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Later that day I walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and stop midway, to look back at the skyline. There isn’t much to see from there unless you happen to remember exactly where the towers were two months ago. I stare out at the water and watch the ferries coming and going from Staten Island. The last time I took the ferry, I came out only to see a big minor league baseball banner calling Staten Island “The Home of the New York-Penn League Champion Staten Island Yankees.” That?...
...roommates, Joe and Blake, their Radcliffe wives Natalie and Anne, respectively, and their circle of friends. The musical alternates between flashbacks of the roommates’ college days in the late 50’s and their 25th reunion in 1986. Joe is an upstart kid from Brooklyn while Blake is a prep schooler with legacy to the gills; yet improbably enough, they remain roommates all four years, each figuring out what makes the other irritating yet intriguing. At their class reunion 25 years later, friendships are put to the test when the facades each character had created to hide...
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the ultra-cool alternate SoHo, makes the perfect location for an "underground" event about "underground" comix. About 150 people from the New York comixcenti gathered last Thursday in a cavernous performance-space-cum-bar near the East River for the second in a series of shows known as "Comics Decode." Taking another step into the realm of comix as performance, "Comics Decode" has comicbook authors read aloud a selection of their work and then take questions about it. Through its early steps "Comics Decode" exposes the challenges of bridging private and public art forms...
...John Aboud `95 and Michael Colton `97, the co-founders and editors of the website modernhumorist.com, putting irony on hold wasn’t really a choice. Aside from being stuck a continent away from their Brooklyn offices because of flight cancellations, the pair say they couldn’t imagine writing normal comedy immediately following the attacks...
...media’s flip cynicism, its ironic detachment from genuine feeling. Well, if irony isn’t dead then it’s gravely wounded,” they wrote. “How can we be ironic when our fire squad in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has lost half its members?” Colton and Aboud asked for feedback from readers and the response was tremendous. “We got hundreds and hundreds of e-mails from people saying ‘we want to laugh again,’” Colton says...