I Wouldn’t Call Them Prodigies

In fact after listening to samples from the Tiny masters Of Today’s earlier releases, I’m not convinced that young man could play his guitar at all prior to the recording of their current album, Skeletons.
Regardless, there is something to a child act that can achieve credibility in so rich an indie [...]

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Ditmas Park’s Keeth and Erinn Smart Bring Olympic Silver Back Home to Brooklyn

NYTimes:
Keeth Smart is flying to New York on Monday to begin his new life at Columbia Business School. He is carrying an Olympic silver medal for fencing.

In addition to winning the silver medal Sunday in men’s sabre, ending with a 45-37 loss to France, the United States won five other medals here. The women, [...]

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NY Daily News: Little Pakistan “Jubilant” Over Musharraf Exit

The Daily News interviewed Pakistani immigrants in my Brooklyn neighborhood for a story in today’s paper.
It’s not surprising that Pakistanis in the US would dislike Musharraf but it’s pretty rare that Little Pakistan is ever mentioned in the news. So I’ll indulge myself and take a moment to talk about what I think [...]

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The 2008 Siren Music Festival

Today is the 8th annual Siren Music festival at Coney Island. An all day free concert featuring multiple bands performing on two stages. Its easily my favorite Brooklyn event and with the future of Coney Island sadly uncertain, I don’t know how many more Siren Festivals there will be. I’ll be sure [...]

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Authority Gone Awry II

New York Daily News: Charges dropped for Brooklyn grandmother arrested for prostitution on her way to the hospital
Contrary to Officer Sean Spencer’s claim in a sworn complaint, she had never before been arrested for prostitution – or anything else, according to her lawyer Richard Cardinale.
“Clearly, Officer Spencer, who has been sued for civil rights [...]

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Authority Gone Awry

WJHL: Tennessee man arrested for taking a photo of a cop during a traffic stop
The cell phone photographer says the arrest was intimidation, but the deputy says he feared for his life.
“Here’s a guy who takes me out of the car and arrests me in front of my kids. For what? To [...]

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Olympians From the Neighborhood

From my neighborhood, Ditmas Park, in Brooklyn.
Brother-sister fencing stars Keeth and Erinn Smart, of Brooklyn, were two of four New Yorkers to clinch spots on the U.S. Olympic Fencing Team.

Keeth Smart, who attended St. John’s University in Jamaica, N.Y., is a two-time Olympic team member and two-time Olympian. A five-time world championship eam member, [...]

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