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Author: Brokelyn staff

Wednesday lunchtime links: Très Brooklyn edition

That Bob & Judi store on Fifth Avenue is closing [Park Slope Patch]  Gayday! Gayday! [Pride Week] Bushwick gal baking her way…

‘Twas a dark and stormy Transit of Venus

The once-in-15-years astronomical event is that little spec that looks like screen dust on the sun.

Tuesday lunchtime linkage

32 sample sales in June [Racked] Young, broke and unemployed in Fort Greene [The Local] Your birth control might not work…

Hire Amber Marlow for your photo shoot and get a Brokelyn Break!

Look at this gorgeous gal! She's Amber Marlow, a friend of Brokelyn, fixture on the Park Slope social scene, talented…

$3 ATMs, toe shoes and 10 other things Bloomberg should ban

BK foodies can breathe a sigh of pasturesmithed relief that our BLT-lovin' Nanny Bloomberg isn't banning bacon or mayo next. But…

Monday lunchtime linkage

Hey look at that: Williamsburg has fewer white people these days [Brownstoner] Cuomo for gay pot-smoking president [NYT] Inside Greenpoint's…

Brokes Populi: How much do you spend at a coffee shop?

Picture a rainy Brooklyn morning. Perfect day to hunker down in a coffee shop in the company of other morose…

Big neighborhood sale in Brooklyn-burbia this weekend

Three neighborhoods in leafy, Victorian, house-poor Brooklyn are having a sale this weekend. Bring bungee cords and a wheelbarrow.

14 new BK food buzzwords to replace ‘artisanal’

From today's AtlanticWire: "Artisanal, a word that fought early in his career to ensure recognition of craftsmen for their important…

Thursday lunchtime linkage

Public sex scourge in Park Slope [Brooklyn Paper] Pricey ice cream scourge in Prospect Heights [NY Daily News] "Artisanal" dies…