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Complete Kitchen: Working Class Foodie Rebecca Lando

By A.H. Avouris

From pie weights to Pyrex, each of us considers a different set of elements to be crucial to our cooking, and we often have strong opinions as to why. In this column, I will ask chefs, foodies, and restaurateurs from across the borough for the top ten necessities—both edible and utensil—that they keep stocked in their home kitchens. In this installment, Working Class Foodies producer Rebecca Lando gives us her top ten must-haves.

February 1, 2011 Culture, Food, MultiMedia, Video

tags: Complete Kitchen, Foodies, local produce

Buke & Gass Sound Like Brooklyn

By Jason Orlovich

The Buke & Gass duo, featuring Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez, highlights precisely what’s frustrating about small scene independent sound these days from New York to Portland – they always leave us wanting more.

December 22, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles, Music Reviews, Postview

tags: Brooklyn Bands, Brooklyn Sound, Local Bands, Local Shows

Penny House Cafe in Prospect Heights Wants Your Lunch Money

By Alisha Miranda

The Penny House Cafe in Prospect Heights opened its doors in March 2010 and has remained bustling with Wi-Fi workers, coffee lovers, and hungry locals ever since. Offering more than just coffee on the thriving strip of shops on of Washington Avenue has made this cafe a great stop for a snack or a meal.

December 22, 2010 Restaurants

tags: food, restaurants

Thriving Crown Heights Community Hub ‘LaunchPad’ Introduces Neighbors

By Jessica Dailey

LaunchPad is an arts-based community center in Crown Heights. Started by Mike Kunitzky last winter, the space transforms depending on what neighborhood groups want to use it for. “I wanted a place where people could exchange ideas and make things happen,” says Kunitzky, a constantly smiling 35-year-old. “There’s potential for magic in those unexpected talents and interactions.”

December 17, 2010 Art n' About, Culture, MultiMedia, Photo, The People

tags: Crown Heights, Franklin Avenue, LaunchPad, Mike Kunitzky, Urban River Arts

Nevermind the Babies, Here’s Park Slope

By A.H. Avouris

We’ve heard all the jokes before: The sidewalks are so clogged with strollers that they’ve become impassible. Bars are about as hip as a windbreaker, are perpetually overrun by the under-5 contingent, and you’ll be shushed if you curse in public. There are no restaurants other than high-chair strewn pizza parlors, making it ludicrous for North Brooklynites to bother leaving their adult environs and subject themselves to the mercurial whims of the F train. Wary travelers take note – there’s a lot more to Park Slope than Gerber Organic.

December 14, 2010 Food, Restaurants, Things to Do

tags: Bars, Brooklyn Parents, food, Foodies, Greenmarket, park slope, restaurants

Not Such a Terrible Idea: Two Labels on Opposite Sides of the Digital Decade

By Jason Orlovich

The past decade for New York-based independent labels has either been rough going or a coming out party that no one saw coming. It is not easy to trace how every tiny label arrived at this point, right down to the micro-trends littering Brooklyn’s past decade in music, but there are two labels in particular that might offer the perfect snapshot of Brooklyn 2001 and Brooklyn 2010.

December 13, 2010 Brooklyn Beats

tags: Brooklyn Bands, Independent Sound, Local Bands

Born from the Lens, Artist Trevor Wentworth Builds a Paper World

By Dan Carlson

For the last nine years, artist Trevor Wentworth has made work at studios in Bushwick, Williamsburg, and most recently Carroll Gardens. His third floor studio on Bergen Street is eight feet wide and twelve feet long, just enough room for the bare essentials. It’s here that Wentworth creates his bracingly complex paper sculptures and miniature tabletop installations, which form at the intersection of the physical and metaphorical definitions of the lens.

December 13, 2010 Featured Artists

tags: Artists, Emerging Artists, local