When Robert Semple, host of The Bodega Monthly Reading Series at Bushwick’s The Bodega wine bar, talks about his performers or discusses how he puts the show together each month, you might mistake him for a smooth talking agent raving about the next big thing
Have you ever noticed how when you try to move past something, that the more you tell yourself to “drop it” and “let it go,” the louder and more demanding that very thing becomes? We try to shut out, chop off and not acknowledge something, but the pushing away actually makes that very thing scream for your attention like a crying baby
In the days since Sandy severed all subway service between Brooklyn and Manhattan, many residents on either side of the East River have had to find alternate routes to get to work, or to do really anything at all