The hills of Prospect Park are going to be alive with Robert Wise’s Oscar-winning 1965 film, "The Sound of Music," on July 29 at 7:30 pm. According to Celebrate Brooklyn’s Jack Walsh, the film will be shown in Cinemascope on the band shell’s 50-foot-wide, 22-foot-tall screen "as it was meant to be seen." Comment.

On July 24 at 3 pm, the Coney Island Museum will host an artist’s reception for "Philomena Marano: (still) Under the Influence." Comment.

Brooke Ellison, who at age 11 was hit by a car and left paralyzed from the neck down, has defied the odds. Despite her handicap, she graduated with honors from Harvard University in 2000 and her life inspired a film. Comment.

A silver shovel that Mayor Fiorello La Guardia used to break ground at Brooklyn College’s Midwood campus in 1935 now stands erect in the center of the college library, like a statue commemorating the beginning of a celebrated legacy. Comment.

Watching the microphone-wielding cabaret singer, dressed in a black bow tie and white, double-breasted jacket, at the Triad Theatre in Manhattan Tuesday night was a blast from the past, indeed. Bay Ridge native Martin McQuade sang Bing Crosby songs from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, and even showed off the crooner’s merchandise from that time period: a vintage mousetrap and ice cream box. Comment.

Albano Ballerini, one of the pioneers of Vanderbilt Avenue’s new culinary renaissance, has opened a second outpost, Amorina Cucina Rustica, across the avenue from his first idiosyncratic cafe, Aliseo Osteria del Borgo. Comment.

What is a neighborhood restaurant? It depends on the neighborhood. In Park Slope, bistros abound; ditto for Smith Street in Boerum Hill. In Bay Ridge, locals have flocked to 101 Restaurant & Bar since its opening, 14 years ago. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: The future of New York City’s economy depends on Brooklyn, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff said this week. Comment.

Call it the luxury condominium project that New York judges just love to hold. Comment.

Despite mounting pressure from community groups, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said this week it would not make public the details of two bids submitted by developers seeking to build over the Atlantic Avenue rail storage yards until the authority’s board had completed its review of them. Comment.

Borough President Marty Markowitz has been lobbying United Nations officials to relocate to Downtown Brooklyn during the planned reconstruction of the international body’s general headquarters in Manhattan — and the effort may be paying off. Comment.

Proving that a picture is truly worth a thousand words, a community activist and longtime supporter of the plan to build a Brooklyn Bridge Park set off a flurry of anxious e-mails this week when he distributed a computer-generated image of what he believes a planned 30-story condominium tower at the park’s southern end would look like. Comment.

Play’s the Thing: Brooklyn Papers Cyclones Coverage JULY 23, 2005 ISSUE Comment.

Cyclones: The Cyclones don’t have any players from Brooklyn on the roster this year, but they do have two players from Long Island, which makes them, well, semi-local. Comment.

Cyclones: Darryl Strawberry played for all four former or current New York City major-league clubs: The Mets, the Dodgers, the Giants, and the Yankees. But the slugging outfielder’s greatest success was with the Mets, World Series winners in 1986. Comment.