BROOKLYN Your Neighborhood – Your News Now Including Park Slope Courier, Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier, Brooklyn Heights Courier & Williamsburg Courier June 1–7, 2012 SERVING GOWANUS, PARK SLOPE, PROSPECT HEIGHTS, WINDSOR TERRACE, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, DUMBO, METROTECH, BOERUM HILL, CARROLL GARDENS, COBBLE HILL, RED HOOK, WILLIAMSBURG & GREENPOINT Puppet SPECIAL Free The Boro’s show with coupons ultimate a dark side READER to save classified See 24/Seven BONUS you$ cash section Brownstone savior dies GROPER at age 92 BY NATALIE O’NEILL Everett Ortner, the trail-blaz- ing Park Slope preservationist credited with saving Brownstone Brooklyn’s namesake architec- ON THE ture from the wrecking ball, died last week after health complica- tions caused by a fall. He was 92. Ortner spearheaded a move- ment in the late 1960s to restore then-dilapi- dated brown- stones in an LOOSE era when it was more popular to tear them down and con- Witness: Cops let perv go vert them into brick rooming houses. “He had no fear of what other BY NATALIE O’NEILL am and detained a man believed people thought,” said Dexter Guer- A walk to remember Cops are hunting a Park Slope to have attacked her near Fourth rieri, a longtime friend and col- sex fi end responsible for a May Avenue, but when cops arrived on league. “He knew how to rally the World War II veteran Jerry Cardinal — holding a photo of himself and his 23 attack — but they already had the scene they let him go because community.” late wife Antoinette — refl ects on his contributions and those of his com- him at the scene of the crime and the victim had returned to her The strong-willed Park Sloper patriots at the Greenpoint Veterans Memorial Parade. let him go, according to a witness. home a few houses away, an on- — who helped found the Brown- Photo by Stefano Giovannini Residents of 16th Street heard looker told this paper. 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Photos by Stefano Giovannini OURIER C HOW TO GET TO DESPERATE STREET Brooklyn vegan named America’s sexiest vegetarian Puppet show with a dark side hits DUMBO By Colin Mixson realized puppet shows. about a group of discerning chefs condemning all dairy ome and play — but the puppets of this DUMBO pro- “It’s a really interesting process, because you see peo- products (they’re just not that good for you) — but the duction are not okay. ple’s work from conception to the full fledge show,” entire production has the feel of a collaborative and C Labapalooza, a four-day theater festival at St. Ann’s said puppeteer Scott Jackson. “Each participant sometimes ad-hoc experiment. Warehouse, offers a surprisingly adult, even sinister set of would show their story and then we’d get feed- “To be 100-percent honest, our bar, which is puppet characters, like three inebriated thugs plotting to cheat back. It was amazing, an amazing opportunity.” full sized, we got probably half of the material and murder each other in a 1980’s West Village watering The festival reflects the artistic vision — often to use out of people’s recycling,” said puppe- hole. a dark one at that — of each participant, but the teer Erik Booze. “So, the bar is actually the box “It goes from funny, hilarious, and wild, to sad, heartfelt, artists involved in Labapalooza have created a for a Pottery Barn crib; somebody got a crib for and scary,” said Christopher Skinner, a playwright. festival that is more than the sum of its parts. their baby and that’s now our bar.” The productions have a wild and weird flavor for a reason This may be a good thing because the parts Labapalooza at St. Ann’s Warehouse [38 — they are the results of St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Puppet Lab, themselves can be a very grungy — and not Water St. between Dock and Main streets in a program which brings both amateur and professional pup- just the plays — which include a sad tale of DUMBO, (718) 254–8779, www.stannsware- ganic groceries stores that peteers together — working hand-in-hand to develop fully a woman and her dying father, and a story house.org] May 31–June 3. $20. 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