From Beirut, Borikén, and Brooklyn with Love

By Meghan McDermott

SEPT 2020 | Critics Page

In July 2020, Sarah Aoun, chief technologist at the Open Technology Fund (OTF) and Teresa Basilio Gaztambide, Network Strategy Director at MediaJustice met with Meghan McDermott to talk about their work at the intersection of digital rights, human rights, movement organizing, and the political moment.

Brooklyn's Beachfront Romance With Cinema Continues at the Coney Island Film Festival

By Joshua Glick

DEC 19-JAN 20 | Film

The 19th Annual Coney Island Film Festival (CIFF) wrapped, per ritual, in an epic bumper car bash. Filmmakers, organizers and spectators found themselves colliding into one another at the Eldorado Auto Skooter rink on Surf Avenue. The event was thoroughly in the spirit of the festival, which does not simply take place at the storied amusement destination, but is of it in distinct ways. The cultural geography of the region shapes all aspects of exhibition and programming.

10. [Brooklyn Heights]

By Raphael Rubinstein

JUNE 2020 | The Miraculous

The year that Marilyn Monroe marries Joe DiMaggio, that Elvis Presley releases “That’s All Right,” that the first mass polio vaccinations begin, that Frank O’Hara publishes his prose poem “Meditations in an Emergency”

Édouard Louis Comes to Brooklyn: The History of Violence and The End of Eddy

By Emma Grillo

NOV 2019 | Theater

Emma Grillo on Èdouard Louis's The History of Violence. The story, an adaptation of a memoir by the same name by the French author takes place during Christmas Eve. Over the course of two hours, Director Thomas Ostermeier leads audiences through the harrowing account of Louis’s rape and near murder, in a dizzying series of tellings and retellings, all layered on top of one another.