A real-life event inspired Charles Rice-Gonzalez to write his debut novel, Chulito, a coming-of-age and coming out queer love story set in Hunts Point. “Chulito”, published in October, grew from the memory of a day in the late 1990s, when Rice-Gonzalez sat looking out onto the Grand Concourse from the [...]
Community residents are invited to participate in a public discussion about work and life for artists in NYC, at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance at 841 Barretto St., 2nd floor, in Hunts Point Wednesday, April 27, between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. The discussion is part of the second [...]
Four young men, with their hands curled into fists to guard their faces, prepared to launch a kick. “Aim right, aim true, hit the target” calmly stated Gus Nuñez, who was leading a self-defense class at BAAD, the Bronx Academy for Arts and Dance on Barretto Street on a recent [...]
By Jeanmarie Evelly jmevelly@gmail.com When sculptor Albert Bensusen lost his studio in downtown Manhattan 10 years ago, a friend showed him pictures of a studio he’d just rented. “I said, ‘Wow, that’s beautiful. Where is it?’” the spry 79 year-old Bensusen recalled. To his surprise, the loft—with its high, airy [...]