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Designs of the times — a recession special at Brooklyn Designs

By Mike McLaughlin

Shopping: Brooklyn Designs, the exhibition of the borough’s finest home furnishing makers, rears its sleek, contemporary head again next week. Even if you’re feeling the pinch of the recession, you don’t have to decorate your entire apartment only with Ikea products (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Comment.

Marty loves Bloomy’s Coney rezoney

By Mike McLaughlin

Coney Island: Borough President Markowitz has come out strongly in favor of Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial plan for redeveloping Coney Island with new amusements and housing. Comments (5).

Meet the Men of the Swine Flu Pandemic!

By Evan Gardner

Our photographer caught up with some hunky men and their swine flu fashions. With video … Comment.

Kissed off! Jacques Torres will fight Hershey’s

By Ben Muessig

DUMBO: Brooklyn’s most-famous chocolatier won’t kiss and make up. With video … Comments (1).

Superfund showdown on the Gowanus

By Mike McLaughlin and Emilia Brock

Cleaning the Gowanus: A proposal for a federally overseen clean-up of the Gowanus Canal sounds like something that everyone can get behind, but it’s actually pitting neighbor against neighbor over facts and hearsay that are as murky as the waterway itself. Comments (3).

We’re sorry, Greenpoint! City finally apologizes for park screw-up

By Ben Muessig

Greenpoint: The city apologized to Greenpoint — through The Brooklyn Paper — saying bureaucrats were to blame for delaying the opening of a waterfront park for nearly two years. Comments (2).

Mother’s Day is coming up — look, you need a gift

By Aisha Gawad

Shopping: Here’s our annual Mother’s Day gift guide! Comments (1).

Swine flu? What’s the big deal?

By Cristian Fleming

Cartoon: Our cartoonist, Cristian Fleming, weighs in on the swine flu … among other things. Comments (1).

The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: This week, we got a lot of letters about the proposal to designate the Gowanus Canal as a federal Superfund site. Comments (3).

This guy was HOT!

By Bess Adler

But, alas, temps are on the decline again. Comments (2).

This is one ‘Crazy’ tour of South Brooklyn’s mob past

By Ben Muessig

Event: Red Hook is going to the mattresses — and we’re not talking about Ikea. Comments (4).

Studying is fun at this wine ‘university’

By Ben Muessig

Dining: Becoming a wine snob has never been so easy, thanks to new “courses” at the Park Slope restaurant and wine bar Bussaco. Comment.

Jury of ‘Pier’

By Meredith Deliso

Art: Dawn Robyn Petrlik could have been excused for going negative with the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition’s spring art show, but she went with hope anyway. Comment.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Vonnegut is chewing up garbage on Columbia Street

By Gersh Kuntzman

Columbia St Waterfront: Everyone loves Kurt Vonnegut — readers, critics, worms. Comment.

Brooklyn Flea coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park site

By Mike McLaughlin

The Brooklyn Paper / Bess Adler

Bridge ‘Park’: The popular Brooklyn Flea will open a summer home — its third — inside the troubled Brooklyn Bridge Park site starting in June. Comment.

Pew — this stinks! Congregation is homeless in church fight

By Mike McLaughlin

Boerum Hill: Mother of God! A splintering fight for control of a Lutheran church in Boerum Hill has left the dwindling congregation homeless. Comments (9).

Here they are — your Police Blotters

Link: If it’s Wednesday, it’s Police Blotter day on BrooklynPaper.com. Find your neighborhood below or click the link above to get a full list.

Salt pile cover up on Columbia Street

By Mike McLaughlin

Columbia St Waterfront: In this case, the cover up is better than the crime. Comments (1).

Male call: BAM’s ‘Merchant of Venice’ is an all-boy show

By Evan Gardner

Theater: “The Merchant of Venice,” William Shakespeare’s controversial play about love, loss, revenge and Jews is coming to Brooklyn for a two-week run. Comments (1).

Soak and roll: Band has party at the banya

By Ben Muessig

Music: An indie supergroup has found a bizarre, but fitting, venue to unveil its new record — a Russian bathhouse in Kensington. Comment.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

There’s still time to win two Wilco tickets!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Music: You still have some time to enter our giveaway contest to win two tickets to Wilco’s July 13 contest in Coney Island.

Bad vibrations on Ridge street

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper / Michael Short

Bay Ridge: The wheels on Bay Ridge’s B4 bus are going round and round — and 78th Street residents are going crazy. Comments (10).

Blog party! This year’s blogfest is bigger than ever

By Dustin Seplow

Event: Newspapers are dying left and right. Ad revenues are falling like bodies on Oct. 29, 1929. And even the New York Times had to hit up a Mexican industrialist to stay alive. Comments (8).

Smartmom wonders: What is a good mother?

By Louise Crawford

Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom examines what it takes to be a good mother (believe it or not, she is one!). Comment.

Cell no! Ridge board wants to cut the phone cord

By Ben Muessig

Bay Ridge: A Bay Ridge group that has long fought against the proliferation of cellphone towers is calling on the city — and the federal government — to cut the cord on the controversial antennas. Comments (5).

Monday, April 27, 2009

There’s still time to win two Wilco tickets!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Awesome: You still have some time to enter our giveaway contest to win two tickets to Wilco’s July 13 contest in Coney Island.

Cramming for tests, but not for space, at PS 8

By Mike McLaughlin

Brooklyn Heights: Parents were bursting with excitement after the city rolled out its design for a three-story annex to relieve overcrowding in PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights, one of the borough’s most-popular elementary schools. Comment.

FOER! Look out, book fans, Jonathan’s new book is (gasp) non-fiction!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Books: Not so loud, but incredibly close: Jonathan Safran Foer sits down and talks to The Brooklyn Paper. Comments (2).

Ridge freshman corners Hillary on … Sri Lanka?

By Gersh Kuntzman

McMahon on Line 1: The latest installment of our popular feature chronicling new Bay Ridge congressman Mike McMahon’s first year in office takes us inside the House foreign affairs committee. Comments (7).

Ya gotta bee-lieve! Apiary puppet show is a hit at the Brick

By Thurston Dooley III

Dooley Noted: The world’s foremost authority on puppetry, kids music and mime is back with a rave review for “The Colonists” at the Brick Theater. Comment.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Here’s how to win two Wilco tickets!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Awesome: We got ‘em, you want ‘em: two tickets to Wilco’s July 13 show at Coney Island. Click above to find out how to enter our giveaway contest! With video … Comments (2).

It’s no ‘Secret’! Feds will set up shop in Red Hook

By Gary Buiso

The Brooklyn Paper / Michael Short

Red Hook: President Obama is going to park his cars in Red Hook. Comments (4).

Pass the pepper! Columbia Street is too salty

By Mike McLaughlin

Columbia St Waterfront: Billions of tiny salt granules blew from a pile in the Red Hook container port into the residential neighborhood across Columbia Street on Thursday afternoon, coating everything in their path with a fine layer of brine and even penetrating apartments blocks away from the piers. Comments (1).

The weekender! Here’s what you should do on Saturday and Sunday

Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some tips for a great weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Comment.

DUMBO’s ‘Berlin Wall’ is finally down

By Mike McLaughlin

DUMBO: The city has restored a key link between East DUMBO and West DUMBO, uniting the divided neighborhood for the first time in generations. Comments (1).