First line of Brooklyn trend story hilariously perfect [Fox Business]
Ray Kelly considering stopping,frisking mayoral campaign [Runnin' Scared]
This certainly looks bad for the Flea [DNA Info]
Hey, it’s a music video about stop and frisk [Capital]
What to consider before eating cicadas [The Atlantic]
BK apartment under construction for 10 years almost done [Curbed]
Seattle bookstore desperate to get rid of 500K book backstock [Mediabistro]
NY tabloid reaction to Weiner exposing mayoral plans [NYO]

Mount Eerie in 2011. Photo by Cody Swanson

You may have seen our previous announcements that we’re giving away two Northside music badges. You may have thought “I’d love those, but I’ll get to that next week.” Well, it’s next week. We’re drawing a winner tomorrow at noon so you better enter before it’s too late.

These badges will give you access to all the music events on a first-come, first-served basis and guaranteed entry to both outdoor shows at McCarren Park: The Walkmen on June 15 and Solange on June 16.

You must be an e-mail subscriber to win. It’s free and easy: fill in that little box to your right that says “JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST” and click subscribe. In the upcoming newsletter we’ll send out later today, click the link to enter. That’s all you have to do.

Keep an eye out for the newsletter every Thursday in your mailbox. After this contest is over, we’ll have many more giveaways and lots of useful info.

Conspiracy of Beards: they might be clean-shaven, but they do look shifty. via Facebook

1. Brooklyn Launchpad invites you to perform any kind of art you can think of, provided you can do it in 10 minutes or less (Friday)

2. Party starters Brooklyn Wildlife get out of the lofts and into Public Assembly for a wild night of partying, dancing and body paint. Woo! Body paint! (Friday)

3. Live From Outer Space is a comedy show at the Cobra Club, but we haven’t been to it so we can’t tell you if it’s actually beamed in from a secret comedy base on bars or something (Friday)

4. Satiate your bloodlust with 70s revenge flick Act of Vengeance. Contains the FDA suggested daily requirement of blood and assorted gore (Friday) (more…)

“Just not the Lena Dunham character,” said 10,000 meatheads

Despite the fact that it doesn’t get great numbers in traditional TV metrics like ratings, Girls still cleans up in categories like “buzzworthiness,” think pieces, awards and themed Craigslist apartment ads. Which means that in addition to the normal cash-ins like bus tours and bad parodies, the show is now joining the likes of Seinfeld and The Office with that touchstone of cultural acceptance, the porn parody. (more…)

Still alive! But… via Facebook

Last night, the Brooklyn Twittersphere was all aflutter after reports from Eater that The Levee was the latest Williamsburg institution to pack up and leave. Fortunately, that turned out not to be true, and we were spared 14,000 nostalgia pieces about “the old Williamsburg.” Still, the statement from The Levee’s owners left some room to worry. (more…)

With a cover like this, how could you NOT want it? (via bizweekdesign’s flickr)

In case you haven’t noticed, the city is filled with a lot of rich people, many of whom are perhaps far savvier businessmen and women than we oft-unemployed Me-Me-Me Millennials. And, as oft-unemployed Me-Me-Me Millennials, we welcome their financial advice (well, maybe not these guys’ advice), encouragement and any other well-intentioned helping hand. But isn’t there a better way to help us out than with a tongue-in-cheek free subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek, complete with snarky little notes to remind us of what economic wastes we all are? (more…)

Oh, and win Daily Show tickets

We’re getting there, but there’s still work to be done when it comes to rebuilding everything wrecked by Sandy. And that, of course, takes money. And while just donating money to charity can give you a nice feeling inside, sometimes it’s nice to get something back for giving. Like, say, Daily Show tickets. Starting tonight, you can bid on those, and other great items with the “Bid 4 BKLYN” auction that benefits a Sandy relief program in Coney Island, and there’s a launch party for the auction at Spike Hill tonight as well. (more…)

Raise your hand if you don’t want to run over a pedestrian!

Who’s the more rightfully aggrieved population in New York City, cyclists or pedestrians? The question will never be answered, and probably because it doesn’t have a correct answer. Well, outside of “blame drivers for everything.” But in an effort to bridge the gap and unite against the common enemy that is the car, Slate got a cyclist and a pedestrian to sit down and discuss ways in which they could be less annoyed at each other. They came up with 5 rules for each side to follow, here’s a couple we took an interest in. (more…)

This snake robot better return to Innovation Square this year. (via Facebook)

Fellow nerds of the world, great news! The World Science Festival is on its way to NYC next week for its sixth annual celebration of all things, well, science-y. From May 29th to June 2nd, the festival will be hosting a whole bunch of fun events at venues all over the city, and though most of the events are ticketed, there are a few free things of note going down, plus there are plenty of Brooklyn-based talks and workshops to check out at low costs. Telescopes out, folks! (more…)

Ah Christ, the cicadas are here [NYM]
Every running gag in Arrested Development [Paper Mag]
Was a community board ordered not to vote on bike share? [NYP]
Pictures of the Anchorman 2 shoot in Park Slope [Park Slope Stoop]
People have feelings about South Williamsburg bike share stations [DNA Info]
Tumblr CEO clearly a hipster [New York Observer]
Office parks will never die [Gawker]