Nonsponsored CHiPS Features Italian Pop-Up Restaurant For Homeless, Pregnant Mothers Photo by Jeremiah Sierra / Park Slope StoopThe 84 diners who shared a Mother’s Day feast this past Sunday did more than honor the women in their families. They raised almost $5,000 for the Frances Residence at Community Help in Park Slope (CHiPS). The Residence houses up to eight
Brooklyn Book Festival Greenlight Bookstore’s Picks for the Brooklyn Book Festival Image via the Brooklyn Book Festival.The Brooklyn Book Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary this Sunday, September 20, featuring authors from around the world. With more than 90 events to choose from in just eight hours, you may be having trouble deciding which to attend, so I asked the
austin grossman Local Author Lev Grossman On Escaping Brooklyn Without Leaving It Lev Grossman (Photo by Mathieu Bourgois)No matter how much he loved Brooklyn, Lev Grossman was occasionally overcome with the desire to leave it. That feeling (a familiar one to many Brooklyn residents after a crowded commute on the F train) was one of the inspirations for his Magicians trilogy,
book reading Book/Plate Brings Together Food, Literature, And Neighbors Jeff Waxman hadn’t lived in the neighborhood long before he became a regular at Peck’s on Myrtle Avenue, a specialty foods shop filled with tins of coffee beans and prepared meats and cheeses, the espresso machine often hissing away. Waxman bought his coffee at Peck’s Foods and
