Around The World in 80 Minutes
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Keith Flanders in Hill Top Reviews
“Autour Du Monde” is an apt phrase in the lives of Olivier Jimenez and Pauline Abd-el-Kader, who met in St. Maarten and literally traveled “around the world” to such far-flung places as Nepal, the Caribbean, Thailand, India and Morocco, eventually landing in Brooklyn and bringing with them a taste and love for world cuisine. And [...]
Outpost: Hidden in Plain Sight
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Michelle Herrera Mulligan in Hill Top Reviews
Nestled in between a church and an empty lot on a deserted stretch of Fulton Avenue, The Outpost seems like a happy accident. If you walk in looking for coffee on a busy Sunday morning, you may think you stumbled into a 24-hour club instead of a café. You’ll see a glass chandelier sparkling over [...]
StoryCorps: The Value of Listening
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Selma Jackson in Arts on The Hill
Many of you, at some point in time, have heard some of the very intimate, often heart- wrenching two-person interviews on NPR recorded in portable recording studios all around the country. These are produced by StoryCorps, a non-profit organization whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another’s lives through recording and listening to stories. [...]
The Hill is Swingin’
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Mia Narell in Arts on The Hill
Parlor Jazz— that Saturday night of music in a parlor on Vanderbilt Avenue —was a long time coming. Jim Morehand began working as an artist’s representative in the ‘90s, after graduating from Pratt, and it was after adding a jazz vocalist to his roster of artists that he started exploring the ways and means of [...]
Urban Bush Women: Celebrating 25 Years
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Selma Jackson in Arts on The Hill
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the founder and principal choreographer of Urban Bush Women (UBW), says UBW’s work is “creating art as a catalyst for social change.” Brooklyn experienced this first hand when UBW, rooted in the African Diaspora and community connections, began hosting “hair parties or meetings with organizations and corporations and with teens, mothers [...]
Bringing Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Together
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Marcos Salazar in Agents of Change
The Fort Greene Association On the “About” section of The Fort Greene Association’s website, the first paragraph begins with, “The Fort Greene Association is an inclusive organization, concerned about the needs of all residents.” To anyone who attended the Fort Greene Association holiday party in December, this inclusiveness was quickly apparent. As you walked through [...]
What a Party!
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Suzanne McCaffrey in About Us
On a warm autumn evening this past fall, the board of The Hill hosted a “Help Save The Hill Recession Fun Raiser.” Unfortunately everyone has been touched by the recession in some way shape or form and our deeply loved neighborhood journal is no exception. The extensive research, expert writing, photography, advertising recruitment and sales, [...]
Richard Burlage of Adelphi Street
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by DK Holland in Hill Heros
THE FIRST PERSON I met when I bought my home on Adelphi between Lafayette and DeKalb in 1986 was undoubtedly Richard Burlage. He was probably sweeping the street: not the sidewalk, the street. Or joyfully climbing a street tree to prune it (a tree he planted in case the Parks Department is reading this). Richard [...]
Body by Brooklyn
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Kate Hanley in Body and Mind
LYING ON A DECK CHAIR by the hot tub, sipping a cocktail and plotting your next hydrotherapy treatment, you’d never know that traffic on the BQE was whizzing by three stories above your head. Everything about Body by Brooklyn, a 10,000 square foot spa on the ground floor of the converted chocolate factory on the [...]
When I Find Myself in Times of Trouble
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Rev. David Dyson in Heart and Soul
CONGREGATIONS come in all shapes and sizes, especially in Brooklyn. One thing they all have in common is the sacred duty to stand by their communities in times of trouble. This has been true since the days of the Underground Railroad, the Great Depression, all the way up to the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980′s. “Sanctuary” (what many congregations call their main room), actually means a place of refuge and protection, a place of encouragement and hope. In these days of heightened stress and anxiety, congregations seek to provide spiritual strength in a weak economy and tangible help whenever they can.
