There’s something I’ve said frequently while writing about classical music for the last couple decades, which is that there’s ...

The Red Hook Star-Revue began publishing in June 2010. We are the only neighborhood paper serving Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, the Columbia Waterfront District, and Gowanus – some of the most ...

For nearly a decade, I managed a Brooklyn mannequin factory. Everything was made by hand. The work was messy, and the tools were loud. The process demanded precision and speed. My job was to oversee ...

Jay McKnight’s recent death was a loss for all of Red Hook. Relativity few people in the community knew of Jay as a highly talented musician whose incredible career spanned over half a century. His ...

When Hurricane Irene made landfall in New York in 2011, Red Hook experienced storm surge flooding that made residents think about hurricane preparedness more seriously. But Superstorm Sandy forever ...

I happen to love adventures, and unexpected treats are always a highlight of life. However, being surprised at discovering a great evening at the Regina Opera is akin to kids from Manhattan attending ...

It’s the evening of Dec. 18, 2024. The Brooklyn Marine Terminal task force is meeting for the fourth time, just before the winter holidays. Alexa Avilés, council member for District 38 and vice-chair ...

There has been a bit of hue and cry lately concerning the fact that the Brooklyn Dems have nominated a candidate for Supreme Court who, as a law student, once questioned Roe v. Wade, and later chose ...

Thirty years ago in the 1992 Presidential election I registered to vote and voted. For that simple and solitary act I spent two decades in purgatory battling criminal charges, the past five years in ...

Nearly 60 years ago, Associated Press reporter Malcolm Browne was sent to Saigon to report on the conflict between the Communist North and American-backed South. He was soon joined in the AP bureau by ...

Forty-something years of making it up, on the spot, in front of an audience. That’s Keith Jarrett’s legacy of improvised solo piano concerts on ECM. It’s an enormous and important body of musical work ...

Mike Fiorito’s latest book, “UFO Symphonic: Journeys into Sound”—his eighth, and a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards—isn’t only for people who “believe in aliens.” Blending memoir, ...