Once again L Magazine, that free little magazine you see in cafes and shops around the neighborhood, pulls together a great list of the best in music, film, food, retail, art and media in the “hipper” parts of the Borough of Kings. Here were a few of the Park Slope related entries. Actually they were the only Park Slope entries.

1 of 3 Best Bars for a First Date

2. Barbes
Gypsy jazz to get dealbreaking dance moves out in the open early.

Best New Lit Mag

One Teen Story

We love One Story, a magazine that mails out a single short story every three weeks. But we’re especially excited about its soon-to-launch sister One Teen Story, which is roughly the same thing but for YA fiction. And it only publishes during the school year! How cute!

 Best Local Blog

Here’s Park Slope

Editor Dan Meyers tracks local businesses doggedly—and we mean doggedly: every opening, closing, renovation, relocation, or change of signage gets reported, from O’Connor’s to Bar 718. But it’s not just a list of which restaurants are up and which are down; it’s complemented by historical context, interviews with bartenders, and other forms of reportage that together create a fully formed portrait of a neighborhood through its storefronts.