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How to Read a Poem in April—A Primer

April 16, 2013 By Sarah Schmerler Leave a Comment

Sarah's light and coffee

Is there a poem in your heart? There’s always one in mine, but I never quite know how to get it out. Sometimes you’ll find me, standing on the street, staring out into the distance, trying to put some amalgamation of light and sound and air I’m feeling into words, but, alas. Someone always comes along and interrupts my reverie with a ridiculous question that they’re convinced passes for conversation.

“Hey, you look like you’re in a daze,” they’ll say, adding: “What are you thinking about right now?”

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4 Films to See Before We All Drown—Gut Renovation; The Domino Effect; Chasing Ice; Gringo Trails

April 16, 2013 By Janyce Stefan-Cole Leave a Comment

Massive icebergs photographed in Greenland. PHOTO BY JAMES BALOG / EXTREME ICE SURVEY

Massive icebergs photographed in Greenland. PHOTO BY JAMES BALOG / EXTREME ICE SURVEY

What does the overdevelopment of Williamsburg/Greenpoint have in common with melting glaciers? Fossil fuel, that’s what; one’s using it, the other’s choking on it. Well, we’re all choking on it.


CHASING ICE 
Jeff Orlowski 
Submarine Deluxe Presents An Exposure 
Production in Association with Diamond Docs 

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The Lowdown on an Upright Citizen: Comedian Anthony Apruzzese

April 15, 2013 By Keith R. Higgons Leave a Comment

Williamsburg resident Comedian Anthony Apruzzese performs a weekly "live late-night show... on stage" at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater

Williamsburg resident Comedian Anthony Apruzzese performs a weekly “live late-night show… on stage” at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater

Comedy is as much a part of the DNA of Brooklyn as country music is of Nashville. The list of comedians who have called Brooklyn home reads like a history lesson of the hysterical: Mel Brooks, Larry David, Woody Allen, Jackie Gleason, and current late night warriors Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, among countless others. Hoping to one day count himself among those names is Williamsburg resident Anthony Apruzzese. He is currently blazing a trail in the super competitive world of comedy with his improvisation/theater/sketch late night talk show at the Upright Citizens Brigade East Theater called “Showtime with Anthony Apruzzese”.

I first met Apruzzese a few years ago in prison. Not a real prison, mind you; we worked in the same office. He was always quick with the clever retort or with sharing a skewed point of view, which made me realize his humor was slightly beyond his years. I was relieved to have finally found a kindred spirit to help ease the mind-numbing pain of white-collar work. At the very least, it curtailed my budding Xanax addiction.

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Transgression from the 80’s: A Festival of Films by Nick Zedd

January 16, 2013 By David LaGaccia Leave a Comment

With films ranging from fuzzy eight-minute clips, to 90 minute-long scratchy features, a festival of New York’s cinema of transgression started Tuesday night at Glasshouse (246 Union Ave.) in Williamsburg.

A tribute to underground filmmaker Nick Zedd, Tuesday night’s opening attracted a large crowd of viewers, where seats ran out and some had to pull their coats tighter while viewing the films from the street under a canopy of cold drizzling rain.

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Leave the Theory at the Door! Ethan Pettit Contemporary

September 27, 2012 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

bent arm violin ken butler

“Bent Arm Violin” by Ken Butler

By William Allen

This group show, called “Wackadoodle,” thumbs its nose at highbrow irony and aesthetics, with seven artists steeped in the traditions of North Brooklyn (conceptual art, action painting, and sculptural collage). By design there is no theme, only fresh, bright painting, drawing, sculptures, video art, and prints.

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