Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: NYRB Books
Over the past few years I’ve noticed how many of the great books that have come into the house…
July 29, 2011-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Mary Gordon, “The Love of My Youth”
I am generally a fan of Mary Gordon’s fiction, and her new novel “The Love of My Youth,” set…
July 21, 2011 -
Drink of the Week: Ms. Abigail’s Lemon Basil Julep
Dear readers: you didn’t think I was going to invent a new cocktail every single week, did you? Indeed,…
July 21, 2011 -
Support CAMBA at a Brooklyn Cyclones Game!
Do you love baseball and helping other people and feeling good about yourself, all at the same time? Then…
July 20, 2011 -
Coney Island: A Cataclysmic Tidal Wave Of Spelling Gaffes
Spelling errors in our nation’s major newspapers are a dime a dozen anymore… not so funny. Wandering through Coney…
July 20, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Revolutionary School – Daughters of the Revolution by Carolyn Cooke
Carolyn Cooke’s novel, “Daughters of the Revolution,” is a curious book, in all good senses of the word. The…
July 15, 2011 -
Inaugural Drink of the Week: The Blue Bubbly
Is there a better way to celebrate summer than with a delicious, refreshing cocktail? Answer: no. No, there is…
July 12, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Christianity The First 3000 Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Back in 2003 Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford don, published a magisterial book called The Reformation: A History. That book…
July 9, 2011 -
How Do Today’s Brownstoners Compare to Beau Bridges “Landlord” of 1970?
Back in May, BAMcinématek featured Hal Ashby’s 1970 film The Landlord starring Beau Bridges as a rich kid who buys…
July 5, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: A Singular Woman by Janny Scott
Ann Dunham was an anthropologist with a Ph.D. who spent most of her professional life working on microfinance, cottage…
July 3, 2011