For Brooklyn’s smaller arts organizations these days, it’s come to don’t do or die. Comment.

Pianist Stewart Goodyear’s New York recital debut this Friday evening at the Baptist Temple Church in Downtown Brooklyn came about thanks to a strange confluence of events. Comment.

The Brooklyn Public Library branches are celebrating black history month with staged performances of two American Place Theatre productions, "Zora" and "Manchild in the Promised Land." Comment.

Letters: My purpose in writing to [theater critic Paulanne Simmons] is twofold. Firstly, I would be remiss as a theatergoer, lover of the arts and just plain person, if I neglected to tell you how helpfully informative and concise your review of "Salome" was ["Bloodlust," GO Brooklyn, Jan. 28, 2002]. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights’ own Henry’s End, that bastion of wild game and fine wine, took center stage this month at the prestigious James Beard House in Manhattan. Comment.

In the 1940s, bandleader Louis Jordan pioneered a new kind of music. A mix of jazz, blues and jive-talking humor, Jordan’s music became wildly popular. Comment.

The former Puritan Iron Foundry, an old, deserted factory at 56 Water St. in DUMBO was recently converted into theater space, with carpeted bleachers for seats and a broken concrete floor for a stage. Blankets and space heaters supply warmth, and the audience literally walks across the stage to get to their seats. Comment.