BROOKLYN: Sun with clouds. High 40 degrees.
THIS JUST IN: The White House approved a press pass for a blogger. Other blogger news: A lawsuit filed in California by Apple Computer is drawing courts into
the question of whether bloggers should be considered journalists and whether they have to reveal their sources.
CITY NEWS: Proposed stadium may bring the Super Bowl to town. Joy.
_A study published in "Public Health" says suburbanites are more likely to report chronic health problems, like high blood
pressure, arthritis, headaches, migraines and breathing problems than
people who lived in the city.
BROOKLYN BEAT: At Brooklyn College, a protest against lack of diversity in the Fire Department is planned prior to the graduation ceremony for new cadets also at Brooklyn College.
_Come on! State Senator
Marty Golden along with some Brooklyn residents called for the removal
of posters advertising Showtime’s new series, "The L Word" on city bus
shelters. The ad features nine of the show’s characters in the nude.
"We have community standards," says Golden. "And I don’t think they are
being met."
_Forest City Ratner just cleared another major hurdle. The New York Times reports today that "the city and the state have signed an agreement with the developer W
C. Ratner to build a new home for the Nets basketball team and at least
4,500 apartments as part of a $2.5 billion project at the Atlantic
Yards in Brooklyn." See Monday below.
_Jackie Robinson, former Brooklyn Dodger second
baseman and the first black player in Major League Baseball, was given a
posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor last week. Read all about it.
_Have you been wondering what that crazy/cool looking trapezoidal
structure on top of the building right next to the Manhattan Bridge
is? Well, you ain’t the only one. Dubbed the Jetsons building, it is
the work of a 32-year-old architect named Dedy Blaustein; a
rooftop addition to the building that houses the architecture firm
Scarano and Associates. And there’s even cool LED lighting with
thousands of color combinations. It’s Brooklyn’s answer to the Empire State
Building.
MONDAY: Hear what the Ratner project could mean to Brooklyn in terms of displacement of residents, impact on schools, police and fire services, and transportation issues. P.S. 9. 80 Underhill Avenue (between St. Marks Ave. and Bergen St.); Invited officials: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; Councilmember Letitia James
_This evening and every Monday at Barbes through March: the Traveling Cinema Series takes a look at the American labor movement through documentary and fiction film.
"Harlan County USA," Barbara Koppels’ award-winning film, is at 7:30 p.m. 276 Ninth Street at Sixth Avenue.
_Times Square Centennial Film Festival: From the Streets and Stage to
the Screen. Tonight and every Monday through mid-April at the Loews State Theater. 1540
Broadway. On 3/7: "Midnight Cowboy" 1:20, 7 p.m., "Fame" 4:00 and 9:30
p.m. On 3/14 "Vanya on 42nd Street" and "All About Eve." For movie titles, times and information.
WORTH TAKING A LOOK AT: The second grade art show at Starbucks. Seventh Avenue between 1st and
Garfield Place. The children’s Romare Bearden-esque cityscape collages
will be up all month.
_Check out Brooklyn Bomb Shelter, the Reader’s Digest of real Brooklyn news.
_Check out The Brooklyn Rail. for critical perpectives on arts, politics, and culture. Especially the piece by Patricial Spears Jones.
_Check out Daily Heights about life in Prospect Heights
THIS SOUNDS COOL: The Fourth Annual Planet XX: Women in Music
in honor of Women’s History month. BAMcaf