There was a period around and after the development and promotion of Wynton Marsalis as a public jazz star when there seemed a coordinated campaign to add a fancy slogan to jazz. Institutions, ...

Something has been slowly creeping up on Red Hook for decades—scandification. To be fair, the neighborhood’s roots are intertwined with Scandinavia. When South Brooklyn was first being colonized, its ...

I have a remarkable story to tell you. My story is about a competition between the two hippest new stars in New York in 1966. At that time, Bob Dylan went from being the iconic Folk Singer to the most ...