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Category: News

Lit Crawl is coming back to Brooklyn, and you can help plan it!

Last year, San Francisco's beloved Litquake finally brought its huge, free and fairly prestigious Lit Crawl to Brooklyn, which  was…

Friday lunchtime linkage

Lena Dunham fires writers, consolidates power [Capital] Crotchety old man mayor unimpressed by jobless rate [Politicker] Famous Yankee to cease…

‘Always Sunny’ star soliciting scripts from unknowns

Have you been spending time in a coffee shop pecking away at a screenplay, feeling hopeful and proud? Have you…

Bushwick expensive. Sky still blue, cats and dogs still enemies

Given the ever-upward, certainly-not-a-bubble trajectory of Brooklyn real estate, it's appropriate to ask: is a huge increase in rental prices…

Thursday lunchtime linkage

Walmart is giving up on NYC for now. Quitters [NYT] Andrew WK: wipes spokesman [Free Williamsburg] The Bronx is getting…

There’s a whole lotta Brooklyn in NY Mag’s Best of NYC 2013

New York magazine exists to do more than give Julie Klausner something to do while she's not recording How Was…

Checkmate: BK school may lose famous chess team due to budget cuts

Sad news: though Brooklyn city schools have been put in the spotlight of late, one famous after-school chess program might…

Duane Reade just crushed Walmart (in number of Twitter followers)

We're suckers for rooting for the little guy, even if, in this case, the little guy is a ubiquitous chain…

Wednesday lunchtime linkage

Pretend to be rich on dating websites. Get laid [New York Observer] Roger Ailes fears death. Maybe he IS human... [Vanity…

Forsaken no more: Express F train might be in the works

If you live in Brooklyn (or Manhattan, or Queens, really) you've likely had the misfortune of taking the F train.…