The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a shipyard and industrial complex in northwest
Brooklyn in New York City, United States. The Navy Yard is located on the
East River in
Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend of the river across from
Corlears Hook in
Manhattan. It is bounded by Navy Street to the west,
Flushing Avenue to the south, Kent Avenue to the east, and the East River on the north. The site is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. This photograph shows Brooklyn Navy Yard seen from the air in 1918.Photograph credit: unknown; restored by
Adam Cuerden
Still Reigning is a live performance
DVD by the
thrash metal band
Slayer, released in 2004 through
American Recordings. Filmed at the
Augusta Civic Center on July 11, 2004, the performance showcases Reign in Blood (1986), Slayer's third studio album and its first to enter the
Billboard 200. The album was played in its entirety with the four original band members on a set resembling their 1986 Reign in Pain Tour. Still Reigning was voted "best live DVD" by the readers of Revolver magazine, and received
gold certification in 2005. In the finale, the band is covered in stage blood while performing the song "
Raining Blood", leading to a demanding
audio mixing process plagued by production and technical difficulties. The DVD's producer
Kevin Shirley spent hours replacing
cymbal and drum hits one-by-one. Later, Shirley publicly aired his financial disagreements with the band and criticized the quality of the recording. (Full article...)
... that South Korean actress Na O-mi's stage name was inspired by the song "
I Dream of Naomi"?
... that while reviewers generally praised The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, one reviewer complained that
the author was "so nice about his colleagues that it makes you long for a juicy academic vendetta"?
