Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebration-worthy rite of passage. Two New York City women, free-lance writer Beverley Douglas and graphic artist Alice Simpson, have just launched their Two Hot Broads line of greeting cards. Then there are the Red Hot Mamas, whose inspirational support groups for menopausal women have spread from Brooklyn to 18 states, drawing as many as 800 at a time for meetings...
...dancers fail to match the stage presence of a star like Baryshnikov. Marjorie Folkman's energy and musicality proved the opposite. Her sharp movements bore a character similar to Flamenco or Latin dancing. She was a pleasure to watch. The Mark Morris Dance Group will perform next at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this spring...
...countercharge of a New York election. Giuliani won't hesitate to go negative. In 1997 he accused his overmatched opponent, Ruth Messinger, of giving a party in the 1970s for an Attica prison inmate; suggested she supported X-rated video stores; and all but blamed her for the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1957 move to Los Angeles. But Giuliani could pay a price for personal attacks on Hillary. So he may let the tabloids shred her instead--as they did her husband during the 1992 primary...
Subtitled Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse (a reference to an Afro-Caribbean street gang in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y.), Douglas Century's Street Kingdom (Warner Books; 415 pages; $25) charts a turbid interracial friendship between two ambitious young...
...mind that ploy and the nonstop obscenities faithfully transcribed in the name of realism, Street Kingdom can be a dramatic subway safari. Shuttling between Manhattan and Brooklyn, Century is an enthusiastic guide to polyglot and polychrome New York City. When outlaw and author first met nearly seven years ago at a lower Manhattan nightclub, K was trying to make it as a hip-hop lyricist and performer. He had the look (270 lbs. of muscular intimidation draped in clothing loose enough to conceal an arsenal) and a showman's instincts. In the book his stage name is American Dread, suggesting...