The Baltic Bazaar store on Atlantic Avenue is hosting a festive bash to thank its donors and the public is invited to join the celebration. Comment.

Next year, the Brooklyn Eats festival should be filmed as a "Survivor" for the food world. Cameras could trail a group of enthusiastic foodies as they wade through the offerings of 70 restaurants. Camera people would capture the group’s initial comments, "I can’t wait to try the pate and the duck confit! And those cakes!" Comment.

The weekly drink specials are not what’s enticing night crawlers to Floyd, NY, a new bar on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights. It isn’t the eclectic tunes on the jukebox or the hip crowd hanging around, either. Instead, revelers are drawn by a good, old-fashioned game of bocce. Comment.

"Guys and Dolls" - now on stage at the Heights Players through Oct. 24 - has become such a classic of musical theater it’s easy to forget its long, hard road to Broadway. In fact, producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin originally envisioned the musical, based on Damon Runyan’s short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," as a serious romance. Comment.

Even if you’ve seen "Hamlet" dozens of times, you shouldn’t miss Working Mutt Production’s site-specific presentation at their new space - the basement of a turn-of-the-century opera house in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The former theater is currently under renovation, as it is being turned into a 21st-century apartment complex, and the basement where the play unfolds seems to be the repository for all the junk that was once in the building. Comment.

A hotel can be the perfect setting for a spooky fright-fest (anyone seen "The Shining"?) and the New York City College of Technology is extending a ghoulish invitation to the public to check into its own "Haunted Hotel" beginning Thursday, Oct. 28 (from noon to 8 pm) at the Voorhees Theatre (186 Jay St. at Tillary Street) in Downtown Brooklyn. Comment.

The intersection of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn was once again a jazz mecca Friday, as the old Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, once one of the world’s most majestic movie palaces, was remembered for its oft-overlooked legacy as the stage for many of jazz’s greatest legends. Comment.

Letters: [I am writing] in reference to your article about “Don Slovin’s Jamprov, an improv show you can really get into” (“Jamprov blues,” GO Brooklyn, Oct. 9). Thank you so much for bringing light to my plight. I didn’t realize how much of an s.o.b. I am. I was hoping when I get out of Jamprov Prison (see the picture), I might be involved in an (enforced) exchange work program. I will be glad to learn all there is about jou Comment.

Now through Oct. 30, Soda Bar in Prospect Heights will host "Oktoberfest," a celebration of beers from international microbreweries. Soda Bar’s owner, Anatoly Dubinsky (pictured on right with bartender Michael LiDondici), whom you may remember from his now defunct Smith Street Kitchen, will pour Spaten, from Munich, and Flying Duck, a pale ale from Colorado, in addition to 13 specialty beers. Comment.