By Christie Rizk
Does the thought of cooking a turkey make you groan? With Thanksgiving coming up, many people are in the throes of planning gut-busting meals featuring the difficult-to-cook bird in the leading role.
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We used two 12-pound turkeys for our smackdown. All cooking times and temperatures vary by the weight of the bird, and are usually found on the turkey’s packaging. Both recipes are courtesy of The Wombat.
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By Lilo H. Stainton
Cue the theme music — it’s time for “CSI: DUMBO.”
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By Ariella Cohen
Development: Brooklyn’s Avenue of Death and Destruction might just get a little darker.
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By Christie Rizk
Development: Fratelli Ravioli, family pasta business and Brooklyn institution renowned for fresh pastas and homemade sauces, died last week of acute franchise failure. It was 28 years old.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Development: Park Slope’s pampered tykes might soon have one more reason to love life in Brooklyn. FAO Schwarz — toy store and child magnet since 1862 — said this week it might open a satellite shop in the Slope.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: That damn Starbucks still burns at David Walentas. The Starbucks is on the corner of Main Street and Front Street, in the heart of DUMBO.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Development: Brooklyn architect Robert Scarano is the consummate survivor.
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By Dana Rubinstein
The poaching of Brooklyn’s wild monk parrots from their perches on neighborhood streets has been ruffling the feathers of bird-lovers for months, and now, the borough’s parrot-owner-in-chief is taking matters into his own … er … talons.
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By Ariella Cohen
Downtown plan: A glitzy tower now in the works for Downtown Brooklyn will be even larger than its 400-foot-tall neighbors, thanks to a city subsidy to builders of affordable housing.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Thanksgiving: that most American of holidays. Pumpkin pie. Football. Divorce.
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By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: Racing to give their approval to Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development before Gov. George Pataki leaves office Dec. 31, state officials have certified the project’s final environmental impact statement. There must be ten days between the certification and the final approval vote by the Empire State Development Corporation.
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By Susannah G. Bortner
Picture this: it’s Thanksgiving Day and your 15 guests are
due to arrive in several hours. You’re hunched over your gourmet
cookbook and your turkey. The day speeds effortlessly along, and
then, boom!
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By Kevin Filipski
Since French composer Darius Milhaud wrote
hundreds of works at lightning speed, the bulk of his output
is often considered lightweight, lacking in true artistry.
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By Giacomo Maniscalco
Reporter and thrill-seeker Matt Power grinned
childishly while sitting in a small cafe in Prospect Heights.
He probably had that same smile on his face while clutching the
handlebars of his motorcycle and rolling 5,000 miles through
the Andes, South America’s majestic mountain range.
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By Karen Butler
To celebrate the recent HBO premiere of
"Angel Rodriguez," Jim McKay’s latest examination of
race, class and culture in Brooklyn, BAMcinematek is presenting
a series of free screenings of the acclaimed Park Slope filmmaker’s
borough-set works.
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By Jovana Rizzo
In 1982, Broadway actor Ben Harney took
home the Tony for Best Actor for his performance in "Dreamgirls."
This month, he has applied his professional experience - infused
with his personal memories - to direct the same show at the Kumble
Theater for the Performing Arts in Downtown Brooklyn.
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In "Hits the ’Spot’ " [GO Brooklyn, Oct. 21, 2006]
the description of V Spot’s "Boardwalk fudge" was incorrect.
The dessert does not come with ice cream, and it is not raw.
The restaurant is waiting for its beer and wine license, not
a liquor license. V Spot does have smoothies, but does not have
fresh-squeezed juices. We regret the errors.
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By Sasha Vasilyuk
In 1946, when Europeans were leaving the
Old World en masse, 22-year-old journalist Paula Fox sailed from
her native New York toward the war-ravaged continent to work
as a stringer for a British news service.
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