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...planning an exit strategy: the Mt. Auburn fire escapes. With spectacular views over the roof of Spice and over towards Holyoke Center, they are nonetheless the best backdrop Harvard offers for dramatic scenes of introspection in the style of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Also in the area: the Let's Go bathrooms, with the truest mirrors of any on campus...
QUOTE "I'm from Brownsville, Brooklyn. Boxing is my life...
...NASDAQ crash may have left New York City's Silicon Alley a boulevard of broken dreams, but William O'Shea, 24, is one dotcom entrepreneur who hasn't been discouraged. O'Shea and two friends came up with the idea for their new company, RedFilter, last year in his Brooklyn apartment. O'Shea calls it "a remote control for the Internet": go to RedFilter's website, enter your age, pick the subjects you're interested in, and RedFilter spits back a series of sites custom-picked for your tastes. RedFilter's survival secret: it sells its filter technology to other...
...anyone who appeared on the front page of the paper-and I know I was not alone in this sort of activity. Image altering is a device known not only to children; a number of artists have taken up this practice as well. Painter and draftsman Kathleen Gilje, a Brooklyn native, follows in the tradition of Duchamp and Warhol, among others. Gilje's new show, The Ingres Drawings: Restored, is a series of pencil portraits copied from the drawings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the neoclassical French artist. The copied drawings are quite convincing: trained as a restorer, Gilje works...
Eight-year-old Sonny and his guardian, Hattie Carmichael, leave hardscrabble lives in Paris to attend a posthumous tribute in Brooklyn to his grandfather (and her former intime). In the 1950s, Sonny's grandfather found fame and temporary refuge from racism playing jazz in France; finally his hometown is giving him his due. But instead of a joyous reunion, Sonny encounters a multigenerational feud, which Marshall unfolds by moving deftly between present and past. If her narrative occasionally swerves into Young Adult territory, it's not at the sacrifice of complex characters or of her longstanding themes: the fundamental human...