Multi-talented Peter Hedges–novelist, screenwriter, actor, director, and Oscar nominee–lives in Boerum Hill but works from his studio on Montague Street. Yesterday evening he was master of ceremonies for the opening event of the Brooklyn Heights Association’s year long centennial festivities, “Hollywood in the Heights”, a video presentation and panel discussion about movie-making in our neighborhood. […]
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St. Francis Dedicates Academic Center
St. Francis College officially dedicated the Frank and Mary Macchiarola Academic Center with a special celebration last week.
Final “Herd for the 33rd” Debate Produces Little Disagreement, Except on Lampposts
Last night was the final debate, before next Tuesday’s primary election, among the candidates for the 33rd District City Council seat being vacated by David Yassky. Six of the seven showed up for the event at St. Francis College auditorium; Isaac Abraham was unable to attend because of a wedding. Responding to a series of […]
St. Francis, Manhattan Institute Present Panel on City’s Fiscal Crisis
On Thursday, May 7, St. Francis College, in conjunction with the Manhattan Institute, will present a panel discussion on New York City’s fiscal crisis in historical perspective. According to the College’s press release: New York is the only major city to have gone through repeated bouts of near bankruptcy most recently in 1932 and 1975. […]
St. Francis Hosts “Community Day” This Sunday
St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, will host its annual Community Day this Sunday, March 29, from 11:30am to 2:30pm. All are invited, and there is no charge for admission. The event will feature song, dance, and written word performances that showcase the diverse ethnic heritages of the College’s community, and will conclude with a […]
Lillias White to Sing at St. Francis
Tony and Emmy winning singer and actor Lillias White, who has performed on Broadway in, among others, Dreamgirls and Romance in Hard Times, and on Sesame Street as Lillian Edwards, will give a free concert, “From Brooklyn to Broadway”, at St. Francis College Auditorium, 180 Remsen Street, on this coming Monday, March 23, from 12:30 […]
Rushdie at St. Francis: “Open the Universe”
Award-winning novelist Sir Salman Rushdie delivered the eleventh annual Thomas J. Volpe lecture to a packed auditorium at St. Francis College this afternoon. His topic was “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World.” Rushdie began by noting that, in the nineteenth century, works of fiction often were the sole means by […]
Rushdie to Lecture at St. Francis
World renowned novelist Salman Rushdie will lecture in Founders’ Hall of St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, on Monday, March 9 at 12:30 P.M. No topic for his lecture, which is part of the College’s Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series, has been announced. Rushdie, a native of Mumbai, India, is the author of several award-winning […]
St. Francis Art Exhibit Features Rural Scenes
Beginning this Thursday, December 4, through December 28, the Callahan Center for the Arts at St. Francis College, 182 Remsen Street, will present “Stillness: the Rural; the Simple; the Gardens”, an exhibit of the watercolor art of Wisconsin painter Ed Fenendael. Ed’s paintings include renderings of Midwestern farmsteads and farm animals (as in “Are We […]
Wonder Twins Coming to St. Francis
Amber and Autumn Lau, basketball playing twins from York, Pennsylvania will be taking the court for the St. Francis Terriers next year according to their hometown newspaper. Currently seniors at Northeastern High, Autumn averaged 24.1 points last season while Amber averaged 17.
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