Atlantic Yards: The number of retail jobs that state officials say will be created by Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development ignores the reality of his two existing shopping malls directly across the street, where job performance has fallen short, according to Ratner’s own data. Comment

Legend has it that the inspiration for great art is substance abuse and "Hemingway & Bailey’s Bartending Guide to Great American Writers" is a new book that delights in recognizing our country’s poets, screenwriters, playwrights and novelists while lionizing their concurrent abilities to put it away. Comment

Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, a 24-year-old San Francisco company that appeared at City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival last month, is now bringing two New York premieres to Midwood’s Walt Whitman Theatre. Comment

Heath Ledger’s role in Neil Armfield’s new film "Candy" was a chance for the acclaimed actor to play a character whose lifestyle is the polar opposite of the Australian transplant’s reality amidst the leafy streets of Brooklyn. Comment

In "Good to Go" [GO Brooklyn, Nov. 4], we incorrectly listed some dishes that Chicory Brooklyn no longer offers. They no longer prepare loin of beef, marinated golden beets or sweet potato fries with a maple mayonnaise dipping sauce. The prices of sandwiches are now $5-$8 and the dinner entrees are all $13. On weekends, Chicory Brooklyn is only open for lunch and dinner but they do have breakfast items on the menu. We regret the errors. Comment

A musical marriage made in heaven: Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen’s debut album is the soulful and personal collaboration of the singer and songwriter’s lives. Comment

I opened the menu at Mike’s Kosher Steakhouse and wanted to cry. Comment

The American Cancer Society in Brooklyn has devised an ingenious idea for mixing pleasure with fundraising. On Sunday Nov. 12, the organization has organized the first "North Fork Wine Tour," a day of seminars, sipping and snacking at three of Long Island’s most respected vineyards. Proceeds from the event’s ticket sales will go to providing vital transportation services to this borough’s patients while they undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Comment

In 1939, the 22-year-old German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon fled Berlin for still unoccupied Vichy France only to be killed in a death camp four years later. Comment

Development: The “Avenue of Death” is even more violent than we’d imagined. Comment

Who said Brooklyn doesn’t support the troops? Comment

Development: Mom always told you to look both ways and wait for the light before you cross the street, but at one crazy Bay Ridge intersection, residents have learned that it’s actually safer to cross when the sign tells them to stop. Comment

The season is finally over for the Lawnmower Man of DUMBO. Comment

Brooklyn Angle: You know what the main problem with Domino’s “Brooklyn-style” slice is? It stinks. Comment

The city’s lone Republican Congressman, Rep. Vito Fossella, held onto his Bay Ridge-Staten Island seat even as Democrats stormed back into control of the House of Representatives this week. Comment

Bridge ‘Park’: A coalition of Brooklyn elected officials is demanding that state planners build the open space at the Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront development before building the high-rise condos. Comment

Democrat Steve Harrison not only finished second in his race against Rep. Vito Fossella on Tuesday, he finished 26,498th in the New York City Marathon two days earlier. Comment

More and more Brooklynites are complaining about helicopter noise, but no one is listening, The Brooklyn Papers has learned — the hard way. Comments (2)

Development: The city derailed a longshot attempt to block the Atlantic Yards development last month, rejecting a proposal to landmark a 95-year-old building that’s slated for demolition to make way for the project. Comment

Red Hook: The Queen Mary 2 has set sail from Red Hook for the last time this season — and already Brooklyn longshoremen are calling for the one-summer-old terminal to operate year-round. Comment

Editorial: Although many mocked it as a pointless junket, Borough President Markowitz’s fact-finding tour of England revealed the truth about how the world tourism industry views our beloved borough — and how much more work he and others need to do to put Brooklyn on the world’s tour map. Comment

Development: The other day in Owl’s Head Park, a group of teen “Skateboarders for Jesus” was handing out a pamphlet titled, “Where Are You Going?” Comment

Rep. Vito Fossella, the lone Republican in the city’s congressional delegation, held onto his seat this week in a win over opponent Steve Harrison, garnering 57 percent of the vote, despite a Democratic takeover of the House, a hard-fought campaign by Harrison, and a murky episode involving Fossella’s brother chasing down pedestrians with a baseball bat. Comment

Development: Brooklyn’s tallest building is shrinking — at least for its future tenants. Comment

A City Council proposal to ban aluminum bats got a “standing O” from some baseball players, while others hoped the bill would go down on strikes. Comment

Smartmom: Smartmom was so impressed with the Annie Leibovitz show at the Brooklyn Museum — with its ravishing shots of Demi, Brad, Scarlett and a host of family and friends of the photographer’s — that she decided it was about time she had her very own digital camera. Comment

Atlantic Yards: Brooklyn has its own professional basketball team, and Bruce Ratner had nothing to do it. Comment

Development: First responders are getting first-class treatment, thanks to a fancy new EMS station in Carroll Gardens christened this week by Mayor Bloomberg. Comments (1)

Development: City landmarks officials finally signed off on a plan to build a four-story condo in the garden of the vacant Peaks Mason Mints factory in Brooklyn Heights. Comment

Development: It’s hard to shake the idea that Assemblyman Jim Brennan kinda knew he wouldn’t be losing his job. Comment