Once every four years, soccer gets elevated to the status of Sport America Actually Cares About, as the World Cup–the month-long tournament starts in South Africa on Friday–captivates casual fans of the game. Looking for a spot to watch and cheer? Below some of our favorite football bars. Any we missed? Add them in the [...]

Every night of the week, there’s a Brooklyn bar where you can belt out your favorite Pat Benatar song like the star you are, and for free, no less. Below is a round-up of some of our favorite karaoke nights. They range from pop to hip-hop to metal, but the one thing all these karaoke [...]

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If you combined a block party, scavenger hunt, flash sale, and pub crawl into one, it would look something like The Total Franklin Street Immersion.
From noon to 7 pm this Saturday, we asked 20 bars, shops, and restaurants [...]

If you haven’t seen the Invisible Dog lately, the next two weeks are prime viewing times.
In the 70s, the onetime belt factory at 51 Bergen Street in Boerum Hill made rigid dog leashes that collared imaginary dogs (thousands of them went on a walk last year). Now, under the creative vision of director Lucien Zayan, [...]

Nuh dash mi weh! That’s Jamaican for “don’t throw me away.” It also happens to be the name of a Jamaica-by-way-of-Brooklyn initiative that teaches reusable-bag sewing to encourage environmentalism and promote self-sustainability. Behind the campaign are two Brooklyn-based non-profits, Bags For The People and iJamaica.
BFTP holds bag-making workshops for kids and adults, hands out bags [...]

When Lily Cushman told us she and her partner were opening a pay-by-donation yoga studio, our eyebrows went up an inch. Usually studios can afford to offer one or two classes a week where you pay what you wish. But every single class? In a prime Park Slope space on Sixth Ave. at St. Marks? [...]

In the world of film festivals, Sundance is the premier place for indie directors, Cannes for mega-stars, and since 1976, Rotterdam has been the spot for serious film lovers and filmmakers who span the globe.
Now the Netherlands festival is taking its international programming on the road. When Rotterdam @ BAM opens next week, March 3-9, [...]

In case you can’t read the small type, the text above says, “Blocks along which a Hot Bird sign was at some point visible, 9.20.09-9.22.09.” This is Brooklyn life through the eyes of infographic genius, Very Small Array.
Artist and Bed-Stuy resident Dorothy Gambrell is also the pen behind the comic, Cat and Girl. Very Small [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]