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PINNACLE OF PUNK
"This is how Johanna dances,"
Katrina Toshiko says. The petite woman arches her back and holds
out her arms like the wings of an eagle, demonstrating her friend’s
body language. Comment
GIVE ME SOME SUGAR
Trends in restaurant decor come and go.
The latest in horizontal dining is the brainchild of Freddy and
Angelika Saint-Aignan, who co-own Columbia Street’s Sugar Lounge.
Come spring, they’re hanging hammocks in their garden, so you
can swing while you dine and sip a "Margarita Sugarlips"
(vodka, apple and lime juice). Talk about multi-tasking! Comment
REEL REUNION
Although "Inside Man," the latest
film by Brooklyn-raised auteur Spike Lee, hasn’t even hit theaters
yet, Lee tells GO Brooklyn that he and the film’s two-time Oscar
winning star, Denzel Washington, are already looking for another
project to do together. Comment
SUSPECT SCENT
What could be more enticing on a chilly
evening than a restaurant named June? The word promises so much:
a respite from the long dull winter and the beginning of exciting
times in the city. Comment
’GOOD’ COUPLE
The real Joe and Shirley Wershba - played
by Robert Downey Jr. and Patricia Clarkson (pictured) in George
Clooney’s "Good Night, and Good Luck" - will participate
in a discussion with Brooklyn College professors Anthony Mancini
and Foster Hirsch, following a screening of the film at the school’s
Whitman Hall on Monday. Comments (1)
SAUCY CONTEST
Andrew Schumacher seems like a regular guy. He lives in Carroll
Gardens, is married, has an 11-month-old daughter and has a job
in "the city," but he is not your typical Brooklynite. Comment
CRINGE FEST
If you think mounting a modern-day minstrel
show is flirting with disaster, you’re right. Although, in the
case of The Wooster Group’s blackface version of "The Emperor
Jones" (at St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO through April 2),
the troublesomeness isn’t due to offensiveness or outrageousness
so much as ostentation. Comment
Whole Foods seeking more land for its Gowanus supermarket
Whole Foods could get the whole block. Comment
Downtown glitz jumps Flatbush Avenue
The first fruit of Downtown Brooklyn’s massive upsize rezoning will
be a squash court on Myrtle Avenue. Comment
SUPERSIZED JAIL
The city Department of Corrections will double the prisoner capacity of
the Brooklyn House of Detention as part of a scheme to add retail to the
jail’s first floor. Comment
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The Trouble with Corkscrews, Part 1
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The envies of Park Slope
Smartmom: While walking
on Prospect Park West the other day, Smartmom noticed a copy of The Park
Slope Paper wrapped in plastic on the steps of Jennifer Connelly’s
limestone mansion. Omigod, she squealed aloud to no one. Does Jennifer
read Smartmom? Comment
Attention Brooklyn gardeners: Beware the killer weed
Brooklyn Angle: Brooklyn is
losing the ground war. Comment
