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Here's What the Inside of a $5 Million Dollar Brooklyn Home Looks Like

Kristin Iversen — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400

Everyone loves real-estate porn. For a few reasons, really.…

Which Mayoral Candidate Gets To Be The "Brooklyn" Candidate?

Virginia K. Smith — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:13:03 -0400

Today's been a pretty huge news day. Or at least, it has been if you're specifically interested in the democratic field for this year's mayoral race: Anthony Weiner officially announced his sort of inevitable candidacy, with a solid 64-point "action plan" and a video his campaign accidentally released a few hours early, while the New York Times published a glowing profile depicting Bill de Blasio as the face of "new Brooklyn."…

More Bands Added to the Northside Festival Lineup: Chance the Rapper, A Place to Bury Strangers, Bleached, Weekend and More

admin — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:44:00 -0400

The countdown to the Northside Festival has officially begun! In less than 30 days, more than 350 bands will descend on Williamsburg and Greenpoint for four long days and even longer nights.…

Hipsters Tired of "Hipsters" Ruining Williamsburg

Henry Stewart — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:08:00 -0400

People who recently moved to Williamsburg are angry that their favorite bars are now being overrun by bridge-and-tunnel tourists, DNAinfo reports. The worst blocks are those around the Wythe Hotel, residents report: you can't even go to Brooklyn Bowl, the Output Club, Kinfolk Studios or the hotel anymore without running into a bunch of phonies.…

The Rockabus Has Added Two New Routes

Virginia K. Smith — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:41:02 -0400

Just ahead of Memorial Day Weekend, the operators of Rockabus announced in a press release this morning that in addition to the usual pickup location in Williamsburg, this year's service will include two new routes from Grand Army Plaza, on Flatbush near the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Lower East Side, near the 2nd Avenue F stop. All buses will be traveling nonstop every hour to Rockaway Beach and Jacob Riis Park on Saturdays and Sundays.…

Is GoogaMooga Ever Coming Back? Should It?

Virginia K. Smith — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:06:00 -0400

We've been known to poke fun at GoogaMooga over here, sure. But given the strenuous efforts on the part of the festival's parent company, Superfly, to make amends for all the things that went wrong at last year's inaugural event—refunding the cost of tickets to disappointed VIPs, adding more booths and an overall tighter ordering system to streamline things at this year's event—we were all really rooting for things to go right this time around.…

The Cicada Apocalypse!: or 5 Ways Brooklyn Has Changed In the Last 17 Years

Kristin Iversen — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:00 -0400

Perhaps you've heard of the cicada plague that is about to descend (or, rather, ascend... billions of these little suckers are going to be crawling up and out of the ground!) upon us all.…

Yet Another Reason Patrick Stewart Is Brooklyn's Finest Citizen

Virginia K. Smith — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:12:12 -0400

Listen, we all know that Patrick Stewart has proven himself to be a pretty superlative Brooklyn resident many times over, via his irritation with the Barclays Center (stars, they're just like us!), his excellent Twitter feed, mostly just his continued presence here.

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Hatchet Supply Wants To Teach Brooklyn How to Camp

Virginia K. Smith — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:00 -0400

Even if it's been a while (or a really long while) since you actually, say, pitched a tent, cooked your dinner over an open flame, or actively worried about wild animals interrupting your night's sleep, most of us still harbor quiet theories about our own (exceptional) abilities to survive in the wild, and all the efficient, good-looking gear we'll use to do it.

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Everything You Need To Know About The Brooklyn Half Marathon

Virginia K. Smith — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:05:00 -0400

Raise your hand (weirdly, at your desk, right now) if you enjoy running. Or friendly competition?…

What to Eat at The Great GoogaMooga

Sarah Zorn — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:07:00 -0400

In theory, the Great GoogaMooga sounds like the most mind-blowing food festival known to man. Free admission. Almost 200 of the city’s best restaurants, breweries, and wine purveyors assembled in the bucolic Nethermead Meadow in Prospect Park.…

7 Things That Will (Hopefully) Be Different At This Year's Googa Mooga

Virginia K. Smith — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:22:27 -0400

For all the people who are feverishly excited about the return this year of the Great Googa Mooga, there are plenty of other people who are just kind of happy to turn the whole thing into a punching bag. And admittedly, aspects of last year's festival were, well, sort of a disaster.…

RSVP to the Third Literary Upstart Reading!

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:47:00 -0400

You are cordially invited to the third semi-final reading of Literary Upstart: The Search for Pocket Fiction, The L Magazine's annual competitive reading series in which the city's finest unknown writers read and compete for an enormous novelty check worth $250 and publication in our Summer Fiction Issue.

We've changed locations!…

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Is It Actually Possible To File Complaints With The MTA?

Virginia K. Smith — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:30:33 -0400

I'd like to say this question came to me totally in the spirit of public service, but, I mean, of course it didn't. Of course I've spent the better part of the week trying to figure out this labyrinth (and the better part of Sunday afternoon sitting at a bar frantically jamming "HOW TO REPORT BAD BUS DRIVER MTA NYC?" into my phone) because this weekend, on the shuttle replacing the J train, I had what you could call a Very Bad Bus Driver.…
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After A Massive Fire, Oslo Re-Opens Today With Free Coffee

Virginia K. Smith — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:35:00 -0400

Some of the best news we've heard in a while: following a major fire that more or less ravaged the place back in January, the Bedford Avenue location of Oslo is officially back open for business, starting today. And with free coffee, no less.…
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Brownsville Just Might be the Next Williamsburg

Virginia K. Smith — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:52:32 -0400

With insanity like "East Bushwick" and and, uh, an East Williamsburg that includes part of Queens gaining real estate momentum, it's never too soon to speculate on what the next hot hot hot neighborhood for gentrification will be. So let's talk about Brownsville for a minute.…
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The Northside Festival Needs Volunteers!

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:02:00 -0400

The Northside Festival is quickly approaching (mark your calendars for June 13-20) and early bird badges are totally sold out. Bummer!…
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The 5 Best Books for Brooklyn's Topless Book Club

Kristin Iversen — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:50:00 -0400

Is there anything that can destroy the fun of reading more than a book club? I don't know about you, but nothing makes me want to read a book less than if I feel like it's been assigned to me. I mean, for me, being a writer is already sort of like being a full-time student in that I am constantly doing work at home at crazy hours and I subsist pretty much on caffeine and potato chips and other things that are undeniably bad for me. It's unhealthy, it really is. But so, book clubs.…
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Some of the Citi Bike Backlash Actually Worked

Virginia K. Smith — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:18:00 -0400

Well, that was pretty fast. Of all the different people who are pissed at Citi Bike, at least a few of them are getting their way.…
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The 10 Best Outdoor Dining Spots in Brooklyn

Sarah Zorn — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:04:00 -0400

Spring is about three things… long days, balmy nights, and eating and drinking outdoors. Luckily, the city has tons of al fresco options, and we don’t just mean a few table and chairs spread out on the sidewalk (although that’s perfectly enjoyable too).…
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Photos: Inside the Bed-Stuy Home of Good Candle Owner John Kroeger

Mike Conklin — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:52:00 -0400

Danielle Haun and her boyfriend, John Kroeger, share a first-floor apartment in Bed-Stuy and are eager to celebrate its modest luxuries: the back patio; the hallway where they stash their bikes; the dishwasher. After living in a string of "crappy New York apartments," Danielle understands the value of such niceties.…
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5 Controversial City Programs That Changed New York Forever

Kristin Iversen — Wed, 15 May 2013 09:45:00 -0400

The official launch of New York CIty's bike share program is approaching quickly and, as expected, opponents are becoming more and more vocal about all the problems that might occur. The New York Times reports, "Bike share was easy for New York City to love in the abstract...But with the program two weeks away, many New Yorkers have turned against bike share."…
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Are We Allowed To Start Calling Townhouses "Castles" Now?

Virginia K. Smith — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:42:41 -0400

The obvious answer here being 'no.' What is this, Europe? Feudal Japan?…
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Should We Be Worried About This Brooklyn Measles Outbreak?

Virginia K. Smith — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:55:15 -0400

Well, here's something I thought I'd never be typing, in 2013: there's a measles outbreak in Brooklyn. Huh.…
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Some Americans Actually Admit to Being Hipsters

Henry Stewart — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:51:00 -0400

Twenty seven percent of Americans support levying a special tax on hipsters for "for being so annoying," according to a survey by Public Policy Polling. The research firm, which published a press release that reads like the Borowitz Report but is apparently not a joke, asked Americans many questions about hipsters, with not-so-surprising results: 42 percent have an unfavorable view of hipsters, 46 percent agreed that hipsters "soullessly appropriate cultural tropes from the past for their own ironic amusement," and 98 percent of Republicans said they'd be less likely to vote for a hipster (dashing our dreams of electing a hipster president any time soon, ugh).…
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