Spa: Listed below are Brooklyn spas and the services and products they offer. Unless otherwise noted, a basic facial and basic massage are one-hour treatments. Spa protocol 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Spa: Mask-ing beauty Comment.