Brooklyn Angle: He had me at Merlot. Of course, I was sympathetic towards Brian Robinson, a nice Brooklyn guy, even before he started plying me with spoiled French grape juice. Comment.

Even in clay, Britney Spears is on the front lines in the Culture War. Comment.

Smartmom: Hepcat got a job, Harried Harriet is seeing a new man, Tall and Lanky’s house renovation was dragging on, and the war in Iraq entered its fourth year. Sounds like it was time for a “Mommy Dinner.” Comment.

Spa: Mask-ing beauty Comment.

Spa: When she was a child in Guyana, South America, Rosa-Nicole Barclay’s grandmother told her she had magic hands. Comment.

Spa: Nowadays, it’s all about the mix. Comment.

Spa: "Hold these rubber chickens," advises laser technician Natella Davydova of Brooklyn Heights’s new Dermacare medi-spa. "You can squeeze them if there is a little pain." Comment.

For its April 1 concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House, the Brooklyn Philharmonic presents "Love and Betrayal," a program paying tribute to composers celebrating milestone birthdays: Mozart’s 250th and Dmitri Shostakovich’s 100th. Comment.

Spa: I have to make a confession: I’m in love with Bruno. Comment.

Spa: The brand spankin’ new, 10,000-square-foot Body By Brooklyn Spa and Lounge, which opened at 275 Park Ave., at Washington Avenue, in Clinton Hill in March, is remarkable for its size - 10 treatment rooms - as well as its attention to each luxurious detail. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Woe, Canada — Freddy’s Bar has joined the boycott of Brooklyn Brewery beer and is replacing the hometown suds with Labatt Blue. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: We like the mythical image of our lawmakers in Albany gathering daily in their oak-lined legislative chambers to heartily debate the weighty issues of the day. We prefer that to the stark reality — that most of our assemblymembers and state senators do little but rubber-stamp decisions made by their chamber’s leadership. This week, our representatives didn’t even chat before awarding $33-million in public subs Comment.

Atlantic Yards: They swore in court that it couldn’t be done, but the state agency reviewing Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project has landed a new lawyer. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Here’s an unanticipated downside to the New Jersey Nets’ plan to relocate to Brooklyn: Wave after wave of Garden Staters will come, too. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Despite months of delays and false starts in realizing his vision of building a Brooklyn arena for his New Jersey Nets, Bruce Ratner remains convinced that everything is going according to plan. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Legislators in Albany have handed developer Bruce Ratner his first public subsidy for his Atlantic Yards project, allocating $33 million for the still-unapproved mega-development. Comment.