Search Results for: Brooklyn

Artisanal America

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Exalting the handmade, the painstakingly crafted, the authentic, is not just for hipsters in Portland and Brooklyn anymore.

Author: Adam Sachs
Source: Details
Published: Aug 1, 2010
Length: 8 minutes (2,061 words)

How to Make It As An Artist In New York 101

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Marco Antonini stood in front of a tiny classroom at the Brooklyn art collective 3rd Ward on Monday night working a PowerPoint and explaining to a group of young artists how to make it in the New York art world.

Published: Nov 3, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,899 words)

On the Waterfront

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The Gowanus Canal runs one and a half miles through brownstone Brooklyn, cutting a disreputable gash between two of the most desirable residential neighborhoods in New York City. Sunken below street level, no more than 100 feet across at most points, the canal does not really flow — it skulks.

Published: Oct 21, 2009
Length: 29 minutes (7,354 words)

The Right Way to Pray?

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“Prayer is like other activities,” the Rev. Daniel Henderson told me when we met at the tabernacle the week before Easter. He was visiting Brooklyn with a group of seminary students from Virginia. “You learn from people who are already good at it.”

Published: Sep 16, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,691 words)