This one needs no selling on our part. A Craigslist poster near Prospect Park has a completely functional, utterly free Play Station 2, with multiple games and two Guitar Hero/Rock Band guitars he or she has “been meaning to get rid of forever.” The listed games include Guitar Hero I and II, Rock [...]
Thursday linkage
What gifts are really worth to you [Mashable]
Swap events sweeping NYC after New Year’s [NY Times]
A few things to do on Christmas [A Child Grows in Brooklyn]
Freddy’s Bar to reopen in January [TONY]
Restaurant of the day: Black Swan [Brownstoner]
Anna Wintour shops in Brooklyn [...]
Pre-gift/re-gift re-cap: Our stockings are stuffed
Some of the night's bounty. Photos by Nichelle Stephens.
They came, they drank, they pre/re-gifted. Tuesday night, along with a fair smattering of gift-seeking Brokelynites, we made our way to Hot Bird in Prospect Heights for the much-awaited Pre-gift/Re-gift Holiday Party. We showed up stoked for drink specials and holiday cheer, and full of grand [...]
$25 and under gift No. 18: psychedelic coasters
Drinks and furniture: two essentials of daily living that do not get along. Even if your wood furnishings are limited to a curb-alert-sourced 10-year-old end table, the last thing you want after a rockin’ party is a constellation of water-rings added to your decor. Instead, save your surface (for now) with this psychedelic optical-illusory
Bed Bugs at the Pavilion, one day only!
Photo via FiPS
Ok, so we were pretty sure that we were all bedbugged-out on these pages… until we saw this incredible photo of the Pavilion marquee this morning on FiPS. We’ll let you read the story there, but we had to get in this shot, lest you miss the daring [...]
$25 and under gift No. 16: bottle cap tripod
At the risk of overdoing the whole bottles, mugs, glasses theme to this year’s gift guide, here’s another liquid-vessel item that has us pretty psyched: the Bottle Cap Tripod ($10), from BK-based Dynomighty Design. This tiny tripod, which doubles as a high-tech stopper for your potables, screws right onto any soda- [...]
Monday linkage
The best stuff to buy in December [Yahoo Finance]
Dollar stores on the rise, as are prices [Sheepshead Bites]
Almost time to kayak again in Newtown Creek [BK Eagle]
Food nabe of the year: South W’burg [Metromix]
How Kensingtonians like their pizza [Kensington Prospect]
BK becoming land of [...]
$25 and under gift No. 13: what Judd Apatow finds funny
Take a collection of stories, essays, poetry and other stuff that funny-man Judd Apatow finds funny himself, and that’s reason enough to recommend this book to anyone who can read. Add in the fact that proceeds go to the literacy-teaching org 826 National, and it’s a no-brainer. Edited by Apatow, I [...]
$25 and under gift No. 10: wine cork candles
When you finish off a bottle of wine at your next romantic dinner for two, your options for the empty vessel are pretty limited. You could leave it on the table and admire the vintage (keeps the mood going); you could pull out some flowers, stick them in the top and call the thing a [...]
Wednesday linkage
Poll says 76% of Brooklynites want Walmart [BK Eagle]
Reason to Love NY #15: that small-town feel [NY Mag]
W’burg movie theater in the works for 2011 [Greenpointers]
Brooklyn: whiter than ever… [Curbed NY]
But still pretty colorful [NY Mag]
The Brooklynizing [...]
