I know what you’re thinking: Thunder Road solo on a ukulele? Really?  Yes, really.  Jim Boggia played The Living Room Friday night, where this video was shot by Jamie Eng in glorious black and white.  I think this is just a terrific performance of an amazing song.  Watch it over at Now I’ve Heard Everything by clicking here.

–Eliot Wagner

Brooklyn Reading Works presents New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights on October 21 at 8PM. Curated by Rosemary Moore, the evening will include readings of three plays and a musical theater work by Barbara Cassidy, Joseph Goodrich, Lizzie Olesker and Mary Lloyd Butler and C.F. Peters.

Brooklyn Reading Works is a monthly reading series at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn (Fifth Avenue and Third Street). All the readings are at 8PM. Suggested donation of $5 includes wine and snacks. Books are usually sold and there is often a Q&A after the reading.

BRW in November:

I am also excited about the Veterans Day reading on November 11, 2010 that I am curating:  Writing War Fiction by Vets of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan featuring Juri Jurjevics, Roy Scranton, Matt Gallagher, Philip Klay and Jake Sigal

On the horizon:

December 16, 2010: Feast: Writers on Food. Curated by Michele Madigan Somerville (an annual benefit for the soup kitchen at St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Park Slope)

January 20, 2011: The Truth and Oral History (the double life of the interview) Curated by John Guidry

February 17, 2011: Memoirathon
Curated by Branka Ruzak

March 17, 2011: Blarneypalooza
Curated by Michele Madigan Somerville

April 14, 2011: In the Year of the Rabbit: Voices from the East
Curated by Sophia Romero

May 19, 2011: Edgy Mother’s Day
Curated by Louise Crawford and Sophia Romero

June 16, 2011: Fiction in a Blender
Curated by Martha Southgate

Last night, Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson and Gus Seyffert, a band Norah dubbed The Rams, played a secret show.  I was there and have a review and a whole bunch of photos and set list here at Now I’ve Heard Everything.

Just a week ago, I mentioned the song Don’t Call Them Twinkies, an ode to the Minnesota Twins by The Baseball Project and Craig Finn, the lead singer of The Hold Steady.  Now that song has a great video with clips and stills which include Sandy Koufax, Jim Kaat, Kirby Puckett, Jane Fonda, and of course, Twinkies. You can see it at Now I’ve Heard Everything by clicking here.

–Eliot Wagner

Hey, all you fans of old Woody Allen movies, Tony Roberts, who was in Annie Hall, Play it Again Sam, Stardust Memories and other Allen masterpieces, will be reading short stories as part of a special Selected Shorts program designed for the Kingsborough Performing Arts Center (KPAC).

I listen to Selected Shorts on WNYC radio on Sunday afternoons but it would be fun to see it live.

On Saturday, October 16, at 8:00 p.m. at KPAC, the founder of Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, will take the stage with a program created especially for KPAC.

According to the press release: “Selected Shorts: Funny Food Fictions will serve up a menu of hilarious short stories about food and love. Stories by award-winning authors T. Corraghessan Boyle, M.F.K. Fisher, and “Yinglish” comic book master Milt Gross will be read by Broadway, film, and television star (and frequent Woody Allen co-star) Tony Roberts, the Tony-nominated stage actress Maria Tucci, and Isaiah Sheffer.”

Anna Becker, KPAC’s brand new Executive Director had this to say about the show: “We are so delighted to have Symphony Space in residence with us this season for three unique programs, starting with the brilliantly entertaining Selected Shorts program…There has been great excitement and anticipation on the part of our audience members as we await a wonderful evening of masterful stories, artfully told.”

Maker Faire highlights: Reclaimed Home

Italianate investment in Philly: CasaCara

Bike shelf: Swissmiss

Faith Bradford’s dollhouse: Apartment Therapy

Proketo at Target: My Coney

Home is where your stuff is: NY Times

Home frangrance: NY Times

The Brooklyn Museum has a line-up of activities for kids and families that looks good.

On Saturday, November 13, from noon-4 PM, the museum presents its fourth annual Children’s Book Fair, which will feature more than thirty-five newly published stories by Brooklyn-based authors and illustrators.

Meet your favorite Brooklyn authors and engage in hands-on art activities, book signings, and three author/illustrator readings.

This event is part of a wide array of inexpensive and fun  art-related activities for the whole family at the museum. Highlights include a new season of Meet the Museum; the fourth annual Children’s Book Fair, and the special exhibition Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera.

October looks to be a very busy month musically.  Click here to check out the monthly music calendar waiting for you at Now I’ve Heard Everything.

Tonight is the CD release party for the new CD from The Amygdaloids, Theory of Mind.  Not only is this a musical performance, there are science lectures, music videos and magic.  Although I’ve not heard of The Amygdaloids before, the list of musical guests, which include  Lenny Kaye, Steve Wynn and The Kennedys, has sold me on this show.  You find the full details here at Now I’ve Heard Everything.

–Eliot Wagner

He may look like just another interesting, artsy Park Sloper but the truth of the matter is: he’s an experimental poet with a bevy of books in publication and a pile of reviews that are pretty damn impressive.

His name is Michael Ruby and when he’s not being a poet (and a Park Slope dad) he’s an editor at a notable NYC newspaper.

But each summer he writes a book of poetry and every few years he’s got a book or two out. He tells me that summer is when he does his best work. I asked him to explain and he just shrugged said, “That’s when it gets done.”

Autumn brings two new books from Ruby, Compulsive Words and The Edge of the Underworld, both from BlazeVOX, an online journal and press in Buffalo that publishes experimental fiction and poetry

Continue reading Michael Ruby: Experimental Poet in Park Slope →

I used to collect globes, now I just store them on high shelves and stare at an apartment full of them. So this event for and about collectors of interesting things caught my eye.

On Monday, Oct. 11th, which happens to be Columbus Day, the City Reliquary, a not-for-profit community museum and civic organization located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will present “Collectors’ Night” a celebration of eccentric collections, accompanied by the collectors themselves.

Through permanent display of New York City artifacts, the City Reliquary presents rotating exhibits of community collections, and annual cultural events like this one.

Up to two-dozen collectors from all over the city will display their personal collections; everything from an archive of newsstand paperweights to art museum dust to odd coin purses to souvenirs bearing the collector’s name.

But get this: you too can have your collection on display! Bring in your collection (anything goes) in a jar and display it at the bar! There will also be a Collector’s Cocktail available one night only!

Click on read more to read more about the evening’s highlights:

Continue reading Oct 11: Collector’s Night at the City Reliquary →

I received, December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died (Backbeat Books), a soon-to-be-released book by my friend Keith Elliot Greenberg,  in the mail yesterday and I can’t stop reading it.

Greenberg, who lives in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, is a producer for American’s Most Wanted and has also produced for VH1, 48 Hours, MSNBC Investigates, the History Channel and Court TV. In his downtime, he has authored more than 30 non-ficti0n books.

How in hell does he write so many books??? I always see him on Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue having long, interesting conversations with friends.

But I know he works hard and his writing is fast, fun and compulsively readable in this minute-by-minute chronicle of that terrible day juxtaposed with well-told biographical sketches of Lennon, Ono, the other Beatles, Mark Chapman and all the other players in this tragedy, a must-read for the Lennon-obsessed—and those who remember or are curious about those grief filled days and weeks after Lennon’s death.

Continue reading Book About John Lennon’s Last Day by Windsor Terrace Author →

On Friday, Oct 1, beginning at 7PM and running through the weekend: Greenpoint Open Studios celebrates a thriving creative community with over150 participating artists opening their studios to share their creative practice and engage in communal dialogue, collaboration and fun…

Continue reading Take A Walk Around Greenpoint, Visit Artist Studios →

Ya like beer and ya like bread? You can taste beers and breads and support the Old Stone House in Park Slope in the process. Good deal. And it’s only $45 bucks per person. Good good deal.

On Thursday, October 14 from 6:30 Until 8:30PM: explore breads and beers of the 18th Century at the Old Stone House of Brooklyn, created using  traditional 18th century recipes.  Taste a variety of delectable early American staples recreated by historic gastronomist Sarah Lohman and brewmasters Erik Olsen and Chris Prout.

This evening tasting event will include five courses of bread representing recipes from the olonial  era including crisp, nutty waffles, savory rusks , citrusy cookies and spicy sweet breads.  Each will be matched with a  beer  brewed by Olsen and Prout seasoned with flavors such as  spruce, ginger, mustard and molasses.

Sarah Lohman, artist, food historian and chef, is the author of the blog, Four Pounds Flour. Erik Olsen and Chris Prout are avid home brewers and the managers of Brouwerij Lane, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn , which features more than 200 bottled beers and 19 taps.

Tickets, $45.  Space is limited to 80, so reserve now at Brown Paper Tickets

Take this short, 15-question quiz about religion and see how you do compared to the more than 3,000 people who took the poll.

It’s fun!

This national poll was conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life from May 19 through June 6, 2010, on landlines and cell phones (in English and Spanish).

It is really hard to believe that come October 5 it will be one year since the passing of Suzanne Fiol, the founder and creative visionary behind Issue Project Room, the experimental music and performance space in Park Slope/Gowanus.

It’s a testament to Suzanne’s enduring vision, that Issue Project Room continues to thrive. In the  year since Suzanne’s death, IPR has increased its financial, curatorial, production and promotion support for hundreds of artists performing in the space. They have also developed new programs such as Propensity of Sound, dedicated to the contribution of women in the experimental arts.

Continue reading Remembering Suzanne Fiol of Issue Project Room →

On Thursday, June 9th, 2005 Liz Padillla was riding her bicycle to work when she was killed on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope.

A graduate of Cornell Law School,  Liz joined the Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP) as a Pro Bono Coordinator/Staff Attorney in December 2004, where she provided direct representation and counsel to clients with family law issues.

During her life she enjoyed  tutoring high school students, training as a tri-athlete, enrolling in a trapeze school, running the NYC marathon with disabled athletes as a member of the Achilles Track Club – and much more.

In the summer of 2005, Liz was planning a 5k race to benefit the VLP. This annual event, now in its fifth year, honors the memory of this remarkable young attorney and supports the VLP’s programs for low-income Brooklyn residents.

The VLP Liz Padilla Memorial 5K race will take place Sunday, October 3 at 10am in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.  You can register online here: http://www.active.com/running/brooklyn-ny/liz-padilla-memorial-5k-2010.  Or, check out our Facebook page for more information about this and other VLP events:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=51780222164&ref=ts.

Scenes from the Brooklyn for Peace block party, which was held on Saturday, September 25th on a Park Slope block.

Catch Joshua Shneider’s Easy-Bake Orchestra, a 17 piece ensemble comprised of some of NYC’s most illustrious and adventurous improvisors, as they interpret the music and arrangements of Joshua Shneider at the Brooklyn Lyceum on September 29th at 8PM.

I’ve heard them and I loved it: Melodic, grooving, searching and harmonically inventive, the music draws inspiration from a wide variety of musical influences and includes Jazz, R&B, World and American Pop elements.

The Brooklyn Lyceum is located on Fourth Avenue and President Street in Park Slope.

Rev. Matthew Westfox (Associate Minister at All Souls Bethlehem Church), playing the guitar and leading a sing-along of Woodie Guthrie’s, “This Land is Your Land” at the proposed building site of a Mosque at Sheepshead Bay.  Rev. Westfox stepped into the controversial fray on the side of religious freedom.

To start the week, I have another live recording plus still photo from the YouTuber known as Unreleased Original.  This time Norah Jones provides the soulful lead vocals for The Little Willies on this version of Dolly Parton‘s classic, Jolene.  This recording was made during a Little Willies performance at The Living Room in 2008.  Just click here to see the video at Now I’ve Heard Everything.

–Eliot Wagner

The next event at Brooklyn Reading Works, a monthly literary series at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, is on October 21 at 8PM: New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights. This event, curated by playwright Rosemary Moore, will present unstaged readings of two plays by actors.

I’m also really excited about a reading I’m curating, which falls on Veteran’s Day, November 11 at 8PM, featuring writing by veterans of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Writing War, Voices of Vets,  includes authors Juri Jurjevics, Kevin McPartland, Roy Scranton, Matt Gallagher, Philip Klay and Jacob Siegal.

Click on read more to see the schedule for the rest of the series:

Continue reading Next Up at Brooklyn Reading Works: Brooklyn Playwrights, Writing by Vets →

Street Fair:

Sunday, Sept. 26: the 36th annual Atlantic Antic on the stretch between Hicks Street and Fourth Avenue, featuring more than 600 food, art and shopping vendors, 14 performance stages and even kid-friendly activities like pony-rides and a magician showcase.

Movies:

Wall Street Money: Never Sleeps, The Town at BAM

Film Festivals:

There are two count ’em two film festivals this weekend. For schedules and information:

Coney Island Film Festival and the Bushwick Film Festival grace the screens of Brooklyn this weekend.

Theater/Performance:

This weekend Laurie Anderson opens the Next Wave Festival at BAM with Delusion, “a phantasmagoric world made up of short plays, her latest work is activated by brooding, deeply affecting music redolent with Tibetan temple horns and Arabic strings, performed by Anderson on electronically enhanced violin with supporting virtuoso musicians. A simultaneously contemplative and whimsical epic about longing, identity, and memory, Delusion invokes both humor and terror, conjuring up elves, mysteries, ghost ships, and dead relatives to spin poetic stories and imagery into gold.”

Art:

The DUMBO Arts Festival will take over the waterfront community of DUMBO – its galleries, storefronts, performance venues, studios, and parks.  More exciting names are expected to be announced over coming weeks.

Saturday, September 25, at the Morgan Fine Arts Building in Greenpoint,  40 Brooklyn artists open their studios to the public.   From 5 to 10 P.M., 40 separate studios on five floors of the building will be open to the public, displaying fine art in every medium – painting, sculpture, silk screening, New Yorker cartooning, abstract photography.

BWAC’s Fall Group Art Show, Lineage, is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6pm, September 25 to October 31. 300 artists will be exhibiting 1200 works in all media, including those of Featured Artist, Anujan Ezhikode.

Muriel Guepin Gallery 47 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Group Show “Return us to Ourselves” Featuring the Artwork of Everett Aison, Matthew Conradt, and Jeanne Verdoux. On view from September 25, 2010 until November 7, 2010. Opening Reception Saturday September 25, 2010 from 6:30 – 9 pm.

Through Dec 12, Brooklyn Utopias Farm City at the Old Stone House curated by Katherine Gressel and Derek Denckla, featuring artwork by: Andrew Casner, Hernani Dias, Kate Glicksberg, Katherine Gressel, Hugh Hayden, Kim Holleman, Christina Kelly, Jess Levey, Mary Mattingly, Eve Mosher, Scott Nyerges, ORPH, Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy , Dan Sagarin, Eric Sanderson, Tattfoo Tan, Work.AC

Music:

Saturday Sept 25 at 8PM Barbes presents Laura Cantrell, the WFMU DJ and country singer. She has been called “the most vital new country voice in decades” by The Independent. She has just released her first album in three years, “Trains and Boats and Planes”, a digital download with songs about travel and the heartache of separation and loss. Laura’s fans include the late BBC DJ John Peel, who described her album “Not the Tremblin’ Kind” as “my favorite record of the last ten years and possibly my life,” and Elvis Costello who claimed that “If Kitty Wells made Rubber Soul, it would sound like Laura Cantrell”.

At the Rock Shop, Park Slope’s newest rock venue: Saturday, Sept 24: Hurricane Bells.

Sunday, Sept 26 at 9PM Barbes presents Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment: French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel seems to have channeled both the technique and the fire of Django Reinhardt. He studied for years with the manouche (the French Gypsies) but has also gotten deep into American vernacular musical styles. His weekly sets will mix up the traditional Django repertoire along gypsy swing re-interpretations of standards.

Cooking Demonstrations:

On Sunday, Sept. 26th from 2-2:30 PM at the Park Slope Farmers Market on 5th Avenue between 3rd and 5th Streets in Brooklyn.Farmers Market, Fumiko Akiyama, owner of Park Slope’s Kappa Sake House, will demonstrate how to make two different kinds of miso soup using local produce and seafood at  The event marks the first in a series of weekly cooking demos given by local chefs at the Farmers Market. Each demonstration will be held from 2 to 3:30pm and will feature local, farm-fresh ingredients.

You’ve heard of Revolutionary and Civil War re-enactors. There are also baseball re-enactors, who play the game the way it used to be played. Two teams will compete in historic baseball in Washington Park Third Street near Fourth Avenue  (also known as the turf field behind the Old Stone House is Park Slope) where, the Brooklyn Dodgers, long long ago, used to play (or practice or…

Watch the Flemington Neshanooks and the New York Gothams face off in Washington Park playing by 1864 rules! Games at 11 am and 1 pm. Vintage snacks prepared by historic gastronomist Sarah Lohman will be available at the Old Stone House!

If you were WONDERING what they finally named the baboons at the Prospect Park Zoo, here’s the latest. If, like me, you didn’t know that there was even a contest to name those baboons, here’s the story. And the names.

After three weeks of online polling and more than a thousand name submissions, the wo Hamadryas baboon babies are officially named. And the names are – Jabari and Azizi.

After giving careful consideration to all of the names submitted online, the staff of WCS’s Prospect Park Zoo chose a pair of Egyptian names to represent the area from which the Hamadryas baboons are found in the wild.  Jabari means brave in Egyptian, and Azizi means precious.  Besides Egypt , Hamadryas baboons are found in Eritrea , Ethiopia , Somalia , and on the Arabian Peninsula .

If you’d like to meet the baboons, their next big event is the annual Boo at the Zoo celebration Saturday October 30 and Sunday, October 31.  The troop will receive pumpkins in the spirit of the holiday – surely a sight to see.

The Hamadryas baboon exhibit is located in the zoo’s Animal Lifestyles Building along with tamarin monkeys, piranhas, and Pallas cats.  Jabari and Azizi are on exhibit with their family from 10am-2pm daily until November 1^st when their exhibit time will change.  Hours will be posted at www.prospectparkzoo.com.

My friends The Baseball Project have teamed up with Minnesota ex-pat and Brooklyn resident  Craig Finn, the lead singer of The Hold Steady, to come up with a song about The Minnesota Twins.  Craig does the lead vocals and wrote the lyrics, the music is by Steve Wynn.  It will be on the next Baseball Project album, which is due out sometime in 2011.  But it’s already being played at Target Field and on Minneapolis/St. Paul radio.  But if you’d like to hear it now (and you should because it’s flat out great), go to Now I’ve Heard Everything and get the details.

With two street fairs, a benefit and some inspired booking by The Rockwood Music Hall, it seems like every band in the world is playing on Sunday.  Of course there’s The Atlantic Antic with 10 stages; The Dumbo Arts Festival also has many bands playing.  If you’d like to stay closer to home, The first The Tinderbox Music Festival is at Southpaw.  And if none of that appeals to you, you can make the jaunt into Manhattan and check out Jon Graboff, Poundcake, Sasha Dobson and Kristin Diable all at Rockwood Music Hall.  You find the details here at Now I’ve Heard Everything.

–Eliot Wagner

Street Fair:

Sunday, Sept. 26: the 36th annual Atlantic Antic on the stretch between Hicks Street and Fourth Avenue, featuring more than 600 food, art and shopping vendors, 14 performance stages and even kid-friendly activities like pony-rides and a magician showcase.

Movies:

Wall Street Money: Never Sleeps, The Town at BAM

Friday, Sept 14: Life Lessons, a program of shorts at BAM explores the often difficult process of growing up is explored in this shorts program that chronicles the hard-won lessons learned by children and young adults of color inside and outside the classroom. A Departure From a Love  (2009, 8min) Directed by Ishmael Islam: A young man takes a walk through his beloved Brooklyn while reciting his spoken word poetry to an unknown lover. His journey takes us on a visual “lovefest” throughout the borough, connecting the people, places, and emotions that inspire his poetry. Sticks and Stones (2006, 9min) Directed by Rehema Imani Trimiew The Lesson Plan (2009, 30min) Directed by Eddy Dura, Premature (2008, 14min) Directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green.

Film Festivals:

There are two count ’em two film festivals this weekend:

Coney Island Film Festival and the Bushwick Film Festival grace the screens of Brooklyn this weekend.

Theater/Performance:

This weekend Laurie Anderson opens the Next Wave Festival at BAM with Delusion, “a phantasmagoric world made up of short plays, her latest work is activated by brooding, deeply affecting music redolent with Tibetan temple horns and Arabic strings, performed by Anderson on electronically enhanced violin with supporting virtuoso musicians. A simultaneously contemplative and whimsical epic about longing, identity, and memory, Delusion invokes both humor and terror, conjuring up elves, mysteries, ghost ships, and dead relatives to spin poetic stories and imagery into gold.”

Art:

The DUMBO Arts Festival will take over the waterfront community of DUMBO – its galleries, storefronts, performance venues, studios, and parks.  More exciting names are expected to be announced over coming weeks.

Saturday, September 25, at the Morgan Fine Arts Building in Greenpoint,  40 Brooklyn artists open their studios to the public.   From 5 to 10 P.M., 40 separate studios on five floors of the building will be open to the public, displaying fine art in every medium – painting, sculpture, silk screening, New Yorker cartooning, abstract photography.

BWAC’s Fall Group Art Show, Lineage, is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6pm, September 25 to October 31. 300 artists will be exhibiting 1200 works in all media, including those of Featured Artist, Anujan Ezhikode.

Muriel Guepin Gallery 47 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Group Show “Return us to Ourselves” Featuring the Artwork of Everett Aison, Matthew Conradt, and Jeanne Verdoux. On view from September 25, 2010 until November 7, 2010. Opening Reception Saturday September 25, 2010 from 6:30 – 9 pm.

Through Dec 12, Brooklyn Utopias Farm City at the Old Stone House curated by Katherine Gressel and Derek Denckla, curators featuring artwork by: Andrew Casner, Hernani Dias, Kate Glicksberg, Katherine Gressel, Hugh Hayden, Kim Holleman, Christina Kelly, Jess Levey, Mary Mattingly, Eve Mosher, Scott Nyerges, ORPH, Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy , Dan Sagarin, Eric Sanderson, Tattfoo Tan, Work.AC

Music:

On Friday, Sept 24 at 8PM at Issue Project Room: A celebration of Laurie Spiegel’s 65th Birthday ISSUE Project Room is pleased to host a reception and piano concert of her work.  The evening will begin with a 45-minute informal gallery show featuring slideshows of photographic documentation of Spiegel’s computer-generated art created at Bell Labs, personal photographs, hand made art and other selected visuals while we hear selected music from the greatly expanded double-cd re-release of her seminal 1980 LP “The Expanding Universe” forthcoming on Unseen Worlds Records. Following the exhibition, Spiegel will give a brief comments on her work and the evening will conclude with a rare performance of some of Spiegel’s rarely-heard very personal solo piano pieces performed by Joseph Kubera.

Saturday Sept 25 at 8PM Barbes presents Laura Cantrell, the WFMU DJ and country singer. She has been called “the most vital new country voice in decades” by The Independent. She has just released her first album in three years, “Trains and Boats and Planes”, a digital download with songs about travel and the heartache of separation and loss. Laura’s fans include the late BBC DJ John Peel, who described her album “Not the Tremblin’ Kind” as “my favorite record of the last ten years and possibly my life,” and Elvis Costello who claimed that “If Kitty Wells made Rubber Soul, it would sound like Laura Cantrell”.

At the Rock Shop, Park Slope’s newest rock venue: The Dig on Friday, Sept 24 and on Saturday, Sept 24: Hurricane Bells.

Sunday, Sept 26 at 9PM Barbes presents Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment: French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel seems to have channeled both the technique and the fire of Django Reinhardt. He studied for years with the manouche (the French Gypsies) but has also gotten deep into American vernacular musical styles. His weekly sets will mix up the traditional Django repertoire along gypsy swing re-interpretations of standards.

Cooking Demonstrations:

On Sunday, Sept. 26th from 2-2:30 PM at the Park Slope Farmers Market on 5th Avenue between 3rd and 5th Streets in Brooklyn.Farmers Market, Fumiko Akiyama, owner of Park Slope’s Kappa Sake House, will demonstrate how to make two different kinds of miso soup using local produce and seafood at  The event marks the first in a series of weekly cooking demos given by local chefs at the Farmers Market. Each demonstration will be held from 2 to 3:30pm and will feature local, farm-fresh ingredients.

Brooklyn super art weekend: Art in Brooklyn

Birthday smoke: Brooklymometry

Healing Songs: Music For Masabumi Kikuchi: Do the Math

My life with Robert Bolano: Truth and Rocket Science

Going Away Party by Marshall Chapman: Self-Absorbed Boomer

Set list of Pavement’s 4th NYC reunion show: Bklyn Vegan

Build/Inhabit: Water Over Rocks

The ordeal of the sermon by Daniel Meeter:  A Journal of Reformed Thought

Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk: Greenlight Bookstore

Now through December 12, 2010, a new art exhibition at the Old Stone House in Park Slope poses the question: what is the role of artists in shaping an ideal Brooklyn?

At Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City, curated by Katherine Gressel and Derek Denckla, artists respond to the idea of urban agriculture, and the practice of farming in or around a city, as a “utopian” solution for Brooklyn.

Multi-media artist, Andrew Casner, Hernani Dias, Kate Glicksberg, Katherine Gressel, Hugh Hayden, Kim Holleman, Christina Kelly, Jess Levey, Mary Mattingly, Eve Mosher, Scott Nyerges, ORPH, Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy , Dan Sagarin, Eric Sanderson, Tattfoo Tan, Work.AC have created works that explore Brooklyn’s existing urban farming attempts and explore what additional innovations and collaborations are possible.

Walking through the show one ponders the borough’s rich agrarian past and wonders if it can inform a greener future. Issues of scale, universal access, diversity and feasibility for urban farming are also in the mix.

Finally, how can the past, present and future of Brooklyn farming inform future “farm cities?”

The last time I saw Brooklyn: CasaCara

Andrew & Kathleen’s Inspired Home: Apartment Therapy

Reclaimed space: Reclaimed Home

Linen pinboard: Brooklyn Limestone

This year I will try not to: Swiss Miss

Remaking teachers’ Lounges: NY Times

On September 23rd at 7PM, Brooklyn Reading Works presents the second annual Young Writers Night, fiction, poetry and song by New York City teenagers. “In planning this event, I looked for artists with fresh insight, candor and guts.” writes curator Jill Eisenstadt, author of From Rockaway and Kiss Out. Young Writers should be an exciting night and a preview into the next generation of published writers.

Did I tell you it starts at 7PM?

Young Writers is an all ages event at the Old Stone House. Third Street and Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Suggested donation of $5 includes refreshments.

Did I mention that it starts at 7PM?

Readers include Hananh Frishberg, Maria Robins-Somerville, Noah Miller, Julia Banks Harris Lily Konigsberg, Gussie Roc, Luca Balser, Charlie Dore-Young and MORE.

It’s at 7PM everyone!

Kidverse: Is This Your Teacher?

The most abominable creature

Must be the woman who’s a screecher.

My ears would love to banish her.

It’d make the world much quieter.

The screecher can’t imagine what

The devil of an effect she’s got.

As far as she knows, the sounds she makes

Are tastier than banana cakes,

More treasured than the platinum

That makes a miser worry some,

More tuneful than the sweetest song,

Though actually resembling a gong.

Each word that drops from the mouth of the screecher

Reminds me of a monster feature,

A movie with a heroine

Who’s out of touch and quite all-in;

She likes to think of herself as a funster,

When others view her as a munster.

Not a cheese and not a treat,

Nothing anyone would eat.

And yet she certainly means no harm.

She can’t help sounding like an alarm.

Poor woman!  Let’s give her an award:

A piece of chalk to scrape on the board.

Compared to the men who kinda bellow.