Issue 39 Archive
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Read Any Good Books Lately?
By Michele Weisman| Issue 39 | No CommentsSomething not to miss: The tenth anniversary of September 11 inspired me to re-read Jonathan Safran Foer’s masterful second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close —a story of love, loss... -
Climax Community
By Nancy McDermott| Issue 39 | No CommentsAutumn is giving way to Winter here in Geneva. The leaves are mostly fallen except for the golden topped hardwoods that rise above our gravel road like the arches of... -
Down But Not Out
By Melanie Hoopes| Issue 39 | No CommentsHow are you? I’m just okay. Why just okay? Isn’t this the holiday season? Don’t I feel the warm coziness of brotherly/sisterly love, the glow of good will toward all,... -
Small Business Secrets of the Slope
By Megh Wright| Issue 39 | No CommentsShopping may be changing with the internet age, but Park Slope’s storefront-lined avenues still sparkle, offering what the web sites can’t — a sense of community alight with charm, care,... -
The Local Grind
For many of us residents, local is more than a zeitgeist catchphrase. It’s a mentality of movement aimed at supporting communities whose infrastructure is being fortified by modern post–adolescents and... -
Just Desserts
By Celeste Kaufman| Issue 39 | No CommentsSomewhere along the line, the focus of the holidays shifted from all of the good things they bring to everyone arguing about what the most important of these things is.... -
A Christmas Legacy
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 39 | No CommentsWhen I was a kid, my mother made my sisters and I homemade Christmas stockings. Every December, these craft-tastic masterpieces still assume their positions of honor on the banister of... -
Bending Toward Brooklyn
By Danielle Winston| Issue 39 | No CommentsIs Park Slope becoming the new yoga center of New York City? It’s a wet Friday night in Manhattan. Through my apartment window, thick raindrops sound like bullets as they... -
Maggie Brooklyn, the Girl Next Door
By Tamson Weston| Issue 39 | No CommentsVanishing Acts: A Maggie Brooklyn Mystery by Leslie Margolis Bloomsbury Press, January, 2012 One of the thrills of being a New Yorker is having an intimate relationship with the setting... -
Winter Wonderland
By Florence Wang| Issue 39 | No CommentsWinter in Park Slope is nothing short of idyllic. The lights, the shop windows, and the food all invite us to celebrate the season. If you have something you would...