ROY G. BIV + LGBT
Saturday Brooklyn Pride (brooklynpride.org) in Prospect Park will kick start a day of revelry, leading up to the nighttime parade on 7th Ave. and after parties on 5th. Dads will have to vie for attention during the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket’s Father’s Day Strawberry Shortcake Eating Contest. Wonder who’s going to […]

Like other web tv endeavors to come out of Williamsburg, Feed Me: The Brooklyn Cooking Dating Show, has all the ingredients of a hit: Two Brooklynites who love to cook are set up and filmed while making dinner for their blind date.

Creator Adam Pollock does the pairing, using an online survey to figure out your […]

New York, Brooklyn included, exists within a sort of Mexican food black hole. Either you have to hunt far and wide for the good stuff (like Chavella’s), be prepared to pay NYC prices for street food (like $9 carnitas tacos at Bonita) — or hold your breath until the Red Hook Ball Fields reopen (latest, […]

Sure sign that summer is upon us: Too much fun to be had on any given weekend, starting with this one.
For the Grillmasters
Compete in the RUB-sponsored,Grillin’ by the Bay cookoff in Sheepshead Bay this Saturday — or just eat the charred masterpieces of bigtime barbecuers like The Rhode Island Anchormen, last year’s winners. grillinonthebay.org
For […]

If there was ever a market ready to be coaxed back into bed, it’s the stroller set, as “Smartmom” Louise Crawford hilariously pointed out in the Brooklyn Paper.
So it’s with great anticipation that Babeland, the enlightened sex shop empire that’s celebrating its 15th anniversary, opens its doors tomorrow in Park Slope, home of co-founder Claire […]

If the closest you’ve come to experiencing the Delta Blues is through the White Stripes, the coming week will bring original masters like Robert “Wolfman” Belfour and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, and those influenced by them, straight to Brooklyn.
The bluesmen and women are here via the Mississippi Delta Heritage Project, an ambitious program by a 20-year-old […]

Worth Staying in Manhattan For
On Friday night the classic art-punk outfit Wire (have a listen here) opens the Seaport Music Festival, the free outdoor concert series with the city’s best views (check out the stellar schedule at seaportmusicfestival.com). On Saturday from 6-8 pm, the public’s invited to the opening reception for David Byrne’s massive installation, […]

Sundance heads back to Brooklyn this Thursday, May 29, for ten days of screenings, performances and talks celebrating some of 2008’s best selections in Park City, Utah. This is the third year the Robert Redford-helmed fest has set up shop at BAM, and if you’ve never been, you’re missing an opportunity to catch amazing films […]

Local, Seasonal Products for Your Skin
Ladies, let me go out on a limb here: Your skin gets dry in the winter, and oily in the summer, as it has for millions of women over millennia. Yet it took an art historian in Boerum Hill to finally create a skincare line that changes with the seasons.
Over […]

Everybody Dance Now
In a nod to the Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th anniversary, Chuck Davis, artistic director of DanceAfrica — BAM’s famous festival of African and African-American dance, music, art and film — has curated a program that celebrates building bridges between cultures… and in that gracious spirit, BAM is extending a pair of free tickets to […]