Music: Five Brooklyn nightlife mini-moguls have taken over the Galapagos site in Williamsburg and turned it into Natural Selection. It’s a Darwin joke, get it? Comment.

Bay Ridge: Workers exhumed 211 bodies from the crypt of Bay Ridge’s “Green Church,” moving the 108-year-old house of worship closer to its long-slated, but much-protested demolition. With video … Comments (2).

Fort Greene: A student art project with racial overtones was hastily taken down from the walls of Pratt Institute — and now the art and design school’s administration is scrambling to respond to it. Comments (2).

You gotta see this picture of pigeons eating chicken! With video … Comments (1).

Brooklyn Bridge Park cleared another hurdle this week, as the State Supreme Court ruled against opponents of the open space and luxury housing development, unanimously upholding the state’s inclusion of private housing inside the park’s footprint. Comment.

Downtown: Comptroller Bill Thompson has called for the city to sell the Brooklyn House of Detention on Atlantic Avenue, despite a city plan to reopen the jail and double its capacity. Comment.

The Macaroon King of Williamsburg can finally rest. Passover means that Arnold Badner’s work is done for another season. But just because the Jennies Macaroon factory on South Fifth Street finally went silent last Friday doesn’t mean Badner isn’t busy. Comment.

The story of the macaroon, from 16th-century Italy to today. Comment.

Park Slope: Charles Musumeci, whose Raintrees restaurant on the corner of Prospect Park West and Ninth Street served as a portent of the South Slope’s bright future, committed suicide last week at age 63. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Dick Cheney popped into New York this week to raise money for Rep. Vito Fossella’s re-election campaign — and the much-hated vice president brought in enough cash to offset any damage he did to Fossella in the eyes of Brooklyn voters, experts said. Comment.

Politics: The Rev. Jesse Jackson came to a Fort Greene church to talk about the mortgage crisis, but the old politician in him couldn’t resist talking about everything else. Comment.

Politics: Former Black Panther Angela Davis gave her much-anticipated lecture at Pratt Institute and said that racism is still as ingrained as ever in the U.S. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Three local groups that haven’t agreed on how to fight the Atlantic Yards development will put aside their differences to demand a halt in demolition work on the project at a mega-rally next Saturday. Comments (1).

Coney Island: City officials say their revised vision for Coney Island, which includes new attractions, hotels and retail alongside a downsized amusement park, must win over skeptical elected officials and private landowners — or else. Comments (2).

Red Hook: A beloved, but nearly doomed, retro Manhattan diner will get a second lease on life in Red Hook. Comment.

Park Slope: The pricetag for the much-hyped redesign of Prospect Park’s skating rink has soared to $75 million from $60 million just a month ago — and the project has been pushed back another year. Comment.

Gowanus: The banks of the Gowanus Canal would become pollution-sucking sponges thanks to an innovative plan put forward this week by the Gowanus Canal Conservancy — but details for implementation remain as murky as the canal’s notorious waters. Comments (1).

Gowanus: As if the project to transform a toxic tract along the Gowanus Canal into a residential community with shopping and park space wasn’t ambitious enough, the proposal is poised to become even bigger by adding a neighboring site to the mix. Comment.

Editorial: Rep. Vito Fossella — the city’s lone Republican congressman — called in a much-hated vice president to help him raise money. He’s banking on two things: Cheney’s pull with billionaires and voters’ short memories come November. Comments (2).

Cartoon: Our artist’s take on the issues of the day! Comment.

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Sen. Charles Schumer’s endorsement of state Senate candidate Daniel Squadron, judges who park in a park, the anti-Ratner protesters at the Brooklyn Museum and Frank Gehry’s forgotten “Urban Room.” Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our man floats down the Gowanus Canal (in a man-sized condom!). Comments (1).

PS … I Love You: Our columnist laughs, cries and laughs again at how her neighborhood is depicted on YouTube. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom sees a recipe book — and it reminds her of her ever-tenuous feminism. Comment.

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

The city has plans to renovate both East River Bridges, but lane closures might turn the project into a real piece of work. Comment.

Crime: Copper-thieving varmints made at least two more heists of the increasingly valuable metal last week, following five copper thefts from neighborhood construction sites and metal companies earlier this month. Comment.

The Web site you’re now reading is one of the three best weekly paper sites in the country, two national magazines announced on Tuesday. With video … Comments (2).

Bay Ridge: A farmer’s market won’t take root in Bay Ridge because a church isn’t willing to sacrifice its parking lot. Comments (7).

Crime: A beloved Fort Greene sculptor has put up a “generous” reward for the return of a massive bronze piece taken from her Washington Avenue front yard between April 10 and 12. Comment.

Boerum Hill: Residents of a block in Boerum Hill have known for months that rogue urinators were defiling their street, but never had the proof to convince local police of a scatological conspiracy on Dean Street — until now. Comment.

Williamsburg Waterfront: A power plant that would block a proposed park on the North Brooklyn waterfront came back to life nearly a month after the state pulled the plug on the idea. Comment.

Williamsburg Waterfront: After weeks of denials, Con Edison admitted this week that it will demolish a defunct power plant on the South Williamsburg waterfront, leveling a neighborhood landmark to make space for possible high-rise condo development. Comment.

DUMBO: DUMBO’s most celebrated puddle has gone dry — and now its chroniclers appear to have dried up, too. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights: You don’t need a car to enjoy the green lights on Montague Street. Workers hung environmentally friendly decorative lights from the branches of more than 20 Montague Street trees on Earth Day, illuminating the Brooklyn Heights thoroughfare without pulling any energy from the grid. Comment.

Park Slope: A replica of an antique clock is reinstalled on Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope. Comments (2).

Bay Ridge: Bay Ridge groups unite to fight traffic on Eighth Avenue. Comment.

The Stoop: All the tidbits from your neighborhood. Comment.

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

In the spirit of encouraging a free exchange of ideas, The Brooklyn Paper makes this space available to our readers. Comment.