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GO Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Paper#8217;s essential guide to the Borough of Kings

Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

The sub standard!

The Best Thing We Ate This Week: It’s the greatest thing on sliced bread — literally. Comment.

Friday, Feb. 3, 2012

Best in foam

The borough’s best brewers will compete for the home brew keg king crown. Comment.

Tap this!

Bar Scrawl: A bar boasting the best of Brooklyn’s brews. Comment.

The weekender! Here’s what you should do on Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some tips for a great weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Comment.

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

What’s the special ingredient in Vinegar Hill House’s Caesar salad?

Dining: The King of Vinegar Hill puts the crunch in this beloved dish at his popular restaurant. Comments (1).

Knish party! Filmmaker hosts bash for New York accent documentary

Cinema: Try some potato knishes and kvell over this light-hearted film at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema. Comments (2).

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

S’mac down! Gowanus plays host to gut-busting comfort food showdown

Dining: These cheesy noodles got especially brutal at this competitive cook-off. Comments (2).

This new business idea is sew good

Carroll Gardens: A sewing studio is setting up shop in Williamsburg that will allow crafty Brooklynites to put their needles and thread to good use. Comment.

Gallery goes graffiti in Bushwick

Art: Skewville gets honored with a retrospective at the Factory Fresh gallery. Comment.

Monday, Jan. 30, 2012

Slope artist explores her demons — by sculpting demons

DUMBO: This art is devilishly good. Comment.

New takes on the classics

Art: The Brooklyn Museum is kicking off the new year by opening its doors — and handing over its showrooms — to two promising young artists inspired by the museum’s venerable permanent collection. Comment.

Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

‘Grease’ sing-along? We’ll tell you more!

Event: A “Grease” sing-along at the Bell House on Feb. 16 celebrates the Pink Lady and T-Bird in us all. Comment.

Your weekend reads — from three Brooklyn booksellers

Books: Once again, the ladies of BookMark Shoppe, Greenlight and Word give us their hot books of the week. Comment.

Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012

Why is there no good Chinese food in Brownstone Brooklyn?

The Year of the Dragon is supposed to be a fruitful and auspicious year, according to the Chinese Zodiac — and plenty of brownstone Brooklyn foodies are hoping some of that luck goes toward improving their neighborhoods’ dismal Chinese food offerings. Comments (22).

The best places to chow down outside of Chinatown

Dining: When we asked our friends and sources where to find good Chinese restaurants outside of Brooklyn’s Chinatowns in Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, and Sheepshead Bay, the response was almost universally : “Oh … I don’t know.” Comments (7).

Jim Jarmusch adds a rock edge to smooth lute tunes

Music: The famed director will join Greenpoint-based avante garde lute player Jozepf van Wissem at Issue Project Room on Feb. 3 to celebrate the duo’s first album, “Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity.” Comments (1).

Greenpoint’s newest beer shop

Bar Scrawl: It’s beer o’clock at Greenpoint’s newest bar and growler shop. Comments (3).

Friday, Jan. 27, 2012

This ‘Top Chef’ is the real thing

Dining: We were already fans of Bravo’s “Top Chef Season 4” and “All-Stars” contestant Dale Talde going in — a fact we tried hard not to convey when interviewing him about Talde, his new Asian-fusion eatery on Seventh Avenue and 11th Street in Park Slope. Comments (1).

Park Slope’s on fire

Foodie-in-Chief: Get this week’s hot, juicy food gossip! Comment.

The weekender! Here’s what you should do on Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some tips for a great weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Comment.

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012

The ‘Importance’ of love!

Theater: In a musical rendition of “A Man of No Importance,” The Gallery Players explore themes of love, acceptance and equality. Comment.

Banter and brains! NPR trivia show invades the Bell House

Event: NPR’s newest game show combines the airs of geeky troubadour Jonathan Coulton and storytelling of comedian Ophira Eisenberg. Be part of the live tapings at the Bell House through April 23. Comments (2).

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