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10 modestly priced Valentine’s Day eateries

Check out Serious Eats’ list of 10 modestly priced Valentine’s Day restaurants, which include three in Brooklyn (Olea, Cafe Moto and the “sensually” utensil-free Ghenet).

Permanent e-waste dropoff site for Brooklyn

Good news, keepers of geriatric laptops, fax machines and cell phones — there’s going to be a permanent e-waste dropoff spot in Gowanus, thanks to the Lower East Side Ecology Center, those great people who have been doing roving events around Brooklyn.  You may have thought that the Gowanus was already an e-waste dropoff [...]

Win a $1,000 spending spree on Fifth Ave. in Park Slope

This is fun. If you buy something at a Fifth Avenue merchant through Feb. 14, you get a free raffle ticket to win a spending spree of up to $1,000 on the Slope’s best shopping strip. That sounds like a mighty fine way to spend an afternoon, maybe even two. Participating places include a [...]

Report: Brooklyn is world’s 5th most expensive place for clothes

A web site ranked 950 cities/regions worldwide by cost of living, and there is one especially curious data point about Brooklyn.

Thursday linkage

Southpaw to become a Tutoring Center [Brooklyn Paper]
Meet Coffee the Ditmas Park Train Man
[Brooklyn Paper]
Stacy London’s next show about a Brooklyn plus-size boutique [Daily Mail]
Man Buns, but not the kind the ladies want [...]

Meet the journo who PO’d Michelle Obama

RSVP now to get into a free lecture by Jonathan Safran Foer and Jodi Kantor in Park Slope next week.

Portland blogger wants to kill us

Brooklynites, please be on the lookout for this Portland blogger, who wants to kill “everyone and everything” associated with Brokelandia.

MTV loves them some Brokesters too

Brokesters are the new Jersey mooks. Exhibit B: a trailer for I Just Want My Pants Back, a new MTV show about four hipster-derived, hookup-happy BKers who are “single and broke: living the dream.”

And now, a free lecture on cooking bears, beaver and moose

The speaker's friends eagerly dive into her moose-face stew.
It’s seriously becoming weird food week around here at Brokelyn HQ. First foraged dinners and now a free lecture about making “beaver, bear and moose ‘mouffle.’ ” And some of you thought Brokelandia was made up.
But we started [...]

Free subscriptions to Brooklyn Magazine

Here’s a link for free subscriptions to the quarterly Brooklyn Magazine, normally $9.99 a year.