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  • Albee Play Sheds Light on Brooklyn’s Hospital Crisis In New Brooklyn Theater Production

    “This is a semiprivate, white hospital,“ says The Nurse to a black man who has arrived with an accident victim in Edward Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith, being presented by New Brooklyn Theatre for a brief two-weekend run at Interfaith Medical Center Hospital in Bedford-Stuyvesant. It’s a line that draws laughs in response to the absurdity of the remark, but the issues in play are dead serious. The play, an early one-act effort by an earnest young writer who was to come to full maturity in such works as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and A Delicate Balance, serves in this pared-down production as a site-specific vehicle to bring attention to the crisis being faced by Interfaith, struggling for its existence amid a cost-cutting frenzy that has put paid to at least 12 facilities in the metro area, including Greenwich Village’s much-lamented St. Vincent’s and Cobble Hill’s Long Island College Hospital.

    January 14, 2014

  • The Impressions Rock Plymouth

    The Impressions’ gospel-rooted rhythm ‘n’ blues, prominent on the pop charts during the struggle to end Jim Crow’s dominion, has been called the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. They have a rich history. Founded in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1958–Sam Gooden, at left in the photo above, was a founding member–they later moved to Chicago […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

    January 12, 2014

  • NY Times Highlights Heights’ Fashion

    When you think trendy vintage fashion, you think Brooklyn Heights. No? Well The New York Times‘ Intersection video series tried to change that by focusing on Brooklyn Heights as a place with a “Refined Vintage” look. The three people profiled are engaging enough—and they didn’t just stick to youngsters—but repeated shots of Tango and Housing […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

    January 7, 2014

  • Phil Everly, 1939-2014

    Phil Everly, the younger of the Everly Brothers (at left in photo) died Friday, less than a month shy of his 75th birthday.My introduction to the Everlys was in 1957, when I was in sixth grade at Eglin Air Force Base Elementary School, in the piney woo…
    (via Self-Absorbed Boomer)

    January 5, 2014

  • The Impressions Head the Bill for Free the Slaves Concert at Plymouth

    Plymouth Church is known for its pre-eminent role, under the leadership of Henry Ward Beecher, in the anti-slavery movement before the Civil War. While the Emancipation Proclamation declared the slaves free, and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished the “peculiar institution,” slavery still exists in the United States, and, on a larger scale, elsewhere in the world. […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

    December 31, 2013