 After a short summer hiatus, Adult Education is back and this time the topic is War.
We have lectures from two journalists who have written books about very different horrors from very different wars, an autodidact who has written about the use of music as propaganda in war and ... I am talking about food truck turf wars.
Here is the lineup:
JIM FREDERICK: Anatomy of a Breakdown: The Ordinary Men of 1st Platoon and Their Extraordinary Downfall
Frederick tells the story of 1st Platoon, a case of intrigue, rape, murder, toxic leadership and, occasionally, dumb luck that culminated in catastrophe.
KEN FREEDMAN: Seven Inches of Propaganda
WFMU's Ken Freedman gives an overview of American propaganda's hit records throughout the ages.
BRENDAN KOERNER: The Man Who Would Be Ang
World War II's most brutal backwater was the Indo-Burmese jungle, where 15,000 African-American GIs struggled to build a road to nowhere. Brendan I. Koerner will recount how one of those soldiers, Pvt. Herman Perry, wound up going native amidst a tribe of xenophobic headhunters.
CHARLES STAR: Food Trucks And the Fight For the Perfect Parking Space
Charles looks at some recent scuffles among and about food trucks and has found that it can get much more violent than you'd expect.
Speaker biographies after the jump.
The New Yorker and Time Out New York both recommend the show. Who are you to disagree?
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 The geniuses behind last year's Hawthorne Street Block party performances of City of Hamburgers are returning to the neighborhood as part of the Brooklyn Public Library's Make A Splash! Summer Reading Program Celebration. Alphabet Arts will be performing The Giant Squid and the Seagull, a shadow puppet show by Kali Therrien & Mandy Weiss at the Flatbush branch of the Brooklyn Public Library (22 Linden Blvd. btwn. Bedford and Flatbush (gmap)). The play is based on the children's book of the same name by Sgott Mackenzie, which I hope will be available at the show. The Giant Squid and The Seagull show
Wednesday, 8/18 at 2pm
Flatbush Branch, Brooklyn Public Library
***FREE!*** PLG-based nonprofit Alphabet Arts is thrilled to welcome Kali
Therrien and Mandy Weiss to its family of talented artists. Kali and
Mandy will present their shadow puppet show, "The Giant Squid and the
Seagull," as well as some other fun and surprises, at the BPL Flatbush
branch on Wednesday, 8/18 at 2pm to help the kids celebrate their
accomplishments in Brooklyn Public Library's Summer Reading Program.
Raffle prizes from Sesame Workshop; Electric Company; Penguin Young
Readers; and more...
Hand puppetry lessons, a sing-along, and other fun surprises with Kali and Mandy will follow the show. You can let them know you are coming by responding to their Facebook event. The Alphabet Arts crew will be back at the Hawthorne Street block party as well. When we find out what they'll be doing, we'll be sure to let you know.
There are a couple of events at Prospect Park next week that we think are worth checking out. First up, on Wednesday, August 4, there's a free screening of The Olmsted Legacy: America’s Urban Parks at the Celebrate Brooklyn Bandshell (enter the Park at 9th Street and Prospect Park West), at 8 pm. This one hour documentary, which features Prospect Park, examines the formation of America’s first great city parks and the visionary role of Frederick Law Olmsted, the urban planner and landscape architect responsible for so much of the great work done in the late 19th century.
 Then, on Sunday, August 8, Elizabeth Mitchell is performing at 4 pm, also at the bandshell. Mitchell bears the distinction of being the only artist performing children's music whose records I have bought more than once. She plays mostly traditional folk songs, with a few rock and other modern ditties thrown in for good measure, but even the new stuff has a classic, no-frills Smithsonian Folkways kind-of-sound. (You can hear samples of my favorite LP here from Amazon.) We played her records over and over for my son when he was an infant and he responded by calming down even when his tuneless mother sang them.
Residents of 125/135 Hawthorne, a coop apartment building between Bedford and Rogers (closer to Bedford) is holding a tag sale this Saturday. Clothes, books, DVDs, kitchen stuff, and the usual stoop sale fare will be purchaseable from 10 am to 8 pm -- though I'm guessing that whoever voted to have the tag sale run until 8 pm has never done a summer tag sale before (after 2 hours selling knick-knacks in the heat, you want to kill yourself).
Come on down!
If you're on the block of Hawthorne between Flatbush and Bedford, you are cordially invited to the next block association meeting, this Thursday, 7 pm, at the Church of the Evangel (on Bedford, between Hawthorne and Fenimore). We're going to be planning the September block party. Come one, come all!
Want to sound off on the proposed development 329 Lincoln? Here's your chance, courtesy of the Lefferts list: UNIFORM LAND USE REVIEW PROCEDURE PUBLIC HEARING
The Borough President will hold a public hearing in the
President's Court Room, Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn,
Commencing at 5:30 P.M. on Thursday, July 8th. 2010
Calendar Item 2
Providence House 1
329 Lincoln Road
UDAAP Designation – Land Disposition
Special Permit
Community District 9
100325 ZSK – 100326 HAK
 If you have plans for next Monday night, July 12, now is the time to break them -- unless, of course, your plans are to go to the George Clinton/Parliament Funkadelic and Ohio Players show at Wingate Field. If Wingate Field rings a bell, that's where Curtis Mayfield was electrocuted back in the 1980s. It's the venue just east of our fair neighborhood, on Brooklyn Avenue between Rutland and Winthrop ( gmap). The show is free and starts at 7:30, but lines tend to be slow and gruesome, so get there early. You may also want to bring folding chairs. The show is part the of the Martin Luther King Jr. Free Concert Series. Also slated to perform: Salt-N-Pepa, Naughty By Nature, and Slick Rick on August 2, and Aretha Franklin on August 9. Take that, Celebrate Brooklyn!
 Things have just gotten a little crazy in PLG. It took a lot of crazy results for it to happen, but the next game for the United States will be .... Ghana.This is kind of a worst-case scenario for me because I was really hoping to keep rooting for Ghana in the World Cup. Sadly, I can't do that anymore.  As readers of this blog know, Meytex Cafe is Ghana's Brooklyn World Cup headquarters. I was there last weekend for the Ghana - Australia game and even came home with a Ghana jersey. Sadly, I can't bring myself to go to Meytex this weekend to root against Ghana. I'd feel like the turd in the punchbowl - and if a lot people rooting for the US happen to show up at a Ghanaian restaurant to root against Ghana, well, that would be a lot of turds in a small punchbowl. I'm afraid that if PLGers rooting for the US take over Meytex it will ruin the one safe place for Ghanaians to gather and root on their Motherland. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise in the comments section.
Wherever you want to watch, on Saturday at 2:30, The Yanks will be facing the Black Stars to move on
to the Quarterfinals. In other news, the downstairs apartment of the home of this blog is currently occupied by an Argentinian, a Mexican and their ArgeMexAmerican infant daughter. With all three teams on to the next round, the opening round has been a pretty good showing for Hawthorne Street Central. US image via Getty Images/Kevork Djansezian; Ghana image via AP/Gero Breloer
Remember last week how we mentioned the nightmare intersection at Empire/Flatbush/Ocean? It turns out that the Dept. of Transportation (DOT) has already mapped out a solution and will be presenting it at the Community Board 9 public meeting next week!
There are several other interesting items on the agenda as well:
Reps from the DOT will be discussing its proposal for the Nostrand Avenue Select Bus Service
The Department of City Planning will discuss the Car Share Text Amendment, which will allow services like ZipCar to do more business in our neighborhood
NYH20 will do a presentation on to the threat to New York City’s drinking water from companies proposing to use Hydraulic Fracturing/Horizontal
Drilling to drill for gas.
Per usual, the meeting is Tuesday (June 22) at 7 pm at the Middle School 61 Auditorium, 400 Empire Blvd. (between Nostrand and New York Avenues). Contact CB President Pearl Miles in advance if you'd like to speak a few words about any of the agenda items: 718-778-9279 or bk09@cb.nyc.gov. Hope to see you there!
 I hate it when I get scooped by the New York Times.
I was planning on going to Meytex Cafe (gmap) next Saturday to watch the Ghanaian World Cup team take on Australia in the only Ghanaian restaurant in Brooklyn. I thought I'd have an exclusive but George Vecsey got there first, going yesterday to watch Ghana defeat Serbia 1-0. I'm still going next Saturday to cheer on the Black Stars as they take on the horribly named Socceroos. The game kicks off at 10AM and I can't wait. Image via The New York Times.
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