attack
A happier dog, photo credit: Prospect Park [http://www.prospectpark.org/visit/activities/dog_walking] Around 8am yesterday morning, two Brussels Griffons [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffon_Bruxellois] were attacked by a large Husky in Prospect Park’s Long Meadow, reports FIDO [http://www.fidobrooklyn.org/] (Fellowship in the
7th Ave
It’s looking a little Romantic out for my taste (what are we, in a Turner painting?).
5th Avenue
Saturday is Brooklyn Pride, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait for the weekend to celebrate — there are events throughout the borough [http://brooklynpride.org/pride-events] all week, including tomorrow’s tribute [http://brooklynpride.org/ai1ec_event/june-7-a-tribute-storme-dlarverie?instance_id=] to legendary crusader/drag performer/Stonewall-era lesbian bar-bouncer
photo credit: Dan Stillman Captured a Park Slope moment on camera? Send it to parkslopestoop@gmail.com [ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com] or add it to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/] and we’ll post it on the blog.
Bob and Judi's Coolectables
For the past 15 years, locals Bob and Judi Pheiffer have been keeping Park Slope shabby-chic with their 5th Ave antique/thrift store (curio shop? mini flea market?), Bob and Judi’s Coolectables. But now the couple is packing up and heading west — they’ll take off for the San
Freelancers
Tea Lounge [http://www.tealoungeny.com/], that neighborhood haven for both freelance MacBook owners and Bugaboo-pushing mommies/daddies/nannies (and presumably, a sizable contingent of mommies/daddies/nannies who ALSO freelance on MacBooks), is mysteriously quiet this morning. Where are the babies? I have only played peekaboo once, and it
This just in via Twitter [https://twitter.com/readandbreathe/status/209421428016152578]: Community Bookstore is looking for a new home for Karthus, their Bearded Dragon-in-residence. If you’re up for a bookish lizard in your life, now’s your chance — word from the shelves is that Karthus is “very sweet,” but
Fred Firestone
photo credit: Paul Logston [http://photography.paullogston.com/] It’s all happening tonight: Jimmy Cliff kicks off Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. The Daily Show’s Hallie Haglund is telling stories (along with esteemed others, including FIPS’s Kerri Dougherty) at Union Hall. And at Littlefield, comedian-about-town Jo Firestone [http:
Park Slope Copy Center
Captured a Park Slope moment on camera? Send it to parkslopestoop@gmail.com [ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com] or add it to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/] and we’ll post it on the blog.
Milo Poniewozik
photo credit: Michael DiVito/New York Philharmonic Last year, Milo Poniewozik wrote a quintet that was played by musicians from the New York Philharmonic. This year, he expanded the piece [http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/06/02/154077432/a-very-young-composer-gets-his-chance-at-the-new-york-philharmonic] with parts for the whole orchestra. Did we mention
1940s New York
In 1943, the NYT and three newspaper-friends joined forces to compile New York City Market Analysis, which charted the city by the numbers. Now, CUNY Grad Center’s Center for Urban Research [http://www.urbanresearch.org/] has digitized the tome, and the result — Welcome to 1940s New York — is a
culture
photo credit: Zack Buchman via Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150262843176765&set=o.217396471634373&type=3&theater] It’s National Frozen Yogurt Day (I know, it wasn’t on my free ASPCA calendar, either), and to celebrate, Culture [http://www.cultureny.com/] is giving