Say you want to learn how to sing in harmony, but instead of paying for music class, you pay your teacher with socks. Which don’t even have to match.
Or maybe you’d like to teach people basic photography skills, and will accept any kind of payment so long as it’s in the form of Legos, sharp [...]

Pixie-like and thoroughly tattooed, Shana Tabor is Brooklyn’s response to Manhattan’s traditional retail moguls. While her counterparts rely on mass production and heavy marketing for sales, Tabor, owner of the clothes and accessories brand In God We Trust, has established a reputation for personally curated selections, intimate service and word-of-mouth street cred. Last [...]

THURSDAY: Soup’s Up
One year ago, Martha Bayne concocted the idea to host a free soup dinner every week at the Chicago bar Hideout, where the writer and former editor had been a bartender. Musicians, writers, and artists–not to mention professional chefs–showed up with pots of soup, Bayne set out buckets to collect donations for a [...]

If you long to break out of your treadmill and yoga class routine to break a sweat, or if you watch Fame and Flashdance far more often than you’d like to admit–this one’s for you. Brooklyn is home to many professionally trained dancers, many of whom set up studios close to home. Whether brushing up [...]

Ah, Valentine’s Day–either you hate it or feel forced to celebrate it. But next Thursday, February 11, one Valentine’s party will make every single Brooklynite’s heart thump. BK HOOKUP (the new home of the BK Meatup) is inviting you to come to the Bell House dressed in your finest flannels, footies and teddy’s for our [...]

We’re throwing Brooklyn Based friend and contributor Cathy Erway a book party! Her long-awaited book, The Art of Eating In, hits bookstores on February 18. Join us in a book launch celebration complete with a crostini cook-off, appetizers from supper clubs Hapa Kitchen and A Razor, A Shiny Knife, music from zombie jazz quintet Father [...]

Remember all the, “I can’t believe this could happen in my neighborhood,” commotion back in November when the New York Department of Labor unveiled a study showing that few restaurant delivery workers in Park Slope were being paid a proper wage? Gabriel Thompson is here to tell you that it’s not just Park Slope, [...]

WEDNESDAY: Curiouser and Curiouser
Go down the rabbit hole with the Irondale Ensemble in their site-specific production of alice…Alice…ALICE. The family-friendly show, based on Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, leads audience members through all sorts of Wonderland-esque nooks and crannies found in Fort Greene’s Irondale Center and features both scripted and improvised dialogue, as well as original [...]

Getting your teeth cleaned is one of those necessary tasks that seems a lot harder when you don’t have a dentist you love and trust. We asked around for recommendations and these Brooklyn dentists’ names kept popping up. Got a dentist you love for his goofy sense of humor or her skills with a drill? [...]

Graham Avenue isn’t what it used to be. Once filled with the rich sounds of Southern Italy, in the past decade businesses owned by Brazilians, Mexicans and upstate transplants have sprouted along this strip of north Brooklyn.
“You’ll definitely find someone who will say it was better before,” says Joe Rinaldi, “but [...]