Photo by Roadsidepictures
In addition to kicking off another season of weight gain, family drama and perpetual holiday jingles, November also happens to be the month for everyone’s favorite spreadable legume. With all the bad press about peanuts these days, National Peanut Butter Lovers Month delivers a much-needed star turn to the increasingly outré [...]
The craziest things you can do with peanut butter
Atlantic Yards doco makers still nearly $20K shy of a movie
Daniel Goldstein. Photo courtesy of No Land Grab.
Here’s your easiest route ever to associate producer status on a documentary film. The Brooklyn-based studio Rumur has spent the last six years producing Battle of Brooklyn, a documentary chronicling Daniel Goldstein’s fight against the Atlantic Yards development project and his effort to save his home at [...]
Celebrities in Brooklyn, part 2: the return of SiLex!
Simon Van Kempen and Alex McCord. Photos by Eric Reichbaum.
First Martha Stewart at the Brooklyn Flea, now our borough’s most socially ambitious reality-TV couple—you’d think we were, like, perezhilton or something. Or maybe Brooklyn just is that fabulous these days. That’s clearly the opinion of Alex McCord and Simon Van Kempen [...]
Help us find Brooklyn’s best birthday bars
Bembe, photo by Francois V.
When it comes to birthdays, is there any brokester tradition more time-honored than inviting your friends to a bar? You don’t have to reach for your wallet all night, nor host a crowd in the foyer you call a living room. Plus you can get filthy drunk knowing that someone [...]
This weekend: Find your inner Henna artist, bootlegger, cheesemaker
Learn Henna body art from Kenzi at the Brooklyn Skillshare
Where can you learn the art of “uncooking,” how to brew kombucha and some new massage techniques? At the first annual Brooklyn Skillshare, this Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Gowanus Studio Space (166 7th St., between 2nd Ave. & 3rd Ave.) We’re also looking forward to DIY Electronics, [...]
Pennypinching food bloggers: How low can they go?
Peach and chocolate dessert, photo courtesy of Being Cheap Never Tasted So Good.
Food-stunt blogs aren’t altogether new to Brooklyn—in 2006, Crown Heights resident Cathy Erway decided to go AWOL from restaurants and takeout for two years, and launched Not Eating Out in New York, which extolls the many health and eco benefits of [...]
Costco vs. Target in Brooklyn: a smackdown
Costco photo by Gene Jackson.
Is it possible to go to Costco without wondering: Is this really worth it? The crowds, the Zipcar to Third Avenue and 38th Street, the existential despair of seeing your future in jumbo-sized cereal boxes, the inevitable 12-pound bag of frozen salmon filets you’ll never get through, the paradox of spending [...]
Anna Sui inventory: Target line (mostly) sold out online, still available downtown
Two days after its debut, is it still possible to shop Anna Sui’s Gossip Girl-inspired line for Target? Not online. With the exception of a few oddball sizes that no one wants or can fit into and a few styles that are … dare we say … lesser choices, the web site is pretty much picked clean. So we went [...]
