FRIDAY
thru 9/5: unicyclists travel 13 miles from city, across the brooklyn bridge, to coney island to kick off the second annual three-day unicycle fest. sat-sun events at governors island and grant’s tomb (unicycle hockey and basketball! world record attempts! demos!). Read the rest of this entry »
due to hurricane irene, please check venue website, facebook, and twitter accounts for weather cancellations
FRIDAY
thru 9/1: rerun gastropub theater highlights favorite films from their first year with double features, filmmakers in person, and $4 chilled absolute brooklyn + il prosecco (mention the password ‘the new year’). $7, or arrive 30+ minutes before showtime for free admission (with $7 bar/food purchase). Read the rest of this entry »
Let's take you out to the ball game
Look for ways to do good in Brooklyn and you’ll feel like you’re at Smorgasburg with five bucks in-hand: So much choice, such meager resources. But what if someone came to you and said “Here, take these food tickets, have a ball. And, oh yeah, you’ll also be helping out 35,000 needy Brooklyn folks”? That’s sort of what we’re offering here: Brokelyn’s teaming up with CAMBA, one of BK’s largest nonprofits, to give away two pairs of Cyclones fun packs (including tickets, a Cyclones cap, hot dog, chips and drink) for a CAMBA benefit/Brooklyn Cyclones game July 28. It’ll be a night to raise funds and awareness for CAMBA’s programs and services around Brooklyn —and this organization’s benevolent tentacles reach all over the place. Read the rest of this entry »
Pia Toscano sang the anthem in '03 and was recently an American Idol finalist.
For aspiring baseballers, the minors are where it all begins. Whipper-snappin’ pros take endless grounders, bust their chops, hone their skills, all in the hope of climbing the ladder to the game’s biggest stage. And by biggest stage… we mean American Idol. The Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets’ local farm team, are looking for future idols to sing (or otherwise perform) the national anthem at this season’s home games in Coney Island. Open auditions are next Thursday, May 19, and if you’re feeling at all musically-patriotic, you might want to try your chords. This local girl did back when, and it worked out pretty well for her. Read the rest of this entry »
Save your pennies to sit with these ballers
From our window, we can see the vertical frame of Barclays Center rising to the clouds, which means this Nets in Brooklyn thing is actually happening. There’s still lots of details to work out — like, you know, what to call the team, and how much hip hop we’ll be partying to — but as of this week you can buy tickets for the inaugural Brooklyn season, which starts October 2012. So what does it cost to see BK’s first professional sports team in 54 years? Read the rest of this entry »
Long Island Community Hospital’s days are numbered [NYT]
Eat and wear locally raised cows in Williamsburg [NY Post]
Cyclones to offer Christina Aguilera a second chance [Cyclones]
Dodgers to wear throwback Brooklyn jerseys [LA Dodgers]
BK Museum giving thousands of pre-Columbian artifacts to Costa Rica [AP]
Would you rather have a Walmart or ShopRite in Brooklyn? [NY Mag]
Work It Brooklyn speed networking event returns Feb. 23 [Greenpointers]
Sunken 18th-century vessel found in Gowanus Canal [Brooklyn Paper]
Sheepshead Bay pier, by Nimo Photography
Here we are, at the tail-end of summer, September drawing perilously near, and maybe that European jaunt you dreamed of just didn’t pan out this season. We expected as much, and we’ve been doing our best to provide substitutes: exotic home swaps, $500-a-week vacations, a special kind of working holiday and, well, Mexico. But if none of these was the thing for you, it’s not too late for this one last chance for a great almost-getaway: the South Brooklyn staycation. Here are 17 ways to have a (very full) weekend in our own down-under. Read the rest of this entry »
