http://dir.salon.com/topics/brooklyn/?source=rss&aim=brooklyn en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST By Mary Elizabeth Williams Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/02/28/gimme_shelter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/02/28/gimme_shelter/index.html?source=rss At the height of the real estate bubble, I was desperate to buy a home. I had no idea what kind of trouble I was borrowing. By Stephanie Zacharek Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2009/01/16/notorious/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2009/01/16/notorious/index.html?source=rss Slain rapper Biggie Smalls was larger-than-life, but this biopic finds a satisfying groove by staying pleasantly unflashy. By James Hannaham Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/2008/09/30/tvotr/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/2008/09/30/tvotr/index.html?source=rss With their passionate new album, "Dear Science," TV on the Radio stake their claim as a great American rock band. By Jessanne Collins Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/02/13/removable_tattoo_ink/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/02/13/removable_tattoo_ink/index.html?source=rss Removable tattoo ink makes it easy to erase romantic failings and youthful indiscretions. Why would I want to do that? By Phillip Lopate Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/07/03/brooklyn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/07/03/brooklyn/index.html?source=rss From Betty Smith to Jonathan Lethem to Truman Capote, the chroniclers of this brownstone-lined borough are as diverse as the millions of people who live there. By Lynn Harris Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/12/07/brooklyn_bar_bans_strollers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/12/07/brooklyn_bar_bans_strollers/index.html?source=rss Brooklyn bar declares war on strollers. By Robin Lentz Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/05/04/messedup_color/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/05/04/messedup_color/index.html?source=rss When my husband and I moved to a mostly black neighborhood four years ago, 8-year-old Tyrone became our friend. Then one day he asked me if I was white. By Jen Banbury Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/13/deportee/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/13/deportee/index.html?source=rss All Iraq-born Anas wanted to do was raise his family in New York. But the U.S. kicked him out, and now he's a lost soul in a broken city. By Michelle Goldberg Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2003/10/29/president/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2003/10/29/president/index.html?source=rss The writer, director and actors of the hilarious New York play "I'm Going to Kill the President" are all anonymous, and getting in is like taking an espionage assignment in East Berlin. By Christopher Ketcham Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/08/25/rats/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/08/25/rats/index.html?source=rss Swarms of rats are wreaking havoc on my neighborhood -- inhaling garbage, popping up in toilets, killing trees, even skirting up my leg. Still, they enthrall me. By Michelle Goldberg Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/07/al_farooq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/07/al_farooq/index.html?source=rss I live blocks away from the Brooklyn mosque accused of funding al-Qaida, where angry Muslim men rage against John Ashcroft, blame 9/11 on the Jews, and ask me out for coffee. By Amie Barrodale Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/09/12/souvenirs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/09/12/souvenirs/index.html?source=rss Brooklyn kids tell the story they were told. By Rebecca Segall Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/07/06/hasidic/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/07/06/hasidic/index.html?source=rss For today's young Hasidic couples, pleasurable sex just might be kosher after all. By Steve Kurutz Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/05/08/otb/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/05/08/otb/index.html?source=rss Who needs horses when you've got a row of TVs in an airless storefront at the off-track betting parlor? By Bruce Shapiro Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/26/diallo_legal/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/26/diallo_legal/index.html?source=rss Behind the acquittal of four officers is a clear indictment of standard police procedure in Giuliani's New York. By Jori Finkel Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/02/14/subway/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/02/14/subway/index.html?source=rss Gone is the stench of urine. Into its void rushes a whiff of pheromones. By Susan Emerling Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/10/29/pills/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/10/29/pills/index.html?source=rss Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes. By Debra Dickerson Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/23/republicans/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/23/republicans/index.html?source=rss Blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for years, but now they seem to be rethinking their political allegiances. By Michael Sragow Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/col/srag/1999/10/07/ropes_directors/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/col/srag/1999/10/07/ropes_directors/index.html?source=rss "On the Ropes" co-directors Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen follow three fighters into the "real" inner city. By Jake Tapper Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/24/ny_senate/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/24/ny_senate/index.html?source=rss Even new resident Monica can't handle this one, as Rudy and Hillary prepare to take their fearsome domestic quarrel to upstate New York. By Lorin Stein Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/09/23/brooklyn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/09/23/brooklyn/index.html?source=rss Novelist Jonathan Lethem returns to his hometown to find it almost as strange as his own fiction. By Charles Taylor Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/09/21/ropes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/09/21/ropes/index.html?source=rss At Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, athletes fight for much more than Golden Gloves titles. By Charles Taylor Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/log/1999/07/26/luna/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/log/1999/07/26/luna/index.html?source=rss Brooklyn still loves Luna. By Chris Colin Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/lunch/1999/07/23/auster/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/lunch/1999/07/23/auster/index.html?source=rss The author of the recent novel "Timbuktu" and the screenplays for "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face" discusses cynicism, sentimentality, Brooklyn and the strange things he creates. By Kathy Dobie Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/07/09/petheaven/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/07/09/petheaven/index.html?source=rss "They laughed," she says. "But later, the same people were sitting in here crying. You don't know how you're going to feel until it happens to you."