photo credit: Michele Asselin [http://www.micheleasselin.com/] via NYT This Sunday, Mona Simpson has a Times Magazine cover story on the delicate relationship [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/nannies-love-money-and-other-peoples-children.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all] between families and their nannies: how do we buy and sell
Karthus
lounging in the new pad, via Community Bookstore [http://communitybookstore.net/] Karthus, the bearded dragon of Community Bookstore, has been house-hunting ever since Community gave him notice [/blog/news/karthus-community-bookstores-bearded-dragon-needs-a-new-home] in early June. Today, though, Community announced that the hunt is over, and the best-read lizard in Brooklyn is happily
The annual MTA budget is out, and disconcertingly, there’s a lot of good news [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-heading-good-news-article-1.1115053?localLinksEnabled=false] . According to the Daily News, “transit officials are poised to allocate tens of millions of dollars for additional bus, subway and commuter train service.” The exact
A would-be gourmand looking longly into the window of ‘sNice > Our dogs love kale and the fava beans we just harvested. I’d rather give a dog a carrot than a milk bone any day. The Brooklyn Paper talks to [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/29/all_dogfoodies_
photo credit:Carryboo [http://www.flickr.com/photos/carryboo/] Captured a Park Slope moment on camera? Send it toparkslopestoop@gmail.com [ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com]or add it to thePark Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/]and we’ll post it on the blog.
photo credit: Carryboo [http://www.flickr.com/photos/carryboo/] We learned that not all [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/world/europe/food-trucks-add-american-flavor-to-paris.html?pagewanted=all] of Brooklyn is très Brooklyn [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/world/europe/food-trucks-add-american-flavor-to-paris.html?pagewanted=all] . It was the best of
Seafood Throwdown
The Seafood Throwdown [/blog/events/fish-fight] is under way at Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, and there’s still time to get over there. Chefs from Applewood [http://www.applewoodny.com/] and Cheryl’s Global Soul [http://cherylsglobalsoul.com/] will be duking it out for fishy dominance Iron Chef-style, and this
caramello
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El Pollo
It looks like El Pollo [http://www.elpolloparkslope.com/] is no more, based on the “For Lease” sign we noticed in the restaurant’s window today. Judging from the Yelp reviews [http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-pollo-brooklyn], the 5th Ave Peruvian joint had a pretty enthusiastic following, although several chicken
Illustrator Steven Weinberg [http://stevenweinbergstudio.com/]‘s all-yogurt art show, “Dairy Cow Dream,” opens tomorrow at Culture [http://www.cultureny.com/], featuring his “quirky collection of soft serve-centric cartoons.” Brooklyn Based chatted [http://brooklynbased.net/blog/2012/07/dreaming-of-dairy/] with the artist to get the scoop (twist?) on the origins
crafts
“Asphalta of the Brownstone Space,” by Bernette Rudolph [http://www.bernetterudolph.com/asphalta.html] This Saturday’s soiree on 3rd Street between 6th and 7th Aves is going to have a free kids woodworking class taught by local artist Bernette Rudolph [http://www.bernetterudolph.com/index.html] (adults also welcome)
Gossip
Everyone loves a good PSFC story, but in the months since the Coop’s potential Israeli boycott was shot down, there hasn’t been a whole lot to report. But the media is working on it, you guys, and they are going to squeeze out another Coop story one way