In the next few years, camping at Floyd Bennett Field may be brought to you by Bass Pro Shops and L.L. Bean. Comments (3)

Theater: This year’s Game Play Festival, which features theatrical works that draw inspiration from the world of video gaming, offers as many different types of shows as there are consoles. Comment

Music: This band still has it after more than 30 years on the Chicano rock scene. Comment

Event: The new Red Scare is upon us. Comments (1)

Theater: It’s called “La Calista,” and it’s pretty hot. Comment

Perspective: Look, we don’t need any excuses to be patriotic — but the July 4 holiday gave us a grand old reason to explore what we love about freedom. Click below for opinion pieces on the subject:

The Coast Guard is permanently barring boats from passing through a bomb-littered portion of Gravesend Bay, but the decision makes it less likely that the agency will remove the 1,500 unexploded anti-aircraft shells that experts say could explode. Comments (2)

Bar Scrawl: A rave for a Smith Street local from our Bar Scrawl columnist. Comments (1)

Cinema: Yes, it’s a movie about that other island, but what else do you expect from Woody Allen (the Spike Lee of Manhattan)? Comment

Books: See what the ladies behind WORD, Greenlight and BookMark Shoppe are recommending. Comments (1)

Weekend Watch: The 4 train takes a holiday and the N train creates a few headaches this holiday weekend. Read on for all the news that affects your plans. (Saturday, July 2 at 12:01 am to Monday, July 4 at 5 am unless otherwise noted). Comment

Capt. Richard DiBlasio is taking over command of Bay Ridge’s precinct after its former commanding officer left to handle the Flatbush beat. Comment

Don’t stay home without our July 4 roundup. Comment

Carroll Gardens: Residents of Carroll Gardens were incensed by District Attorney Charles Hynes’s decision last week to drop charges against two mob-tied rivals who settled a beef the old-fashioned way — with a brazen and bloody daylight knife fight in front of a public school. Comment

Now that gays can get married, the only color of the pride rainbow is green. Comments (6)

Williamsburg: The East River service is popular in its first week of paid rides. Comments (1)

Music: That quirky Ditmas Park-obsessed New Wave band is back at the Knitting Factory on July 6. Comment

Event: Williamsburg’s favorite feast is back, with the first “dance” on July 10. Comments (1)

Cinema: Nitehawk Cinema opens in Williamsburg. The reviews are positive. Comments (1)

Don’t just eat that kimchee hot dog — do some real grocery shopping. Comments (2)

Theater: And the 17th-century playwright’s still got it (with some new 21st-century references). Comment

Dining: Park Slope will soon get some “suggestion box”-inspired grub. Comments (3)

Williamsburg: Calgon said, “Take me away!” And then the feds did! Comments (19)

Cyclones: A pitcher’s duel keeps the Cyclones in first place. Comments (1)

Fort Greene: A controversial Arabic-language middle school that is failing to draw students will be transformed into a high school next year — a decision that critics say destroys the purpose of a school. Comments (4)

Event: Laura Silver leads the most important two-session food course since Julia Child taught us how to cook coq au vin. Comments (1)

Park Slope: Plus the other crime from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment

The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: A king obsessed with Vishnu, of course. Comments (3)

Atlantic Yards: Neighbors of the Atlantic Yards project say that freakish, cat-sized rats coming from the construction site are invading their homes, gnawing on their cars, eating through garbage cans, and climbing up their legs. Comments (8)

Bloomy in the ’Hood: Just call Hizzoner “The Piano Man.” Comments (4)

Cyclones: An error in the final frame sinks the Cyclones after clawing back. Comment

A bill to allow livery cabs to pick up street hails is just a signature from Gov. Cuomo away. Comment

The kabuki dance ends with all eight firehouses saved. Comment

Greenpoint: At the mid–way point of the season, Brooklyn’s kickball powerhouses are hitting their stride. Comment

Williamsburg: It’s just the latest in a line of nightlife crackdowns in the hip neighborhood. Comments (1)

Fort Greene: The latest incident in the crime-addled greenspace. Plus all the other crime reports from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comments (5)

The good news? Greenpoint Assemblyman Joe Lentol is prepared to shuck the whole effort. Comments (9)

To settle a lawsuit accusing his gigs of violating city noise rules, the borough president has agreed to obey the rule, which prohibits the use of amplified sound within 500 feet of a house of worship. Comments (11)

Bay Ridge: The only Brooklyn state senator to vote against gay marriage thinks that the people, not the people’s elected representatives who do everything else, should vote on the issue. Comments (29)

Mean Streets: Cops have written more than 121,000 moving violations so far this year — more than any other borough. Comments (9)

Cyclones: Lots of timely hits and great pitching this time. Comment

Prime Time: Our chef gives you the perfect recipe for the soft-shell crustaceans. Comments (4)

Clinton Hill: Cops say they have arrested the man who climbed fences and jumped into backyards to break into Clinton Hill homes, fueling hopes that a spate of daytime burglaries is over. Comment

The Dad: Our columnist realizes that he’s missing stuff that he can’t even remember missing. Comments (1)

Sunday Screech: This week, Carmine goes on the offensive over the mayor’s plan to close a firehouse, then rails about a sunburn he got while attending a parade! Comment

BAM District: The renowned Manahttan troupe breaks ground on a nifty new glass house near BAM. Comments (1)

Gravesend: The borough president says he doesn’t mind Joe Sitt’s plan to bring a BJ’s Wholesale Club to Gravesend Bay, as long as he can eat there. Comments (3)

Cyclones: And beat them bad! Comment

Fort Greene: A Fort Greene man whose wife was run down by a Treasury Department agent while she rode her Vespa last July intends to sue the department to hold it responsible for his wife’s death. Comments (8)

Fort Greene: The promoter of this Saturday’s Fort Greene Festival cheated a retired schoolteacher out of thousands of dollars in proceeds from last year’s festival that was supposed to be set aside in honor of her dead son, the woman claims. Comments (19)

Park Slope: The upstart Park Slope school steals its principal from its elite rival (oooh!). Comment

Cyclones: Weak hitting is a problem for a second night. Comment

Park Slope: The city’s mass extermination of geese in Prospect Park last year was so effective that it will not be repeated this summer, city officials revealed on Thursday. Comments (20)

Brighton community demands post-9–11 type security in wake of June 9 shooting. Comments (8)

Editor’s Picks: Er, we mean where to go to have fun this weekend, that is. Comments (1)

The city returned two public trash cans to Fourth Avenue after state Sen. Marty Golden performed an end-around on the local civic group that demanded the baskets’ removal — and one member of that group says the Republican legislator is subverting the will of the people. Comments (5)

Greg Ahl is pushes his “no-can” agenda into Dyker Heights. Comments (8)

DUMBO: Brooklyn’s hottest new carrying case is one powerful piece of apparel. Comments (2)

Cyclones: Nelfi Zapata’s Sunday night homer was a major deal for the minor-leaguer. Comment

Cyclones: Weak hitting and weak fielding is a bad combination. Comment

Downtown: Lou Brock was under doctor’s orders to talk about diabetes — but the legendary St. Louis Cardinals outfielder couldn’t help talking about the great American pastime. Comment

Music: The New York Philharmonic dropped the baton, so, of course, Brooklyn is going to pick it up. Comments (2)

Atlantic Yards: Brooklynites have slung a lot of mud at Bruce Ratner’s controversial Atlantic Yards Project over the years. On Tuesday, the project returned the favor. Comments (5)

Downtown: And this photo sequence by the immortal Tom Callan shows how it went down. Comments (7)

Cleaning Our Waterways: Leave it up to Brooklyn’s party animals to celebrate the centennial of the Gowanus Canal’s “flushing tunnel,” a bit of infrastructure that has been about as much use as a handbrake on a canoe. Comments (1)

Cyclones: Great pitching and good hitting tend to win a lot of games. It did last night. Comment

Event: And that includes the Double D. Comment