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WFMU Goes Free-Form on McCain; Plus, Palin Hair for Obama!

Post Claims Dive Bar Expertise, Produces Boring List

John Hodgman Makes Park Slope Jokes in Park Slope

Week in Review: A Prevailing Theory That Targeting Women As The Main Consumer/Enjoyer of Hip-Hop Proved the Genre's Biggest Misstep

January 22 Opening Report

The weekend is almost here. Where, oh where will you be eating? Here's the good news about what's actually opening in this economy:Nolita Thai hangout Lovely Day (106 Elizabeth Street) is re-opening after recovering from some fire damage it suffered in October.[Paper]We may have to forgive the pun-t ... More >>

The Early Word -- Beer Table Tuesdays

The luscious smoked chop at Beer Table (click to reheat) Much has been made of the special theme nights, guest chefs, and even micro-restaurants that have been implanted in regular restaurants lately. For restaurant patrons, this is a good thing, and one wonders why no one thought of it pre ... More >>

Two-Room Apartment in Six-Unit Building

The luscious smoked chop at Beer Table (click to reheat) Much has been made of the special theme nights, guest chefs, and even micro-restaurants that have been implanted in regular restaurants lately. For restaurant patrons, this is a good thing, and one wonders why no one thought of it pre ... More >>

Forget the Subway, You can Get Laid at the Park Slope Food Co-Op

The luscious smoked chop at Beer Table (click to reheat) Much has been made of the special theme nights, guest chefs, and even micro-restaurants that have been implanted in regular restaurants lately. For restaurant patrons, this is a good thing, and one wonders why no one thought of it pre ... More >>

Drugstore Dining

The luscious smoked chop at Beer Table (click to reheat) Much has been made of the special theme nights, guest chefs, and even micro-restaurants that have been implanted in regular restaurants lately. For restaurant patrons, this is a good thing, and one wonders why no one thought of it pre ... More >>

Music in Brooklyn

Juke Joints and Alpine Lodges

Where NYC Writers Like to Drink

Hey, Flann—At swim-two-bars

PRISON PALS

Naughty by Nature? Seriously?

Ten-Hut!: Hunker Down for the Night in Park Slope

Naughty by Nature? Seriously?

A Brooklyn Tommy Revival Is No Magic Journey

Not gonna take it

Pix From Bark Hot Dogs in Park Slope, Brooklyn

​ ​(Top) The white neon glow of Bark's sign fries the faces of commuters emerging from the 2 and 3; (Left) Looking down the steely bore of Bark's excellent thick chocolate malt. This week, Counter Culture slides into Bark Hot Dogs in Park Slope, Brooklyn on a streak of yellow mustard, ... More >>

Union Market Opens Third Location on Court Street, Bringing More Upscale Groceries to Cobble Hill

​Whole Foods may not be coming to Gowanus anytime in the near future, but On Monday, Union Market will bring its own brand of aspirational grocery shopping to the neighborhood a few blocks north.

Pizza on the Grill; Offensive Food Names; Outspoken Chefs

This week in food blogs... Grub Street discovered that, at the forthcoming Fornino Park Slope, Michael Ayoub will abandon the pizza oven to cook his pies on the grill. Eater captured a furry friend digging around the West Village chocolate shop Pure Dark. Well, its picture -- not the rodent itself ... More >>

$12 Coffee at Café Grumpy; No Kids Allowed at the Empire Room

​The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews, a co-founder of Saveur, won the James Beard award for Cookbook of the Year, while Real Cajun by Donald Link took top honors in the U.S. category. [ABC News] The anti-corn syrup movement started in the natural and organic food world, but has n ... More >>

Fornino's Michael Ayoub on Park Slope's Former Grit, Growing up in the Kitchen, and Grilled Pizza

Michael Ayoub's Sicilian grilled pizza​Chef/owner Michael Ayoub opened Fornino Park Slope a week and a half ago, but it's not the first time Ayoub has cooked at 256 Fifth Avenue. In 1990, in that same space, Ayoub opened Cucina as co-owner and chef. The Italian restaurant was reportedly the f ... More >>

Chatting With Ample Hills Creamery's Brian Smith About Directing Obama and Using Anthony Bourdain as His Internal Critic

Ample Hills CreameryBrian Smith puts some brawn behind his brainchild.​Yesterday, we spoke with Ample Hills Creamery's Brian Smith about ice cream, his past career writing "monster-of-the-week movies" for the Sci Fi channel, and his plans to open his own ice cream shop, preferably in Park Slop ... More >>

Posts of the Week

There are but a few precious short hours left until the weekend, and thus it is time to cast a fond eye back to the best posts of the week. We ranked Our 10 Best Things to Eat at Locavorish Food Markets. The battle of Smarties vs. M&M's: an England-U.S. Rematch. Asked the Critics weighed in on th ... More >>

Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Press 195's No. 12

​ Press 195 has been a Park Slope stand-by for years, and its extensive menu of sandwiches are a veritable garden of vegetarian delights. Case in point: the specimen pictured above.

Benchmark: Park Slope's New Steakhouse

Benchmark's New York strip​When Benchmark--Park Slope's only true steakhouse--opened this spring without signage, it seemed to to be going for that tired "secret restaurant" cache. Thankfully, now a large sign announces the restaurant's existence--still, you might miss it as you walk by. The ... More >>

Rescue Chocolate Aids Sweet Tooths and Homeless Pets

Rescue ChocolateSweet, chocolatey pit bulls.​Park Slope has given us numerous whimsical and highly specific food products, but until now, it had not produced a line of chocolate bars inspired in part by feral cats and castration.

Campo de'Fiori: New Roman Pizza in Park Slope

Pizza Rustica: potato, sweet onion, mortadella, chile oil​Campo de'Fiori, a new Roman-style pizza restaurant, opened just a week ago on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Italian owner and chef Andrea Dal Monte was a manager at Del Posto and is also reportedly an owner of Acquolina in Rome. Since the ... More >>

The Great Maybe-Tornado of 2010: Tornado Spares Voice

All photos by Steven Thrasher​We're still waiting for confirmation on whether the tornado that ransacked Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens last night was actually a tornado -- investigators are out trying to determine whether patterns were "swirling" or otherwise, and the National Weather Se ... More >>

Animal v. Human: Who Will Win in the Battle of New York City Domination?

​New York City. If it's not the raccoons, it's the coyotes,  geese, sewer gators, rats, bedbugs, or the dangerous fornicating opossums. The New York Post reveals that city officials decided to try to fuck with biology by introducing the rat-tailed marsupials into Brooklyn a few years ago to r ... More >>

Is There a Dog-Stealing Hooker at the Park Slope Food Coop?

​This may be the weirdest story of the day. A man who shops at the Park Slope Food Coop, and/or a man who hired a hooker who shops at the Park Slope Food Coop, has posted this ad on the community bulletin board inside. The "I hired a hooker and she stole my dog!!!! Waahhhh!!!" seems to have be ... More >>

Brooklyn Parents: Stick Your Kid in the New Tom Hanks, Jonathan Safran Foer Movie

​ Spotted in Park Slope by Runnin' Scared friend @stvspl: a casting notice for "9-13 year-old Caucasian boys" to appear in the upcoming Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 novel about a nine-year-old boy's life in the aftermath of September 11t ... More >>

Alphabet Lounge Big Band

​ Spotted in Park Slope by Runnin' Scared friend @stvspl: a casting notice for "9-13 year-old Caucasian boys" to appear in the upcoming Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 novel about a nine-year-old boy's life in the aftermath of September 11t ... More >>

Yuppie Parent Scourge Spreading to Williamsburg

​Every day we hear more about how Williamsburg is "over," whatever that word actually means. But now it's like seriously really "over" you guys, according to the 1000th installation in The New York Times Explores That Faraway Place, Brooklyn : it's the next Park Slope. Germy kids and their hip ... More >>

The Park Slope Rap-Club Controversy Continues: Battle Of The Parody Petitions

The real Fab Five Freddy probably neither wrote nor signed any of these petitions, just FYI.​So last week a brave young Park Slope woman named Jennifer McMillen entered the fractious debate over Prime 6, an allegedly hip-hop-friendly club set to open at Flatbush and Sixth in Brooklyn, to the t ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #10: Name The Hosts Of Yo! MTV Raps

​Recently our hackles were raised after a concerned Park Slope resident (or, as reports increasingly indicate, a gifted troll) sent out a petition hoping to keep a new club from playing the hip-hop music (gasp!) in yuppietacular Brooklyn. We could not imagine the anarchy if rap music ever hit ... More >>

Week In Review: "In Reality, There Is No Greatest of All Time"

​"In reality, there is no greatest of all time," wrote Prodigy, wisely from prison. This sort of wisdom resonates in a week during which Phil Collins says "That's All" (sort of) to his epic career, and the Dropkick Murphys make a confusing Billboard Top Ten debut with an album called Going Out ... More >>

Fleisher's Meats Is Expanding to Park Slope: "We Feel Like It's Our People"

Fleisher's MeatsJessica and Joshua Applestone in front of their Kingston store.​Conscientious carnivores, rejoice! Fleisher's Meats, the Kingston, N.Y., butcher shop synonymous with high-quality grass-fed/local/organic meats, will open a shop in Park Slope, likely on Sept. 1. "We're really exc ... More >>

Bare Burger Is Set to Open, and Shake Shack Is Set to Have Outdoor Seating

Bare Burger/FacebookBrooklyn's getting some new buns.​Although Shake Shack's been busy ignoring shameless copycats and sparking idle talk of a Grand Central turf war, it's also been tending to the Brooklyn outpost of its empire.

Another Woman Was Attacked in South Slope Last Night

Police have released a second sketch of the suspect(s)​We don't have a lot of details about this crime yet, but Fucked in Park Slope has an account from yet another woman who has been attacked in Brooklyn. The attack went down last night at around 11:30 p.m. While there's no confirmation that ... More >>

Al di La's Wait Staff Are Crime-Fighting Superstars

al di làA crime-fighting citadel​ Petty thieves and assorted miscreants, you may want to remove al di là from your hit list.

'Take Back Our Streets' Rally in Park Slope Attracts Hundreds

​Last night, Park Slope and the surrounding areas responded to the recent string of sexual attacks with a good old-fashioned rally. Newly-formed local group Safe Slope organized the march, which in our estimate attracted about 300-400 people -- definitely more than the "Rape Cops" protest earl ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Mas (La Grillade), Goodbye to Hollis Famous Burgers

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. Hollis Famous Burgers, in Jamaica, appears to be closed. The website is down, and the phone line disconnected. [Grub Street]​ Ci ... More >>

Hot Dogs Against Fracking

Eat this choucroute to show you oppose fracking.​ Actually, it's choucroute against fracking. Bark Hot Dogs, in Park Slope, has teamed with the makers of the film Gasland and the anti-fracking group United for Action for a dinner and screening next Wednesday, November 9.

Sitting On Your Ass Is a Sport

Partake in the marathon while eating and drinking. It’s highly relaxing

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Partake in the marathon while eating and drinking. It’s highly relaxing

Naked Chef Pics and Cookie Mix

​Daniel Boulud loves him some Fritos pie. [Food Republic] Word's out that Top Chef contender Ty-Lör Boring bares all in a new, "art" magazine. [Eater]

Cool Interactive Map Shows You Which City Blocks Use the Most Electricity

​A new interactive map tool, created by the Modi Research Group at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, reveals some unsurprising patterns about New York City's energy consumption. The tool can tell you, down to individual buildings, which parts of the city used t ... More >>