This Week In Park Slope: Text Message Art, Bus Crash Updates, Mourning Bowie, And More

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Here’s a look back at some stories you might have missed this week:

• Power up your mobile device for /Rive Collective’s ‘Anamorphosis’ at Open Source Gallery.

• Cuomo announces $20 Billion affordable housing plan at ‘State Of The State’ speech.

• Dr. Amy Musick: Teaching New Voices to sing one child at a time.

• What’s open, closed, and happening on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

• Snowden bust will join Brooklyn Museum’s “Agitprop!” exhibit in February.

• Lunch Beat: Michael and Ping’s.

• Formerly homeless, artist Jo Ann O’Rear starts over with local exhibit.

• After city approval, Park Slope Library gets back to the garden.

• 10 family outings for city kids with special needs.

• Gov’s grand MTA overhaul to include shut down of these R Line stations.

• The Slope celebrates and mourns David Bowie.

• Park Slope Civic Council Ortner Award recipients recognized for community initiatives.

• Developer gets pushback over plans to convert Tracy Mansion into an apartment building.

• DOE says bus driver suspended and school bus crash victims released from hospital.

• Need help talking with your kids about sex? Best-Selling author Kelli Dunham held a workshop on this very subject at Please.

• Here to stay, or revolving door? 3 Slope shuttered storefronts opening soon in 2016.

• Flashback Friday: Park Slope, neighborhood of macaroni.

• Huckleberry Hound is our adoptable animal of the week!