Archive for the 2011-columns Category
Second Annual Crown Heights Film Festival (CHFF) at Five Myles Gallery
October 1, 2011 by Administrator
The Second Annual Crown Heights Film Festival (CHFF) will take place Thursday, October 13, 2011 through Sunday, October 16, 2011 at FiveMyles in Brooklyn, NY. The Festival will showcase local and international filmmakers’ documentaries, narratives, animations and fine art/experimental films. Details: Where: FiveMyles, 558 St. John’s Place Brooklyn, NY 11238 http//www.fivemyles.org Dates: Thursday, October 13, 2011 [...]
Re-building a Brand: Moving Beyond Disasters and seeing Opportunities
September 26, 2011 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton Some people experience a disaster and it ends their businesses; I see it as an opportunity. So, in June of this year, when a fire destroyed our store, Calabar Imports on Washington Avenue. My business partner and I took time off – she traveled and I spent the summer in [...]
Brooklyn’s Oyster Frenzy
September 26, 2011 by Administrator
by Krystal DeVille Over the summer, I began my journey to find the best oysters in Brooklyn. I searched far and wide from my surrounding neighborhood of Crown Heights, across town into Bedford Stuyvesant, down to the docks of Sheepshead Bay and I ended up at Coney Island. During my restaurant “run” from happy hours [...]
Wired Perfectly. Beauloni Style: Designer Sherri Hobson Green
September 11, 2011 by Administrator
by Cassandra Bromfield I remember exactly when I met Sherri, it was in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where I grew up). Two blocks from my house, on Broadway, there was a fabric store, Sutter Fabrics. When I walked in the store there was a young lady who had such a familiar face. She looked like a high [...]
2011- articles, FASHIONABLE BROOKLYN|No Comments
Tags: Beauloni Studio, Cassandra Bromfield, Essence Magazine, Harriette Cole, Head Pieces, Sherri Hobson Green, Therez Fleetwood, Wedding Designer
The Lost and Found Generation
September 11, 2011 by Administrator
by Ezinne Adibe In this so-called post-racial society and the era of the first “African-American” president Barack Obama, son of a Kenyan father and a white American mother, identity will continue to crop up even more, whether in coffee shop conversation, academia, online, and so forth. Additionally, race, ethnicity, and culture are not going to [...]
2011- articles, Columns, Culture. Identity. Root|No Comments
CALABAR MODELS are REAL people
September 11, 2011 by Administrator
Name: Tania Molina. Age: 30’s. Work: In Banking Culture: Garifuna. Lives: Crown Heights Food: Ethnic. Bar: NoBar Fashion: WOW WOW by Wunmi at Calabar Imports, Dumbo and Brooklyn Flea Photos: Fredrick V. Nielsen Photography, http://www. featherrock.smugmug.com
2011- articles, Cover Model|No Comments
Tags: Brooklyn Flea, calabar imports, Fredrick V. Nielsen Photography, Tania Molina, WOW WOW by Wunmi