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If You See Something, Say Something...
By Brooklyn Rail StaffYou’re tired, you’re cranky, you just want to be left alone—you enter the subway and a stranger hands you a postcard: “It’s about the Iraq War; It’s free.” Looking at the picture and reading the text, it’s not about you anymore—but in fact it is.
What Lies Beneath
By Tim StellohIt was a hot day in July 1996 when Dorothy Swick started smelling chemicals in the basement of her Greenpoint home. She scoured the sheetrock walls and barren concrete floor for clues, but found nothing.
What’s for Dinner
By Marjory GarrisonHarold and Joan met in August 1958 and went out every night for a week. Harold’s parents were away, “and not knowing anything about cooking, and never having been left alone at home, I was absolutely ready for the right girl to come along,” he says.
New Skool Journalism Beats the Street
This session of the New Skool Journalism Workshop found teen journos digging into the lives of other writers and artists. Applying a critical scrutiny to their own world and their own work.
We Made It Ma! Williamsburg Named One of State’s “Seven to Save”
By Williams ColeA brisk but clear morning high atop the roof of the former Esquire Shoe Polish Building in Williamsburg brought out the latest effort in putting public focus on massive and often uncontrolled development in this part of Brooklyn.
For What Reason?
By Missy Comley BeattieSoon, it will be seven months since my brother Mark’s youngest child, Marine Lance Cpl. Chase Johnson Comley, was killed in Iraq, his face blown off by a massive, vehicular suicide bomb.
