Press Coverage

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•   "How New York City Is Rediscovering Its Maritime Spirit," Smithsonian, interview with the Club's founder, May 2017
•   "Regilding the Gilded Age in New York," New York Times, February 27, 2015 (online) and March 1, 2015 (print)
•   "This Victorian Era Martial Art Is Making A Comeback," Fitness Cult Chronicles, June 9, 2014
•   "This Is New York: Rachel Klingberg on Conquering Timidity," The Epoch Times, profile of the Club's founder, January 31, 2014 (print) and February 1 (online)
•   "Reviving the Mixed Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes," Black Belt Magazine, October/November 2013, written by Club member Elizabeth Crowens and featuring the Club's chief instructor Mark P. Donnelly
•   "Reviving Bartitsu, the Way English Gentlemen Fought," Epoch Times, September 5, 2013 (online) and September 9 (print)
•   "How a Gentleman Defends Himself in the Manner of Sherlock Holmes," Wall Street Journal cover story and video report, May 24, 2013 (scan of printed article)
•   "Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes," video report and article featuring the Club, TIME Entertainment, May 1, 2013
•   "Bartitsu: The Victorian Art of Self-Defense," video report about the Club's lecture and demonstration at the Brooklyn Observatory, April 25, 2013
•    The Travel Channel's Edge of America Episode 10: Edge of New York, broadcast on March 13, 2013
•   Mansome Episode 104: Bartitsu Hat and Cloak, featuring the Club's chief instructor Mark P. Donnelly, January 2013
•   Mansome Episode 99: Bartitsu Umbrella and Cane, featuring the Club's chief instructor Mark P. Donnelly Mark P. Donnelly, December 2012
•   "Bartitsu Workshop: Learn to Fight Like Sherlock Holmes!" (Critic's Pick), Time Out New York, November 14, 2012
•   "Defend Yourself Like a Sir: Bartitsu, an Adaptable Martial Art for the Modern Gentleman", The New York Observer, August 9, 2012
•   "Greater Astoria to host activities celebrating the 1800s", Queens Times Ledger, April 19, 2012
•   "A 19th Century State of Mind", public radio interview on WFUV, March 31, 2012 (syndicated on Thirteen.org, April 2, 2012)
•   "Bartitsu Workshop: Learn to Fight Like Sherlock Holmes!" (Critic's Pick), Time Out New York, March 7, 2012
•   "Spelling counts in Sherlock Holmes bartitsu mystery," USAToday.com, December 16, 2011
•   "Bartitsu Workshop" Chelsea Now, December 14-21, 2011 (syndicated in The Villager, December 14-21, 2011)
•   "Nice moves, Sherlock! Victorian defense secrets revealed to the cell phone generation," Downtown Express, July 20-26, 2011 (syndicated in The Villager, July 14-20, 2011 and in The East Villager & Lower East Sider, July 14-20, 2011)
•   Featured on the cover of Downtown Express, The Villager, and The East Villager & Lower East Sider
•   "Learn How to Fight like Sherlock Holmes at Antagonistics!" Tor.com, July 14, 2011
•   "Bartitsu: More Fashionable than Fisticuffs," Tor.com, July 25, 2011
•   "Sherlock Holmes' 'Lost' Martial Art Makes NYC Premiere," DNAInfo.com, July 21, 2011
•   "Bartitsu Seminars in NYC," ArtOfManliness.com, July 21, 2011
•   "Bartitsu: The Victorian Art of Self Defense," (Critic's Pick), Time Out New York, July 20, 2011
•   "It's elementary! Learn to fight the Sherlock Holmes way," (Voice Choices), Village Voice, July 20, 2011
•   "Average Intelligence Goes Steampunk," podcast interview with Club founder Rachel Klingberg, April 27, 2011