Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist predicts that Takeru Kobayashi will triumph at Saturday’s hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island. With video … Comments (2).

Nightlife: The hippest, most happening bowling alley ever is about to open. Comment.

The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension: The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension raves about Yinka Shonibare. Comment.

Dining: Just what you want: tapas sandwiches! Comment.

Fitness: It’s a hole in one for Brooklynites this summer! Comment.

Nightlife: On July 15, Gowanus will be Brooklyn’s comedy central. Comment.

Event: Music will fill the air. Kids will fill the rides. Canolis will fill the mouths. And, most important, an 80-foot-tall, three-ton statue will rise above it all. Comment.

Dooley Noted: It’s not the “Greatest Show,” but it’s damn good entertainment. Comments (1).

The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension: Mike McLaughlin takes a contrary view. Comments (6).

The Best Thing We Ate This Week: If the banh mi sandwich is a symbol of French colonialism in Vietnam, then the Polish-style banh mi at Silent H in Williamsburg is an emblem of the gentrification of North Brooklyn. Comment.

Dining: There’s nothing grumpy or obnoxious about this great new coffee bar. Comments (2).

Shopping: Yes, one of Brooklyn’s best record stores is moving out of its home of five years, but Sound Fix owner James Bradley has some good news for his customers, too: Live music performances will return! Comments (1).

Shopping: Robicelli’s Gourmet Market has found the perfect cure for the recession blues: cupcakes. Comment.

Music: Forget the BBQ and drop those hot dogs this Fourth of July — and get ready for a real celebration of indie-pendence. Comment.

Nightlife: Next Tuesday, Boerum Hill becomes “Barroom Hill,” thanks to a guided jaunt that will stop at three popular watering holes, each with its own link to a different historical age. Comments (3).

As we approach Father’s Day, it’s time to ponder the humble barber. Comments (3).

Dining: Our top chef gives us a great Father’s Day recipe. Comment.

Here’s how our team made out. Comments (1).

Dooley Noted: Our kids music, mime and puppetry reviewer checks out another installment of CIRCUSundays at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook. Comments (1).

Smash or Trash: The Smash or Trash team hated the husband-and-wife band, Post Honeymoon. With video … Comment.

Music: Sorry for the late notice, but Freedy Johnston is playing Union Hall tonight. Comments (1).

Music: Borough President Markowitz’s summer concert series lineup is out — and it features some big names…from the past. Comments (2).

Art: Mike Stein’s newspaper photos from the 1980s are worth checking out at the Brooklyn Public Library. Comment.

The Best Thing We Ate This Week: In these troubled times, you need simple pleasures. But the best thing we ate this week — the burger at Building on Bond — proves that simplicity doesn’t means compromise. Comment.

Dining: You know you want it. The only question is, how. Comments (1).

Dining: Everyone has enjoyed the widely lauded burgers at Dumont and Mullane’s, but have you savored Brooklyn’s unsung burgers? Get on the patty wagon with this handy GO Brooklyn guide to the borough’s most underrated burgers. Comments (5).

Music: The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival is back — with bigger names and a second stage. Comments (1).

Theater: Park Slope’s best local theater company is set to steal the spotlight from Manhattan’s annual summer Shakespeare festival this July with “King Lear.” And that’s just the beginning. Comment.

Music: Borough President Markowitz’s summer concert series lineup is out — and it features some big names…from the past. Comments (2).

Event: It’s time to get jiggly with it. Comment.

Dining: The calendar waits until June 21, but in Sunset Park, summer actually begins in late March. Comments (2).

Dining: The Brooklyn Paper joins the New York City Wine and Food Festival to take you — and your burger — to the Burger Bash this fall. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime contest opportunity. No purchase necessary! Comments (1).

It’s summer and the economy stinks. But Brooklyn is the perfect place for a staycation. From outdoor films to Mojito-soaked patios to circuses to parades of half-naked mermaids, you’ll find plenty to do this summer — all in walking or subway distance from your home. Comment.

Books: It doesn’t get much bigger than this in Park Slope: Ira Glass is coming to town! And it’s for a good cause! Comment.

Books: Park Slope may be battling Prospect Heights for the title of the most writer-friendly community in Brookyn, but the entire borough continues to stake its claim to national literary prominence. Comments (1).

Shopping: Park Slope residents will be saying cheese when they visit Bklyn Larder — a new fromagerie that opened on Flatbush Avenue this week. Comment.

Nightlife: The influential Williamsburg music venue Black Betty is closing on a blue note. Comment.

Art: The sixth annual Atlantic Avenue Artwalk this weekend has the same 200 or so artists, the same wide range of studio openings, and plenty of film screenings and live music — but this year, it’s a “recession-friendly event,” thanks to plenty of freebies and discounted menus at restaurants. Comments (1).

Smash or Trash: Our contest to win two free tickets to Wilco’s July 13 show at Coney Island ends on May 31. Enter today! With video … Comments (5).

Shopping: Forget everything you ever heard about the G train, because it is about to become the best subway line in the MTA system. Comments (7).

Dining: He conquered the world of high-end truffles and bon-bons. Then he made us look forward to winter with his hot chocolate. When he started baking, his kitchen quickly created the best chocolate chip cookies and brownies in the city. With video … Comment.

Dining: Spencer Rothschild has brought his Latin beach cuisine to the Brooklyn Public Library. Comments (1).

Nightlife: The influential Williamsburg music venue Black Betty is closing on a blue note. Comments (6).

Nightlife: Bay Ridge’s most famous hardcore band has grown up — but it hasn’t gone soft. Comment.

Dining: For father and son restaurateurs Joseph and Marco Chirico, the apple — or in this case, the olive — doesn’t fall from the tree. Comment.

Theater: A festival of Islamic art at the Brooklyn Academy of Music includes an Arabic take on “Richard III” and a concert by Youssou N’Dour. Comment.

Event: A three-day Middle Eastern food fair is coming to Brooklyn Heights this weekend. Comment.

The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, got a rise out of the partly naked retelling of the Fall of Man. Comments (1).

Dining: With Memorial Day around the corner, you need to get some lobsters in you. Comment.

Dining: Finally, there’s a kick-ass menu to go with the beautiful setting and creative cocktails at one of our favorite DUMBO watering holes, reBar. Comment.

Smash or Trash: On the eve of two weekend shows, Title Tracks gets a rave from The Brooklyn Paper’s “Smash or Trash” team. With video … Comment.

Gowanus: The burgeoning arts Mecca now has a new music and art space: Littlefield. Comment.

Music: Next weekend, there will be four great shows to benefit the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls. Comment.

Nightlife: Fans of Mooney’s can stop crying in their Buds — a new bar has finally filled the gaping hole on the Prospect Heights side of Flatbush Avenue. Comment.

Dining: Our official baker, “Sweet” Melissa Murphy, returns with a classic summer staple: the barbecue sauce. Comment.

Awesome: This Saturday is the “Great Greenpoint BBQrawl,” and five bars will serve complimentary ’cue and discounted draught beer from Brooklyn Brewery. This is cool. Comment.

Dining: Gino Cammarata has closed the best gelato joint in the borough to open a small plates restaurant (yes, there’ll be ice cream). Comments (1).

Rhythm & News: Join the Bard of Bushwick for his first installment of “Rhythm and News.” With video … Comments (1).

Music: The best folk festival in the city just got one bold-faced name better. Comment.

Music: Brooklyn music lovers will no longer have to trek to Austin — or Manhattan — to check out a premiere indie-rock festival. Comments (2).

The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, takes a shot across the bow of the Heights Players’ “Show Boat.” Comments (1).

Yes, Ringling Brothers is coming to Coney Island — and that’s great for fans of elephants and tigers and bears (oh my)! But this borough is positively busting with smaller troupes that are also worth your time and money. Comments (1).

Books: Meet Colm Toibin, author of “Brooklyn,” his sixth book. Comment.

Smash or Trash: The Smash or Trash team loves this Williamsburg-based band. With video … Comment.

Awesome: As if you needed another reason to celebrate Brooklyn, you just got a big one: the schedule for the annual “Celebrate Brooklyn” summer music, dance, film and arts festival has something for everyone. Comment.

The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, loves the Gallery Players’ production of “The Who’s Tommy.” Comments (2).

Music: The last time a concert was billed as “three days of peace, love and music,” an upstate New York farm bloomed into the epicenter of rock music. Comments (2).

Theater: Our reviewer raves about “The Nosemaker’s Apprentice” at the Brick Theater. Comment.

Books: Ben Greenman, an editor at the New Yorker, set out to write a biography of Sly Stone and ended up with a serious novel about an entirely made up funk rock legend. Comment.

Smash or Trash: Electronica legend Dan Deacon sent us his new CD and asked The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team to do what it does best in reviewing the hit “Getting Old.” With video … Comments (1).

Art: The second annual neighborhood-wide photo event is coming next weekend. Comments (1).

Dining: Drinking may not always be good for you, but for the next five weeks at least, it will be good for other people. Comment.

Event: Two big Nordic events are coming soon to one big (formerly Nordic) neighborhood. Comments (9).

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).

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

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.

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

Dining: Our top chef gives us a great Mother’s Day recipe. Comments (1).

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.

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).

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 (5).

Smash or Trash: The Smash or Trash team sees this Virginia band as no better than a GM car. With video … Comments (1).

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

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

Event: It’s an Ira vs. Philip smackdown at St. Anne’s Warehouse (relax, they’re cousins!). Comment.

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

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.

Awesome: This is the biggest news since Dylan! Wilco. Keyspan Park. July 13. Free tickets from The Brooklyn Paper. Comments (1).

Awesome: Another day, another giant piece of concert news: They Might Be Giants revealed on Tuesday that the band will be doing a “free family concert” in Prospect Park on July 11. Comment.

Awesome: Merce Cunningham is honored — and all the stars drink, dance and hang at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Thursday night. Comment.

Nightlife: Ken Crichlow remembers when the drug of choice on Washington Avenue was crack cocaine, not microbrews served in weird tall beakers with wooden stands. Comments (2).

Dining: Set your calendars — Sunday, May 3 — for a great pork-filled day. Comments (2).

Event: A newly opened Greenpoint beer seller will celebrate May Day (a day late, but who’s counting?) with a petting zoo — but the only animals on display will be of the human variety. Comments (1).

Event: Pro wrestlers are getting ready to piledrive Fort Greene in a raucous May 1 donnybrook. Comment.

Event: The annual cherry blossom festival is back next weekend. Comments (2).

Smash or Trash: They wanted our review before their show next Sunday — but then cancelled the show. Too bad, because the Smash or Trash team actually liked their song. With video … Comments (1).

Books: Suzanne Guillette collected stories of sadness — and found a way out of her own. Comment.

Art: You know him as Hepcat, the brooding, sometimes ornery, sometimes unemployed, husband behind the award-winning Smartmom, but Hugh Crawford is also the Ansel Adams of Brooklyn. Comments (3).

Art: The borough’s most sensational anti-advertising activist has sold out! Comments (2).

Shopping: Brooklyn has become flea-ridden — and shoppers have got the itch. Comments (5).

Nightlife: The legendary bar impresario who turned a subway sub-basement into the hottest watering post in the city has finally opened a Brooklyn tavern. Comment.

Theater: Meet Park Slope newest residents: a cutting-edge theater troupe that will call the neighborhood home. Comments (1).

Shopping: If one man’s trash is really another man’s treasure, then Brooklyn’s flea markets are the best places to find your fortune. In our search, we found some cool items (an Egyptian-styled top from the 1930s, $275 at Artists and Fleas in Williamsburg), nifty decorations (how about some toy ships in toy bottles — $1 each at the PS 321 flea market?), and the downright weird (like a pair of handball gloves, still in their package, $5 at PS 321!). Here are a few treasures. Comment.

Smash or Trash: The Suckers wanted The Brooklyn Paper’s “Smash or Trash” team to review their new single before their April 23 show at Glasslands. We’re happy to oblige, though we doubt the band will agree with our conclusions. With video … Comments (2).

Art: The theme of the Micro Museum’s newest exhibit, “DNA ’r Us,” is genes. But don’t come expecting to learn about biology when the show opens on April 25. Comment.

Music: Leave it to head Talking Head David Byrne to get people talking. Comment.

Coney Island had its allegedly grand opening on Sunday, but the signs of desolation were everywhere — from the vacant former Astroland site to the empty lots near Keyspan Park. It’s obvious that the area, which has always been a place of freaks, geeks, wonders of human curiosity, spills, chills, thrills and vaudeville, is not going to change. But its scale has. Comments (7).

Dining: There’s a new pizza kid on the block in DUMBO a mere 100 yards from legendary pizza giant Grimaldi’s — but Ignazio’s owner Louis Termini (pictured) maintains that there’s room for both. Comments (5).

Breaking Chews: The Busy Chef is about to become the burger chef. Comments (5).

The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, loves the Heights Players’ “Shakespeare in Hollywood.” Comment.

Art: Your racy cellphone photos, sultry mobile videos, and salacious text messages aren’t just 21st-century smut — they’re also high art. Comment.

Books: Two decades of romantic ups and downs left author Giulia Melucci with a broken heart — but never an empty stomach. Comments (2).

Smash or Trash: The heavy metal band, The Inevitable Backlash, asked The Brooklyn Paper’s “Smash or Trash” team to review its song “My Two Brookes” in advance of the band’s April 26 show at Cameo in Williamsburg. Sorry, but when your name is The Inevitable Backlash, our Smash or Trash team had a pretty easy time helping you live up to it. With video … Comment.

Spa: It’s finally time to clean up the dirty business of looking beautiful. Comment.

Event: Thousands of legs are about to give Coney Island a shot in the arm. Comment.

Downtown: The Metrotech complex in Downtown Brooklyn is a bit soulless and quiet for a place where thousands of people work and study. But the good news is that just a few steps in any direction from the verdant idyll at the heart of the center is a hustle and bustle worthy of an urban downtown. Comments (2).

Coney Island: You partied for Coney Island on Tuesday, so now it’s time to shake your Coney-maker once more. Comment.

Smash or Trash: The New Haven techno band, Eula, asked The Brooklyn Paper’s “Smash or Trash” team to review one of its songs in advance of the show’s April 4 show at Death by Audio. The results were mixed: Gersh hated it, but Ben and Mike loved the song. Watch all the action as Gersh over-rules the team! With video … Comments (2).

Music: Now is the time to celebrate the trombone! Comment.

Music: The Wrens may be seen as a Jersey band, but the lead man is from Brooklyn, baby! The group plays the Bell House on April 10. Comment.

Books: Former Park Slope Civic Council President and local writer Lydia Denworth is back with a new book. Comment.

Smash or Trash: Sarah Lentz asks the “Smash or Trash” team to review her song. How did it turn out? Not so well! With video … Comments (1).

Music: The hills of Brooklyn will be alive with the sound of music — jazz music — throughout April. Comment.

Ping Pong has bounced back. Comments (1).

DUMBO: The Brooklyn Paper has caught March Madness — and given the resurgence of Ping Pong, there was only one cure: An NCAA-style, bracket-enabled, three-round grudge match. Comment.

Event: Space nerds prepare for Brooklyn’s night of a hundred billion stars. Comment.

Books: Everyone wants to get to second base with Alyssa Milano, which makes sense because the sexy star loves baseball, too. She’ll be reading from her new baseball book next week in Bay Ridge. Comments (3).

Checkin’ in with: “The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension” sits down with the new face of Park Slope’s legendary off- off-Broadway troupe. Comment.

Event: One of the few reminders of the bygone days of Norwegian hegemony in Bay Ridge — the annual Miss Norway of Greater New York pageant — returns on April 4. Comment.

The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, slams “Bus Stop” at the Gallery Players. Comments (2).

Dining: Chocolatier Jacques Torres has again made mouths water by spilling the beans on his latest treat: DUMBO’s Willy Wonka is expanding into ice cream. Comment.

Dining: Our top chef offers her contribution to The Brooklyn Paper’s spring fever coverage. Comment.

Books: For some novelists, the fourth time’s the charm — especially if they win a new prize being offered to fourth novelists by St. Francis College. Comment.

Everyone talks about global warming, but no one seems to do anything about it. In other words, baby it was cold outside for much of the past four months. Comment.

Coney Island: One awesome party next week might not be enough to save Coney Island, but it can’t hurt. Comments (2).

Dance: Whizzing gizmos, flying trapezes, rooftop jumps, and revolving 20-foot floors — all part of STREB dance company’s opening show on March 27. Comment.

Shopping: Buying beer in Greenpoint is about to become a gourmet experience. Comment.

Art: Gustave Caillebotte may be the Rutherford B. Hayes of Impressionist painters. True, his name might not often be mentioned in the same breath as Monet and Renoir, but without this canvas jockey, the whole artistic movement might never have gotten off the lily pad. Comment.

Breaking Chews: The folks who gave Greenpoint the best coffee in the city are coming to the South Slope, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comments (2).

As Caroline Bell serves shot after shot of espresso in her beloved Greenpoint coffee shop Cafe Grumpy, she often wonders one thing: if she knew then what she knows now, would she have given up her restaurant job to open her own cafe? Comment.

Smash or Trash: Sarah Lee Guthrie — Arlo’s little girl — invited The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team to “review” her latest hit single, “Dr. King,” in advance of her performance at Jalopy on Thursday, March 12. Good news for her — it’s a smash! With video … Comment.

Dining: Gentlemen, start your appetites. Comment.

Books: There’s a new chapter in the never-ending war between graffiti writers and the police — a book penned by a retired cop has sparked outrage in the scribbling community. Comments (1).

Theater: You may have just lost your job — but the last thing you want to sacrifice is your opera tickets. So, thankfully, the Brooklyn Repertory Opera is offering the newly jobless a $5 ticket to “Orpheus and Eurydice.” Comments (5).

Theater: “The Producers” was one of the most-lauded shows in Broadway history. Now, it’ll be the most-expensive community theater production ever in Brooklyn. Comments (2).

Living the dream isn’t easy. Opening a coffeeshop, bar or restaurant can be stressful, tedious, and time-consuming — not to mention costly. But if you’re going to persist in opening your own place, consider these pointers from Brooklyn entrepreneurs who have already trod the tumultuous path. Comment.

Event: The Secret Science Club is finally ready for prime time. Comments (1).

Art: Artist Sun Kwak is covering an entire gallery with black masking tape. No, it’s cool. Really cool. Comments (1).

Music: It’s time to take opera out of stuffy concert halls and theaters and get it where it really belongs — in bars. Comments (1).

Theater: Rent” just got redacted. Comments (2).

Dining: Politicians and pundits inside the Beltway are ranting and raving about all the “pork” in the stimulus package, but as far as we’re concerned, the more pork the better. Comment.

Dining: Join us as we down chitlins — on video! — as part of our exclusive coverage of pork around the borough. With video … Comments (1).

Smash or Trash: The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team is back — this time “reviewing” Brooklyn-based quartet Cholo and the band’s new song, Just Aks. This one is a classic. With video … Comment.

Dining: Our top chef offers her contribution to The Brooklyn Paper’s all-pig coverage. Comment.

Dining: The problem with your favorite restaurant is that it excels only at one meal a day. But Ortine, which just opened on Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights, serves all three meals every day, and does it exceptionally well. Comments (1).

Dining: Small plates just got a lot bigger, thanks to the transformation of the tapas bar Zipi Zape into Barberry — a Mediterranean eatery. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: The massive Atlantic Yards development project inspires rage in some and hope in others — but in Guy Ambrosino, it inspires a twisted art installment. Comment.

Smash or Trash: A band makes the dangerous decision to be reviewed by our “Smash or Trash” team. How did it turn out? Click above! With video … Comment.

Kensington: The Oscars are over, but the excitement of the “Slumdog Millionaire” sweep lives on. But you don’t have to go Mumbai — or even Jackson Heights — to satisfy your South Asian obsession. Just head to Coney Island Avenue in Ditmas Park for a close encounter with the subcontinent. Comments (1).

Theater: Our critic raves about “The Winter’s Tale” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Comment.

Music: Catch Kimya Dawson, of “Juno” soundtrack fame, at Club Europa on March 10. Comments (3).

Dining: Curly-topped “Top Chef” star Mark Simmons is now cooking at Get Fresh Table and Market on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Comment.

Dining: Park Slopers are going to love this: A new sandwich shop on Third Avenue offers lasagna on a bun, while Hanco’s, the beloved Vietnamese sandwich joint, has opened on Seventh Avenue. Comments (1).

Shopping: It’s almost the days of wine and roses in Red Hook. Comments (2).

Event: Coming off the (high) heels of former Miss Brooklyn Leigh-Taylor Smith’s near triumph at the Miss America pageant last month, organizers of the Miss Brooklyn contest this Sunday believe that they’ve created an enduring beauty queen franchise. Comments (1).

Music: The woman behind the international 1996 smash hit, “I Love You Always Forever,” will play at Southpaw in Park Slope on Sunday, Feb. 22. Comment.

Fort Greene: The Golden Gloves tournament is coming to Fort Greene’s Masonic Temple. Comment.

Music: Finally, a tribute to “Yacht Rock”! Comments (1).

Music: Fresh from last year’s new album, “Walk It Off,” the Minneapolis-based quartet Tapes ’n Tapes will slam into Brooklyn with its hard-driving drum-backed twangy indie rock sound for a must-see concert at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Thursday, Feb. 26. Comments (2).

The economy is in shambles and you need all the help you can get. But the New York Times doesn’t care about real Brooklynites like you, instead devoting endless column inches to the trials of Manhattanites who claim their lives will be turned upside down if their salaries are capped at $500,000. Comments (1).

Our baking columnist reveals a perfect and pretty easy Valentine’s treat. Comment.

Music: For some, Williamsburg is a post-collegiate playground dotted with discos and drinking establishments. For Conrad Keely — the lead singer in the indie rock band …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead — it’s an inspiration. Comment.

Art: Owning a piece of artistic history was never so dreamy. Comment.

Theater: The night belongs to the freaks and the people who adore them on Friday, Feb. 20, with the return of the Blowhole Theater’s “Winterlude,” a pageant of oddball entertainers and musicians. Comment.

Guys, face it: you’re a bunch of lazy shmucks. Comment.

Shopping: Atlantic Avenue just got a whole lot sweeter — just in time for Valentine’s Day. Comment.

The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension: Our critic raves about “Thoroughly Modern Millie” at the Gallery Players. Comment.

Books: Ben Karlin, a former “Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” writer, will read from his book about bad breakups on Feb. 13 in DUMBO. Comment.

Books: Williamsburg hipster chicks will eat you alive, says this graphic artist in a new collection of comic stories. Comments (1).

Music: It will be remembered as the day the music died: After five years of free music, one year of free stand-up comedy, and lots of noise complaints, Sound Fix, a Williamsburg record store, is closing down its bar and live-music space. Comment.

Waiting in the Wings: Lots of upcoming works on stage, including a raunchy tribute to Neil Diamond, the Jewish Elvis! Comment.

Shopping: Just take those old records off the shelf and make room for new vinyl in your collection, because dozens of vendors are again storming Warsaw on Feb. 15 in what is fast-becoming a major musical event in the borough. Comment.

Shopping: Retailers and restaurateurs on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope are putting their hearts on sale for Valentine’s Day. Comments (1).

Event: This article is too long to win a Shorty Award. Comments (3).

Dining: Park Slope restaurateur Spiro Hiotis named Athena Mediterranean Cuisine after the Greek goddess of wisdom (and, perhaps more important, his daughter) — and it seems that his newly opened eatery has been blessed with some divine intelligence. Comments (3).

Shopping: Everyone meet Bushwick: Williamsburg’s cooler sister who doesn’t wear as much make-up. Comments (2).

Dining: The Stumptown revolution continues! The Portland-based coffee purveyors that will soon open a roasting plant in Red Hook are now offering their gourmet grinds at the newly opened Second Stop Café in Williamsburg. Comment.

Event: Brooklyn’s hottest summer concert series is warming things with a rare winter dance party at the Bell House on Feb. 7. Comments (1).

Shopping: Brooklyn’s “wee flea” just got a wee bit bigger. Comment.

Event: Brooklynites who bleed black and gold won’t have to go far to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, because the Brownstone belt boasts some of the liveliest Pittsburgh Steelers bars around. Comment.

Theater: Our critic has a problem with the Sam Mendes-directed production of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” at BAM. Comments (2).

Books: Call him the anti-Salinger. Call him a shameless self-promoter. Hey, just call him — he’ll show up at your book club! Comment.

Dining: A new wine bar opens on Seventh Avenue — so lift a glass of the great house red. Comment.

Music: Neil Young said that it’s better to burn out than it is to rust. Obviously, he’s never rocked in Bay Ridge. Comments (5).

Music: Finally, the Care Bears on Fire are not just for kids anymore. Comments (2).

Music: One of the coolest acts to come out of Brooklyn’s music scene is a country-crooning Jewish cartoonist from the New Yorker magazine who has two creaky chords and a voice that sounds like it was run over by the kind of beat-up Dodge that rumbles through his songs. Comment.

Art: The economy may stink, but that isn’t stopping the owners of two new art galleries. Comment.

Dining: It’s on an unlikely block — yet Vinegar Hill House has become a destination restaurant almost overnight. Comments (3).

Event: The borough that gave Barack Obama eight out of every 10 votes in November is ready to get down and party on Inauguration Day. Comments (1).

DUMBO: Now this is a real President’s Day celebration. Just as on that other holiday honoring our prior commanders in chief, about 30 businesses on or near DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene will offer a weekend of special deals in the run up to Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th president on Tuesday. Comment.

Smash or Trash: The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team is back — this time “reviewing” Brooklyn singer-songwriter Jessie Killguss’s new hit, “Gristmill,” in advance of her Jan. 17 show at Rose Live Music [345 Grand St., between Havemeyer Street and the BQE in Williamsburg, (718) 599-0069]. Brooklyn Paper poohbah Gersh Kuntzman executes a coup over the rest of the team in this very special “Smash or Trash.” With video … Comments (1).

Music: Mumiy Troll, the seminal Soviet-era rock group, is undergoing a musical Glasnost. Comments (1).

Dining: No, you actually have never had a good cup of coffee — yet. But that’s all going to change once Stumptown Coffee Roasters — the brew that made Portland famous — opens its new roasting facility in Red Hook next month. With video … Comments (2).

Theater: The borough’s pre-eminent playwrights, from still-living legend Budd Schulberg (“On the Waterfront”) to comic David Lindsay-Abaire (“Fuddy Meers”), will be featured in their own series, starting next Saturday. Comment.

Nightlife: Fans of the adventure drama “Lost” looking for a premiere party next Wednesday need look no further than the Bell House, where a recap rock band will get fans up to speed. Comment.

Breaking Chews: It’s a great time to be a North Brooklyn foodie. Two new restaurants have opened in as many weeks, bringing fresh eats to the burgeoning culinary scenes in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Comments (2).

Event: OK, Readings on the Fourth Floor — quite possibly the only elementary-school fundraiser frequented by the Giants of American Letters — is still raising money to buy dead-tree-based books. But on Jan. 21, the Park Slope school’s annual series will feature authors who write about sustainability. Comment.

Dining: Our meat-loving critic takes a bite out of Peter Luger’s much-vaunted porterhouse — and finds the new Morton’s superior in so many ways. Comments (44).

Dining: New life will soon come to the disgraced corner of Henry and Cranberry streets — and the two popular neighborhood restaurateurs say they have no connection to the arrested operator of the previous establishment at the site. Comments (2).

Smash or Trash: The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team is back — this time “reviewing” Russia’s hottest rock band’s new single, “Queen of Rock.” It’s in Russian, but that doesn’t faze this team of rock monsters. With video … Comment.

Art: For all of you who have looked at a piece of modern art and muttered, “My kid could do that,” boy, do we have an art show for you. Comment.

Dining: No, you actually have never had a good cup of coffee — yet. But that’s all going to change once Stumptown Coffee Roasters — the brew that made Portland famous — opens its new roasting facility in Red Hook next month. Comments (1).

Shopping: Call it “the wee flea.” Comment.

Our news reporters have given you a list of the 90 people, places and things that will be generating headlines in ’09, so now it’s time for GO Brooklyn to weigh in on the nine entertainment trends that will be occupying your time over the next 12 months. Comments (3).

Event: Park Slope bar-goers: get ready to spill your guts. Comment.

Shopping: Why carbo-load on energy drinks when you can “bee” natural? That was Brooklyn Heights resident David Luks’s brainstorm last spring when the avid runner — and cancer patient — caught wind of new scientific research that touted the benefits of honey. Comments (1).