Spurred by Heather Quinlan’s story about a new place at Atlantic and Clinton that will offer Montreal style bagels, and your correspondent’s comment on that story pointing out that such bagels are now available at Mile End, on Hoyt Street just south of Atlantic, as well as by a New York Times review in this […]
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BHB’s Heather Quinlan on the Brooklyn Accent
Heather gives her spiel on the local lingo, with videos, at Union Hall in Park slope last Tuesday night. Video after the jump.
BHB Ten 2010 – This Year’s Most Notable Brooklyn Heights Residents
This year’s BHB Ten is an interesting bunch. Some have added “flava” to Brooklyn Heights, while other have made it more beautiful, more interesting and dare we say more fun. Some have dedicated themselves to preserving the area’s unique historic character. We know there will be a lively discussion about who made this year’s list… […]
NYT Shouts Out Heather Quinlan’s NY Accent Movie
The New York Times, obviously following the trend started by our Heather Quinlan, writes about the NY accent (“dialect” to you sticklers, OK?) today. More to the point, they write about wanting to lose it as opposed to HQ’s homage to tawking like Fran Drescher:
Looking for Things to Do? Some Last-Minute Ideas
If you’re in town and still looking for things to do on what promises to be a gorgeous Saturday, here are some thoughts: Brownstone Poets is hosting a poetry reading featuring local poets Pam Laskin and James McMenamin, starting at 2:30 this afternoon, at the Park Plaza Restaurant, 220 Cadman Plaza West. Admission is a […]
BBC Covers Heather’s Knishes
Brooklyn Heights resident/BHB contributor Heather Quinlan gets some more press attention this week for her NY accent movie If These Knishes Could Talk, this time from the BBC: BBC: For the last year-and-a-half, Quinlan, a native New Yorker and film-maker, has followed the same routine for her first documentary, If These Knishes Could Talk. The […]
HQ’s NY Accent Movie Juggernawt Hits Channel 4
Our Heather Quinlan’s documentary If These Knishes Could Talk was covered today on WNBC-TV. Of course Junkersfeld made the cut but the accent-less Homer and Scales did not. Feh! The girl’s getting some nice attention for her flick, so shut up already. Fuh-get-about-it. Video after the jump.
Heather Tawks with NY1 About If These Knishes Could Talk
BHB contributer Heather Quinlan (@heathercue) had another star turn on NYC TV this morning. NY1 spent some time with HQ discussing her documentary in progress If These Knishes Could Talk. Update Heather also appeared on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show… but not with Brian… it was “other guy”.. but great nevertheless.. give it a listen:
Homer, Junkersfeld and HQ on WPIX
It was a BHB fiercefest on Henry St., as reporter Emily Frances interviewed us, along with other locals and a group of tourists from Argentina about the New York accent. I’d like to think they were profiling me about my accent documentary, but I’m sure this was all just a ruse to get to media […]
Our Heather Quinlan Featured in Daily News
Benjamin Peim in today’s Daily News: Do we really tawk like dat? A Bronx-born filmmaker is returning to her home borough to shoot a documentary exploring the New York accent. Heather Quinlan, 35, has been working on the documentary, called “If These Knishes Could Talk,” for a year and half, making the rounds of the […]
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