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A Spirit Reshaped Amongst the Millions – An Interview with Emmy Winning Irish Writer Actor and Film Maker, Alan Cooke (Interview taken by Ashe Troberg)
May 13th, 2012 11:02 PM | Alan Cooke
Alan has his own story of New York to tell. He is an ocean of amazing words. He tells his story of New York in his audio book, Naked in New York. If you are from New York, it is a must listen book for you, because you can relate ...
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Purple Heart Recipient Richard Fisher Named City Tech’s 2012 Valedictorian
May 8th, 2012 12:31 AM | Uncategorized
Purple Heart Recipient Richard Fisher
Named City Tech’s 2012 Valedictorian
Brooklyn, NY -- April 26, 2012 -- One might think that Richard Fisher chose a circuitous path to a college degree and academic achievement. But it ended up working out just fine for him, as he has been named New York ...
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“Meuconium Aspirations” by Mark Blickley
May 7th, 2012 03:26 AM | Mark Blickley
“Meuconium Aspirations” by Mark Blickley
I was born full of shit. It’s called meuconium aspiration. You see, I had what was the equivalent of a bowel movement when my mother went into labor because the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck and that made me very, very ...
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One, Two Buckle My Shoe – By Jacqueline Cioffa
April 29th, 2012 11:26 PM | Illustration by Asheka Troberg
One, Two Buckle My Shoe
By Jacqueline Cioffa
One, two buckle my shoe. I don’t know how other writers find their way into a story.
For me, it usually goes something like this. I hear a line in my head, a word, see a visual, and then the story plays over and over, ...
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A Brooklyn Boy Who Made It Big by Jim Spinner
April 22nd, 2012 05:56 AM | Illustration by Asheka Troberg
Chris Mullin was recently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Like it was the Oscars, I watched (and taped) the coverage of the red carpet entrances and the induction ceremony. I changed my Facebook picture to a pic of Chris in his St. John’s uniform, a skinny white kid ...
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Alex Foguel’s Last Day (2nd part) by Asheka Troberg
December 19th, 2011 01:14 AM | Asheka Troberg
Part 1 (previously published)
Alex Foguel’s Last Day (2nd part) by Asheka Troberg
The boxwood hedges down at the side of the stoop looked pitifully boring. Uneven branches from the hedge reached the top level of the red concrete stoop. Clearly there is no one in this section of the ...
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A succubus with a soul (Part 2) – By Zara Thorn
December 24th, 2011 12:28 AM | Fiction
A succubus with a soul (Part 2) – By Zara Thorn
Part 1
I could feel the tension, I could sense the tears, I could hear his whimper, and I could smell the fear. I guess anyone would be once they caught me when I was looking for a place ...
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The Adventures of Tintin, A Movie Review by an Avid Tintin Fan – Asheka Troberg
December 27th, 2011 05:50 PM | Asheka Troberg
The Adventures of Tintin, a movie review by an avid Tintin fan – Asheka Troberg
Imagine how delightful it is to obtain something that one has anticipated for throughout an entire childhood, adolescence and subsequent years! Something so magical has really happened to me. TinTin my childhood hero, the intrepid detective ...
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The Mind by Frantz Clervil
January 1st, 2012 09:59 PM | Frantz Clervil
The Mind
by Frantz Clervil
It's all in how you manage your mind.
It's all in how you take what is given to you and digest it for a BETTER understanding.
It's all in how you divvy up your time.
Finding the grace within yourself while others may deem you ...
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Different from Home By Christy Potter Kass
January 3rd, 2012 01:42 AM | Christy Potter Kass
Different from Home
By Christy Potter Kass
It’s different from home. So much different from home.
For some reason she repeats this in her head, like a mantra, as she walks on, through the streets, chilled by the shade of each tree before stepping into the flirty warmth of the sun between them. ...
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Alex Foguel’s Last Day (3rd part) by Asheka Troberg
January 9th, 2012 02:06 AM | Asheka Troberg
Part 1 (previously published) Part 2 (previously published)
Yesterday around this time Afi had no reason to ponder about Alex. She was sitting at a large room on the 4th floor of a massive old building called Zeckendorf tower near the 14th street subway station in Manhattan. When she came, there ...
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Greg T’s Soft talk and daily games Bad Eggs Online
January 12th, 2012 10:43 AM | Brooklyn
Today I found out that the graffiti on the gray house by the Brooklyn Bridge actually reads, ”Bead” and not ”Dead”. Whoever drew it could not draw a good “B”. It almost looked like a “D”. My bad. I got an email today from someone who lives in the ...
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“A New Day” in anticipation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day, Year 2012. – By Frantz Clervil
January 17th, 2012 12:35 AM | Brooklyn
"A New Day" in anticipation of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr Day, Year 2012.
- By Frantz Clervil
A New Day breaks over the horizon, with it ends the ideas once permanent in
history's yesterday.
We stand here as they did. Some looking for the possibilities a new day brings.
They marched from miles away ...
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Greg T Has Spoken Again by Greg T
January 18th, 2012 01:46 AM | Greg T's Honest Ranting
Hey Brooklyn what’s up? Did you hear that there are two stray pit-bulls in the Midwood area of our borough that are going about and making pita bread out of sweet little dogs named Rosy or Pinky? Scary Indeed! I wonder if this could be called dog homicide. Whoever raised ...
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Interview with Eric Goldstein, Sound Stylist in Movies You Love
January 23rd, 2012 02:02 AM | Film Industry
Brooklyn Voice Team spoke with Eric Goldstein a New Yorker at heart, a sound specialist/ (he called himself the sound plumber, the sound mixer) currently living in Portland, Oregon, while he is doing sound(booming) on 2nd unit of Grimm, an NBC show. We poked his brain to hear about how it ...
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BOHEMIAN’S ODE by Stephen Varesevac Cobets
January 24th, 2012 02:10 AM | BOHEMIAN'S ODE
Stephen Varesevac Cobets is a poet from Croatia. He lives in Split, Croatia. His published work in Croatia include the poetry collection "An Opened Heart" in 2002, "The Sleepy Way" in 2005, and poetry collection, "Love" in 2006.
*BOHEMIAN'S ODE*
by
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Happy Chinese New Year
January 27th, 2012 07:17 AM | Uncategorized
Happy Chinese New Year 2012 from the Brooklyn Voice Team.
Chinese New Year Ash BV
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The Chronicles of the Editor’s Wandering Mind – Asheka Troberg
January 29th, 2012 05:47 PM | The Chronicles of the Editor's Wandering Mind
Few days ago I came across a quote, an extraction from Seth Kushner and Anthony LaSala’s book The Brooklyntes in which they talked about Brooklynites as, “A complex and quixotic urban animal found ranging across southwest New York, the Brooklynite has obtained a sort of mythological status, representing the “you tawkin’ to ...
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This Place Was A Battlefield by Nicolle Elizabeth
January 31st, 2012 04:35 AM | Fiction
I don’t know my ghosts but I know everybody else’s. My ghosts are around and I try to tell them hello and thank them and that I miss them and I end up remembering the things I can’t forget and so I think about the other ghosts other people look ...
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UNTIL HE CAME by Elaine Rosenberg Miller
February 1st, 2012 03:07 AM | Uncategorized
UNTIL HE CAME
by Elaine Rosenberg Miller
Until he came, it was a world divided
And walls shot up.
Rising out of the ground like tombstones.
Askew, errant, graying, ...
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Tarred and Feathered: An Urban Fable by Mark Blickley
February 5th, 2012 12:28 AM | Illustration by Asheka Troberg
On an ugly street in a good city there was a vacant lot. Lots that have no buildings on them are called vacant, but if you counted all the trash and broken glass scattered across this lot, vacant would seem to be the wrong word.
Underneath all this glass and ...
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THE LAST NEW YORK STORY by Steve Bluestein
February 5th, 2012 03:27 PM | Essay
I was working at Alexander's Department store in the late 60's. I was hired for the men's department, actually, the Tomorrow Shop. I didn't realize it then but The Tomorrow Shop was where the good-looking, young, hip people were put to give the store a trendier look. I didn't ...
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CONCERT FOR THE DEAD by Dawn Pisturino
February 10th, 2012 08:35 PM | Dawn Pisturino
Ariel knelt before the marble niche holding the remains of her dead older brother and placed a bouquet of roses in the stone vase. Six months had passed since the horrible night a drunk driver had taken Jonathan’s life. She would never forget.
“Coach Willis still talks about you, Jonathan,” Ariel ...
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Lion, Bird & Man by Frantz Clervil
February 18th, 2012 02:37 PM | Frantz Clervil
Once the king of the jungle, Lion ruled the grounds. Everything that grew from the soil belonged to the mighty Lion. The Earth was young then, deeply rooted.
One night Lion sees the moon's reflection in river. Unable to reach the moon the Lion vowed to get it. "If my legs ...
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The Chronicles of the Editor’s Wandering Mind (2/21/2012) – Asheka Troberg
February 21st, 2012 02:44 AM | Asheka Troberg
I just experienced this lengthy and nagging writer’s block. My usual tricks did not work. Everything failed to work as a catalyst. Nothing was able to stimulate the writing mind. Finally I kept staring at the plum red pomegranate and the black butt steak knife resting on this beige colored ...
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Khichuri- a soul food for a rainy day or any day! – Fariyah N Chowdhury (Premaa)
February 22nd, 2012 01:56 AM | Fariyah N Chowdhury (Premaa)
Khichuri (a rice and lentil dish) is a popular and loved dish in the South ...
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THE MAN UPSTAIRS IS RAY SOMETIMES by Bryan Conley
February 24th, 2012 05:00 AM | Bryan Conley
They tell you to write every day. The writers tell you that. I don’t tell myself anything except to listen. I hear you loud and clear God. There aren’t many secrets kept with me and the man upstairs and to term it so is a bit high and mighty I’d ...
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Money Maps by Nicolle Elizabeth
February 28th, 2012 04:14 AM | Illustration by Asheka Troberg
1.
We’re sitting at the diner and before then we were walking at night. The
sidewalks in Greenpoint are different than they are in the City and things
feel slower here, foggier here, sleepier here, sadder there, in the streets
at night. Calgary is drinking a rootbeer and fighting with Winter about
what we just ...
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Bodega Blues – by Edaurdo Jones
March 18th, 2012 03:34 PM | Edaurdo Jones
Bodega Blues
By: Edaurdo Jones
I’d sit here and try to hammer something prophetic out.
Words that would split seas, and move continents.
But they have escaped me…
My fingers lost the rhythm
Like an arthritic blues man
I just can’t hold
The chords
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An Interview With the Wreckers of the Civilization (Psychic TV) – (Interviewed by Eric Goldstein and Asheka Troberg)
March 25th, 2012 08:30 PM | (Co) Edited by Asheka Troberg
I was naturally thrilled when I got the opportunity to interview the Psychic TV, a world famous music group famous for their psychedelic, punk, experimental music. I looked them up on the internet and found a wealth of information. Their 2012 calendar seemed to be quite hectically scheduled for shows ...
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Little Boy Johnny Lives in Brooklyn!!
March 28th, 2012 03:04 AM | Asheka Troberg
Little Boy Johnny is going to school in Brooklyn. Johnny's Nanny teaches him to speak with out Brooklyn Accent.
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What To Do About Arthur? – by Ronnie Ray Jenkins
March 29th, 2012 12:09 AM | Fiction
What To Do About Arthur?
It was a quiet tree lined street in an older part of a neighborhood just outside of the city. The houses for the most part were modest, and owned by upper middle class folks who commuted to the city to work in high-rise office buildings. On ...
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WALKING INTO THE PAST by Jeffrey Dane
March 31st, 2012 08:40 PM | Illustration by Asheka Troberg
WALKING INTO THE PAST
by Jeffrey Dane
© Jeffrey Dane
The existence and reputation of historic dwellings fostered the creation of an historical petri dish in which the culture of The Early American Home grew and flourished.
Those lucky enough to see the inside of an old Dutch house today may be pilgrims as ...
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Wild Geese – by Ernest Slyman
April 7th, 2012 08:21 PM | poem
Wild Geese
by Ernest Slyman
Watching them pass overhead,
That V-shaped fleet,
I felt blue sky
Beneath my feet.
I felt close company
With the winds that swirled
In perfect circles
Around the world.
I knew the best places
To fish and swim.
I knew the woods,
Every leaf and limb.
Then I awakened
With a sudden shock --
I found myself at the head
Of the ...
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Harlem made a standing ovation to the band from Okinawa, Japan! – Review by Kyoko Uchiki
April 11th, 2012 12:44 AM | Community Event (Report sent to the BV)
*The Ryukyu Chimdon Band *from Okinawa, Japan performed on April 8, Easter
Sunday at Bethel Gospel Assembly in Harlem, NY. *The* *Ryukyu Chimdon Band *was
founded in April, 2003 with eight musicians and dancers. The band debuted
as major recording act in Japan. They are familiar to Japanese audiences
because of their many appearances ...
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A Brooklynite’s Letter from Bangalore, India – Stanley Pacion
April 19th, 2012 03:15 AM | Brooklyn
A Brooklynite's Letter from Bangalore, India
Today I wrote to a friend, who is a professor and a Rabbi, and he has
settled in Brooklyn for a while now.. I told him about some of my
observations. Life is very different here in Bangalore, South India, from
the life I have had in Brooklyn. ...
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Norfolk Botanical Garden Eagles by Jaime Hall
April 19th, 2012 03:58 AM | Jaime Hall
Norfolk Botanical Garden Eagles by Jaime Hall
Norfolk Botanical Gardens is home to a very popular eagle’s nest. Cams were installed in the nest to provide education to people all over the world. Next to the Botanical Gardens is the Norfolk International Airport. The airport shares ...
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Daily game May 17 : Lab of the Dead
May 17th, 2012 09:14 AM | Brooklyn
Shadowbox.init({modal:true});PlayFind out how to control the zombies and the cause of the epidemic by experimenting on zombies.
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Daily game May 10 : Pirates of the Undead Sea
May 10th, 2012 09:15 AM | Brooklyn
Shadowbox.init({modal:true});PlayGet rid of your boredom and find an adventure underseas.
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Daily game May 03 : Tumble Fruit
May 3rd, 2012 09:27 AM | Brooklyn
Shadowbox.init({modal:true});PlayFeed the animals and score as many points as you can.
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Daily game Apr 26 : Kit and the Octopod
April 26th, 2012 09:14 AM | Brooklyn
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Daily game Apr 19 : Necropolis Defence
April 19th, 2012 09:21 AM | Brooklyn
Shadowbox.init({modal:true});PlayDefend the Necropolis from the Paladin army.
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