Brooklyn Rail Staff
Dining Car
By Brooklyn Rail StaffThe trick to Mediterranean cooking, says of the Rail’s many gourmands, involves taking the freshest ingredients and soaking them in savory marinades. Under Chef Diego Gonzalez, many of the tapas at Allioli have no reached that desired state of seasoned and grilled bliss.
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.
Rail Recs
By Brooklyn Rail StaffOctober on Track Selected Current and Coming Events
The New Skool Goes to Bed-Stuy
By Brooklyn Rail StaffNeither rain nor sleet nor snow could keep could keep the young writers in the New Skool Journalism Workshop from their beat in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Through a collaboration with Urban Word (formerly Youth Speaks NY) and the Brooklyn Rail, the young journos confronted stereotypes, expectations and surprises while reporting on community-based arts in the Brooklyn neighborhood. The results bear out the effort, insight and commitment the crew brought to the series of Saturdays late last fall. Special thanks to Tricia Baird who gracefully endured a bit of rain of her own! —Knox Robinson and Meghan McDermott
Want to know The Hole Truth? Ask Randy Bob!
ByRandy Bob is a fast-thinking river Hoosier living at the butt end of the prairie. With common sense answers to life’s uncommon questions, he is a Tom Joad figure for the hopeless and semi-ruined who hunger for a second chance in the lottery of life. Address all inquiries and proposals of marriage to rrlewis@hotmail.com.
IN MEMORIAM
Jackie McAllister (1962–2012)
Congratulations
The Brooklyn Rail congratulates the marriage of Louise Fishman and Ingrid Nyeboe
Prose Roundup March 2008
By Brooklyn Rail StaffThe Book of Other PeopleZadie Smith, ed.(Penguin, 2007) Travels in the ScriptoriumPaul Auster(Picador, 2007) SalvageJane F. Kotapish(MacAdam/Cage, 2007) Now You See HimEli Gottlieb(William Morrow, 2008)
