All the important meetings you should be going to. Comment.

Our former editor and his wife have a new baby! Read all about it. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: In our back-to-school issue, The Paper sits down with a rising star principal Comments (1).

Park Slope: Roz Bayne is smiling again, now that Pizza Plus, her popular Seventh Avenue pie joint that was virtually destroyed by a fire in May, is back serving the masses. Comment.

Park Slope: It took months in a hot real-estate market, but Jennifer Kliegel has finally found a new home for her Park Slope Dance Studio — though it’s not technically in Park Slope anymore. Comment.

Downtown: DUMBO goes to the mat to protect cobblestones. Comment.

Judith Zuk, who ran the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for 15 years and was an influential botany educator and a lover of magnolias, died last week after a long struggle with breast cancer. She was 55. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: More than 2,000 new housing units are in the works in Carroll Gardens and the gritty area east of the Gowanus Canal between Sackett and Fifth streets. But a growing number of naysayers want to slow the pace of development. Comment.

Art: Local artist Dillon de Give has a new gimmick: TV sets broadcasting his quirky videos have popped up in three stores. Comment.

Letters: Somehow, our columnist’s anti-litter call angered some former Park Slopers — plus letters on Brooklyn hospitality, the late John Gallahue, plans for a rodeo in Prospect Park, President Bush’s slow response to the Bay Ridge tornado, a former brothel in Park Slope, and the fine work being done by our Bay Ridge reporter, Matthew Lysiak. Comment.

Bay Ridge: This may be Club Shadows’ last dance. On Aug. 22, the embattled Fourth Avenue nightclub’s plea offer was rejected by the State Liquor Authority who came back with an offer of its own — give up your liquor license or go to trial. Comment.

Fort Greene: Cafe Lafayette, whose reputation was poisoned after it popped up on a politician’s “dirtiest-restaurant” list two years ago, has cleaned up its act, yet remains on the verge of death. Comments (1).

Music: Park it in Fort Greene this weekend for a controversial neighborhood festival. Comment.

Williamsburg: A woman returned to her Scholes Street apartment on Sept. 2 and quickly realized that there was a burglar inside. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg’s 90th Precinct. Comments (1).

Fort Greene: A man put up a fight against his would-be mugger, but the thug got away with the man’s iPod on Aug. 26. Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A 19-year old woman was assaulted and robbed on the corner of Warren and Smith streets on Aug. 29, police said. Plus all the other crime news from Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Boerum Hill’s 76th Precinct. Comment.

Music: Opera takes over the Red Hook piers. Comment.

Downtown: A mugging in the heart of DUMBO — plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, Downtown and DUMBO’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A team of men selling a home security system ended up stealing their would-be client’s credit card on Aug. 28, cops said. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst. Comment.

Cyclones: Matt Bouchard hit his first professional home run with his mother and father in attendance. And it was his dad’s birthday. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom and her fellow mom-friends mark the opening day of school. Comments (1).

Cyclones: The Cyclones are sputtering towards the New York–Penn League playoffs, ending the week with a razor-thin lead over the second-place (and defending champion) Staten Island Yankees, but the Clones did lock up a playoff berth — and a Yankees-Cyclones first-round battle appears likely as we went to press. Comment.

Park Slope: Two thugs violently mugged a woman on Prospect Park West on Aug. 31— but the perps were quickly collared by a cop on the beat. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Cinema: The best of NewFest comes to BAM. Comment.

Cyclones: How intense is the rivalry between the Staten Island Yankees and the Brooklyn Cyclones? A near-beaning of a Cyclone player is the latest evidence. Comment.

Cyclones: Cyclones infielder Joaquin Rodriguez hasn’t had the easiest time of it at first base this season, so he’s doing what any committed professional would do to improve himself: he’s taking dancing lessons. Comment.

Cyclones: One of the three racing hot dogs who race from the left-field wall to home plate after the top of fifth inning says he still has a shot to win it all. Comment.

Play’s the Thing: The Bard of Brooklyn baseball sizes up the coming playoff clash between the Cyclones and the Staten Island Yankees. Good news: He’s predicting a win! Comments (1).

Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).

Cyclones: Catcher Jason Jacobs is having what may be the best offensive year in Cyclones history — but he doesn’t only lead in the statistical categories. He leads on the field, too. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist weighs in on the blog war against Elementi, a new — and actually good — restaurant. Comments (2).

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hits the back room at Ricky’s and finds that she doesn’t even blush. Comments (1).

Red Hook: Our cartoonist’s take. Comments (1).

Downtown: This summer has been no fruit smoothie for businesses along Pineapple Walk, thanks to the enormous blue scaffolding that transformed the once sunny pedestrian shopping strip into a forbidding, gloomy cave. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist uncovers a rash of stroller-jackings in Bay Ridge! Comments (1).

Cinema: Turturro sings to GO Brooklyn about his new movie musical. Comment.

Editorial: Two new reports show that Brooklyn’s leaders need to do more to attract visitors and keep them here long enough to spend their money. Comment.

Williamsburg: The chutzpah-filled thief who not only robbed a Williamsburg cabbie, but advised him to “put in a partition,” was nabbed this week when he tried to pull off the same crime. Comment.

Dining: Greenpoint’s coolest new bar trades in the ‘hood’s Polish history for a British vibe. Comment.

Williamsburg: Slightly tipsy pub-crawlers and late-night subway commuters are being increasingly targeted in Williamsburg’s 90th Precinct, officers at the Union Avenue stationhouse told The Brooklyn Paper. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Threat? What threat? Comment.

Dining: How Franny’s is dealing with its marquee moment. Comment.

Dining: Nanatori goes beyond just fish and makes a splash. Comments (1).

Beside the Point: Our columnist — a Greenpoint insider — tells the real story of the McCarren Park pool. Comment.

Brooklyn South: A tale of a landlord who may or may not have sniffed his tenant’s panties. Comments (1).

Cinema: A history of defunct devices. Comment.

Downtown plan: Duffield Street homeowner Joy Chatel believes that if someone would just give her a chance to meet with Mayor Bloomberg, she could get him to abandon a longstanding plan to raze her home — which many historians believe was a stop on the Underground Railroad — to make way for a new park and an underground garage. Comment.

Politics: Global warming is happening. The scientists say it, the mayor says it, and even the president is talking the talk. Now, one Brooklyn artist is walking the walk. Comment.

Cinema: Have online movie rentals killed the video store in Brooklyn? Comment.

Why are Red Hook’s chickens getting a stage at Farm Aid? Comments (2).

Downtown: A new International House of Pancakes restaurant is being slapped down on Livingston Street near Bond Street in Downtown. IHOP, as its fans know it, is popular nationwide for late-night service and cheap eats — but for now, we’ll skip the “Rooty Tooty Fresh ’N’ Fruity” breakfast in favor of the Lumberjack Breakfast at the nearby Carroll Gardens Classic Diner on Smith Street. The only other Brooklyn location for the California-based chain is on Ralph Avenue in distant Flatbush. Comment.

The Hampton Jitney’s foray into Brooklyn — a daring three-month experiment for the Manhattan-centric luxury bus-line — has been declared a success and will be continued at least through January. Comments (2).

Red Hook: The Queen Mary 2 is a sinking ship when it comes to creating new jobs and revenue in New York, according to a report issued last week by an industry trade organization. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: Reporters hoping that something explosive would happen at the opening of the Khalil Gibran International Academy on Tuesday were sorely disappointed: The school opened and there were no problems. Comment.

Books: We hope you did your summer reading because on Sept. 16, the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival is hitting town. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: All of Hollywood is talking about the demise of A-list sweethearts Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams — but the pair’s Boerum Hill neighbors are much more interested in the real gossip: who will get the couple’s $3.5-million Dean Street brownstone! Comment.

President Bush will send disaster relief funds to victims of the Aug. 8 storm that unleashed a tornado on Bay Ridge — but the White House is only sending the money to Queens, not Brooklyn. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A mysterious gang of marauding foliage thieves has been yanking flowers and snagging herbs right out of the gardens of some lush homes in Bay Ridge. Comments (3).