By Mary Alice Miller Bopping heads and tapping feet filled the audience last Saturday at Brownsville Heritage House. Word on the Street – the house band – entertained the young and not so young with an afternoon of jazz. “It was beautiful. I have been coming ever since they started having this concert,” said Ms. […]Read More
Bernice Elizabeth Green The Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps is revving up for its 25th year providing emergency services for the community … with an added focus to its already-extraordinary missions. “As we prepare for school to open next month, let’s give our children a headstart on life,” says BSVAC co-founder Rocky Robinson, “by giving them […]Read More
TODAY! Thurs., Aug 23rd 5pm – 6pm: The Rock Shop: Park Slope, 249 4th Avenue (bet. Carroll & President Sts). The Brooklyn Book Festival, supported by AT&T, is hosting a press meet-up and Happy Hour to celebrate the release of this year’s schedule of Bookend Events. RSVP TO mzustovich@brooklynbp.nyc.gov, 718-802-3832 by noon on Thurs., Aug […]Read More
Sindisa Joshua Mrulekana’s intentions to fulfill an assignment for a YMCA program have grown into a major celebratory event that connects two continents through the portal of the YMCA. The Bedford Y’s second annual South Africa Festival takes place this Saturday, August 25th at the Y headquarters, 1121 Bedford Avenue, 3:00pm-7:00pm. And excitement around the […]Read More
By Eddie Castro There is just a month and a half left in the baseball season, and the division races in the American and National leagues are heating up. As expected, the Yankees are right in the middle of things in the American League. With a five-game lead in the AL East, the Yankees must […]Read More
The Brooklyn Summer Shakespeare-ience, a cultural organization founded this year by the wife and husband team of Tracy and Darrin Person, brought a talented ensemble to the Herbert Von King Cultural Arts Center’s Eubie Blake indoor amphitheater last weekend, where they performed a free presentation of William Shakespeare’s timeless classic, Romeo and Juliet. Standing from […]Read More
By Char-lai Newkirk In an effort to unite our community in saving its future and its greatest treasure, Not Another Child (NAC), a Bedford-Stuyvesant –based nonprofit group, will host the King Ron Playing 4 Change Tournament, Saturday, August 25, 2012 (12:00noon – 7pm) at Banneker Playground on Lafayette and Marcy Aves. in BK, NY. The […]Read More
New report shows StudentsFirst NY contributed over $2 million to defeat Obama By Nico Simino A new report released this month shows that the pro-charter school group, StudentsFirst NY, is not only backing Mitt Romney for president, but that the group also contributes more campaign funds towards Republicans candidates than Democratic ones. The report, done […]Read More