HIV Testing
It’s National HIV Testing Day [http://gothamist.com/2012/06/27/get_in_the_know_its_national_hiv_te.php], and CAMBA [http://www.camba.org/]‘s observing by jumping on the flash mob bandwagon. From noon to 3pm at the Brooklyn Public Library, they’ll be raising awareness
2011 anglers, photo credit: Prospect Park Alliance [http://www.flickr.com/photos/prospectpark/5943992020/in/set-72157627209102432/] Give a kid a fish and he’ll eat for a week, teach a kid to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime. Not that you’ll actually be eating the fish you
Nydia Velazquez
The results of yesterday’s primary are in and the big news is…things pretty much went as expected: current congresswomen Nydia Velazquez [http://velazquez.house.gov/index.shtml] (CD7) and Yvette Clarke [http://clarke.house.gov/] (the newly-redistricted CD9) won their respective nominations in not-at-all-close races. In a four-way
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Fencing
photo credit: Nicole Jomantas via U.S.A. Fencing [http://usfencing.org/news/2012/01/17/imboden-van-brummen-and-spear-close-out-portland-nac-with-gold/46211] 19-year-old Park Sloper Race Imboden [http://usfencing.org/athletes/race-imboden], who, among other triumphs, has one of the best names ever, is headed to the Olympics to compete for the US fencing
classes
Got a little Joe Schuster [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Shuster] on your hands? A Harvey Kurtzman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Kurtzman] -in-progress? Maybe an aspiring Alison Bechdel [http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/]? Two Moon Art House and Cafe, the 4th Ave coffee shop that’s fast becoming a
Aperitivo
Probably delicious, definitely not photogenic (via Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151013393819273&set=a.170994954272.117101.160479299272&type=3&theater] ) Thursday is Aperitivo [http://www.aperitivocafe.com/]‘s monthly Chef Dinner, and this time, it’s an Asian-Inspired Maryland Crab Bake. On the menu:
1st St between 4th and 5th, for example This doesn’t happen very often, but today, stoops are literally making headlines [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/nyregion/once-a-staple-awnings-are-losing-their-appeal.html] (in the Metro section, but whatever). Those aluminum awnings so common all over Windsor Terrace and Greenpoint? Apparently they’
Move over, Uggie (though congrats [http://gawker.com/5921338/uggie-the-dog-becomes-first-canine-to-have-prints-cemented-outside-graumans-chinese-theatre] about the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre thing). FiPS just alerted us [http://www.fuckedinparkslope.com/home/local-dog-gets-viral-attention-for-cancer-fundraising-video.html] to the fact that Park Slope’s got a canine media darling of its own — and unlike Uggie, who’s lovable-for-hire, Banjo
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The primaries are here! Polls open now and stay that way till 9pm (find your polling station here [http://gis.nyc.gov/vote/ps/index.htm]). Need a refresher? The League of Women Voters guide to the candidates [http://www.lwvnyc.org/2012%20June%2026%20Primary%20Voter%20Guide.pdf]has
bike lanes
Being a Park Slope cyclist just got a little bit better. At a joint CB6-CB7 meeting last week, the DOT unveiled their plans [http://parkslope.patch.com/articles/dot-to-install-bike-lane-on-15th-street-from-prospect-park-west-to-third-avenue] to install bike lanes on 14th St. (running east) and 15th St. (running west) between Bartel-Pritchard Square at Prospect Park West