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World Aids Day: Could we have stopped AIDS?
By Suzanne Loebl
December First became “World AIDS Day” also called “A Day With(Out) Art,” in 1988. It was started by a New York art gallery owner, who wanted to honor members of the artistic community. AIDS was particularly prevalent in this population; the disease first targeted gay men in urban cultural centers, including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In the beginning, museums closed their doors, or mounted AIDS-related art shows. The familiar red ribbons, standing for charity, unity, compassion, and determination, made their debut. From its inception, Worlds AIDS day has created an annual theme, 2011’s being “Getting to Zero” (new infections).
We are far from attaining this goal. In 1985, 12,000 Americans had AIDS, and 7,000 died that year. By 2009, 3.3 million were infected worldwide and 25 million had died. Today, in Brooklyn alone, 25,000 people are HIV+. With adequate treatment, many will survive, but AIDS drugs are very costly, and have many serious side effects.
Three-Meat Cavatelli Bolognese
three-jewel cavatelli bolognese
chuck, veal, and sweet (or hot) sausage
Executive chef and master butcher Gennaro Virtuoso, owner of Lorimer Market, presents a tasty variation on the traditional Neapolitan bolognese sauce—using three different kinds of meat; along with Lorimer Market’s special signature marinara sauce.
Greenpoint Film Festival Kicks Off
Movie still from David Lynch’s “Eraserhead.” Photo courtesy of GFF
Did you know that the Little Rascals was set in Greenpoint? It’s one of the screenings for the upcoming Greenpoint Film Festival, the first of what will become an annual affair organized by Woven Spaces, a local nonprofit public arts group. Taking place October 27 – 30 at Broadway Stages in Greenpoint, the line-up includes favorites and lesser-known experimental, avant-garde shorts and feature-length films.
A main attraction is the premiering of a new Jonas Mekas film, “My Mars Bar Movie,” about the old New York City dive bar, which kicks off the festival. The Lithuanian-born filmmaker who is known as ‘the godfather of American avant-garde cinema’ became a Greenpoint resident a few years back. He will be in attendance during the opening night, and will also participate in a couple of panels—still in the planning stages. Panels will include other well-know directors as well, says Rosa Valado, festival director.
TV On The Radio: Broadcasting Loud and Clear in Nine Types of Light
TVOTR surprise performance at Music Hall of Williamsburg in April, two days before their big Radio City Music Hall appearance. (Tunde Adebimpe taking center stage, with Kyp Malone, left, and Jaleel Bunton.) PHOTOS BY BENJAMIN LOZOVSKY
On the evening of August 17, TV On The Radio performed to their seemingly loftiest height. With buzz steadily growing around blogs and social networks about a special event in the works, a large crowd had already formed by the time the Williamsburg based band climbed to the top of a billboard in Soho. Rising up the scaffolding stairs slowly and methodically, the band paused for a group huddle, before hurtling through a searing yet poised four-song set. It was just the latest act of a well-oiled machine set on permanent steamroll.
After a tumultuous time stuck in Los Angeles recording their latest effort Nine Types of Light, a long, world-spanning tour that began in April in support of the record, and above all, the tragic loss of their friend and band mate Gerard Smith to lung cancer several gigs into the tour, the remaining four members of the group continue to staunchly power forward. By the time this is published, they will have performed a giant homecoming show on the Williamsburg Waterfront, one of many dates they have planned for a tour that resumed in late August and seems to be endlessly extending, with new gigs added almost weekly. If delving this acutely into the distractions of work during a personal tragedy is TV On The Radio’s form of therapy, the band might as well have written the clinical guidelines for such treatment.
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