Arts & Culture In Search Of Venues For Politically Charged Theater In Ditmas Park (Photo credit: Lander Camarero)From his Midwood home, playwright & performer D.M. Kinch has watched venues for alternative theater appear and disappear in Ditmas Park over the past 30 years. Kinch would welcome theater venues back to the neighborhood, especially venues to stage the politically charged solo shows that
The Castello Plan A First Look At The Castello Plan Crew's New Restaurant In The Old Vox Pop Space Since construction began at 1022 Cortelyou Road in late March, neighbors have been speculating as to the future of the space that formerly housed Vox Pop. Today, we talked to Ben Heemskerk of The Castello Plan and Collyer’s Mansion about the as-yet unnamed Italian restaurant slated to open later
Avi Shuker Work Begins on New Restaurant at Old Vox Pop Space Our tip lines lit up yesterday as several neighbors noticed the gates up, and construction beginning, at the old Vox Pop space at 1022 Cortelyou Road, on the corner of Stratford. We’ve learned that work has just begun on a new restaurant from the owners of The Castello Plan
Vox Pop New Life for Solo and Vox Pop? Looks like two of the most talked about vacant commercial spaces on Cortelyou Road may finally be filled. Neighbor Mike tells us that he spoke with people who were inside the old Solo space, on Cortelyou at Marlborough, last week. They told him they’re planning on opening a Mexican
Documentaries Catch a Screening of a Doc Featuring Vox Pop’s Sander Hicks Tonight at 8:30pm Brooklyn Heights Cinema is showing the 2002 film Horns and Halos, a documentary about former Vox Pop owner Sander Hicks and his underground imprint Soft Skull Press as he republished a shelved George W. Bush biography. Brownstoner notes that it’s part of a series at
alison espach Happy First Birthday To Boulevard Books South Brooklyn can be a difficult place to find a (secular, English language) bookstore. Both the Borders and Barnes and Noble stores in Kings Plaza were shuttered in recent years, then just last year Vox Pop on Courtelyou Road in Ditmas Park closed due to tax problems. Bensonhurst residents were
