Cinema: To grow up Jewish in the 1970s was to be in the thrall of Elliott Gould. Sure, the suburban teenage Semite had his Woody Allen for comic relief and his Paul Newman for confirmation that he was, indeed, a member of a Chosen People, but the sight of the mangy, Jew-fro-covered head of Gould on the big screen during that long-forgotten decade got more than a few movie geeks through adolescence. Here, Gould talks with GO Brooklyn about those films, which will be screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in August. Comments (1).

Viva la Vespa!

The Brooklyn Paper / Jeff Bachner

Shopping: Gas is topping $4 per gallon. Parking, even in a cheap lot, can cost more then some people make in a day. And keeping a car in the city is enough to make anyone long for the subway. But there are a growing number of Brooklynites who don’t have to worry about such things anymore, as scooters — especially the Mod-throwback Vespa bikes — are taking the borough by storm. Comment.

Where to GO: Editors’ Picks

Arm yourself

Saturday, July 26: Put up your dukes this afternoon in Coney Island as the 26th annual Kingsboro Arm Wrestling Championships come to the Boardwalk. With novice, amateur and pro categories in 12 weight classes, there’s a contest for every size and skill level. And if bragging rights alone weren’t enough, the winner will head home with a cash prize.

12:30 pm. Coney Island Boardwalk at West 10th Street. Free. For information, call (718) 544-4592 or visit www.nycarms.com.

Sports stars

Sunday, July 27: There’s nothing more relaxing than spending Sunday catching up on your favorite television personalities — and today you can do it at Keyspan Park when celebs like Dave Marciano from “The Shield,” John Driscoll (pictured) from “Guiding Light,” and more take the field in the “Autism Speaks” celeb softball game.

12:30 pm. Keyspan Park (1904 Surf Ave. at West 19th Street in Coney Island). $10 and up. For information, call (718) 37-BKLYN or visit www.brooklyncyclones.com.

Outdoor ‘Room’

Wednesday, July 30: As part of its new music series, Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy presents live music courtesy of Gowanus’s Issue Project Room and its director, Suzanne Fiol (pictured) tonight. Performers include avant-garde composer and sax player John Zorn, the Theramin Society and more.

6 pm. The Tobacco Warehouse (26 New Dock St. at Water Street in DUMBO). Free. For information, call (718) 802-0603.

NY premiere

Thursday, July 31: Tonight, dance genius and caftan enthusiast Mark Morris brings his Fort Greene-based dance troupe to Prospect Park to perform the New York premiere of Samuel Barber’s “Excursions for Piano” and more.

8 pm. Prospect Park band shell (enter park at Prospect Park West and Ninth Street in Park Slope). Free. For information, call (718) 855-7882 or visit www.celebratebrooklyn.org.

Yeah, ‘Mann’

Friday, August 1: It might be Friday, but tonight the voice of former ‘Til Tuesday songstress Aimee Mann will carry — with openers The Submarines — in support of her latest solo record, “@#%&*! Smilers” at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

9 pm. The Music Hall of Williamsburg (66. N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg). $35. For information, call (718) 486-5400 or visit www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com.

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Over the Hill

Jovana Rizzo

Theater: What do a dancing CEO, patriotic terrorist and neurotic Jewish man (who drugs his wife in order to keep her from cheating) have in common? They will soon be under the direction of Ian Hill at Williamsburg’s Brick Theater. Comment.

Tasty restaurant gossip

By Kate Ray

Breaking Chews: We’re dishing up Brooklyn’s latest food news! Comment.

Heights iTour

By Adam Rathe

Event: Until now, tourists roaming through Brooklyn Heights were immediately recognizable thanks to their bulging fanny packs and unwieldy maps. But not anymore! Thanks to “CityListen Audio Tour,” a self-guided trek that downloads to any MP3 player, tourists can roam the borough with ear buds — just like us! Comment.

Courageous choreography

By Kate Ray

Dance: There’s no room for trepidation at the Genesis Dance Company’s “Be Fearless! Experience Genesis Dance!” performances this weekend in Downtown Brooklyn. Meet the artists at the opening night gala. Comment.

‘Hot’ prospect

By Adam Rathe

Art: Prices might be low, but drama will be high at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s summer art exhibition — dubbed “Hot!” — that opens on Saturday. Comment.

Only ‘Human’

By Kate Ray

Dance: Prospect Park will be the stage for Human Landscape Dance’s “Rituals of the First Year” — an innovative dance performance that explores new parenthood — on Sunday. Comment.

July 19, 2008

Behind the ropes

By Kate Ray

Cinema: On Monday night, Trevor W. was the talk of the party. The tall, attractive socialite, of ambiguous sexual orientation and a lurid fashion sense, was sought after by Manhattan nightlife queen Amy Sacco, actor-model Fabrizio Brienza, “Lipstick Jungle’s” Lindsay Price, and members of Kulu and the Brazilian Girls. But Trevor W. isn’t real. He’s a figment of the imagination of Bushwick filmmaker Wayne Price. Comment.

Love and skate

By Adam Rathe

Theater: Growing up in Bensonhurst, actress Kerry Butler roller-skated like any other kid, but when the time came to strap on skates for “Xanadu,” the Broadway production in which she plays the lead role of Kira, it wasn’t so easy anymore. Comments (1).

Raising the ‘Bar’

By Adam Rathe

Dining: Spencer Rothschild’s two-month-old Mexican restaurant, “Barrio,” gets a warm reception in Park Slope. Comment.

Tasty restaurant gossip

By Adam Rathe and Kate Ray

Breaking Chews: We’re dishing up Brooklyn’s latest food news! Comment.

Better than Times Square?

By Kate Ray

Theater: The curtains have gone up on the long-awaited TKTS booth at the Metrotech Center in Downtown Brooklyn. And the offering of discount tickets is cause for a standing ovation. Comment.

Park art

By Adam Rathe

Art: There are always plenty of strange things to gawk at in Empire–Fulton Ferry State Park, but beginning Sunday, a collection of 30 exotic sculptures will be unveiled by the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Comment.

Seeing Greene

By Jason Brown

Fort Greene: On July 27, Fort Greene locals will have the chance to become better acquainted with the history behind their picturesque neighborhood. Comment.

July 12, 2008

Summer ‘Knights’

By Adam Rathe

Art: Next weekend, “The Dark Knight,” the latest movie in the Batman franchise, opens in theaters nationwide. Hidden away in Red Hook, however, is another look at the Caped Crusader — and what it lacks in box office glitz, it more than makes up for in graphic authenticity. Comment.

Fancy schmancy

By Kate Ray

Dining: Sweat dripped from customers’ chins into their mugs of Sixpoint beer. The fumes of grilling pork rose to meet the smell of close, hot bodies. And then it began to pour. This was the second annual UnFancy Food Show, a celebration of Brooklyn food artisans and small producers in a defiantly un-fancy setting in Williamsburg. With video … Comment.

Bastille Day beckons

By Kate Ray

Dining: Fort Greene bistro Chez Oskar to celebrate Bastille Day — and its 10th anniversary — with live music, fire-eating, a prix-fixe menu and more! Comment.

Tasty restaurant gossip

By Adam Rathe and Kate Ray

Breaking Chews: We’re dishing up Brooklyn’s latest food news! Comment.

Denmark’s dozen

By Adam Rathe

Theater: Each year, there are more Shakespearean productions in the borough than we can count, but on Friday night at the McCarren Park Pool in Greenpoint, fans of the Bard got more for their money with the Woodshed Collective theater company’s “Twelve Ophelias.” Comment.

Mind your Q’s

By Adam Rathe

Art: Brooklyn Paper photographer Tom Callan is a star at “Click!,” the publicly curated photo show currently hanging at the Brooklyn Museum. Comments (1).

For the birds

By Adam Rathe

Event: Of all the immigrants who’ve made homes in Brooklyn, there’s still one group that doesn’t quite fit in: the parrots. Comment.

Flower power

By Adam Rathe

Shopping: The Hibiscus Day Spa, open since 2005 in Stuyvesant Heights — and going on two months in its new location — has unveiled its latest beauty treatment: a retail shop stocking skin care essentials, lounge clothing and spa accessories. Comment.

June 28 – July 5, 2008

Cheap beer!

By Adam Rathe

Nightlife: A night on the town never comes cheap. But if you’re drinking Baladine Xyauyu, you could bust your budget on just one drink. At $95 for 17 ounces, Baladine Xyauyu is one expensive brew, available only at Beer Table in Park Slope. Since GO Brooklyn is slow in both putting down drinks and picking up tabs, we decided to eschew the high-class hooch. Here’s every penny-pinching beer sippers’ must visit list. Comments (1).

Hitting the high notes

By Adam Rathe

Music: There are plenty of outdoor concerts happening in the borough this summer, from classical music to noise rock, but no series draws the big names — and songs — of the Borough President’s “Seaside Summer Concert Series” and “Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert Series”: Michael Bolton, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Patti LaBelle, Brian Wilson, Liza Minnelli, Huey Lewis and the News and more. Comment.

Vintage victuals

By Kate Ray

Dining: For Carolina Capeheart, slow cooking isn’t about basting a chicken in fat and leaving it in the Crockpot all day — it’s about plucking that bird, churning that butter and roasting the whole thing herself over an open fire. Comment.

Save the receipt

By Carolina Capehart

Dining: Historic cookery specialist Carolina Capehart shared three “receipts” — or recipes — which she believes will be “fairly easy for readers to try.” Comment.

‘Girls’ wanna rock

By Sarah McCormick

Music: Of all the noises made by patrons after a trip to Acapulco Deli & Restaurant — a bare bones Mexican restaurant in Greenpoint — those of the Vivian Girls were surely the least expected. Comment.

Cinema under the stars

By Kate Ray

Cinema: While enjoying a summer blockbuster inside a movie theater has its advantages — air conditioning! snacks! — there’s much to be said about watching a flick al fresco with your Brooklyn neighbors. Here’s a roundup of the borough’s outdoor movie festivals. Comment.

Tower of power

By Kate Ray

Event: Every year, the now-scattered descendants of Williamsburg’s Italian community return to the ‘hood with one essential goal: to lift an 80-foot tall, three-ton tower known as the “giglio” onto their shoulders and “dance” with it through the streets as part of the annual feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Paulinus of Nola in Williamsburg. Comment.

Tasty restaurant gossip

By Adam Rathe and Kate Ray

Breaking Chews: We’re dishing up Brooklyn’s latest food news! Comment.

Summer delight

By Adam Rathe

Nightlife: Master mixologist Toby Maloney, a Williamsburg resident, shares his recipe for the perfect summer cocktail. Comment.

‘Monkey’ biz

By Adam Rathe

Nightlife: Monkey Town, the Williamsburg restaurant and performing arts space, closed on June 23 for six weeks of renovations. Although it often seems that when a “closed for renovations” sign is posted on a window in Brooklyn, it’s code for “we’re out of business,” Monkey Town’s owner assures us they’ll be swinging from the branches again come Aug. 2. Comments (1).

No scrubs

By GO Brooklyn

Fashion: Last Saturday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, stars like Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas of the group TLC, actress Caryn Ward and blogger Necole Bitchie converged at “The Female Success Factor,” an entrepreneurship seminar for women. Comment.

June 21, 2008

Get lit

By Lisa J. Curtis

Books: Get out your hardcovers and smudge-proof autograph pens, because the celebrity riddled Brooklyn Book Festival will show its spine on Sept. 14. Comment.

June 14, 2008

Dance from down under

By Kate Ray

Dance: Want to experience our world’s many cultures without leaving the borough? Get ready for Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts’ 2008-2009 lineup! Comment.

May 10, 2008

‘Black’ is back

By Adam Rathe

Theater: A production by the National Theater of Scotland, “Blackwatch” follows a regiment of soldiers as they fight in the Iraq war. The previous 23 performances, which took place last fall at St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO, all sold out. So the producers vowed to bring it back. Comment.

May 3, 2008

Growing Gowanus

By Linnea Covington

Dining: Ever wonder how the letters in alphabet soup are made? Across the country they are created with extrusion dies made at Maldari & Company in Gowanus. Comment.

March 8, 2008

All the right ‘Notes’

By Deirdre Donovan

Theater: Williamsburg’s Brick Theater is heating up the winter theater scene with its reprise of its critically acclaimed production of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from Underground.” This five-part dramatic oratorio, which runs through March 22, explores the masochism of the legendary Underground Man and meshes his rancid diatribes with a soundtrack of Russian tavern songs and string quartets. Impeccably directed and adapted by Michael Gardner, this intense, 90-minute show is a must-see for adventurous playgoers. Comment.

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