “You’d be taking away na- pedestrians, busses, mon- Plaza lived up to its name and from floe to floe — he would expensive. ture and trees. People will get uments and trees that it’s functioned as an inviting en- be rotating in his grave end- An easier plan calls for re- fanatical.” going to take a European to tryway to Prospect Park. lessly,” he said. connecting the park to the Gehl promised that no mat- fix it. “Of course, the car changed Next, he diagnosed the dis- plaza by ripping up pavement ter what happens, many trees A freshly hired Danish traf- all that,” said Tupper Thomas, ease. and closing the bottom of the would remain. fic expert wowed a group of administrator of the Prospect “Too many cars,” said plaza to car traffic. Traffic “If we get the bloody traffic Park Slopers last week with Park Alliance, which is one of Gehl, who boasted of having flow in the circle would be- out of the plaza, it’s easy to some fresh — and, admittedly, several civic groups that have advised London Mayor “Red” come two-way. keep trees and greenery,” he not so fresh — ideas for calm- created the Grand Army Plaza Ken Livingstone to institute Many ideas would require said. “Most of the plaza is tar- ing traffic (and nerves) in one Coalition in hopes of turning the stiff tolls that have brought the dramatic reduction of the mac now.” of Brooklyn’s great-but- back the clock on the horse- livability, if not pedestrians, tree-covered hills that separate Can it be fixed any time / Julie Rosenberg abused civic spaces. less carriage. back to central London. the plaza from Plaza Street soon? Depends upon your “Sometimes [it takes] fresh GAPCO, as the coalition is Finally, Gehl put forward East and West that encircle it. definition of “soon.” As GAP- eyes to show what a fantastic called, credited Transportation seven possible futures for The “berms,” as they are CO coordinator Aaron Na- mess something is,” the con- Alternatives for hiring Gehl Grand Army Plaza. known to people fluent in parstek pointed out, it took 25 sultant, Jan Gehl, said at his and bringing him to Brooklyn Concept One — “the dra- technical jargon, are wider years to fix Columbus Circle ransportation Alternatives T The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn introductory presentation last for last week’s presentation. matic solution,” he called it — than Olmsted and Vaux origi- in Manhattan. Great Dane: Danish traffic week in Prospect Park’s Pic- Gehl didn’t sugarcoat the would bury Flatbush Avenue nally designed. “And we’re at the start of A satellite’s-eye view of the “fantastic mess” that is Grand untangler Jan Gehl. nic House. problem. in a tunnel under the plaza, But some cautioned that the that process,” he said. Army Plaza.

Manhatan developer scoops up BLOCKBUSTER! 8 buildings on 1 Atlantic block By Dana Rubinstein space, Atlantic Avenue is only hoods are increasingly forcing out The Brooklyn Papers good retail space,” he added. business owners like Zohny’s. He’s not the only community “Often they are the businesses that Aimeriez-vous un morceau leader dubious of Paley’s still- have created the character of the de fromage? vague plans for the block. strip,” said Adams. “To some degree, A Manhattan developer has “I don’t know where she got her they become the victims of their own bought half of an Atlantic Avenue information about the kind of rent hard work. As the neighborhoods block for $8.3 million, and has be- she is charging and the kind of improve, the landlords raise rent.” gun moving out the current tenants businesses she wants there,” added The storefronts in question take to make room for a mini-Paris on Sandy Balboza, president of the up the bottom floors of residential the north bank of Boerum Hill. Atlantic Avenue Betterment Asso- buildings with more than 20 apart- “We would like an ice cream ciation. ments surrounding a courtyard. The parlor, a café, a fromagerie, a One thing is for sure — Paley properties comprise about 22,500 chocolatiere, a small little general doesn’t want the sort of businesses square feet. provision store,” said Barbara Koz that are there now. And the busi- Built in the early 20th century, Paley, chief executive officer of At- ness owners know it. the buildings have seen their share lantic Assets, a real estate invest- Islam Fashion, at 541 Atlantic of turnover. And now, said Paley, ment firm. Ave., still has four and a half years it’s time for some more. She added The company bought all of the left on its lease, but owner Mo- that neighbors will be pleased with three-story, odd-numbered build- hamed Zohny is preparing for the the new amenities. ings from 525-541 Atlantic Ave. inevitable. “Once you start [new leases], between Third and Fourth avenues, “Before I lose my place here, I everything starts to change,” said except 537. have to establish business in anoth- Paley. The owner of 537 could not be This photo-montage, put together by The Brooklyn Papers, shows six contiguous buildings recently purchased by a Manhattan developer, er place,” said Zohny, who’s been Gwen Lewis wishes she could reached, but some speculated that who has already started evicting some longtime businesses to make room for a Paris-style “community.” She also bought two others. at his present spot for more than participate in the evolution of At- Paley also sought his building. An five years. lantic Avenue, rather than be a ca- aggregation of so many adjacent and she’s building it the old-fashioned Ahmed Lamrini, the store’s own- packing up for her imminent move to such exorbitant prices. “They think we make millions sualty of it. buildings would create a mini-“su- way: by drastically raising rents er, pays $1,550 a month for the ap- Bedford-Stuyvesant after her rent “They are small spaces in a rela- of dollars here?” quipped Zohny, “I really have nothing against [de- per-block” that could be demon- when leases come up for renewal. proximately 700-square-foot space jumped from $2,000 a month to tively low-traffic location,” said standing in front of rows of musk velopment], I just really want to be a lished to make way for an eight- Casbah, at 529 Atlantic Ave., is he uses to sell his handmade jewel- more than $4,000 for 900 square feet. Ken Adams, president of the oil and frankincense. “I don’t sell part of it,” said Lewis, who has run story ediface. one of several Arab-American ry. The new owner wants $4,500. “I can’t afford it,” said Lewis. Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. drugs. I just sell clothes.” an art gallery at this location for 11 For now, Paley is only seeking a businesses that will be gone by the Two storefronts down — at 525 Some business leaders question “Montague Street is great retail Adams says that rising retail years. “[This block] is more than just “destination for the community” — end of June. Atlantic Ave. — Gwen Lewis is whether anyone is going to pay space, Fulton Street is great retail rents in many Brooklyn neighbor- a strip — it’s a community.” Red Hook rethinking the big tourist push By Ariella Cohen congestion in neighborhood that suddenly ingly harried patch of Van Brunt Street, “And it’s getting worse.” “Not only was he driving too fast, but neighborhood, but residents worry that The Brooklyn Papers finds itself “hot,” according to Time Out where cars gunning for the new Fairway For starters, residents want a traffic he was already eating before he even got without adequate improvements, the plan New York, and a destination for car-driv- compete with trucks turning out of an in- light. there,” she griped. will sink. Be careful what you wish for. Red ing tourists. dustrial park and children crossing the “With all the new traffic, we need a On the northern end of Van Brunt “More importantly are the issues of Hook certainly is. No injuries occurred in the accidents — street to PS 15 at the corner of Sullivan light by the school,” said resident Carolina Street, the Department of Transportation safety here and now,” said John McGet- The hardscrabble neighborhood, which except for a few frayed nerves. Street. Salguero, blames the new a-list grocer. has installed the strip’s only traffic light — trick, president of the Red Hook Civil As- has long courted visitors, now finds its “I was already too scared to let my kids “It’s a nightmare,” said a crossing guard “I don’t know what’s in those tomatoes, next to the city’s new cruise ship terminal. sociation. streets flooded with Fairway-bound food- walk alone to school, and that was before at PS 15, four blocks from the new grocer. but it’s making drivers crazy,” she said, Residents say the light should have Fairway has said it is working with ies. I saw that ambulance,” said Judy Rodri- “Now with Fairway and the school bus- adding that she was so miffed at the new been installed in the neighborhood’s grow- community residents about easing traffic. On Van Brunt Street this week, one car guez, who saw the pedestrian bump-up on es, the city buses, all the trucks and dou- horde of over-excited drivers that she fol- ing center, close to the school. And DOT Commissioner Iris Weinstall bumped into a pedestrian and another col- Monday. ble-parked cars, you got a huge mess lowed one car all the way to Fairway so Fairway and the new cruise ship termi- said the agency will study the traffic flow lided with a truck, symbols of the growing The accidents happened on an increas- every morning. she could confront the driver. nal anchor the city’s revival plan for the this fall.

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/ Aaron Greenhood / Aaron “We don’t want what he has pro- dence that Boerum Hill resident — and project. “one or two floors,” he said. posed,” explained protest organizer Deb- “Brokeback Mountain” star — Michelle “What if a Manhattan grows in Brook- If Chan is willing to compromise it Scarano isn’t siding with his critics, orah Kaufmann, who lives next door to Williams used the very same words to lyn?” it ominously asked. could be because his neighbors’ fight is but merely showing that he’s another Chan’s empty lot, formerly an auto oppose Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards “Manhattan is a borough full of very an increasingly popular one. Complaints Manhattan-style architect who is willing garage. She believes his 11-story “tower” plan. tall buildings and the canyons they cre- about supersized buildings have become to listen. will spoil she calls the neighborhood’s But it’s not development, per se, that is ate. Brooklyn is a borough of brown- a hot button political issue, with elected To a point. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn “brownstone” look — though she readily driving Brooklynites mad, experts said. stones and similarly sized buildings,” ex- officials, including Mayor Bloomberg, “I’d like to hear the community oppo- A Joe Chan building at 181 Hester St. in Man- admits that her four-story home, 100 It’s Manhattan. plained Lydia Denworth, president of the supporting a downzoning push. sition,” he told The Brooklyn Papers, “if hattan is hardly the “Manhattan style” that yards from the 14-story Gowanus Street “We all know that if a place is over- council. “Manhattan has been built one Already in Park Slope, a limit on [someone] tried to build the Williams- Brooklynites want. Houses on Hoyt Street, is a regular old crowded there is a certain stress,” said way and Brooklyn another. We like the building heights protects a low-rise char- burgh Bank Building tower today.”

THE BROOKLYN QUEEN MARY… By Gersh Kuntzman Continued from page 1 balcony nosh,” complete Red Hook residents say ANGLE SHH! It’s Mr. Softee nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tow- with a Nathan’s hot dog, a they are still waiting for the lu- er, and featuring an adults-only bottle of cold Brooklyn crative business that the cruise T HAS BEEN WISELY My milkshakes and my sundaes spa retreat on the top deck — Lager and a slice of Junior’s ship industry was supposed to said that I scream, you and my cones are such a treat. the Crown Princess! cheesecake. bring to the hard-scrabble Iscream and, indeed, we all Listen for my store on wheels ding- Can you say, sunset yoga? “We wanted to pay tribute neighborhood. scream for ice cream. a-ling down the street. While the Queen Mary 2 to our new home port of For now, the biggest change And sometimes, the ice The creamiest, dreamiest soft ice specializes in Atlantic Ocean Brooklyn in a way that would is the first traffic light at the cream screams back — but cream you get from Mister Softee. make New Yorkers feel right top of Van Brunt Street to ac- For a refreshing delight supreme, crossings, Princess is market- not for much longer. look for Mister Softee. ing its new boat as New York- at home on board,” said Jan commodate all the cars, busses This will be the last sum- S-O-F-T double-E ers’ first chance to cruise to the Swartz, a Princess senior vice and taxis going into and com- mer to enjoy a sound that is Mister Softee! Caribbean without having to president. ing out of the cruise ship ter- as synonymous with summer The song, of course, was get on a plane first. “Since we couldn’t recreate minal — the vast majority as chirping birds, the crack not always a pariah. But the The newcomer is certainly the famed Coney Island Cy- making no stops before head- of a baseball bat or the honk- wearing its Brooklyn pride clone on board, the Brooklyn ing into the Brooklyn-Battery ing of cars on the Long Is- perfect storm of gentrification, on its bow. Promotional ma- nosh seemed like the next best Tunnel or rushing to area air- land-bound Belt Parkway: the advent of the anonymous, terials hype a $7 “ultimate thing.” ports. Starting next summer, the 311 complaint, and our cur- drivers of Mister Softee rent obesity obsession has trucks will no longer be able made the Mister Softee jingle to play their company’s a death knell to some people. beloved jingle when the Still, is it fair that a driver Das boots truck is parked. / Julie Rosenberg risks an $800 ticket just to sig- The law is an affront not nal to taxpaying ice-cream Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 is about to begin sharing her Red Hook berth with Princess only to lovers of soft ice lovers where he’s parked? Cruises’ Crown Princess. Here is how the two behemoth boats stack up. — Sara Vogel cream, but to history buffs. “If I get a ticket like that, After all, Mister Softee is cel- it’s three days pay gone,” Ser- Queen Mary 2 SHIPS Crown Princess ebrating its 50th anniversary pin said. “I play the song for this summer (whatever you Papers The Brooklyn 10 seconds, and all the kids 151,000 tons Weight 113,000 tons do, don’t send him an ice- Mike Serpin, a Mister Softee driver. All the Mister Softee trucks are parked along the run outside, but then they cream cake). Gowanus Canal on Carroll Street. can’t find me. I can play the 1,132 feet, Length 952 feet, As it is now, drivers can song if I’m cruising up the just 100 shorter than the about 30 feet shorter only play a 10-second blast of who works a Canarsie route. “The elderly don’t like the not that this reporter is bitter!), block, but by the time the kid Empire State Building than the Eiffel Tower the jingle every 10 minutes. Serpin was preparing for the song,” he said. “They get the Mister Softee jingle is a hears it, I’m gone. But even that was too much day’s run by stocking up at the pissed off.” classic that combines custard- “I’m having a very bad 14 Number of decks 19 for some savage beasts who Mister Softee depot, a parking Perhaps they just don’t style imagery with a toe-tap- year.” refused to be calmed by the lot on Carroll Street near the know the words. ping pop tune: As they say in Brooklyn, lilting jingle. Gowanus Canal, where all 80 As this reporter revealed al- wait ’til next year. “Relax, explore, indulge” Marketing slogan “Escape completely” The creamiest, dreamiest soft ice “The old people, they al- Brooklyn trucks are parked. most a decade ago (in a story cream you get from Mister Softee. Check out the Mister Softee ways complain,” said Mike Don’t look for it in four years; that was subsequently ripped For a refreshing delight supreme, sheet music at www.mister An Asian restaurant “Lotus” is A spa and fitness center Serpin, a Mister Softee driver it’ll be condos. off by every reporter in town, look for Mister Softee. softee.com/music.asp. On board minister, priest, Spiritual life On board wedding chapel and rabbi

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The Brooklyn Papers long effort? Well, as they say in the Catskills, this Some politicians play to the crowd, but was a tough room. KANE STREET… Chris Owens plays for the crowd. “I thought he was very good, but it doesn’t mean he’d have my vote,” said Al Williams of Bedford- Continued from page 1 lowing men and women to encouraged in his musical pur- In one of the most surreal campaign stops of the Stuyvesant. “Jewish people loved Amer- pray together. suits by Kane Street’s Rabbi season, congressional hopeful Owens — who wants Other seniors concurred. But one, Patricia Dun- ica,” said Greenwald. “They Yet they also sing of indi- Goldfarb. to succeed his father, Rep. Major Owens (D-Crown can, said Owens’s musical gift is evidence that he came from an anti-Semitic vidual events, like the mar- The heyday of the congre- Heights) — put away his stump speech and banged would be a great congressman. continent of Europe where riage of Isaac Busch, the mer- gation was in the 1920s, be- out a mini-concert for a group of seniors at the Park “Someone who sings is in touch with his feelings they were oppressed. They chant, to Leah Kalischer on fore the subway expanded the Slope Geriatric Day Center. and it means he won’t be a harsh called America ‘the Golden June, 25, 1905, put into the Jewish diaspora from Manhat- With 13 votes hanging in the person,” said Duncan. “I would medina’ [Yiddish for home].” historic record in the curvy tan to Midwood and other balance, Owens performed four vote for him on that alone.” The congregation even at- script of popular Rabbi Israel neighborhoods. songs — two on the center’s rick- THE FIGHTIN’ Alas, Duncan lives in tracted President Lincoln, who Goldfarb. Congregation membership ety piano, one on an alto recorder Sheepshead Bay, outside the 11th praised the Civil War bravery The Busch’s nuptials were slowed to a trickle in the ’50s and one a capella. ELEVENTH! congressional district. Most of the of congregant Leopold New- one of the first conducted after and ’60s — but rebounded No one yelled “Freebird” or seniors did, too. man, who was promoted to the congregation moved to its amid new Zionist activism sur- even “Encore” — but Owens For the record, The Brooklyn brigadier general on his current location on what is rounding the Six-Day war in showed a genuine talent, with a barroom piano style Papers polled Owens’s opponents — state Sen. Carl deathbed. now Kane Street from a syna- 1967. and a fluid ease on the recorder. Andrews (D-Crown Heights), City Councilwoman Many of the synagogue’s gogue they built on Boerum Like the first congregants, Only four seniors fell asleep. Yvette Clarke (D-Crown Heights) and City Council- yellowing, peeling ledgers on Place. The original temple was these new members streamed But the ones who stayed awake were treated to man David Yassky (D-Brooklyn Heights) — about display at the synagogue the first synagogue built on in from across the river — this excellent renditions of “Summertime (And the Liv- their musical talents. chronicle a people assimilating Long Island — “from Brook- time not fleeing urban gangs ing is Easy),” “Stormy Monday,” an unidentified Yassky admitted he’s no musician, but a

spiritual, and “Goddess,” which Owens wrote three / Julie Rosenberg into mainstream New York. lyn Heights to Montauk,” said but high rents. spokesman quickly added, “but thanks to his support, decades ago with his brother Jeffrey (best known “They wanted to show the Greenwald. As a result, the synagogue thousands of city schoolchildren can be, now that the for his role on “The Cosby Show”). community, ‘We’re just like The first president at the thrives to this day. Council has protected their school music programs.” you,’ ” said Levin, citing some new location was Harris Cop- “The Brooklyn brownstone Owens said the idea for the concert stemmed from a recent speech he gave at another senior center. Andrews’s spokesman said he the senator has lost congregants’ Americanized land, father of famed compos- movement, urban gentrifica- his childhood piano-playing skill, but that he still surnames, the practice of call- er Aaron Copland. The musi- tion, if you will, revived our “With a crowd like this, where many people can’t “likes to listen to jazz.” Papers The Brooklyn ing rabbis “Reverend,” and al- cally inclined Copland was synagogue,” said Greenwald. get around very easily, it feels very stiff to just stand up and give a speech,” he said. And Clarke didn’t want to play along. Chris Owens, who is running for Congress, performs So how many votes did Owens get for his hour- — Gersh Kuntzman for seniors at a Park Slope senior center on Tuesday. SEED BOMBER… Continued from page 1 soon after moving to the grimy, jungle with stray rosebushes Bing widow walks through the past comment on the dinginess of industrial neighborhood. and wildflowers. his neighborhood. “I swear, there are 10 new But these latter-day Johnny “It’s sort of like living in people living here every day, but Appleseeds must operate un- By Dana Rubinstein guides — LIU President David theater built especially for talkies, hell,” he said, describing the still no green space,” she said. dercover: The Parks Depart- The Brooklyn Papers Steinberg and his staff — were eager clad in a beige dress, with matching Thanks to Gilliam’s prose- ment discourages random acts to point out the remnants of the past. coat and headband, low white heels, residential enclave just east of Bing may be gone, but his the BQE, with its rumbling un- lytizing, more than 100 people of seeding. “When he came here, he had just a gold-link necklace, and red hair. derbelly of porn shops, junk- now throw seeds on dirty “I wouldn’t really call it il- glory days in Brooklyn are not signed a contract with Paramount as At 73, Kathryn Crosby still re- yards and strip clubs. street corners and trash-strewn legal,” said Ashe Reardon, a forgotten, at least not by Kath- a leading star,” said Martin Mc- sembles the young starlet she once Ironically, Cohen doesn’t lots in the neighborhood. Parks spokesman. “Essentially ryn Crosby, the Crooner’s widow. Quade, the self-described “Bing was. Before marrying Bing in 1957, seed-bomb in his own back- Gilliam’s group, Trees Not we ask the public not to plant Crosby, visiting from California, Crosby Archivist” who sometimes she had starred opposite Jack Lem- yard, preferring to plant his tiny Trash, is not affiliated with without our prior approval.” spent Tuesday touring the theater performs Bing classics at Gris- mon, Tony Curtis and James Stew- lawns elsewhere across the city. Cohen’s. And botanists worry that the that made Bing the King of Kings. wold’s Pub in Bay Ridge. art. Her husband died in 1977. This is where Cohen strays While Cohen plants hard trend could spread damaging In 1932, Crosby performed an “These performances set him off Crosby and entourage walked into from classic seed bombers, red spring wheatgrass, Gilliam diseases among the city’s amazing six-week stand at the on an unrivalled career,” said Mc- the theater where Bing charmed who, like the graffiti artists of plants sunflowers, sweet pota- greenery, or import dangerous Brooklyn Paramount — from Feb- Quade. “My mom saw him here in Brooklyn. From there, the group de- the 1980s, spill their seeds to vines and Nasturtium, invasive species and choke out ruary 12 to March 24 — selling out 1932. Everyone at New Utrecht scended to the smoking lounges be- wherever then can. which grows best because the native plants. show after vaudeville show. More High School was telling her she had low, and then to the powder room. “I literally just throw seeds more the blossoms are picked, Gilliam is concerned, but than 200,000 fans caught his act in to see this singer. So she bought a Crosby suddenly stopped to admire on anything that resembles dirt the more they grow. only to a point. the first week alone. pair of new brown shoes for the a poster for the film, “Arrowhead.” and hope for the best,” said Cohen, Gilliam and others “Sure I worry about invasive Now, the Paramount is part of event. She said Bing has this laid- “This was my first movie!” she Kate Gilliam, a Bushwick follow a long legacy of guer- species,” she said. “But for now, Long Island University’s Fort back, devil-may-care attitude.” exclaimed with delight. “I didn’t get bomber who began carrying rilla gardeners who have re- in our neighborhood, we just Greene campus, and the theater is a Seventy-four years later, Crosby’s billing for it.” But Charlton Heston, wildflower seeds in her pockets claimed the city’s concrete need to populate the dirt.” Kathryn and Bing Crosby. gym. But Kathryn Crosby’s tour wife of 20 years stood in the first Jack Palance and Katy Hurado did. INSIDE DINING | PERFORMING ARTS | NIGHTLIFE | B OOKS | CINEMA

MUSIC Park rocks It’s time to celebrate! Brooklyn, that is. The borough’s 28th annual six-week arts extravagan- za kicks off this Thursday with Maceo Parker (pictured), one of the original architects of funk. Big-name acts include Los Lonely Boys (June 22), Savion Glover (June 24), TV on the Radio (June 30), Toshi Reagon (July 8), Yo La Tengo (July 13), and Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet (July 27). “Somehow Celebrate Brooklyn gets better every year,” said Borough President Marty Markowitz. “For Brooklynites like me, who summer here, Cele- (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings June 10, 2006 brate Brooklyn is always music to our ears.” That’s a generous comment from Markowitz, considering his own concert series kicks off in July. Maceo Parker performs June 15 at 8 pm. All performances are at the Bandshell in Prospect Park (enter at Ninth Street and Prospect Park West). For information, call (718) 855-7882 or visit www.celebrate Textbook case brooklyn.com. — Brendan Mysliwiec Brooklynites Perez, Smits explore Puerto Rican roots in new doc ART

By Karen Butler for The Brooklyn Papers

rooklyn-born actors Rosie Perez and Jim- my Smits say they wanted to make the Bnew documentary, “Yo Soy Boricua, Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas” (“I’m Boricua, Just So You Know”), to celebrate their heritage and educate people about Puerto Rico’s fascinating history, a topic seldom discussed in the United States, much less taught in American schools. Co-directed by Perez and Liz Garbus, with Smits narrating, the 86-minute documentary uses archival film footage and new interviews to chronicle the political history of Puerto Rico NOLA in NYC and to explain how the island’s connections to Spain and the United States have affected the Ten months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New lives, culture and language of its people. Orleans, Brooklynites can catch a glimpse of life in It was Perez’s desire to shine light on such the Big Easy after the big storm. little talked-about subjects — along with how Taken by Crown Heights’s own Delphine Fawun- Spain nearly wiped out the island’s indigenous du-Buford in March, the riveting images, “Muddy people, the Taino Indians, and how many Puer- Water Gumbo & High Tide Blues,” are on display at to Ricans fought alongside Americans and Harriet’s Alter Ego Boutique & Gallery in Prospect gave their lives during World War II, even Heights through June 30. though they were not allowed to vote for a “The images on TV do not prepare you for going U.S. president — that led her to make her di- down there,” Fawundu-Buford told GO Brooklyn. rectorial debut a film about Puerto Rican pride. “There is endless destruction; homes in the middle In addition to discussing how many Puer- of the roads, homes at a 45 degree angle. It was a to Ricans migrated to the United States in the war zone. But the most chilling thing was seeing 1940s as part of the U.S. government’s Oper- people’s belongings in the streets. That’s when you ation Bootstrap, then tried to assimilate into realize this happened to everyday people like us.” American society while maintaining their The photographs focus on the city’s Ninth Ward, heritage, the documentary also allows a rare a black neighborhood that was completely devastat- glimpse into Perez’s family life and puts its ed. After Katrina, Fawundu-Buford knew that some history into the wider context of Puerto way, somehow she had to document what was hap- Rico’s past. pening, she said. In the process, she found that the In an interview on June 1 in Manhattan, city’s spirit was not completely broken. Perez told GO Brooklyn that her film is a di- “You could walk around the city and see people rect response to the ignorance of Puerto Ri- playing to music,” she said. “When I first saw the city can heritage she has dealt with since she was I cried, but then I was heartwarmed. Hopefully my a little girl. photographs can at least tell a story of the people who “ ‘What are you? Where’s Puerto Rico? still have to deal with everything still going on. And What is it?’ That was constant,” the 42-year- maybe that will help.”

old Bushwick native recalled people asking Scott Pasfield “Muddy Water Gumbo & High Tide Blues” is on her as a child. Coming up Rosie: Brooklyn-born Jimmy Smits (at right) provided the narration for display through June 30 at Harriet’s Alter Ego Bou- “I wasn’t amazed that people didn’t Rosie Perez’s documentary, “Yo Soy Boricua, Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas” (“I’m Boricua, tique & Gallery at 293 Flatbush Ave. between St. know,” she continued. “What I was amazed TV Marks and Prospect Place in Prospect Heights. Just So You Know”), airing this month on the Independent Film Channel. “Yo Soy Boricua, Pa’que Tu Lo at was why people didn’t know; even Puerto Sepas” (“I’m Boricua, Just So You Know”), di- For information, call (718) 783-2074 or visit the Rican-Americans. There was a large number rected by Rosie Perez, is scheduled to air June Web site www.harrietsalterego.com. of Puerto Rican-Americans that we inter- that most of what he learned as a kid about “The production team at Moxie Firecracker 12 at 9 pm on the Independent Film Channel. — Eleazer Gorenstein viewed [for the film who] did not know the his Puerto Rican ancestry came from his was always calling, saying, ‘Are you sure history … And that’s because it’s not taught. family, not from the books he studied when this happened?’ and I’d say: ‘Yes! Keep dig- It’s not taught in the schools in elementary, he was going to junior high and high school ging, keep digging!’” was always around,” Perez related. “And junior high, high school. So, how can any- in East New York. Perez says once they found what they [Kennedy] called me in her office and said, body know? Unless you take Puerto Rican “Although it wasn’t talked about in were looking for, however, they were over- ‘Liz and I feel you need to be a character in EVENT Studies in college, you’re not going to know school, it was talked about in the home and it whelmed with rich material and had a tough this movie.’ ” — not even in Puerto was dealt with in our mu- time deciding what to put in the film and Describing her first reaction as, “Oh, hell, Rico.” sic,” said Smits. “We grew what to leave out. no,” Perez said she eventually understood In a separate interview, up having very strong cul- “‘We have 90 minutes! Rosie, pick and their position. Find your Bliss Smits agreed. “I didn’t tural ties to the island, but choose,’” is what Garbus and Kennedy in- Smits said he believes she made the right know very much about the Puerto Rican history maybe not necessarily structed Perez to do. “That was very hard,” decision, adding that by including herself and Acclaimed knitter Debbie Bliss will appear in Park sterilization,” he said. “I knowing every specific she said. “But it was great advice.” her own family’s history in the film she pro- Slope’s Stitch Therapy Thursday to lead two work- didn’t know about that my- is “not taught in about historical data.” So, what about all of the stories and infor- vides a “touchstone for the audience.” shops and share her extensive knowledge of woolens. self until I was in college.” Perez said she decided mation that didn’t make the final cut? “They stay engaged and it doesn’t feel like This is big news in the knitting world. The London- Perez said she wanted to to make the documentary, “The great thing about that is that it is in- it is a preachy, stodgy typical type of doc,” he based Bliss (pictured) has do “a motion picture narra- the schools in which premiered at the spiring other people to research those stories said. written several books of tive piece about the sterili- Tribeca Film Festival earli- and go about themselves to tell those other Perez always hoped Smits would partici- patterns and sells her zation of Puerto Rican elementary, junior er this spring and is set to stories,” Perez said. pate in the film. own line of yarn. women. And the places air on the Independent Film “I met him at a Puerto Rican Day parade Stitch Therapy cus- that I went to kept telling high, high school. Channel on June 12, be- Making it personal where he was grand marshal years ago, and tomers landed a visit by me this isn’t true,” she re- cause she wanted to create Best-known for her acting roles in “Do the we stayed friends ever since,” she said. “We this wool warrior after called. “I was like, ‘What an accurate account of Right Thing,” “White Men Can’t Jump,” became closer when I started doing theater. I Bliss heard about the do mean, it didn’t hap- So, how can Puerto Rican history that “Fearless” and “It Could Happen to You” guess we started speaking the same language store’s “fantastic” yarns. pen?’ was accessible for every- and seen recently on Broadway in the dramas and stuff, and we’re both kind of politically Bliss is hesitant to ac- “‘Well it didn’t happen.’ anybody know?” one. “Reckless” and “Frankie and Johnny,” Perez active to some degree. We’re both from cept the label “celebrity “I said, ‘What do you Remembering her initial says she never intended to appear in “Yo Soy Brooklyn, and I also knew Jimmy was real- knitter,” but it’s quite mean, it didn’t happen?’ — Rosie Perez goals for the film, Perez said Boricua” herself. ly, really smart in regards to Puerto Rican common for people in the tight-knit yarn world to ap- “‘Well, they went vol- she vowed: “ ‘I’m going to “I wasn’t supposed to tell my personal sto- history, and so I knew there would not be a proach her nervously, as some approach a movie star. untarily.’ ” prove it. I’m going to spell it ry, because I’ve always told the press it was lot of explaining [needed]. I knew he would “I do enjoy it,” she told The Brooklyn Papers. “It Perez said her research taught her that out. I’m going to tell our whole history and I’m off-limits,” she said with a laugh. “I didn’t totally get it and he said, ‘yes,’ right away.” connects me to the people who buy the books.” U.S. policy required Puerto Rican women to going to wrap it around people’s personal sto- want myself to be in it. I wanted everybody Although the film doesn’t delve into After the knitting workshops, Bliss will have dinner be sterilized as part of a practice to control ries. I’m going to show how political policy else to spill their guts.” Smits’s own family life and history, he found with Stitch Therapy customers at the nearby Black the island’s impoverished population, but she can affect people.’ You have to be very, very Recalling how she had a hard time getting it very easy to connect to the material. Purl — make that Black Pearl — restaurant. said many of the women believed they careful. And how with all that we went started on the film’s script, Perez says “I see in some of those — especially that Debbie Bliss will be at Stitch Therapy (176 Lincoln would later be able to reverse the process and through, we’re still here.” Kennedy and Garbus suggested she simply file footage of Operation Bootstrap and the Pl. between Seventh and Eighth avenues in Park have children. The first-time director credits the researchers start talking in front of a camera and see tenements in The Bronx and certain sections Slope) on June 15 from 2:30-5:30 pm. The work- at Garbus’s and co-producer Rory Kennedy’s what happens. of Brooklyn in the 1950s and 1960s — and shop fee is $75. The three-course dinner at Black Void in history books production company for helping her find film “I would talk and talk and talk, and then I I see my family,” he said. “I see my aunts Pearl (833 Union St. between Sixth and Seventh Smits, the 51-year-old former “NYPD footage and other credible resources to back up would start crying while I am talking, and and uncles on hot, summer days in the tene- avenues) is at 6:30 pm and costs $75. For infor- Blue” and “The West Wing” star, who gradu- the stories she wanted to tell. then I would talk and then cry, and then talk ments of The Bronx and Brooklyn, hanging mation, call 718-398-2020 or visit www.stitch- ated from Brooklyn College in 1980, said “It was really, really difficult,” Perez said. and then laugh and then talk, and my family out the fire escapes, and it touches me.” therapyparkslope.com. — Brendan Mysliwiec

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BROOKLYN Neighborhood Friends of Bites Dining Guide This week: a farmer CARROLL GARDENS Fresh organic produce on the Apartment 138 cheap, through Community 138 Smith St. at Bergen Street, (718) 858-0556, (AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $5-$15. No matter what your typical diet is, Apartment 138 Supported Agriculture groups has something you will enjoy. “The menu is so well- rounded, you can bring a veggie lover or a meat lover and they can both find something good to By Rebecca Migdal eat,” said waitress Shari Stein. The sandwiches, Mango / Greg according to chef Simon Lange, are 138’s special- for The Brooklyn Papers DINING ty, and range from the grilled vegetable with red peppers and goat cheese, to the grilled barbecue eads up, Brooklynites: you can Park Slope CSA’s distribution site is steak sandwich. And of course don’t forget the Garden of Union, Union Street between peanut butter and jelly served with a glass of milk still join a Brooklyn Community Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope. and a banana. The salads and steaks are also high- Supported Agriculture group. For more information, write to 172 Fifth ly recommended by the chef. Apartment 138, prior H Ave., PMB #50, Brooklyn, NY 11217- The Brooklyn Papers file The Brooklyn You’ll be supporting family farms, to its opening in 2004, was a two-story apartment 3504, call (718) 707-1023 or visit the for a family of four and still retains the cozy feeling. Chocolate truffle cake with white choc- while saving money on your grocery Web site www.parkslopecsa.org. Shares: Walk in the front door and you face the extensive olate sauce at Crave. bill — but time is running out for the $260-$460. Deadline to register: ongo- fully-stocked bar, with eight beers on tap and 2006 season. ing throughout the season until filled. dozens of wines, along with the bartender’s rec- Clinton Hill CSA’s distribution site is ommended white or red sangria. There is dining tuccine al vino rosso,” or red wine fettuccine, is A “CSA” is an organization whose PS 56 Lewis Latimer School, corner of space in back of the bar, and downstairs features a tossed in a Parmesan cheese wheel. For dessert, members buy cooperative shares in a Gates Avenue and Downing Street In rec room complete with pool table and arcade the strawberry flambe, made with fresh berries, small, organic farm in advance of the Clinton Hill. For more information, write to P.O. Box 050377, Brooklyn, NY 11205, games. The quaint backyard garden can also be champagne and sugar, is heated and then rolled harvest season, which runs from June accessed from the downstairs. Open for lunch and into a crepe and topped with ice cream right call (718) 907-0616, or visit the Web site dinner daily, with brunch served from 11 am to 4 before your eyes. Marco Polo is open daily for din- to November. These shares provide the www.clintonhillcsa.org. Shares: $156- pm on weekends. ner. Lunch is served Monday through Friday. Live $414. Deadline to register: June 15. farmer with a guaranteed income from For more information and a listing music on weekends at 7 pm. his or her produce. In return, members of CSAs by neighborhood, contact Ted Blomgren in his greenhouse at Wildflower Farm, whose vegetables Crave Paula Lukats at Just Food, 208 E. 51st get fresh-picked organic produce deliv- makes their way to Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Clinton Hill. 570 Henry St. at Carroll Street, (718) 643-0361, Mezcal’s St. at Third Avenue in Manhattan, (212) ered to their neighborhood every week, 645-9880, ext. 233 or visit the Web site www.craveus.com (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) 522 Court St. at Huntington Street, (718) 237- at a savings. www.justfood.org. Entrees: $15-$28. 2230 (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $10.95-$15.95. According to Judy Janda, co-founder squashes and flowers. A flock of 450 their food is produced, visiting to take a This tiny restaurant, run by chefs Debbie Lyn and Chef and owner Moises Gallardo opened this Marco Morillo, offers salads and sandwiches in Mezcal’s in 2001, although this chain of popular of the Park Slope CSA, when the group chickens provide eggs for CSA mem- tour, or attending fall harvest festivals addition to appetizers, entrees, pasta and Mexican restaurants began operation in 1989. formed seven years ago, most people Brooklyn CSAs generally have 35 to bers and fertilizer for the gardens. with their families. Other CSA mem- desserts. Crave also offers “tasting menus” of four Gallardo specializes in fajitas — beef or chicken she approached about joining had no 100 members each. Shares range from Blomgren says CSA farms “sell a bers just like getting a good deal. or seven courses, for $65 or $85, respectively, or with onions and peppers served sizzling on a plat- for $85 or $105 when paired with wines. Crave also ter with rice and beans and guacamole tortillas. idea what a CSA was. Community $260-$450 for 23 weeks of organic different product” than other organic “Some of the people treat the CSA operates a catering division with the same food Mezcal’s signature dish is the “mole poblano,” awareness of CSAs has increased dra- vegetables and herbs, often with a slid- farms, which cater to farmers’ markets, like a store,” Lawrence says. He admits along with utensils, plates and even wine. They chicken breast cooked in a sauce with four differ- matically since then, she said. ing scale depending on income. Many health food and grocery stores. that the scheduled pickup time “can be deliver to Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Cobble ent kinds of peppers, plantains and hints of choco- “We had a table at the Fifth Avenue CSAs accept food stamps. “We sell 23 weeks of vegetables,” inconvenient, depending on the loca- Hill and Brooklyn Heights. Closed Mondays and late and spice. Mezcal’s also offers Mexican Sundays. Open at 6 pm, Tuesday through desserts like fried vanilla ice cream, which is ice Street Fair, and I handed out 80 flyers. The most comprehensive resource said Blomgren. “We find out what peo- tion.” He recommends joining a CSA Saturday. cream covered with a cornmeal crust and then Most of the people who came by al- on local CSAs is Just Food, a Manhat- ple like ... and that’s what we try to give close to home. deep-fried. Of course, it wouldn’t be a fiesta with- ready knew about CSAs,” said Janda. tan-based nonprofit dedicated to foster- them.” By contrast, most organic farm- “There’s always someone who does- out all of those great Mexican drinks from Mezcal’s Frankie’s 457 tequila bar including fresh lime juice margaritas. Community Supported Agriculture is ing CSAs, community gardens and city ers tend to “specialize in what’s prof- n’t pick up his share” on a given week, Spuntino Delivery available. Open daily for lunch and dinner. not a new idea, but it’s one that has be- farms. Just Food also helps CSAs pro- itable,” says Blomgren. Specializing said Lawrence, so unclaimed produce 457 Court St. at Luquer Street, (718) 403-0033, Additional Mezcal’s locations include: 151 Atlantic come increasingly popular in Brooklyn vide assistance to the homeless and can bring bigger profits, but it makes is donated to City Harvest and other www.frankies457.com (Cash only) Entrees: $6-$9 Ave. at Clinton Street, (718) 643-6000 and 7508 and other urban areas, where organic lower income families. the farms more vulnerable to pests and soup kitchens. (small plates); $10-$15 (large plates). Third Ave. at Bay Ridge Avenue, (718) 748-7007. produce is expensive, often hard-to- The weekly share is expected to be weather problems. Typically, all members are required “I dreamt about a spot while I was in Japan,” find and sometimes none too fresh. enough fresh vegetables for a family of Blomgren is a little worried about the to volunteer a certain number of hours Frankie’s 457 co-owner Frank Falcinelli told GO Royal’s Downtown Brooklyn dining critic Tina Barry. “And as I walked “Back in Indiana, we used to call four. An assortment of what’s currently cold, wet start to the season, but says each season (in Park Slope CSA, it’s along Court Street, there it was.” Having found 215 Union St. at Henry Street, (718) 923-9866 them ‘truck farms,’” jokes Carl in season, usually around eight different that “greens and root vegetables will do five), helping to sort vegetables, unload (AmEx, DC, Visa) Entrees: $20-$32. their dream location, Falcinelli and Frank Lawrence, a CSA member from DUM- kinds of vegetables, is set out in bins well” in a year like this one. The CSA the truck or assist other members. Vol- Castronovo transformed an old bar with a turn-of- With its red walls, crystal chandeliers and fireplace, the-century blacksmith’s stable in the back into an Royal’s Downtown is “the restaurant for roman- BO. Lawrence, a father of two and pro- and members select what they like. members, as shareholders, “share in the unteers who want to become “core inviting space with a tin ceiling, mahogany bar, tics,” boasts owner Steve Henderson. Open since ducer of GreenVision, a weekly TV Fruit, egg and flower shares are also risk” of some crops falling short due to members” of their CSA can often earn back garden and a view of the old “smithy’s” shop, September in the former location of Russell’s show on environmental politics on available, and some farms offer extra bugs or bad weather. Still, the diversity free or discounted shares by working in September 2004. “Ah, you’re making a ‘spunti- restaurant, Royal’s friendly staff, along with the ele- no,’” said Falcinelli’s grandma, Ann Martucci, sum- gant decor, give this upscale eatery a gracious Brooklyn Community Access Televi- shares of tomatoes and other produce of the plantings assures that there will al- extra hours. ming up the partners’ concept: small plates of appeal, says Henderson. Chef Alex McWilliams sion, says his two primary reasons for for canning. Organic cheeses and free ways be plenty of produce. Volunteering at the weekly drop-off Italian cured meats, artisanal cheese, and sand- cooks up everything from the wild Alaskan King being a CSA member are “to get the range, antibiotic-free meats are also “I want to make sure there’s a good “can be a fun way to meet other mem- wiches made on Sullivan Street Bakery bread, salmon to the pan-roasted prime sirloin steak. roasted vegetable antipasti and wines “from Italy Although Henderson said their entrees are equally freshest produce at the best price, and available by special order through most share on June 15,” said Blomgren. “I bers,” said Park Slope CSA’s Janda. and beyond.” For dessert, manager Greg Fanslau popular among diners, he recommends the to support family farms.” CSAs. know if I don’t make people happy this Brooklyn families, Lawrence be- recommends the red wine-poached prunes with braised Berkshire pork, served with Savoy cab- “Corporations like Con Agra and Ted Blomgren, whose 38-acre Wind- year, they won’t join again next year.” lieves, benefit from CSAs, an afford- mascarpone cheese; creme brulee and chocolate bage, rosemary and golden raisin bread pudding Archer Daniels Midland are swallow- flower Farm in the upstate New York The CSA contract is made directly able source for fresh food that’s free of torte are also on the menu. Open daily for lunch and stone-ground mustard broth. For dessert, and dinner, and on weekends for brunch, from 11 there’s almond cake made with Amaretto cream ing up family farms, using pesticides, town of Valley Falls provides vegeta- between the farmer and CSA members. pesticides. am to 4 pm. Outdoor garden seating available in and orange blossom honey. But if you want to go irradiation and genetically manipulated bles to CSAs in Park Slope, Prospect “The farmer came into the city regu- “They’re absolutely healthier,” he season. with a surefire hit, Henderson recommends the seed. This is a way to fight back,” said Heights and Clinton Hill, says that he larly, personally, to deliver the vegeta- claimed. Equally importantly, said hazelnut cheesecake. Royal’s also has an extensive wine list. Open Monday through Saturday for din- Lawrence. “And you couldn’t have grows “an extremely wide variety of bles,” said Lawrence of his experience in Lawrence, “It’s a way of keeping fami- Marco Polo ner. Open for brunch only on Sundays, from 10:30 [produce] any fresher unless you grew crops” like greens, tomatoes, beans, previous years. Many members come to ly farms alive; that’s always good for Ristorante am to 3:30 pm. it yourself.” root vegetables, herbs, potatoes, feel a close kinship with the farm where the community.” 345 Court St. at Union Street, (718) 852-5015, www.marcopoloristorante.com (AmEx, DC, Disc, Union Smith Cafe MC, Visa) Entrees: $19-$25. 305 Smith St. at Union Street, (718) 643-3293 One of Brooklyn’s most elegant dining rooms, (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $10-$23. Marco Polo boasts valet parking, a formally Union Smith Cafe opened on this Carroll Gardens dressed and knowledgeable wait-staff and a stretch of Smith Street in February 2004 under the Dining to end hunger sophisticated menu that reflects the taste of its name Sonny’s Bar and Grill. The restaurant contin- owner, Joe Chirico, a veteran restaurateur. Marco ues to offer simple, familiar dishes in an unpreten- Twenty-five borough restaurants — including Blue house, a huge, open-air brick structure that makes an Polo has an Italian menu that includes an array of tious, Mission-style dining room. Among the appe- hot and cold appetizers, soups, salads, homemade tizers are fried calamari and a variety of salads with Ribbon Sushi in Park Slope, Henry’s End in Brook- ideal setting. pasta, fish, chicken, veal, steaks and chops pre- ingredients ranging from fresh mozzarella cheese lyn Heights and Veliis in Fort Greene — will be serv- In addition to great food, a catwalk — with models pared by chef Bruno Milone. The dessert wagon and plum tomatoes to prosciutto and fresh cucum- ing tastes of their specialties at Share Our Strength’s wearing local designers’ wares — will be erected cen- offers pastries, cakes, tortes, fruit, sorbet and bers. For entrees, GO Brooklyn dining critic Tina homemade gelato. Marco Polo is best known for Barry found the meatloaf “nearly perfect.” She “Taste of the Nation” on June 13. ter stage and Southpaw’s owner Mikey Palms will its tableside preparation. At your table, the “fet- writes of its therapeutic properties, “On an Marc Lahm (pictured), the chef and owner of Hen- play DJ, spinning tunes throughout the evening. evening when the world is hard to bear, this dish ry’s End, is participating in the benefit for the first time. Share Our Strength’s “Taste of the Nation” takes will soothe you.” Outdoor dining on the front patio “This is such an important event and for such a worthy place at the Tobacco Warehouse (26 New Dock St. = Full review available at is available in season. Delivery, catering and private parties available. Open daily for brunch (from cause, how could I not be apart of it?” he asked. One at Water Street in DUMBO) on June 13, from 7 pm 10 am to 4 pm) and dinner. Kids’ menu is available. hundred percent of the ticket sales for “Taste of the Na- to 10 pm. Pre-sale tickets are $75 per person ($90 tion” will go to organizations like City Harvest and on the day of the event). 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Editor’s note: These are a sampling of restaurants Mango / Greg in the neighborhood. The list rotates, and it is not food and education to low-income individuals. 6 pm to preview the eats. Included in the VIP ticket comprehensive. For more restaurants, go to Abbreviation Key: AmEx= American On Tuesday, from 7 pm to 10 pm (6 pm for VIP price is a special lounge where ticket holders can www.brooklynpapers.com on the Web. If your Express, DC= Diner’s Club, Disc= Discover restaurant is not listed and you would like it to be, admittance), foodies can lend their support by attend- sample canapes and cocktails and receive a Card, MC= MasterCard, Visa= Visa Card please contact GO Brooklyn Editor Lisa Curtis via ing this fabulous event that offers dining, an art exhi- goody bag filled with treats from area businesses. e-mail at [email protected]. bition and local authors signing their latest books. The To order, visit www.brooklyntaste.org, or call (877)

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THEATER A question of balance By Darrin Siegfried barrels in wine making, and we’ll give that a col- Kings County Shakespeare Company umn in the near future, but let’s touch on the sub- presents “Twelfth Night” at BRIC Studio ’m often asked “What makes a wine good?” It’s ject for a moment now. Tannins and lignins are [647 Fulton St., 2nd floor; entrance at 57 an excellent question, so let’s address it. What also present in oak barrels, and many of the Rockwell Pl. in Fort Greene] June 14-17, does make a wine “good”? When I taste wines June 20-22, June 26-30 at 8 pm; and June I world’s finest red wines, meant for years of cellar- 18 and June 25 at 2 pm and 7 pm. Tickets the first thing I look for is balance, so let’s discuss ing before they are ready to be drunk, spend some Difficult comedy are $18, $9 student/seniors. For tickets, call what exactly it is that should be in balance. time in new oak. The problem with many wine (212) 868-4444 or visit the Web site White wines have alcohol, acidity and fruit makers, though, is that they think wine drinkers Kings County Shakespeare Company’s www.smarttix.com. For more information, and/or sweetness as their main characteristics, and will confuse the taste of oak with quality, and visit www.kingscountyshakespeare.org. all three should be there in your glass, and in bal- sadly many have. New barrels cost $600 to $700 anced amounts. A wine with too much alcohol will each, so some wine makers flavor their wines by Houston helms “Twelfth Night” in Fort Greene really just shows you life. Circumstances feel hot on your tongue, as if someone added some soaking oak chips in the wine. When I’m tasting are out there and crazy, but the people are vodka to the wine. Acidity in wine comes mainly a wine and I smell and taste oak, I ask myself if from citric, tartaric, and malic acids, all of which the wine spent time maturing in oak because it By Robert Hicks real and so much fun.” are natural components of grape juice. Lactic acid will be aged or simply to add oak flavor. I’m not for The Brooklyn Papers Houston’s directorial approach to is found in wine when the winemaker allows a sec- a fan of overly oaked wine. “Twelfth Night” differs from KCSC’s pre- ond fermentation, called malolactic fermentation I want my wines to also show complexity: I hakespeare in Brooklyn? Yes, the vious productions of the romantic comedy. to change the malic acid (from the Latin “malo”, want more than one aroma or one flavor to show. I borough has a long history devot- She played the role of Viola in Steve Zim- meaning apple, and giving wine a green apple note) want a sense of the unique place where these grapes ed to the Bard and is home to one mer’s exotic, Turkish-flavored production into lactic acid (found in dairy products and having were grown (the French call this a sense of “ter- S a smoother, softer feel in the mouth), which lowers roir”). I want finish: the taste of the wine should of the longest-running Shakespeare in the ’80s. Zimmer downplayed Malvo- theater companies in America. lio’s ties to the Puritans and transformed the overall Ph of the wine. Too much acidity will linger in the mouth after the wine has been swal- pucker your mouth, like sucking on a lemon. Too lowed. I want my wine to either make me smile the It comes as no surprise to theater-lov- him into a purist Muslim. Houston also little and the wine will taste flat and flabby, without way a simple country wine can, or to make me ing Brooklynites, who are accustomed to performed the male role of the foolish tone. Last week we talked about dry wines and think, the way a great wine demands. If I only want visually stunning productions of “The clown Feste in director K.G. Wilson’s sweet wines, and mentioned fruitiness, which is not to quench my thirst I’ll drink beer. I want wine Tempest,” “Taming of the Shrew,” 1995 gender-bender production, set at the dependent on sugar. This is the third characteristic made by a wine maker who doesn’t demand atten- “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and other classic end of WWI with women cast in many of to look for in white wines: fruit and/or sugar. This tion: wine is meant to be enjoyed with food, and theater presented by Kings County the male roles at the bandshell in Prospect is where the aromas and flavors come in. Not even the greatest of wines tastes best with a meal. Shakespeare Company — and its artistic Park. enough, and it’s more like drinking water than a Too many wine makers are making unbalanced glass of wine. Too much, and it’s like fruit punch, monster wines, wines that taste as if the grapes director and co-founder Deborah Wright “I’m primarily concerned with real peo- or like an over sweetened soft drink with alcohol were on steroids. They’re too “big”, too high in Houston — over the past 23 years. ple,” Houston said. “I want the audience to added. It’s a bit like the story of Goldilocks, look- alcohol. Sadly, these are the wines that many “I think it’s important for people to see know what’s going down with these peo- ing for everything not too small, not too big, just “critics” praise with high numbers. what they hear. We’re an eye-oriented ple. I want you to know what they feel.” right: all three of these aspects need to be present in Too few wine writers and “critics” seem to for- generation with the computer and the Houston’s production will also include quantities sufficient to balance off the other two, get about price when they taste. Just because they TV,” Houston said. “You’ve got to cap- original music written, sung and per- but not so much as to dominate the others. The get to taste these wines for free doesn’t change the ture the eye, or the ear might not follow. formed by herself, violinist Bruno Pena reason a great sweet wine such as a First Growth fact that that someone will be asked to pay for You have to tell the story in pictures. I try and recorder player Joe Crowe Ryan. Sauternes tastes so good is that there is plenty of them when they are put on sale! I always think of acidity to balance the sweetness. price when I taste, and value is the other compo- to be very visual and be true to the text. It Her cast is multi-ethnic and features Red wines, also, have alcohol as one of their nent that must be in balance for me to consider the is very difficult. I want to grab the audi- many Equity actors. Jonathan Slaff main components, but now tannins are important wine “good”. There are plenty of wines on the ence’s feelings, not just their intellect.” Bard company: Jovis DePognon is Sebastian (left) and Brie Eley is Vio- Houston first fell in love with Shake- players. Tannins, found in the stems, seeds and market that sell for $24 that taste like $12 bottles. Now the company is taking on the la/Caesario in Kings County Shakespeare Company’s production of speare while studying opera in the late skins of grapes, are natural preservatives. The It’s the $12 wines that taste like $24 that I’m after, challenge of the Bard’s romantic comedy ’60s and early ’70s at the Hartt College of process of turning animal skins into leather is called and I often manage to find. It takes work, and a “Twelfth Night” at BRIC Studio in Fort “Twelfth Night.” The show, which plays June 14-30 at BRIC Studio in Fort Music in Hartford, Conn. Elmer Nagy, tanning because it uses tannic acid to remove the willingness to forget about going along with the Greene, June 14-30. Greene, is directed by Deborah Wright Houston. then opera department chair at Hartt, en- blood and fats from the hide. Tannins, which we crowd. (When you buy a wine that spends mil- feel as having a drying effect on the sides of the lions for ads, YOU are paying for those ads.) I “I love the magic of the verse in this couraged his singers to learn Shakespeare tongue, are what makes red wine a better match spend time looking for wines that are balanced in play, and I love it because it is so musi- Viola dresses as a boy, finding employ- moral self-righteousness underscores to develop their acting skills. with red meat. The presence of tannins is the main all of these areas, and I love doing it. Maybe it’s my cal,” she said. “I’ve played roles in it be- ment as Cesario, a page to Orsino, Duke Shakespeare’s indictment of the Puritans. “I had a fair amount of acting ability, reason that red wines tend to age better than white Libra nature or maybe I simply love wine and a fore, but I’ve never directed it.” of Illyria. Houston sees a parallel between Sir which surprised him because he had diffi- wines. Acidity also is an important factor in the good value! I always love to hear my customers “Twelfth Night” is one of Shake- “The comedy and clowning is difficult. Toby and Malvolio and today’s schism of culty finding singers who could act,” she balance of red wines. Too little and the wine will tell me how much they enjoy the wines I pick out speare’s best-loved romantic comedies. It’s far more difficult than tragedy,” she the moral left and right, respectively, in said. “I ended up being his guinea pig. He lack “nerve” and seem flabby. Too much and the for Red White & Bubbly. They taste so good, It’s a play filled with multiple plots, mis- said. “It requires physical business and it’s American politics. would do improv with me and all other wine will be unpleasantly tart. they went so well with dinner, and they taste like taken identity, mismatched lovers and got to be sharp. I don’t want shtick. You “I have extremes there represented by kinds of things to illustrate different acting Much has been made about the use of oak I spent more than I did. both unrequited and requited love. want Shakespeare’s comedy to be affect- Sir Toby and Malvolio and they are at log- points. The main plot hinges on the resem- ing, poignant and beautiful.” gerheads throughout the play,” she said. “I fell in love with Shakespeare. I fell in blance between Sebastian and his twin Houston will focus attention on the up- “The interesting thing is that neither of love with the language and with the idea sister Viola, who are separated from each roarious machinations of endearing clown- them is totally good or totally bad. They’re that I could act,” said Houston. “I just 211 Fifth Avenue other in a shipwreck off the coast of Il- ish characters such as Sir Toby Belch and both sympathetic and rotten at times. found there was something really gutsy (bet. Union & President) PARK SLOPE lyria. Believing her brother to be dead, Olivia’s steward, Malvolio. The latter’s That’s what I love about Shakespeare. He about doing classical theater.” Open: Mon-Sat, 10am-10pm, Sun, 12-8pm www.redwhiteandbubbly.com • 636-9463 Native American FESTIVAL 3 Days of Singing, Dancing, Music, Crafts, Jewelry, Food, Birds of Prey & More . . . Restaurant Bar by Native American artists from across the Americas

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WORKSHOP: “Motherhood - Native American song, dance, music, Fulton Ferry Landing, long stoop sale. 10 am to 4 pm. BARGEMUSIC: Enhanced classical SPRING PIER SHOW 14: “Trans- Everything You Should Know drumming, flute, food and more. Old Fulton Street at the East Sackett Street, between Smith music concert. 4 pm. See Sat., formations.” 1 pm to 7 pm. See But The Guide Books Left Out!” $10, $5 seniors and children; River. (718) 624-2083. and Hoyt streets. (718) 596-5543. June 10. Sat., June 10. Cheryl Levine, LCSW leads free for kids ages 6 and younger. ENTREPRENEUR SEMINAR: The OPERA: “Un Ballo in Maschera.” 4 workshop for new moms. 7 pm BRICK THEATER: presents “Stars to 8:15 pm. Brooklyn Women’s For Father’s Day, 11 am to 8 pm. (718) 686-9297. in Her Eyes.” Find out what Brooklyn Club of the National pm. See Sat., June 10. www.redhawkcouncil.org. Association of Negro Business THEATER: “Andromache.” 7 pm. ON UNE Services, 9201 Fourth Ave., sec- happens when four desperate M , J 12 ond floor. (718) 748-1234. Free. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS WALK: The actors get serious about their and Professional Women’s Club’s See Sat., June 10. there’s nothing like Municipal Art Society offers a careers. $10. 1:45 pm. 575 Me- Inc. and Empire State Develop- BLOOD DRIVE: New York Blood LECTURE: The Rabbinical Com- walk. $15. 11 am. Call for reser- tropolitan Ave. (212) 352-3101. ment Corp. co-sponsors “How CHILDREN Center hosts a drive at Kings mittee of Brownstone Brooklyn vations and meeting location. to Expand Your Small Business CIRCUS SUNDAY: Family enter- County Courts. 9:30 am to 3 presents “From Sinai to Cyber- DANCE: Dancing in the Streets space,” a series of weekly lec- (212) 935-2075. presents Dancing in City Parks, Utilizing Government Resources.” tainment aboard the historic pm. 120 Schermerhorn St. (800) NORWEGIAN NEW YORK: The 10 am to 2 pm. Empire State 1914 barge in Red Hook fea- 933-BLOOD. tures. Today’s topic: “Pardes: a series of public dance per- Torah’s Multiple Perspectives.” Scandinavian East Coast formances. Tania Isaac Dance Development Corp., 625 Atlan- tures acrobats, dancers, trapeze BERG LECTURE SERIES: Rabbi Museum hosts a walking tour of tic Center Mall, third floor. Call artists, jugglers and more. $12, Aaron Raskin leads a series on Call for price info. 7:45 pm to Company and Ase Dance 9:15 pm. Congregation B’nai Sunset Park. $15. 11 am. Meet Theater Collection perform a to reserve. (718) 693-7810. Free. $6 children age 12 and younger. The Zohar. Today: “Financial outside the N train’s Eighth BLOODLESS MEDICINE: Anyone 1 pm and 4 pm. Waterfront Success and Sustenance.” Call Jacob, 401 Ninth St. (718) 207- program of Caribbean dance 1701. Avenue station. (718) 748-5950. and music. 3 pm to 4 pm. for ticket info. 8 pm to 9 pm. CANOE TRIP: Backpacker’s Ad- Coffey Park, Visitation Place, Congregation B’nai Avraham, MEDITATION CLASS: Western ventures hosts a canoe trip and between Dwight and Richards 117 Remsen St. (718) 596-4840, Buddhist nun hosts demo. 7 pm bird watching tour. Open to streets. (212) 625-3505. Free. ext. 18. to 8:30 pm. First Unitarian Con- participants 8 and older. 11 am. BAMCINEMATEK: presents “The gregational Society, 48 Monroe OPERA: Regina Opera Company Place. (718) 496-5514. Free. Meet at Avenue U and Burnett performs Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Vision that Changed Cinema” Street. Call the Urban Park Maschera.” $17, $12 seniors with films by Michelangelo KINGS COUNTY SHAKESPEARE: Rangers to register at 311. Free. and students, $5 teens, children Antonioni. Today, “Blow up” presents “Twelfth Night.” $18, WALKING TOUR: Big Onion free. 7 pm. Regina Hall, corner (1966). $10, $7 children and $9 students and seniors. 8 pm. Walking Tours offers an introduc- of 65th Street and 12th seniors. 4:30 pm and 9:15 pm. BRIC Studio, 647 Fulton St. tion to the history, architecture Avenue. (718) 232-3555. Also, “Antonioni Shorts.” 7 pm. (212) 868-4444. and people buried in Green- THEATER: Illyria Theater presents 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 777- BAMCINEMATEK: “Mandingo” Wood Cemetery. $15, $12 sen- a production of “Andromache,” FILM. www.bam.org. (1975). $10, $7 children and iors, $10 students. 1 pm. Call for a Greek drama. 7 pm. Tobacco CATTYSHACK: presents “Cathar- seniors. 7:30 pm. Cinemachat meeting info. (212) 439-1090. Warehouse, Empire-Fulton sis,” an evening of open mic for with Elliott Stein follows. 30 WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence Ferry State Park (Water and poets, freaks, burlesquers, Lafayette Ave. (718) 777-FILM. hosts the Metro Tour Service, New Dock streets). (718) 802- musicians, comics, writers, film- www.bam.org. taking a walk through Fort 0603. Free. makers, activists, actors, per- Greene, Clinton Hill and Brooklyn GOLDEN OLDIES: The Warbasse formance artists, and art lovers. Heights. $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. Nursery School hosts Kenny Special performance by Ash- THURS, JUNE 15 leigh Flynn. $3. Sign up at 8 Meet at Marriott Hotel Brooklyn, Vance and The Planotones, Earl COMPUTER CLASS: Bay Ridge 333 Adams St. (718) 789-0430. Lewis and The Channels, The pm. Cattyshack, 249 Fourth Ave., between President and Senior Center offers a class in SUNSET ECO-CRUISE: NYC Audu- Cleftones, The Del Vikings and Microsoft Excel. $35. 9 am to bon Society offers a tour to get- The Encounters. $30 to $35. Carroll streets. (718) 230-5740. www.cattyshackbklyn.com 10:30 am. 6935 Fourth Ave. up-close-and-personal with 7:30 pm. Lincoln High School, (718) 748-0650, ext. 118. 2800 Ocean Parkway. (718) Marco Polo some of the 3,000 herons nest- SENIOR TALK: Heights and Hill ing on islands around the NYC 266-5585. RISTORANTE TUES, JUNE 13 Community Council Services for harbor. $25, $10 children age 12 DRESS-UP BALL: Comedy with Ivy Older Adults presents Lorraine Pioneer of the fine restaurant movement in Brooklyn and younger. 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Bottini. Charitable proceeds to Diehl, author of “Subways: The New York Water Taxi, South benefit The New York City Gay BLOOD DRIVE: New York Blood Center hosts a drive at JP Mor- Tracks That Built New York Street Seaport’s Pier 17, lower and Lesbian Anti-Violence City.” 2 pm to 3:30 pm. 160 345 Court Street (at Union Street) 718-852-5015 Manhattan. (212) 742-1969. Project. $25 per person. 8 pm “The Genie in a Tin of Ravioli” will be shown at the Brook- gan Chase. 10 am to 3:30 pm. 4 Chase Metrotech Center. Montague St. Pre-registration Open 7 days for lunch and dinner • Free Valet Parking • MOONLIGHT & FOOTLIGHTS: to 4 am. Monster Gallery, 234 lyn Museum on June 11 as part of the closing program of necessary. (718) 596-8789. Green-Wood Cemetery hosts a Fourth Ave. (914) 318-4280. (800) 933-BLOOD. The Brooklyn International Film Festival. SENIOR EVENT: A.A.R.P Bay Free. Visit our website www.MarcoPoloRistorante.com moonlight walk. Live accordion BLACK BOX SERIES: Ninth annual BAMCINEMATEK: presents “The music, a visit to the Catacombs Black Box new play festival by Ridge Chapter 3630 meets. 2:30 pm. Community Room of Vision that Changed Cinema” The Gallery Players. Weekend expecting to undergo a hospital Museum, foot of Conover Street with films by Michelangelo program is “Search and Des- Shore Hill Housing, 9000 Shore procedure is invited to learn in Red Hook. (877) 238-5596. Road. (718) 748-9114. Antonioni. Today, “Chronicle of troy.” $15, $12 seniors. 8 pm. about blood conservation at a Love” (1950). $10, $7 children 199 14th St. (212) 353-3101. PUPPETWORKS: “The Wizard of SUPPER CLUB: Bay Ridge Senior talk hosted by Long Island Col- Oz.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. and seniors. 4:30 pm, 7 pm and MASH AT THE MARSH: Singer Center offers an evening of 9:15 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. lege Hospital. 10 am to noon. See Sat., June 10. board games, dancing, supper Ardigo performs a collection of 339 Hicks St. (718) 780-1006. (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. his original music. 8 pm. Salt OTHER and computer classes. $2.50. Free. 3:45 pm to 7 pm. 6935 Fourth BUSINESS BASICS: The Business Marsh Nature Center, East 33rd SUMMER BBQ: Network of Arab- BAZAAR: at Ocean Parkway Outreach Center Network and Street and Avenue U, Marine Ave. (718) 748-0650, ext. 121. American Citizens sponsors Jewish Center. 10 am to 3 pm. Doral Bank offer a seminar for Park. (917) 363-3324. Free. BAM RECEPTION: Brooklyn Aca- entrepreneurs. Participants will event. $5 donation for food. 550 Ocean Parkway. (718) 436- demy of Music presents “The 651 ARTS: presents the premiere Noon to 7 pm. Prospect Park. 4900. receive materials on resources of Rha Goddess’s one-woman Beautiful Game: Contemporary available and how to create a Enter park at Prospect Park LECTURE: The Rabbinical Com- Art and Futbol,” a multimedia theater piece, “Low’s Journey: West and Ninth Street business plan. 6 pm to 7 pm. Meditations Trilogy Part 1.” $20 mittee of Brownstone Brooklyn exhibition. 6 pm to 8 pm. 30 entrance. (212) 592-4052. presents “From Sinai to Cyber- 478 Fifth Ave. (718) 624-9115. and $25. 8 pm. Kumble Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. Free. Theater, Long Island University, RECIPE CONTEST: Prospect space,” a series of weekly lec- WORKSHOP: CAMBA Small Heights Community Supported tures. Today’s topic: “Pardes: BROOKLYN BALLET: presents DeKalb Avenue Extension at Business Services presents “Take Ballet to the Streets.” Fulton Street. (718) 636-4181, Agriculture Group hosts an event Torah’s Multiple Perspectives.” “How to Start Your Business.” Call for price info. 10:15 am to 6:30 pm. Tobacco Warehouse, ext. 2229. featuring food that is nutritious, Learn basics of business plan- 11:45 am. Congregation B’nai Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, regional, seasonal and grown in ning, licensing and permits, CHILDREN local gardens. Tastings to all par- Jacob, 401 Ninth St. (718) 207- 26 New Dock St. at Water 1701. organizational structures, mar- Street. Free. PUPPETWORKS: presents a mari- ticipants. Noon to 3 pm. Pros- keting, and financing. 6 pm to onette performance of “The pect Heights Community Farm, BLOOD DRIVE: New York Blood 8:30 pm. 884 Flatbush Ave. MEETING: Community Board 15 Wizard of Oz.” $8, $7 children. 252-256 St. Marks Ave. (212) Center hosts a drive at Old First (718) 282-2500 ext. 242. Free. hosts a volunteer recognition Recommended for ages 4 and 645-9880, ext. 231. Free. Reformed Church. 11:30 am to reception. 7 pm to 9 pm. 5 pm. 126 Seventh Ave. (800) AUTHOR TALKS: Brooklyn Public Working session at 6 pm. PS 295, older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. SPRING PIER SHOW 14: “Trans- Library’s Central branch cele- 338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street. formation,” presented by Brook- 933-BLOOD. 330 18th St. (718) 935-4267. brates Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual BARGEMUSIC: presents Jeffrey (718) 965-3391. lyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. OPEN HOUSE: 1840’s Strong Place and Transgender Pride Month KARATE TOURNAMENT: 10:30 1 pm to 7 pm. 499 Van Brunt Church invites the community in Swann in a performance of with a reading by Brooklyn Chopin’s “Patriotism and Nos- am to 1 pm. Kenshikai Karate St. (718) 596-2507. Free. for a tour. 1 pm to 4 pm. 273 author Elizabeth Adams. She Dojo, 555 Fifth Ave. at 15th FILM FEST: Brooklyn International Court St. (718) 625-4776. Free. talgia.” $35, $30 seniors, $20 discusses her book “Going to students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Street. (718) 965-8410. Free. Film Festival presents “Enigma- PREGNANT COUPLES CLASS: Heaven: The Life and Election 9.” $10. Films at 2 pm, 4 pm, 6 Learn how to obtain stress relief Landing, Old Fulton Street at SHOOTS AND ROOTS: Staten of Bishop Gene Robinson.” 7 the East River. (718) 624-2083. Island Children’s Museum hosts pm, 8 pm and 10 pm. Brooklyn through massage. $75 per cou- pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) an inter-generational gardening Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway. ple. 1 pm to 3:30 pm. Provi- 230-2100. Also, Sigrid Nunez BLACK BOX SERIES: Ninth annual program. $5. 11 am to noon. (718) 388-4306. For program dence Day Spa, 55 Wyckoff St. reads and discusses passages Black Box new play festival pre- 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten info, visit www.wbff.org. Pre-registration required. (718) from her novel “The Last of Her sented by The Gallery Players. Island. (718) 273-2060. BAMCINEMATEK: presents series 596-6774. Kin.” 6:30 pm. Park Slope Weekend program is “War and “The Vision That Changed Cin- MEDITATION CLASSES: “Medita- Library, 431 Sixth Ave. (718) Peace.” $15, $12 seniors. 8 pm. WORLD OCEANS DAY: New York 199 14th St. (212) 353-3101. Aquarium celebrates World ema: Michelangelo Antonioni.” tion to Heal the Heart” with 832-1853. Free. Oceans Day with a weekend full Today: “Blowup” (1966). In Western Buddhist nun. $10. 2 BAMCINEMATEK: presents “The CELEBRATE BROOKLYN: Per- of fun activities including per- Italian with English subtitles. pm to 3:30 pm. Timeless, 124 Vision that Changed Cinema” forming arts festival hosts its formances by Gigi and the Lend $10. 2 pm, 4:30 pm and 9:15 Front St., #208. Also, “Unwind with films by Michelangelo 28th annual summer season of Me A Hand Band. Also, story- pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) the Mind: Learning to Medi- Antonioni. Today, “Blowup” music, dance, word and film. telling with LuAnn Adams. Music, 777-FILM. www.bam.org. tate.” $10. 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm. (1966). $10, $7 children and Today: singer Maceo Parker arts and crafts, sea lion demon- SATURDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES: Lucky Lotus Yoga, 184 DeKalb seniors. 4:30 pm, 7 pm and performs. $3 donation. 8 pm. strations, animal feeds and much “Make Your Own Damn Movie” Ave. (718) 496-5514. 9:15 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. Also, opening night gala fea- more. $12 for adults; and $8 for master class presented and BAMCINEMATEK: presents series (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. tures cocktails, dinner and dancing. $300 and up. 5:30 pm. children, ages 2 to 12 years, and taught by Lloyd Kaufman, presi- “The Vision That Changed PARK TOUR: Brooklyn Bridge Park senior citizens 65 and older; free dent of Troma Studios. 6:30 pm. Cinema: Michelangelo Anto- Prospect Park band shell, Ninth Development Corporation Street and Prospect Park West. for children under age 2. 11 am Screening of “Troma’s War” nioni.” Today: “Blowup” (1966). hosts a guided walking tour of to 4 pm. Surf Avenue and West (1988). $5 includes popcorn. 8:30 In Italian with English subtitles. (718) 855-7882, ext. 26. the new waterfront park taking KINGS COUNTY SHAKESPEARE: Eighth Street. (718) 265-FISH. pm. Coney Island Museum, 1208 $10. 2 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:50 pm shape on the East River. Learn FAMILY DAY: Old-fashioned street Surf Ave. (718) 372-5159. and 9:15 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. “Twelfth Night” 8 pm. See Sat., about the site’s history, current June 17. festival features free food, activ- (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. condition and the design of the ities and prizes hosted by Emer- FILM FEST: Brooklyn International future park. 2 pm. Meet at 334 MISS PRINCESS - BROOKLYN: son-Davis Family Center. Activi- SUN, JUNE 11 Film Festival presents “Enigma- Furman St., north of Atlantic Today is sign-up deadline for ties include petting zoo (with a 9.” $10. Films at 2 pm, 4 pm, 5 Avenue. (212) 803-3826. Free. young ladies between the age pm and 7 pm. Award ceremony of 3 months to 17 years com- Sebago Canoe Club / Paerdegat Basin@Foot of Avenue N / 1400 Paerdegat Ave North / Brooklyn, New York 11236 kangaroo), storybook puppet making, theatrical family pho- OUTDOORS AND TOURS follows. Brooklyn Museum, 200 peting for title of Miss Princess Brooklyn. Event fee: $0-$100. tos, a traveling dinosaur exhibit, VICTORIAN HOUSE TOUR: Flat- Eastern Parkway. (718) 388- WEDS, JUNE 14 a fire engine, face painting and bush Development Corporation 4306. For program info, visit Competition takes place July 15 old-fashioned games. Noon to hosts its annual event featuring www.wbff.org. HEALTHCARE: Military families are at The Gregory Hotel in Bay 4 pm. 161 Emerson Place, be- a self-guided tour of a dozen SUNDAYS AT SUNNY’S: Readings invited to a talk hosted by US Ridge. Call. (917) 584-7685. tween Myrtle and Willoughby Victorian-style homes. $20 of the short-story anthology Family Health Plan. Attendees avenues. (718) 636-1463. Free. includes refreshments. 1 pm to “Hard Boiled Brooklyn.” $3. 3 receive a complimentary $10 PINKSTER CARNIVAL: Wyckoff 6 pm. Tickets sold at 1616 FRI, JUNE 16 Farmhouse Museum hosts its Newkirk Ave. (718) 859-3800. annual event celebrating Afro- PARK TOUR: Brooklyn Bridge Park SENIOR CINEMA: “Rear Window” Dutch culture. Noon to 5 pm. Development Corporation (1954). Directed by Alfred Hitch- 5816 Clarendon Road at Ralph hosts a guided walking tour of cock, with James Stewart and Avenue. (718) 629-5400. Free. the new waterfront park taking LIST YOUR EVENT… Grace Kelly. 10 am. Refresh- ments served. BAM Rose SOCCER TRYOUTS: The Girls shape on the East River. Learn To list your event in Where to GO, please give us two weeks notice or about the site’s history, current Cinema, 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) Travel Program holds tryouts for more. Send your listing by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Papers, 55 636-4111. Free. the Fall 2006/Spring 2007 sea- condition and the design of the Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834- future park. 2 pm. Meet at 334 BAMCINEMATEK: presents “The son, for the Girls U9, U10, and 9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. We regret U11 traveling teams. 4:30 pm Furman St., north of Atlantic Vision that Changed Cinema” to 6:30 pm. Parade Ground, Avenue. (212) 803-3826. Free. we cannot take listings over the phone. with films by Michelangelo field 10, Caton Avenue and GATEWAY TO NATIONS: Annual Continued on page 11... 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Mafia, Fred Flare, John Cup- cakes, Make Workshops, Repro- depot Fabrics and more. McCarren Park, North 12th Where to GO... Street and Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. 11 am to 6 pm. For more information, visit: Continued from page 10... SUNSET ECO-CRUISE: NYC Audu- www.renegadecraft.com. Antonioni. Today, “Il Grido” bon Society offers a tour to get SPRING PIER SHOW 14: “Trans- (1957). $10, $7 children and up close-and-personal with formation,” an art exhibit, pre- Saddle up seniors. 4:30 pm, 7 pm and 9:15 some of the 3,000 herons nest- sented by Brooklyn Waterfront pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) ing on islands around the NYC Artists Coalition. 1 pm to 7 pm. 777-FILM. www.bam.org. harbor. $25, $10 children ages 499 Van Brunt St. (718) 596- BARGEMUSIC: presents Jeffrey 12 and younger. 7 pm to 8:30 2507. Free. ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ Swann in a performance of pm. New York Water Taxi, South BAMCINEMATEK: presents “The Chopin’s “New Visions of the Street Seaport’s Pier 17, lower Vision that Changed Cinema” Piano.” $35, $30 seniors, $20 Manhattan. (212) 742-1969. with films by Michelangelo gets big-screen treatment students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry PERFORMANCE Antonioni. Today, “L’Avventura” Landing, Old Fulton Street at (1960). $10, $7 children and the East River. (718) 624-2083. BLACK BOX SERIES: Ninth annual seniors. 4:30 pm, 7 pm and Black Box new play festival pre- By Karen Butler famed Fitzgerald Theater, the film casts GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: pres- 9:15 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. sented by The Gallery Players. (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. for The Brooklyn Papers Keillor as the show’s host; Meryl Streep ents a troupe of Slovakian Weekend program is “War and and Lily Tomlin as a country music- actors in “Teatro Slovak,” by Peace.” $15, $12 seniors. 8 pm. FILM SERIES: “Smithereens” (1982). Richard Caliban. $12. 8 pm. 70 199 14th St. (212) 353-3101. $5 includes popcorn. 8:30 pm. arrison Keillor, a man who talks singing sister duo; Lindsay Lohan as N. Sixth Street. (212) 868-4444. Coney Island Museum, 1208 CELEBRATE BROOKLYN: Per- Surf Ave. (718) 372-5159. for a living, never dreamed of Streep’s daughter, a wannabe singer who CELEBRATE BROOKLYN: Per- forming arts festival hosts its making a movie based on his also writes downbeat poetry; Woody Har- forming arts festival hosts its 28th annual summer season of G 28th annual summer season of music, dance, word and film. beloved radio show, “A Prairie Home relson and John C. Reilly as a crooning music, dance, word and film. Today: Laurie Anderson and SUN, JUNE 18 Companion.” But when veteran, cowboy act; Kevin Kline as a backstage Today: Bud Light Latin Music Chirgilchin. $3 donation. 7:30 Father’s Day award-winning filmmaker Robert Alt- security guard who thinks he’s a 1940s pri- Series with Tiempo Libre, Javier pm. Prospect Park band shell, Garcia and Cuban Cowboys. $3 Ninth Street and Prospect Park OUTDOORS AND TOURS man offered to do just that, Keillor was vate detective; and Virginia Madsen as a donation. 8 pm. Prospect Park West. (718) 855-7882. willing to listen. mysterious blonde angel. band shell, Ninth Street and BARGEMUSIC: presents Jeffrey GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Kings “I didn’t want to make a movie about Explaining how he enjoyed being able Prospect Park West. (718) 855- Swann in a performance of County Repeater Association 7882. Chopin’s “In the Parisian Salon.” leads tour to honor the memory radio,” Keillor told reporters in Manhattan to fine-tune the script once he knew who AUCTION: hosted by Dynamite $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. of Samuel F.B. Morse. 10:30

this week. “But Altman wanted to make the players were, Keillor noted, “I had Melinda Sue Gordon Youth Center. $10 includes 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, am. Call for meeting info. (718) refreshments and door prizes. 8 Old Fulton Street at the East 768-7300. Free. the movie. It was the last thing I had in their voices in mind and that’s great to be Oscar winner on the ‘Prairie’: Meryl Streep stars in Robert Altman’s pm to 11 pm. St. Brendan’s WATER, ETERNITY & TIME mind.” able to write to specific voices: Meryl’s River. (718) 624-2083. “Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor (background). Church Hall, corner of Avenue KINGS COUNTY SHAKESPEARE: WARPS: Brooklyn Center for It wasn’t that Keillor didn’t want to be kind of modulated, Midwestern voice [in O and East 12th Street. (718) presents “Twelfth Night.” $18, the Urban Environment hosts a on the big screen. It’s just that he had an- the movie] and writing for Lily, which was Streep continued. “The great, great Alan J. wouldn’t be able to move … Garrison 376-7923. $9 students and seniors. 8 pm. walking tour of the Brooklyn- OUTDOOR CINEMA: “The King BRIC Studio, 647 Fulton St. Queens border. Discover the other project in mind, one based on his 16 kind of like writing for a car horn.” Pakula. Only the most confident directors went: ‘Hmm. Opportunity!’ To make this and I” (1956). Sundown. Great (212) 868-4444. mysteries of Brooklyn’s water books set in the fictional town of Lake Admitting how important music is to encourage you to play around with the person in a wheelchair and have a hoist Lawn, Narrows Botanical Gar- supply and Queens’ burial sites. Wobegon, where all the kids are “above the film, Keillor insists he was always con- script and make it your own.” pull her up out of the basement in the den, Shore Road between Bay CHILDREN $11, $9 members, $8 seniors Ridge Avenue and 72nd Street. NEW YORK AQUARIUM: presents and students. 10:30 am to 1 pm. average.” fident the actors would be able to handle Tomlin and Streep only vaguely knew wheelchair and drop her back down! But (718) 748-9848. Free. “S.O.S.: Save Our Seas.” Learn Meet at the rear of the Queens- “I had lunch with [Altman] in Chicago the singing parts of their roles. each other before doing this movie togeth- the surgery went fine.” BLACK BOX SERIES: by The about threats to the health of bound platform at Eastern Park- Gallery Players. 8 pm. See Sat., the ocean. $25, $18 members. way/ Broadway station of the in 2002 and I was trying to pitch him a “We all knew that Meryl could sing — er, but the actresses slipped into their Despite the short amount of time they J/L/A/C trains. (718) 788-8500. ‘Lake Wobegon’ movie. I’ve been trying she’s sung in pictures before,” he re- “Prairie” personas quite easily while pro- had together, Streep and Tomlin bonded June 17. 11 am to 12:30 pm. New York KINGS COUNTY SHAKESPEARE: Aquarium, Surf Avenue and PERFORMANCE for years to make a movie about ‘Lake marked. “She has a very natural, lovely moting the film in New York. Acting a bit off-camera just fine, they said, recalling “Twelfth Night” 8 pm. See Sat., West Eighth Street. (718) 265- Wobegon.’ voice. I didn’t know that Lindsay Lohan like real-life sisters, the actresses good-na- one particular day when they unwitting- June 17. FISH. BARGEMUSIC: presents Jeffrey PUPPETWORKS: presents a mari- Swann in a performance of “But he wasn’t buying it,” Keillor re- could sing like that. I knew that she had turedly talked over one another and fin- ly stumbled side-by-side into what could SUMMER PROGRAM: St. Domi- Chopin’s “The Piano and Bel nic’s Church offers a summer onette performance of “The called. “He wanted to make a movie made a CD, but she’s a real belter. I guess ished each other’s sentences. have been a very dangerous situation. Wizard of Oz.” $8, $7 children. Canto.” $35, $30 seniors, $20 program from July 10 through students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry about a radio show — my radio show kids learn that going to theater school. Lily “That’s how families are,” Streep said, “The sky turned red and it gets real still Aug. 23. Open to kids ages 6 to Recommended for ages 4 and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. Landing, Old Fulton Street at 16. Contact the Federation of the East River. (718) 624-2083. — and he asked is a dogged singer.” revealing that she and Tomlin really only because a tornado’s coming, but we didn’t Italian American Organizations 338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street. me to write the Although Streep, spent about eight to 10 days together on know and we’re saying, ‘Oh, it’s so beau- of Brooklyn at (718) 259-2828. (718) 965-3391. JAZZ: Union Temple hosts a program of Israeli jazz with Seeds screenplay, and I CINEMA Tomlin and Kline the film set. tiful,’” Tomlin recounted. OTHER of Sun Ensemble. $25. 5 pm. 17 decided that I are notorious im- “It just seems so amazing that it was “And then we hear, ‘Woo-hoo! Woo- Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-7600. SAT, JUNE 17 SIDEWALK SALE: Clinton Avenue would rather write “A Prairie Home Companion” provisers, and Alt- that amount of time,” Streep confided. “I hoo! Woo-hoo!’” Streep interjected, us- Association hosts a sale of plants, KINGS COUNTY SHAKESPEARE: the screenplay opened June 9 at the Cobble Hill Cinema man is known for said to Robert Altman: ‘You’re going to ing her legendary talent for accents to do books, furniture, baked goods, “Twelfth Night.” 2 pm and 7 [265 Court St. at Butler Street in Cobble OUTDOORS AND TOURS vintage and new clothing, re- pm. See Sat., June 17. than have some- Hill, (718) 596-9113] and BAM Rose Cine- encouraging spon- ruin it for these young directors! You’re a loud impression of an air-raid siren. CONEY ISLAND THEATERS: cords, toys, housewares and lots BLACK BOX SERIES: by The one else write it.” mas [30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place taneity, Keillor says 81, you have everything wrong with you: “People are yelling: ‘Meryl! Lily! Get Brooklyn Center for the Urban more. 10 am to 6 pm. Clinton Gallery Players. 3 pm. See Sat., The Minnesota in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100]. everyone stuck heart, shoulders, knee, everything that out of the street!’” Tomlin continued. Environment hosts a walking Avenue between Greene and June 17. tour of Coney Island’s showbiz DeKalb avenues. (718) 636-9263. native said he close to the text. could go wrong and you make a movie in “And we’re just thinking, ‘Isn’t it weird past. Cezar DelValle leads. $11, THRIFT SALE: Variety of merchan- CHILDREN trusted Altman “The screenwriter 21 days, with this huge cast and it’s good that there was this weird sky AND a fire? $9 members, $8 seniors and dise including dishes, glassware, NEW YORK AQUARIUM: pres- with his material because the “Gosford was on the set at all times,” he quipped. and you have it edited three weeks later This is so exciting!’ It was a tornado warn- students. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. kitchenware, electronics, pictures, ents “Beach Ecology.” Search Meet outside the Shore Theater books, clothes, shoes, costume for shells. $25, $18 members. Park,” “M*A*S*H” and “Nashville” di- “The script police were there. You can’t re- and done, pretty much locked.’ How ing,” Streep concluded. at Stillwell and Surf avenues. jewelry, toys and games. 10 am 9:30 am to 11 am. New York rector hails from Missouri and shares his ally put a lid on Lily, and Kevin does a lot about, if to every young director, the studio Asked if there will be a reunion for the (718) 788-8500. to 3 pm. New Utrecht Reformed Aquarium, Surf Avenue and West regional sensibilities. of improvisation, but the rest stayed pretty goes: ‘Well, Robert Altman did it, why pair who got along so famously on the set, WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence Church, 84th Street and 18th Eighth Street. (718) 265-3558. hosts the Metro Tour Service, Avenue. (718) 236-0678. CIRCUS SUNDAY: Family enter- “Mr. Altman is a mid-Westerner, and he close to the script.” can’t you? You’re 26.’I just thought it was on the publicity trail to promote the film taking a walk through Fort LECTURE: Community health dis- tainment aboard the historic essentially says what he thinks, and so I Tomlin agreed — but only to a point. amazing.” and even on the recent Academy Awards Greene, Clinton Hill and Brooklyn cussion facilitated by city farms 1914 barge in Red Hook fea- found it easy to work with him,” Keillor “Pretty much it was what was written, Streep then confessed there was a time telecast where they presented Altman with Heights. $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. trainer, food educator and tures acrobats, dancers, trapeze Meet at Marriott Hotel Brooklyn, herbal woman Yonnette artists, jugglers and more. $12, added. but the delivery was more improvised,” before production started when she wor- an honorary Oscar for his body of work, 333 Adams St. (718) 789-0430. Fleming. 11 am. Hattie Carthan $6 children age 12 and younger. Written by the radio show’s creator, she said. ried that her own knee surgery might keep Tomlin replied, “There should be!” BROOKLYN AT TWILIGHT: Big Garden, Marcy and Lafayette 1 pm and 4 pm. Waterfront based on a story idea he developed with For her part, Streep confirmed that her out of the film. The star of “Adapta- Streep wasn’t so sure, though. Onion Walking Tours takes a avenues. (718) 638-3566. Free. Museum, foot of Conover Street stroll over the Brooklyn Bridge EXHIBIT: Tabla Rasa Gallery pres- in Red Hook. (877) 238-5596. his frequent collaborator, Ken LaZebnik, she was the one who told Kline to tion” and “The Hours” recalled that while “I don’t think so, no,” she demurred. and through Brooklyn Heights. ents “Living in the Shadows,” PUPPETWORKS: “The Wizard of “A Prairie Home Companion” is a star- loosen up and go off text when they Altman and the film’s backers gasped at “There are real singers out there who own Stops include Plymouth Church, by Brenda Colling and Danny Oz.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. studded comedy about the final perform- were making “Sophie’s Choice” togeth- the idea of her dropping out, Keillor rel- the territory … We could do ‘Wobegon,’ the AA Low Mansion and sites Scheffer. Exhibit features See Sat., June 17. associated with Arthur Miller, design, puppetry, sculpture and ance of a fictitious radio variety show that er nearly 25 years ago. ished the notion of writing the Oscar-win- though.” Robert Moses and Norman theater. 2 pm. 224 48th St. OTHER miraculously survives the age of televi- “Anything to shake the Kline de- ning actress into a wheelchair for the dura- “Or Holiday Inns,” Tomlin suggested. Mailer. $15, $12 seniors, $10 (718) 833-9100. Free. FUNDRAISER: for American Cancer sion, only to be snuffed out by a Texas meanor; the foundations of propriety!” she tion of the film shoot. “I’ve been working on Garrison to get students. 5 pm. Meet at south- RENEGADE CRAFT FAIR: More Society. The Brooklyn Cyclones east corner of Broadway and than 200 crafters from all over hosts a 3.5 mile walk. 10 am. Visit conglomerate. said, laughing. “He loved that idea!” Streep exclaimed. us a job on that,” Streep said. “We’ve been Chambers Street, lower the country present their wares. www.brooklyncyclones.com for Shot mainly in St. Paul, Minnesota’s “That was another great director,” “The idea that he could confine me, so I sucking up for months.” Manhattan. (212) 439-1090. Vendors include Austin Draft more info. (718) 449-8497. “Transit Workers”: The Real Story of Employees of New York City Transit By Marianna Hernandez onovan Smith is not your typical 9-to-5 New York City DTransit worker. “Riders who ride the subways and buses don’t see what transit workers go through – they don’t see the working conditions. I want them to see this aspect of life from our point of view,” he says. “That is why I decided to produce a show that would tell people the real story.” When describing how Casale So Pietravalle agreed to give it a touched her life, Pietravalle com- try, knowing that she would be mented, “Michael encourages working as a servant of God. people. He enhances their lives Despite her busy schedule, she through God and makes people attended TV production workshops Donovan Smith, producer of want to live better lives. He doesn’t at Brooklyn Community Access the monthly show Transit focus on your handicap, but en- Television (BCAT) on the week- Workers on BCAT. hances what you have.” ends, where she learned the basics of Because of Casale, Pietravalle camerawork, lighting, and editing. attendees. found the strength she needed to “Everyone at BCAT was so help- Another testament that folks are make meaningful changes in her ful and nice. I met a lot of interest- watching is that Casale is now fre- life: the more involved she became ing friends that I still work with.” quently recognized around the with the church community, the Soon enough, Pietravalle was neighborhood as “the pastor from more her confidence improved recording Casale’s sermons and edit- TV”. and her faith intensified. In addi- ing them into half-hour programs. The Pastor, who is very down to tion to her job at Health Plus, she The show, which, like the church is earth outside of church, has been became the church secretary, called “Calvary Praise and Worship known to karaoke with church which has helped her develop sub- Center,” is now a fixture of BCAT’s members. And he is a memorable stantial computer skills. Having Sunday line-up of faith-based pro- orator, to be sure. Pietravalle worked as a sound technician for gramming. believes his interactive style is ideal college theatrical productions, she Pietravalle and Casale and the rest for television but admits it can also offered to take over the of the production crew are pleased present a challenge. “He moves all soundboards after noticing that to think that the redemptive powers over the church. It is sometimes the Pastor needed help. of their ministry are reaching the hard to keep him in the frame! When members of the church community through BCAT – and Other times, I get so into it that I began to discuss the possibility of are further encouraged knowing that forget I am filming!” creating a public access program their program can be streamed via Services are held Sundays at based on the church’s weekly wor- the BCAT website and viewed by 12:30pm and Tuesdays at 7pm at ship service, Pietravalle was the nat- anyone around the world who has 1436 67 Street in Brooklyn. To ural choice to be the program’s pro- access to an Internet connection. reach the church by phone, call ducer, having already displayed her The program’s aim is to reach out 718-621-HOPE. technical savvy. Not surprisingly, and share the word of God with –––––––––––––––––––––––– she was hesitant when the Pastor those who are lost or who are unable approached her with the idea. to attend church – and there is evi- Transit Workers can be seen “I had never even thought of dence that this is occurring. The on BCAT every third working with the camera or any of church’s congregation has doubled Saturday of the month, at that stuff,” she admitted. “Although since the show went on air last year. 6:30pm, on Time Warner I was nervous and scared, he had Pietravalle knows several new mem- Cable Channel 56 and faith in me and knew I could do it. bers who were introduced to the Cablevision Channel 69. For Because of the encouragement he church through BCAT. Attracted by gave me, I was able to step out of Casale’s warm and welcoming ser- more information, please log my comfort zone.” mons, these viewers are now regular on to www.bcat.tv/bcat.

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BROOKLYN Nightlife Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan Amarachi Lounge Cornerstone Pub Nature Oriented, Physically Active 325 Franklin Ave. at Clifton Place in Bedford-Stuy- 1502 Cortelyou Rd. at Marlborough Road in Flat- vesant, (646) 641-4510, www.amarachilounge.com. bush, (718) 940-9037, www.cornerstonepub.com. Saturdays: Global Saturdays, 10 pm, $5; Sundays: Mondays: Happy Hour with The Rachel Eckroth Trio, 6 Open Mic Artist Showcase, 5 pm, $5; Wednesdays: pm, FREE (donation suggested); Tuesdays: Dan Pratt Outdoor, Traveling Day Camp Laugh Out Loud Wednesdays, 8 pm, $7; Thursdays: Quartet, 9 pm, FREE (donation suggested); Thurs- Fashun4ward, live fashion show featuring Brooklyn days: Stephane Wrembel’s Hot Club of New York, 9 Experienced, Carefully Chosen, Adult Staff designers and models, 8 pm, $7; Fridays: Baba Jagun pm, FREE. 26 years of and his Ancestral Rhythms, 8 pm, $10. Crossroads Saloon operation Anyway Cafe 2079 Coney Island Ave. at Kings Highway in Daily Trips to: 1602 Gravesend Neck Road at East 16th Street in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 339-9393. Magnetic Field presents Prototypes on June 13. Sheepshead Bay, (718) 934-5988, Saturdays and Fridays: Karaoke, 9 pm, FREE. www.anywaycafe.com. Swim at a lake, pool or the beach. Weekly hikes Tuesdays: Jazzy funk with Karin Okada and guests, 9 Le Dakar Cafe The Lucky Cat pm, The Spinozas, 10:30 pm, FREE; June 13: Bingo, 7 through native forests. Trips to Museums, Zoos, pm, FREE. 285 Grand Ave. at Lafayette Avenue in Clinton pm, Perfesser Zeke, 9 pm, Blood Feathers, 10 pm, Hill, (718) 398-8900, www.dakarcafe.net. 245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williamsburg, Benjy Ferree, 11 pm, FREE; June 14: Quizz-Off, 7:30 Playgrounds, The Aquarium, Liberty Science (718) 782-0437, www.theluckycat.com. The Backroom Mondays: Keswa, a cast member in the “Lion King,” pm, O’Death, 10 pm, Brownbird Rudy Relic, 11 pm, Center, Bowling and a special trip to Sesame Pl. (Inside Freddy’s Bar) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue sings live, 8 pm, $5; Wednesdays: Soul Session with DJ Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Piano Parlor and keyboard FREE; June 15: Corbi Wright, 8 pm, Matt Bauer, 9 pm, in Prospect Heights, (718) 622-7035, Op, 8 pm, FREE; Thursdays: DJ Moh, 8 pm, FREE. karaoke, 11 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Jezebel Music Open Hanner, 10 pm, FREE; June 16: Mote Core, 9 pm, www.freddysbackroom.com. Mic Night hosted by Dave Cuomo, 7 pm, FREE, Fear of Drew Victor and We Are the Beautiful, 10 pm, Pete Flexible Schedule: 3, 4, 5 or 6 weeks. June 10: Pablo Galese, 9:30 pm, Tim Fite, 10:30 pm, Dragon Lounge a Whack Planet, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: DJ Rob Fitzpatrick, 11 pm, FREE. The Sun Destroyers, 11:30 pm, FREE; June 12: The Nitro, 11 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Art4YourEar, 11:30 pm, 145 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn 3, 4 or 5 days a week. Moodswing Series, live jazz and beyond, 9:30 pm, FREE; Fridays: Finger on the Pulse with live DJs, 11 Ray’s Comedy Club Heights, (718) 624-7658, pm, FREE; June 10: Afropunk Social Hour, 9 pm, $5; FREE; June 13: The Short Notice String Band, 9 pm, www.dragonloungebklyn.com. 9807 Third Ave. at Marine Avenue in Bay Ridge, Early drop-off (8am) and late pick up (6pm) available The Sweet Back Sisters, 10 pm, FREE; June 14: Night June 14: The Punk Glam Goth Party with DJ Rob Nitro, Mondays: Mix Master Mondays, 7 pm, FREE; Tues- (718) 748-6400. with Cecil, 9 pm, FREE; June 15: The Kings County 10 pm, FREE; June 15: Girl to Gorilla and more, 9 pm, Ages 5 to 11 years days: Trivia (music and movie trivia), 8 pm, $1. June 10: Al Ducharme and Eddie Clark (from ESPN’s Opry with a song circle, 8:30 pm, The Blue Moon $TBD; June 16: Alixa and Naima’s CD Release Party with performances, live bands and DJs, 8 pm, $5. Cold Pizza), 9 pm, $15 and 2-drink minimum; June 16: Ramblers, 9:30 pm, Hogzilla, 10:30 pm, FREE; June 16: Europa Night Club Paul Bond (from The King of Queens), Richie Minervini American String Conspiracy, 9:30 pm, Sunday Labor, and Mitch Walters, 9 pm, $15 and 2-drink minimum. Park Slope • (718) 768-6419 10:30 pm, Younger Sister, 11:30 pm, FREE. 98 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in Magnetic Field Greenpoint, (718) 383-5723, www.europaclub.com. 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in Brooklyn Reign Bar 4 Saturdays: VIP Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE before 10:30 Heights, (718) 834-0069, pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; Fridays: Sexy Progres- www.magneticbrooklyn.com. 46 Washington Ave. at Flushing Avenue in Clinton 444 Seventh Ave. at 15th Street in Park Slope, Hill, (718) 643-7344. (718) 832-9800. sive/Dance party, 10 pm, FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 June 10: Dead Flower presents The Dansettes, 8 pm, after 10:30 pm; June 11: Ari Hoenig Trio with Jean Saturdays: Sweet Saturdays with Da Union’s DJ Snatch June 11: Loren Stillman Quartet, 8 pm, 10 pm, $5 $7, Switched On!, 11 pm, FREE; June 11: Al Duvall, 8 Michel Pilc and Johannes Weidenmueller, 7:30 pm, $10 1 “The Fireman” and GMC’s own Country, 11 pm, $TBD. (includes both sets). pm, FREE; June 13: Prototypes, 8 pm, $6; June 16: (students free before 8 pm with valid student ID). The Bluebeats, 8 pm, $6. Day Barbes Southpaw Galapagos Magnolia 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope, 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) (718) 230-0236, www.spsounds.com. 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com. 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, 486 Sixth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Slope, (718) School, (718) 782-5188, www.galapagosartspace.com. 369-4814, www.magnoliabrooklyn.com. June 11: Interzona, Time TBD, $TBD; June 14: The Sundays: Stephane Wrembel, 9 pm, $8 suggested Sundays: Sid & Buddy Karaoke, Midnight, FREE; Fridays: Live jazz, 9:30 pm, FREE; June 16: Exodus Crash Modern, The Churchills, Matthew Pop, Spouse, donation; Tuesdays: Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $10; Wed- Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 pm, FREE; June 13: Supreme, 9:30 pm, FREE. 8 pm, $8; June 15: Tanya Morgan, Hell Razah, Block nesdays: Night of the Ravished Limbs, 9 pm, $8; June Andreas Kapsalis Trio/Black Gold Movie Finale with spe- Cloud, DCQ, with DJs Blowout and Sucio Smash, 9:30 Inc. 10: Baby Gramps, 7 pm, $10, Brook’s Qawwali Party, 9 cial guests Zach Brock, The Coffee Achievers and Adam pm, $10; June 16: Burlesque-a-Pades starring The pm, $8 suggested donation; June 12: The Roulette Melt Fisher, 9 pm, $12; June 14: (Backroom) UpSurge!, 10 World Famous Pontani Sisters, Kitten de Ville, Murray Sisters, 10 pm, $8 suggested donation; June 14: Daniel 440 Bergen St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, A fully licensed and certified preschool pm, $7, (Front room) Amanda Jo Williams and Ollie Hill, Trixie Little, The Evil Hate Monkey, Miss Saturn, Levin Quartet, 8 pm, $8, Fred Lonberg-Holm with (718) 230-5925. Byrd CD Release Party with Matthew O’Neill, 10 pm, The Fisherman Xylophonic Orchestra, and more, 9 pm, Michael Attias & Anthony Coleman, 10 pm, $8; June Saturdays and Fridays: Meet and Mingle, 11 pm, FREE. 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June 10: Vaz, The New Flesh, Archaeoptryx, The ■ Optimal educational equipment ■ Spacious Classrooms $8 suggested donation. Mondays: Paint Stain, 5 pm (often accompanied by the Creeping Nobodies, 8 pm, $6. Good Coffeehouse jazz guitar of Noboru, 8 pm), FREE; Wednesdays: ■ Exclusive outdoor facilities ■ Enriched Curriculum Bembe National Restaurant JAMstain, an informal open mic hosted by 81 S. 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DJs, 9 pm, FREE; Mondays: Uninterrupted Trip Hop, 9 June 16: Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Co-op, a FREE (with $65 prix fixe dinner); Fridays: Live Russian Summer Program Available pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Natural Selections with DJ Jon celebration of gay pride, 8 pm, $10 adults, $6 children. music and dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with $50 prix fixe Bless and guests, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Conva- Tea Lounge dinner); Sundays: Live Russian music and dance show, lescence with DJ Stefan Andemicael, 9 pm, FREE; 837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, Hank’s Saloon 7 pm, FREE (with $50 prix fixe dinner). Thursdays: Toque with DJs Busquelo and Captain (718) 789-2762, www.tealoungeny.com. 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, Planet with live rumba by Romain Diaz and Pupi and the Call: 230-5255 • 763 President Street (bet. 6th & 7th Aves.) (718) 625-8003, www.hankssaloon.com. June 15: Freedom Nile, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, FREE; June Oriki omi Oddra Rumba Ensemble, 10 pm, FREE; Night and Day 16: The Ryan Scott Orchestra, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, FREE. Fridays: World Beat Flavors, 9 pm, FREE. Sundays: Shotgun Shack, 6 pm, Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Mob- Restaurant scenity, 10 pm, FREE; June 12: Live band kuntry 230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, Trash Bar Black Betty karaoke with Rob Ryan and the Brooklyn Country All- (718) 399-2161, www.nightanddayrestaurant.com. 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, 366 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Star Band, 10 pm, FREE; June 16: Lindy Loo’s Hillbilly Sundays: John McNeil and Bill McHenry, 8:30 pm, $6 (718) 599-1000, www.thetrashbar.com. Williamsburg, (718) 599-0243, www.blackbetty.net. Hayride, 10 pm, FREE. and $7 food/drink minimum; Mondays: Debra and June 10: Soap, 8 pm, Sans Souci, 9 pm, Mr. Move, 10 Saturdays: DJs Yah Supreme and Concerned, 11 pm, Mary’s Night on the Town, 9 pm, $10 and $7 food/drink pm, Brinca Means Jump, 11 pm, The Pervs, Midnight, FREE; Sundays: Brazilian Beat with DJ Sean Marquand Hope and Anchor minimum ($5 for students); Tuesdays: Songwriters $7; June 11: Theanti, 8 pm, Radio Havana, 9 pm, and DJ Greg Caz, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Rev. Vince Showcase hosted by Staci & Justin, 7 pm, FREE with $7 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in Red Hook, Kanipchen-Fit, 10 pm, Dali’s Screwdriver, 11 pm, $6; Anderson and his Love Choir, 10:30 pm, FREE; (718) 237-0276. food/drink minimum, Live jazz jam hosted by the Dan June 12: 45 High, 8 pm, The Sweater Kittens, 9 pm, Tuesdays: Hot Rocks, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Yah McCarthy Trio, 9 pm, $5 suggested donation and $7 The Louse, 10 pm, $6; June 13: She’s in Black, 8 pm, Saturdays, Thursdays and Fridays: Karaoke hosted by Supreme & Brohemia with DJ Concerned, 9:30 pm, food/drink minimum; June 10: The Rachel Eckroth Trio, Tramponaline, 9 pm, Jacque Ryal, 10 pm, Headed for drag queen Kay Sera, 9 pm, FREE. FREE; Thursdays: Kings County Soul Night featuring 7 pm, $5 suggested donation and $7 food/drink mini- the Smoke, 11 pm, Question Mark Zero Bone, DJs Monkone, Emskee, Finewine & Nick Cope, 10 pm, mum, Finger Trio, 9 pm, $10 and $7 food/drink mini- Midnight, $6; June 14: Vice & Vanity, 8 pm, The Hate FREE; Fridays: The Greenhouse with DJ MonkOne and Jazz 966 mum; June 14: Poetry Open Mic hosted by Les Lopes, My Day Jobs, 9 pm, Class, 10 pm, Kickstart, 11 pm, The DJs Emskee and MC G-man, 11 pm, FREE. 966 Fulton St. at Cambridge Place in Clinton Hill, 7 pm, FREE with $7 food/drink minimum, Davy Sunshine, Midnight, $6; June 15: The Shorebirds, 8 (718) 639-6910, www.jazz966.com. Mooney Trio, 9 pm, $5 and $7 food/drink minimum; pm, West, 9 pm, Stoley P.T., 10 pm, Marching Teeth, 11 Brooklyn Lyceum Fridays: Live jazz, 8 pm, $5 and $15 donation; June 16: June 15: Brooklyn Conservatory presents Omni pm, Colorful Bird, Midnight, The Cummies, 1 am, $6; Register Now For 2006-2007 School Year 227 Fourth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, Pre-Father’s Day Spring Closing Party, 8 pm, $15 donation. Ensemble, 9 pm, $10 and $7 food/drink minimum; June 16: Stark, 7:15 pm, Triptronic Colonic, 8 pm, 6 months through 5 year olds (718) 398-7301, www.gowanus.com. June 16: Trio Vera Brazilian Jazz Trio, 7 pm, $5 and $7 Rejectionist Front, 8:45 pm, Agnosis, 9:30 pm, Children of all Ethnic & food/drink minimum, Deborah Latz Quartet, 9 pm, $10 June 10: Gala Dress-Up Ball & All-Nite Party to benefit Jolie Restaurant Supervillain, 10:15 pm, After Darl, 11 pm, Deathkiller, and $7 food/drink minimum CulturalBackgrounds Welcome Full and Part Time Programs The NYC Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, 8 pm, $25. 320 Atlantic Ave. at Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill, 11:45 pm, Borgo Pass, 12:30 am, $8. (718) 488-0777, www.jolierestaurant.com. Year Round Childcare Cafe Steinhof Tuesdays: Bonne Ambiance Mardi Night featuring live Night of the Cookers Two Boots Brooklyn music with Peter Davenport, 9 pm, FREE. 767 Fulton St. at South Portland Avenue in Fort 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, 422 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in Park Slope, Greene, (718) 797-1197. Extended Hours for Working Parents (718) 369-7776, www.cafesteinhof.com. (718) 499-3253, www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Sundays: Live June 14: The Crevulators, 10:30 pm, FREE. Kili Bar-Cafe June 10: The M Shanghai String Band, 10 pm, FREE; music, noon, FREE; Thursdays: Live jazz, 8 pm, FREE; Certified Teachers in Early Childhood Education 81 Hoyt St. at State Street in Boerum Hill, (718) June 16: Dave Clive’s N’Awlins Funk Band, 10 pm, Fridays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE. FREE; June 17: Sufferin’ Succotash, 10 pm, FREE. Center for 855-5574. Storytelling, Computers, Free Play Tuesdays: Open acoustics, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: DJ Northsix Improvisational Music Chappy plays rock, hip-hop and funk, 10:30 pm, FREE. Union Pool Music & Movement, Dramatic Play, Arts & Crafts 295 Douglass St. at Third Avenue in Park Slope, 66 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, 484 Union Ave. at Meeker Avenue in Williams- (212) 631-5882, www.schoolforimprov.org. Laila Lounge (718) 599-5103, www.northsix.com. burg, (718) 609-0484. Full Licensed and Registered June 10: Claudia Quintet, 8 pm, $12; June 15: Open June 10: (Downstairs) Phantom Buffalo, Flying, Apothe- June 13: Winter Pageant, Picastro, Paul Duncan, 8 pm, 113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue in Williams- cary Hymns, 9 pm, $8, (Upstairs) A benefit for the Sylvia Session with host Mark Ferber, 8 pm, $7; June 16: Little burg, (718) 486-6791, www.lailalounge.com. $7; June 14: Bellmer Dolls record release show, 8 pm, www.brooklynchildren.org Women, Bruce Lee, 8 pm, $10. Rivera Law project and TGI Justice with The Aislers Set, $TBD. Sundays: Bloody’s, 4 pm, FREE; Mondays: Karaoke, 10 The Ballet, 9 pm, $12; June 11: (Downstairs) Friendly Club Exit pm, FREE; Tuesdays: APA League, 7 pm, FREE; Wed- Bears, Toby Driver, Moth, 7 pm, $6, (Upstairs) !!!, nesdays: Jezebel Music Showcase with an open mic, Mountain High, 8 pm, $15; June 12: Heineken & The Vox Po p 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in 7:30 pm, Live music, 8:30 pm, FREE; Fridays: OHM, 10 Onion presents Kill Hannah, Lightfromadeadstar, 9 pm, 1022 Cortelyou Road at Stratford Road in Greenpoint, (718) 349-6969, www.club-exit.com. pm, FREE; June 10: Heroine Chic with DJs Naked $10; June 15: NY Press presents Indie Label Jones fea- Flatbush, (718) 940-2084, www.voxpopnet.net. BH Saturdays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, $15 (ladies FREE Highway and Sean Allen Fenn, plus special guest Mike turing Saturday Looks Good to Me, Tiny Amps, Canada, Sundays: Open mic, 7:30 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snack ROOKLYN EIGHTS until 11 pm); Fridays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE. Dextro, 10 pm, $TBD; June 16: Sweet, 11 pm, $TBD. 9 pm, $10; June 16: Kapow!, My Teenage Stride, The minimum. B H Reverse, The Shondes, 9 pm, $10. Club Xo Les Babouches Waterfront Ale House 1819 Utica Ave. at Avenue J in Flatlands, (718) 7803 Third Ave. at 78th Street in Bay Ridge, (718) Jewish Sports Academy Perch Cafe 155 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, 209-0525, www.clubxonyc.com. 833-1700. 365 Fifth Ave. at Fifth Street in Park Slope, (718) (718) 522-3794, www.waterfrontalehouse.com. Fridays: “The Best of the Best” featuring live DJs, 11 Saturdays and Fridays: Belly dancer Shahrazad, 8 pm, 788-2830. June 10: Bob Hoffner Group, 11 pm, FREE. Ages: 5-9 June 26th - August 11th pm, FREE before midnight, $10 after midnight. FREE. Sundays and Thursdays: Live jazz, 8:30 pm, $5 suggested donation; June 11: Michael Petrosino Trio, 8:30 Zebulon At The Hannah Senesh School, 215 Pacific St. pm (two sets), $5 suggested donation. 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan Avenue in Williams- burg, (718) 218-6934, Specialists in Supervised & Instructional: TALK TO US… Pete’s Candy Store www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. Swimming, Soccer & Tennis r 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in Williams- June 10: Akoya Afrobeat, 10 pm, FREE; June 11: The v To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as possible. Include name of venue, burg, (718) 302-3770, www.petescandystore.com. 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FREE; June 11: Shira Goldberg, 8:30 pm, Christy and The Mahavishnu Project play the music of Jan Hammer Contact: Simcha (718) 596-4840 Ext. 15 • [email protected] The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the venue before you go to confirm event details. Emily, 9:30 pm, Eric Ziegenhagen, 10:30 pm, FREE; (and Mahavishnu too!), 10 pm, FREE; June 16: Zemog June 12: Spelling Bee, 7:30 pm, Mike Winograd, 9:30 y los Tres Cuernos, 8 pm, Konga-I, 10 pm, FREE. Now enrolling for September, 2006 WHAT’S COOKING? ,iVÞVi`Ê*>«iÀÃ At KIDS COOK!, our eight-week program 6i}iÌ>LiÊ>` Kiddie teaches children essential kitchen skills 7iÊ*ÀÌÊ-ÌÕvv -ÞÊÃ and techniques. Kids learn how to measure, Creativity Central for sift, mix, whip, cut, grate and knead, Park Slope Families iV>ÀiiÊ as they prepare wholesome and delicious *À`ÕVÌ KORNER foods from around the world. Arts & Crafts • Afterschool classes Store & Studio This Week’s Workshops JEWISH PRESCHOOL • Private Parties Mosaics for Adults ...... 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