The Fourth Annual Spring Craft Market, better known as the Gowanus County Fair, will be held at the Brooklyn Lyceum on Saturday and Sunday, May 5th and 6th from 11am to 6pm. The fair is always a great place to explore the special culture of Brooklyn wi... »
There are a lot of causes out there worth fighting for, and there is certainly no shortage of on-line petitions for or against many valuable ideas and policies. But let’s get real for a minute; most of these issues are really someone else’s problems, a... »
We are all familiar (perhaps a bit too familiar) with lip dubs and flash mobs, where regular people, and sometimes not such regular people, are willing to make fools of themselves promoting some cause, product or business while pretending to either sin... »
More than 1,600 members of the Park Slope Food Co-op gathered together at Brooklyn Tech High School on Tuesday to submit their paper ballots on the issue of whether or not the 39-year-old food store should hold a membership-wide referendum to join the ... »
This may not be for everyone; actually, it’s probably not for most of us. But for those uninhibited men who enjoy yoga – Michael Gates’ class might just be the ticket. Every Tuesday night, Gates teachers naked yoga to a group of men in a secret locat... »
From March 1st through June 30 the Brooklyn Public Library is holding their fourth annual fundraising drive. The goal is to raise $500,000 for brand new books, DVDs and even eBooks for all of Brooklyn’s 60 branches. Linda E. Johnson, President and CEO ... »
We all know that Brooklyn is a special place, and the Celebrate Brooklyn! program in June is just one of the many examples of how unique our area is. Celebrate Brooklyn! is one of the longest running outdoor performing arts festivals in New York. It ... »
The New York Public Library is trying to compete with Barnes & Noble and Starbucks in a brilliant move of creativity. They are launching a one year pilot program to implement two food-and-drink locations inside their historic building. Starting this w... »
As Andrea Peyser, writer for the New York Post puts it, there is “yet another reason to avoid the People’s Republic of Park Slope: Members of the vaunted Park Slope Food Coop, where phony hipsters and lazy celebrities hire servants to work their monthl... »
Do we really need “babyccinos” in our lives? Apparently, our neighborhood coffee houses think that we do. Recently, these Brooklyn establishments, from Café Regular on Berkely Place in Park Slope to Noella on Seventh Avenue, are starting to lure the ... »
Real estate throughout New York has been slowly but surely climbing back up. Environmentally friendly, energy efficient technologies are also on the rise, with many new projects looking to integrate such benefits into their plans. According to Warren L... »
This past weekend saw the first gun buy-back program of the year at the Bedford Central Presbyterian Church in Crown Heights. 108 weapons were relinquished to the New York Police Department, including 61 revolvers, 29 semi-automatics, 2 shotguns, 3 rif... »
A new litter of Squaredy Cats has recently been created, with another due on shelves in springtime, too. Created by Park Slope designers Kurt Marquart and Elaine de la Mata, the first 8 cat toys were introduced to Toys R Us and similar stores last seas... »
Good news for the New Year for residents of Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Park Slope and other Brooklyn neighborhoods: The Full Plate Farm Collective, a group of farms that is growing produce for a shared Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) ... »
Many Brooklyn residents are about to be bored to death again. That’s because the HBO show called “Bored to Death” was just cancelled after three seasons. With the news heavy in the air, the show’s creator, Jonathan Ames, pledged to buy any fan a drink ... »
