Weekend Watch: Here are the service changes affecting you this weekend (12:01 am, Saturday, Dec. 4 to 5 am, Monday, Dec. 6, unless otherwise noted). Comment.

Event: The biggest sporting event of the season is back. And no, it’s not hockey. Comments (1).

Williamsburg: A popular corner store on Williamsburg’s busiest block closed this week after its landlord demanded a 40-percent rent increase by the end of month. Comments (10).

Bay Ridge: High winds during Wednesday’s Nor’easter pushed a menacing tree into a house on 79th Street, causing minor damage, but briefly imprisoning a Doberman. Comment.

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Downtown plan: Start calling Downtown the borough’s chain gang — the national sandwich shop Panera Bread is coming to Adams Street, joining a swath of multi-location retailers and restaurants that are taking over the neighborhood. Comments (1).

Talk about food for thought! Comment.

Dining: Now sleepy Fort Greene residents can get the perfect cup of coffee four very different ways. Comment.

Nightlife: At this taxidermy contest, the living may overshadow the dead. Comment.

Park Slope: Here it is, folks, your classic First Night of Hanukkah photo — Mayor Bloomberg lighting the Park Slope menorah. Let there be light. Comments (2).

Park Slope: At least four women had their fancy iPhones stolen last week across three precincts — and all of the thefts were committed by a thief on a bicycle, a chilling reminder of a crime wave that cops thought they had broken last year. Comments (2).

Park Slope: A celebrity First Amendment lawyer is scoffing at a defamation lawsuit brought on by the owners of Gorilla Coffee, who accused their former employees and the New York Times of defamation stemming from April’s mass staff exodus over the owners’ alleged hostile management style. Comments (3).

Stephen Solarz, the tough-talking, nine-term Brooklyn congressman who was as comfortable blasting a foreign leader as he was negotiating a landlord-tenant dispute in Brighton Beach, died on Monday of esophageal cancer in Washington. He was 70 years old. Comments (2).

Politics: History isn’t always written by the winners, after all. Comments (3).

Williamsburg: The owner of a low-price hostel chain has bought one of Williamsburg’s most-iconic landmarks for possible conversion into a high-end lodge, restaurant or retail shopping center. Comment.

Prime Time: Learn how to make it yourself! Comments (3).

Link: If it’s Wednesday, it’s Police Blotter day on BrooklynPaper.com. Find your neighborhood below or click the link above to get a full list.

Bay Ridge: The entire campus of the Salem Lutheran Church has been sold for $2,650,000 to a new congregation that plans to renovate and reuse the complex — saving it from the fate of Bay Ridge’s beloved “Green Church,” which was demolished two years ago. Comment.

Art: Independent comic book doodlers will rub elbows with fine artists from matchless metropolitan magazines on Dec. 4 as the second annual Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival touches down in Williamsburg. Comment.

Williamsburg: Three thugs brutally assaulted a Jewish school teacher in South Williamsburg last Thursday evening, taunting him with an anti-Semitic slur, a source said. Comments (9).

Music: The Big Easy comes to Brooklyn on Dec. 3 and 4. Comments (1).

Shopping: This borough really is the gift that keeps on giving — thanks to these three designers. Comment.

Books: Finally, “Fiddler on the Roof” gets a 21st-century reboot. Comments (1).

Bar Scrawl: The latest installment of our new feature, Bar Scrawl, offers our cartoonists’-eye view of a good Cobble Hill joint. Comment.

Shopping: Here’s our insider’s guide to Bensonhurst, one of the greatest neighborhoods in the borough. Comments (3).

Survey says? We want to keep our seniors in Brownstone Brooklyn! Comments (13).

Books: This writer is deadly funny. Comment.

Podcast: Find out in our exclusive video! With video … Comments (6).

Foodie-in-Chief: Our food gossip column is back! Comment.

Shopping: It used to be that the worst thing about the delicious cakes, pies and pastries offered at Momofuku’s Milk Bar was the subway ride into Manhattan to get them. Comment.

The Dad: Our dad columnist finds out this week. Comment.

Williamsburg: The co-owner of Greenpoint Bikes is being deported for a 10-year-old crime. Comments (2).

Dining: They’ve battled over brunch, chosen the best cheeses, and even tackled tacos. But cookoff pros Theo Peck and Nick Suarez are about to take on what might be their most ambitious Food Experiment yet: the holidays. Comment.

Shopping: “Will that be cash, credit or library card?” Comment.

Cobble Hill: A beloved form of child’s play is about to head to an adult court. Comments (16).

Mean Streets: More than six months after the death of a pedestrian on McGuinness Boulevard, the victim’s mother has grown frustrated over the police’s handling of the case and the city’s slow response towards calming one of Brooklyn’s meanest streets. Comments (7).

Dining: The name may be redolent of an old-school Italian eatery, but Cobble Hill’s recently opened Italian market and restaurant, Brucie, is anything but. Comments (1).