Travel & Visitors Guide - May 19, 2006
Quiet Edison Street once housed bars, brothels
If you could step back in time 100 years, you might be surprised to find that River Street -- as Edison Street was then called -- was lined with taverns, music halls, hotels and, believe it or not, brothels.
Tags: Edison Street, River Street, Water Street, downtown, bars, tavern, Kitty Williams, Zabel, Seidel, Socialist, Janssen, prostitution, brother, Miss Kitty, Gurda, red light, Mayor Rose

Movies - Aug. 18, 2001
Fratricidal "Brother" soaks screen in blood
It's a masterpiece of pacing and star Beat Takeshi is a powerful on-screen presence, but this Japanese crime flick will have you averting your eyes every few minutes.
Tags: Beat Takeshi, Brother, Takeshi Kitano