This year’s Reel Sisters film festival, "Jump at de Sun," which runs from March 10 to 12 at Long Island University, pays tribute to Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston. In honor of the "Their Eyes Were Watching God" scribe (a portrait of Hurston by artist Gilbert Fletcher is pictured at right), the festival will celebrate her influence on film, literature and art. Comment.

This year’s list of Academy Award nominees is peppered with the names of Brooklyn natives, new Kings County residents and actors who portrayed borough luminaries on the big screen. Comment.

For the head of a dance troupe celebrating its 25th anniversary, Mark Morris sounds pretty blase. Comment.

Futura Bistro Modern, a restaurant in an ungentrified strip of Park Slope’s Ninth Street, possesses one thing no eatery in Brooklyn has: a chandelier so grand it could have graced the ballroom of the Titanic. Comment.

It’s been a while since GO Girl has dug out her finery for an honest-to-goodness, celebrity-studded bash, so it is with much gratitude that she thanks the great continent of Australia and the Brooklyn Academy of Music for bringing Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett to Fort Greene Tuesday night. Comment.

The only chains coming soon to the Brooklyn House of Detention aren’t the kind with shackles. Comment.

Call it Blue-and-Yellow Hook. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: t’s a dirty job, but somebody — preferably a minority or a woman — has to do it. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Tens of millions of gallons of raw sewage will flow into an already stinky Gowanus Canal if Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project is built, borough officials were told this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A public meeting to discuss the Atlantic Yards project degenerated into a shouting match that reopened Brooklyn’s class and race scars. Comment.

Smartmom: How about this for timing: Smartmom’s mother-in-law arrived from California just in time to catch last week’s “Valentine’s Sexcapade” column. Comment.