By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: It looks gorgeous — but it’s still weeks away from opening. Still, our exclusive peak inside reveals that if the city ever actually turns it over to the YMCA, the Park Slope Armory will be one heck of a community resource.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Election: What other newspaper lets you into the boardroom when we grill three candidates for City Council who are seeking our endorsement?
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By Ben Muessig
Dining: Our elite team of tasters put the Sarah Zorn sandwich through the meat grinder, if you will.
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Podcast: We’ve replaced our beloved Senior Reporter Mike McLaughlin with (drumroll please) Will Yakowicz! Watch the new reporter get the news — live! — in this stunning piece of videotape. Who else but The Brooklyn Paper broadcasts a video of a guy getting a job? No one, that’s who!
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By Sabrina Jaszi
Smash or Trash: A Clinton Hill brewery has released a new beer named for a fetid Brooklyn waterway. The good news is you can drink it.
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Rhythm & News: Frank Hoier read our coverage of the Westboro Baptist Church bigots, so the Bard of Columbia Street (yes, he moved) wrote his new hit, “Talkin’ Westboro Baptist Church Comes to Brooklyn Blues” for this week’s “Rhythm and News” feature.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Kate Emerson
Mean Streets: In a city that claims to be bike-friendly — and in a neighborhood long believed to be the borough’s cycling epicenter — cops sawed off bikes that had been locked on Bedford Avenue last night. See the shocking YouTube video now!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: But you knew that, given Señor Editor Vince DiMiceli’s inclusion in the “Smash or Trash” team this week.
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By Ben Muessig
Podcast: Join Editor Gersh Kuntzman and Señor Editor Vince DiMiceli as they bring us video footage of The Brooklyn Paper’s stunning award wins at the Independent Free Papers of America convention in Chicago this weekend!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Gersh Kuntzman
Mean Streets: Phase II of the transformation of Kent Avenue from a two-way truck route into a one-way northbound street with one of the city’s best bike lanes will begin this weekend, following the much-hailed conversion of the southern portion of the thoroughfare.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Gersh Kuntzman
Podcast: In an exclusive interview with the Breukelen-obsessed Brooklyn Paper, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende refuses to stop the merger of Breukelen and two small villages nearby.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Mean Streets: A portion of Kent Avenue in Williamsburg has finally been transformed into the city’s best bike lane — so naturally, our biking editor was on hand to check it out. It’s a wild ride — especially when the protected, two-way lane abruptly ends at Broadway.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Election: This forum — featuring John Heyer, Gary Reilly, Josh Skaller, Brad Lander and Bob Zuckerman was moderated by Brooklyn Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman — and you’ll want to watch it again and again.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Election: All seven candidates for the 33rd District seat — Isaac Abraham, Ken Baer, Doug Biviano, Ken Diamondstone, Steve Levin, Jo Anne Simon and Evan Thies — participated.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Election: All four the candidates — Councilmembers Bill DeBlasio (D–Park Slope) and Eric Gioia (D-Queens), civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel and former Public Advocate Mark Green — clashed in a spirited debate held by The Brooklyn Paper in conjunction with Brooklyn Independent Television.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Election: Some of the wildest action so far this campaign season involved one man and two women going at it in front of a camera — in a hot City Council debate in The Brooklyn Paper’s Metrotech offices last month.
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By Jeremy Walsh
Election: ouncilmembers Melinda Katz, John Liu and David Weprin, all of Queens, and Councilman David Yassky (D–Brooklyn Heights), were grilled by reporters from Community Newspaper Group, the parent company of The Brooklyn Paper, in a debate held in conjunction with Brooklyn Independent Television on the BCAT TV Network.
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By Ben Muessig
Election: Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson visited The Brooklyn Paper’s office last month to outline his vision for the city — and his plans differ from his Democratic rival on just about all counts.
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Rhythm & News: Frank Hoier recently read about a Brooklyn judge who’s tough on banks that want to foreclose, so the Bard of Bushwick was moved to write his new hit, “Little Judge Schack” for this week’s “Rhythm and News” feature.
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Podcast: We’ve lost another solid intern — Shannon Geis. Please join us for this cupcake-filled tribute, which includes a rare office visit from our puppetry, kids music and mime columnist, Thurston Dooley III!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Election: It could be a political first: a cartoon attack ad.
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By Ben Meussig
Park Slope: Rejoice! Brooklyn finally has it’s rooftop bar!
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By Jeremy Walsh
Community Newspaper Group / Tom Callan
Election: Last week, we taped a scintillating debate with the four public advocate candidates — and you can watch it right now by clicking the link above!
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Politics: Mayor Bloomberg sat down with our editors and reporters on Monday. Here’s just a small taste.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Election: Some of the wildest action so far this campaign season involved one man and two women going at it in front of a camera — in a hot City Council debate in The Brooklyn Paper’s Metrotech offices this week.
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Rhythm & News: Frank Hoier read in The Brooklyn Paper about the women who are farming people’s backyards, so the Bard of Bushwick was moved to write his new hit, “Brooklyn Sharecropper” for this week’s “Rhythm and News” feature.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
CBS / John Paul Filo
Music: Everybody’s — or at least every middle-aged editor with two kids’ — favorite band, Care Bears on Fire, rocked on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on Wednesday night.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Election: Borough President Markowitz is out on the hustings for David Yassky in a fun new TV ad.
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By Jeremy Walsh
Election: Who should be our next comptroller? Decide for yourself by watching our exclusive debate featuring all four hopefuls.
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Podcast: We’ve lost two more great interns — Robin Riskin and Jared Foretek. Please join us for this donut-filled tribute.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The band has a new album out, but the Smash or Trash team trashed it. Sorry.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Election: Who needs Tivo? The Brooklyn Paper and Brooklyn Independent Television’s exciting debate featuring the five men who hope to succeed Bill DeBlasio can be viewed just by clicking here.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Election: There’s no need for Tivo! You can watch candidates for the 33rd Council District — currently occupied by David Yassky — debate right here, right now!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The Icelandic rocker is doing all five boroughs in one day — and Brooklyn is his last stop.
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Dining: Watch our exclusive video about how Kyle Huebbe got the news of his triumph!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The “Smash or Trash” team loved this band’s new song, “Communist Lecture.” See In Cadeo tonight or on Aug. 20.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
By The Brooklyn Paper’s Entomophagy Team
By Robert Voris
The Brooklyn Paper / Robert Voris
Fort Greene: Laika, the geriatric Husky whose abduction late last month prompted an immediate and visceral response from cops, readers and even a dog-loving state assemblyman, is back home — and you can partly thank The Brooklyn Paper!
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Rhythm & News: In his latest “Rhythm and News” feature, the Bard of Bushwick, Frank Hoier, sings about the Meadows of Shame!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash Team
Smash or Trash: They gave us an offer we could not refuse: drink this bottle of red wine. Now!
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Downtown: You’ve seen them on the beat. You’ve read their stellar (edited!) copy. Now it’s time to meet The Brooklyn Paper’s outstanding intern class of 2009 in this exclusive video roll call!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: Cobalt and the Hired Guns is playing Saturday night at Union Hall — that’s tomorrow! July 25! — so the Smash or Trash team gives them the shot in the arm that they so badly need. This band is a smash!
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By Robert Voris
Dining: Canadian donut invader Tim Hortons has opened in two Downtown locations and, of course, The Brooklyn Paper team was there.
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Rhythm & News: In his latest “Rhythm and News” feature, the Bard of Bushwick, Frank Hoier, fantasizes about what a Whole Food supermarket would be like.
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By Ben Muessig
Transit: Why was the Q train delayed from beginning its run from Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island on Wednesday night? This shocking video, forwarded by our reader Nicky Huddy, shows why.
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By our Amsterdam Bureau
Podcast: Nobody celebrates Brooklyn’s history — and we’re talking about our Dutch history — better than The Brooklyn Paper. That’s why our team is on the ground, right now, in Holland doing that and other things.
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Rhythm & News: In his latest “Rhythm and News” feature, the Bard of Bushwick, Frank Hoier, sings about...Bushwick!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Gersh Kuntzman
By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: With a big music weekend upon us, the Smash or Trash team reviews three new songs.
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Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist predicts that Takeru Kobayashi will triumph at Saturday’s hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island.
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Event: The eyes of the world will be on Coney Island again on Saturday, when two-time world hot-dog-eating champion Joey “Jaws” Chestnut faces off against Takeru Kobayashi, the six-time champion who redefined competitive eating greatness before Chestnut dethroned him in 2007.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Art: Meet a woman artist who uses one of the most disgusting places in the city as her muse — in this exclusive video!
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Rhythm & News: In his latest “Rhythm and News” feature, the Bard of Bushwick, Frank Hoier, sings the “Ballad of Coney Island.”
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist got to test drive a 100-percent electricity-powered car. It was cool.
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Event: Amos Wengler, the Bard of Coney Island, performs his stirring and ageless classic, “The Mermaid Parade.”
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The Smash or Trash team hated the husband-and-wife band, Post Honeymoon.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg
Transit: Ferry service returns. And there was much (or, at least some) rejoicing!
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Rhythm & News: In his latest “Rhythm and News” feature, the Bard of Bushwick, Frank Hoier, rips a song right out of The Brooklyn Paper police blotter.
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Podcast: Evan Gardner, a legend, has moved on. Join us for one last longing look back.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Music: The keyboardist for Wilco has spoken: our ticket giveaway for the band’s July 13 concert in Coney Island is “great.”
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Smash or Trash: Our contest to win two free tickets to Wilco’s July 13 show at Coney Island ends on May 31. Enter today!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Dining: He conquered the world of high-end truffles and bon-bons. Then he made us look forward to winter with his hot chocolate. When he started baking, his kitchen quickly created the best chocolate chip cookies and brownies in the city.
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Rhythm & News: In his latest “Rhythm and News” feature, the Bard of Bushwick, Frank Hoier, sings about an art project in DUMBO that got destroyed by state officials.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: On the eve of two weekend shows, Title Tracks gets a rave from The Brooklyn Paper’s “Smash or Trash” team.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Podcast: Our own favorite son, Ben Muessig, will be running in this Sunday’s Pittsburgh Marathon. In this exclusive podcast, Ben gives Brooklyn Paper viewers a look inside his unique training regimen.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: Electronica legend Dan Deacon sent us his new CD and asked The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team to do what it does best in reviewing the hit “Getting Old.”
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Awesome: We got ‘em, you want ‘em: two tickets to Wilco’s July 13 show at Coney Island. Click above to find out how to enter our giveaway contest!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
By Gersh Kuntzman
Rhythm & News: Frank Hoier sings his new protest ditty, “Mister MTA Blues,” live from our Metrotech offices!
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Downtown plan: As you know, The Brooklyn Paper is now happily ensconsed in our new Metrotech offices in Downtown Brooklyn — but watch the hilarity ensue when Editor Gersh Kuntzman tries to leave the compound for a cookie! It’s a romp through Downtown that you’ll see only at BrooklynPaper.com.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: They wanted our review before their show next Sunday — but then cancelled the show. Too bad, because the Smash or Trash team actually liked their song.
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DUMBO: On the eve of The Brooklyn Paper’s all-out ping pong grudge match with the staff of the Water Street Restaurant and Lounge on Thursday, April 16 in DUMBO, here’s some exclusive video that really shows what the restaurant is in for. As we say in our Metrotech newsroom, bring it, suckers!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The Suckers wanted The Brooklyn Paper’s “Smash or Trash” team to review their new single before their April 23 show at Glasslands. We’re happy to oblige, though we doubt the band will agree with our conclusions.
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Podcast: Readers of The Brooklyn Paper have known it for years, but now it’s official: Mike McLaughlin is the best young journalist in the state of New York.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The heavy metal band, The Inevitable Backlash, asked The Brooklyn Paper’s “Smash or Trash” team to review its song “My Two Brookes” in advance of the band’s April 26 show at Cameo in Williamsburg. Sorry, but when your name is The Inevitable Backlash, our Smash or Trash team had a pretty easy time helping you live up to it.
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Podcast: Here they are — this spring’s crop of talented interns! Meet them all in this exclusive podcast!
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Downtown: We’ve all moved into our shiny new Metrotech offices Downtown, so Editor Gersh Kuntzman decided the time was right for a tour. Join Gersh, plus Brooklyn Paper stalwarts Mike McLaughlin, Ben Muessig and Señor Editor Vince “The Vincinator” DiMiceli on this exclusive first look at our swank new digs.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The New Haven techno band, Eula, asked The Brooklyn Paper’s “Smash or Trash” team to review one of its songs in advance of the show’s April 4 show at Death by Audio. The results were mixed: Gersh hated it, but Ben and Mike loved the song. Watch all the action as Gersh over-rules the team!
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DUMBO: As you know, the staff of The Brooklyn Paper will be moving from DUMBO to spiffy new offices in the Metrotech complex next week. All week, Editor Gersh Kuntzman has been gorging on DUMBO’s culinary riches — and inviting viewers along for the juicy ride. In yet another installment in his ongoing series, “The Last Days of DUMBO,” today Gersh enjoys a cilantro-free plate of rice and beans from Los Papi’s.
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DUMBO: As you know, the staff of The Brooklyn Paper will be moving from DUMBO to spiffy new offices in the Metrotech complex next week. All week, Editor Gersh Kuntzman has been gorging on DUMBO’s culinary riches — and inviting viewers along for the juicy ride. In yet another installment in his ongoing series, “The Last Days of DUMBO,” Gersh ravages a Jacques Torres chocolate chip cookie.
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DUMBO: As you know, the staff of The Brooklyn Paper will be moving from DUMBO to spiffy new offices in the Metrotech complex next week. All week, Editor Gersh Kuntzman has been gorging on DUMBO’s culinary riches — and inviting viewers along for the juicy ride. In this installment of Kuntzman’s “Last Days of DUMBO” tribute, join Gersh as he downs his last tuna sandwich from the great Almondine bake shop.
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Greenpoint: Our intrepid and mac-and-cheese-loving editor, Gersh Kuntzman, “covered” Sunday’s Greenpoint Mac Off, that annual walking tour of the neighborhood’s best macaroni-and-cheese entrees.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: Sarah Lentz asks the “Smash or Trash” team to review her song. How did it turn out? Not so well!
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DUMBO: As you know, the staff of The Brooklyn Paper will be moving to offices in the Metrotech complex next week. As such, Editor Gersh Kuntzman begins a new feature, a daily tribute to the things he loves about DUMBO. Today’s entry: the Cuban at Pedro’s.
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Podcast: It’s time for that most exciting of Brooklyn Paper traditions — the one-year anniversary video! Here’s our installment for beloved no-longer-freshman reporter Ben Muessig. Watch for a brief appearance by Avyeq, the late, great masturbating walrus.
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Podcast: Senior Reporter Mike McLaughlin called in sick today. But is he really ill? Click to watch the video and judge for yourself!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: Sarah Lee Guthrie — Arlo’s little girl — invited The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team to “review” her latest hit single, “Dr. King,” in advance of her performance at Jalopy on Thursday, March 12. Good news for her — it’s a smash!
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Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some nice tips for this Valentine’s Day weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
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Dining: Join us as we down chitlins — on video! — as part of our exclusive coverage of pork around the borough.
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By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: The cash-strapped state parks department has reopened Williamsburg’s only waterfront park a month ahead of schedule — and just in time for winter.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team is back — this time “reviewing” Brooklyn-based quartet Cholo and the band’s new song, Just Aks. This one is a classic.
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Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some nice tips for this Valentine’s Day weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: A band makes the dangerous decision to be reviewed by our “Smash or Trash” team. How did it turn out? Click above!
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DUMBO: Intern Zeke Faux has moved on after six months, dozens of front-page stories, plenty of honest-to-goodness legwork and not a single cup of coffee fetched for an editor. Here is our video tribute to him.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Coney Island: Amos Wengler, the Bard of Coney Island, stopped by our DUMBO offices on Monday to sing his hit single, “Save Coney Island” — and, more important, send a message in song to the Bloomberg Administration.
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Podcast: The award-winning Brooklyn Paper has added more trophies to an overflowing display case, picking up top honors in five editorial and design categories from the Suburban Newspapers of America, a leading newspaper professional and trade organization.
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The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam
Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some nice tips for this weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist doffs his duds, does the full monty, drops his drawers, bares all, and twists the wick for a bunch of art students. A very special Brooklyn Angle column — and accompanying podcast.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: Something’s up at Hotel LeBleu on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope — but it’s not the occupancy rates, as this exclusive podcast reveals. Join Brooklyn Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman and Señor Editor Vince DiMiceli as they uncover the blue news at Hotel LeBleu.
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Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some nice tips for this weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
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DUMBO: The Brooklyn Paper’s “Stormtracker 2009” team hit the streets on the coldest day of the year to see once and for all whether you can freeze an egg on the sidewalk. The results — disgusting!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Dining: No, you actually have never had a good cup of coffee — yet. But that’s all going to change once Stumptown Coffee Roasters — the brew that made Portland famous — opens its new roasting facility in Red Hook next month.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
DUMBO: Our podcast team is on another big story — this time, icy conditions at a DUMBO intersection.
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By The Brooklyn Paper
Podcast: Finally: one-stop-browsing on the Web. Every Brooklyn story is just one click away, thanks to The Brooklyn Paper’s new “Brooklyn Wire” service.
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Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some nice tips for this weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team is back — this time “reviewing” Brooklyn singer-songwriter Jessie Killguss’s new hit, “Gristmill,” in advance of her Jan. 17 show at Rose Live Music [345 Grand St., between Havemeyer Street and the BQE in Williamsburg, (718) 599-0069]. Brooklyn Paper poohbah Gersh Kuntzman executes a coup over the rest of the team in this very special “Smash or Trash.”
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Dining: No, you actually have never had a good cup of coffee — yet. But that’s all going to change once Stumptown Coffee Roasters — the brew that made Portland famous — opens its new roasting facility in Red Hook next month.
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Smash or Trash: The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team is back — this time “reviewing” Russia’s hottest rock band’s new single, “Queen of Rock.” It’s in Russian, but that doesn’t faze this team of rock monsters.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team