Some nights Roebling Tea Room seems like Williamsburg’s living room. The restaurant offers great brunch everyday (a rare find in Brooklyn) a good burger, small plates and a solid wine list — making it the sort of indispensable neighborhood joint you visit several times a week. But the nightly specials, inspired by seasonal produce, […]

WEDNESDAY: Valuable Information
Tonight BRIC Rotunda debuts a new show: In/Formation, which refers to the nature of information transmission and evolution in an online world. A few highlights: Ward Shelley’s witty chart that cartoonishly maps out everything there is to know about Frank Zappa, and Penelope Umbrico’s Chuck Close-like Flickr image mosaics. Opening reception, 7-9pm. […]

Thanksgiving’s almost here, and it’s about time to start planning the feast • and placing a big order of bird. Those staying put for the holiday (what, no “friendsgiving”?) will find plenty of cold turkeys to purchase throughout the boroughs. But before grabbing the nearest shrinkwrapped thing, why not weigh in factors like locality and […]

Hey crafters, bakers and all-around makers of awesome handmade goods, do we ever have an event for you! We’ve joined forces with the folks at the Third Ward to produce the Handmade Holiday Craft Fair on Sunday, December 7.
Unlike some of the other holiday craft extravaganzas, this one will be carefully curated by the Third […]

You probably don’t need an incentive to vote today — but there are plenty of perks in store for all you good citizens who do. Don’t know where your polling place is? The New York City Board of Elections has an online poll site locator here.
Crowdsourcing the Vote
Polling place lost your registration info? Had a […]

Check out photos from the party on the BB Flickr photostream. Thanks to everyone who made the event an overwhelming success. Someday you’ll tell your kids you were with BB on the night Barack Obama was elected president.

If this isn’t the most exciting election in your lifetime, then you’re older than we thought. But not […]

Jessica Stockton Bagnulo had been dreaming of opening her own bookstore for five years when she entered the Brooklyn Business Library’s PowerUp! Business Plan Competition last year. Taking home the $15,000 prize furthered her quest, as did the Fort Greene Association, which approached her about opening shop in its hood. The love didn’t stop […]

THURSDAY: O’Death

Could there be a better named band playing the night before Halloween than O’Death? We don’t have tickets to see these banjo-totin’, whisky-swillin’ Appalachian-carnie punks at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, but we have a copy of their new album, “Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin,” to give away. Just tell us what their […]

Let’s face it, the pub quiz is played out, especially if you don’t care to know the capital of Saskatchewan or the year in which Microsoft was formed. Following are some headier ways to spend your happy hour.

Series: Adult Education
Where: Union Hall, 702 Union St., Park Slope
What: Brooklyn lawyer-by-day/comedian-by-night Charles Star hosts this ongoing […]

For our latest edition of The Five, we asked photoblogger, Gothamist publisher, and Park Slope native Jake Dobkin to name his top street art spots in Brooklyn. You can get a first-hand look with him this Saturday during the first Photojojo Photo Safari in Dumbo at 3:30 (RSVP here>>). Or take a tour on […]