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Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 14 pages •Vol.29, No. 4 BWN • Saturday, January 28, 2006 • FREE ARBORCIDE! Parks Dept kills Heights trees — then charges a patsy with murder trees were thriving. If they were not, York By Gersh Kuntzman promised to replace them. The Brooklyn Papers But the company got no response until Five Brooklyn Heights residents in the last week, when Parks Department workers prime of their lives were murdered in broad showed up with chainsaws and started re- daylight last week — and a man who fought moving the trees. to keep them alive has been charged in the “One of the workers stopped cutting after crime even though he didn’t pull the trigger. he removed the first branch and called his supervisor because the tree was alive,” said The actual killers of two London plane trees and the York engineer. “He said, ‘Are you sure I three gingkoes — which stood for decades in front have the right tree?’ But he was told to keep of a large apartment tower at 75 Henry St. — were cutting. That’s how crazy this whole thing workers for the New York City Parks Department. is.” The Case of the Terminated Trees reads like a But as with any good murder story, mystery novel — except this isn’t a whodunnit, but George Della Latta, president of the build- a whydunnit. ing’s co-op board, thinks nefarious forces The roots of this tall tale go back to November, are at work. when contractors renovating the cement plaza at “The way I figure it, the lifespan of a the apartment building may have damaged the 35- street tree is, what, 20 years?” Latta said. year-old trees. “So the Parks Department figures they’re Or maybe not. going to have to replace these trees anyway, “We got hit with summonses and received a let- so why not find a way to make someone ter from the Parks Department saying we damaged else not only pay for their removal, but pay the trees and they had to be removed at our ex- Mango / Greg to replace them, too?” pense,” explained an engineer from York Restora- Latta has been sharing his theory with tion, who requested anonymity because the murder elected officials and even reporter David charge is being appealed. Diaz, who does the “Shame on You!” seg- The company’s owner, George York, hired ar- ment on WCBS-Channel 2 news. VP Pro Beach Volleyball VP Pro borist Don Venezia, who inspected the allegedly A

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn The Parks Department did not return re- wounded trees. Four of the five tree stumps that remain in peated calls for comment. “At this time,” Venezia wrote, “the trees have set front of 75 Henry St. after the Parks Depart- The irony is that the trees were allegedly bud and in my opinion are alive and healthy.” ment chopped down their 35-year-old tops. damaged during ongoing construction that Venezia said that one of the gingkoes has “some will transform the barren cement plaza at 75 small root damage, less than one inch,” but sug- Sights of summer Henry St. into a lushly landscaped sitting gested that the problem could be remedied by trim- trees are removed due to root damage ASAP,” area. ming “the damaged roots.” Matthew Wells, a department forester, wrote back. Some of the lost trees actually appear in Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project remains controversial, but there’s nothing ire-provoking about The Parks Department did not accept Venezia’s York offered a compromise — namely that the the architectural renderings of the $4-mil- his latest initiative — a deal to bring Kerri Walsh (above) and other top pro volleyball stars to diagnosis. “Brooklyn forestry requests that these trial be put on hold until the spring to see if the lion project. Coney Island this summer. See story, back page. Sad day for Cocoa without pier single freaks City: Move it from Hook to Sunset Park Dick Zigun is off the market By Ariella Cohen the Ivory Coast — touching on such third ed whether to make port space available Heights), as a circle of dockworkers gath- ATE TO BREAK the news man curiosity at Coney Island’s fa- The Brooklyn Papers rails as city politics, the future of the Port of elsewhere. ered around the ship last week. to you, Rubber Girl, Insecta- mous Circus Sideshow, is engaged New York and even the development of the Walk’s bittersweet cargo had been strand- “The city is not willing to let these piers Acocoa-filled freighter — unable to Brooklyn Bridge Park. ed on the East River since January 15, when keep going,” Yassky added. vora, Helen Melon and to be married. H unload its cargo because of a dispute Caught in the middle is Kip Walk, whose the Port Authority refused to allow Ameri- Pier operators had hoped to unload the ship Kerosene Queen, but the cliche is fi- To a human being, no less! between the Port Authority and the Blommer Chocolate is the largest cocoa can Stevedoring, which operates Pier 9, to at Pier 6 — but that site is now earmarked for nally true: the good ones are all gone. But she’s a freak at heart. Zigun’s operators of Brooklyn’s last working processor in the world and depends on the unload the 600-foot cargo ship at the nearby a high-rise developement that is part of the fiancee, Pat Mukuro, is not only a Dick Zigun, the king of all the port — has been ordered to drop Red Hook pier. Pier 6, saying that the company was mis- “park” plan, so the city ruled it off-limits. geeks, freaks and wonders of hu- Nigerian pop singer, but, if you be- anchor and unload downriver at a “I’m just trying to move some cocoa here, managing its port traffic. While the city, Port Authority and American lieve the entirely untrustworthy Zi- vacant Sunset Park pier. but New York City politics keep not letting “When you have cargo that wants to un- Stevedoring negotiated, Blommer decided not gun, she’s also an Urhobo princess. The decision ended a two-week stalemate me,” Walk said. load, why is the [city] telling them they to risk another shipment to governmental THE BROOKLYN “All that Josephine Baker was to whose implications go beyond the fate of Walk said that his company lost $3,000 a don’t know where they can go?” asked paralysis in New York and rerouted a second By Gersh Paris, Princess Pat will be to New 250,000 burlap sacks of cocoa beans from day as the city and the Port Authority debat- Councilman David Yassky (D-Brooklyn ANGLE Kuntzman York,” Zigun said. “The world of the ship hauling $8 million in cocoa to Baltimore. weird better watch out for the John and Yoko of the 21st century.” Zigun claims the pair met in 1997 at the Mermaid Parade. Years later, she became renowned for her butchery of the national anthem. After a year, city admits “She didn’t really know the tune, and halfway through, she for- got the words and it became a crazy a capella moment,” said Fred Kahl, a.k.a. The Great Fredini, a guilt in Hook child’s death longtime sideshow performer. Mukuro returned to her native Africa to pursue her recording ca- By Gersh Kuntzman bureaucracy finally changed tactics. the Department of Sanitation found reer, but visa problems kept her The Brooklyn Papers A spokeswoman for the city Law “nothing conclusive that would con- from Zigun’s side (among other Department said the agency had ad- nect the department to the accident.” The Bloomberg administra- mitted guilt. In fact, investigators were in pos- parts of his body — ooof!). tion this week marked the one- The marriage is now scheduled The spokeswoman, Kate O’Brien session of hair and blood samples year anniversary of the death of Ahlers, said, “The city has expressed taken from one of the snow plows — for next week in Cyprus, chosen 10-year-old girl under a city for obvious reasons. in writing to Maria Jimenez, Markita and that tissue matched Weaver. / Greg Mango / Greg “When Zeus was killed, his gen- snowplow in an odd manner — Weaver’s mother, our profound re- “I have no idea why this admis- by finally admitting that a city itals were thrown into the ocean / Steve Sunshine gret and sorrow on her daughter’s sion took a year, but the NYPD and they landed near Cyprus,” Zi- worker did indeed kill her. death.” claims it was using a new kind of gun said. “And Aphrodite was The Department of Sanitation had Friends and family marked the ac- forensic test,” said Beth Schlossman, born out of the sea foam.” long denied that one of its drivers tual one-year anniversary by building the Weaver family lawyer.

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Zigun said Mukuro will eventu- crushed Red Hook resident Markita a makeshift memorial at the corner of The family is suing the city for $85 Recently engaged Dick Zigun ally assume her rightful place as a Nicole Weaver as she played with her Richards and Walcott streets, where million At the same time Jimenez photographed in a fun house sideshow star: “I’m thinking Papers The Brooklyn friends in the snow on Jan. 23, 2005. Weaver died. was receiving the city’s apology let- mirror at Coney Island. Madame Twisto for her.” Stuffed animals and balloons mark the corner where 10- But as reporters started preparing Witnesses had long said that a city ter, Schlossman said she received a year-old Markita Nicole Weaver was killed by a snowplow. their one-year anniversary stories, the snowplow had crushed Weaver, but letter to initiate settlement talks.

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The large, two- •Mommy and me •Weekend workshops at Connecticut Muffin. “Af- there’s much to do with kids again, the prices for cash- level space with Manhattan ter all, these new moms are around here. “Tons. There’s mere sweaters, black under- views was busy with tables www.theartistryproject.com are you 15 years ago.” of moms and kids. This is no 718-858-0217 How old does he think place for Mr. Stroller Mani- Smartmom is? But Dumb festo of Park Slope, but a 185 Sackett Street Free trial for new students. Editor had a point. Smart- perfect spot for a Bloody bt H dHik Sbitfdtil mom was pushing Teen Mary and a midday repast. Spirit in a Combi stroller SMART Smartmom thought about when Park Slope, like what Dumb Editor had said: DUMBO now, was experi- Are all these moms the 2006 encing its first baby boom. mom version of Smartmom, circa So Smartmom changed 1990? Well, just like the out of her schleppy Park tons to do. It’s a fantastic, wear sets, and French toys Creativity Central for Slope uniform (PS 321 T- DUMBO moms, Smartmom family-oriented neighbor- matched the shop’s inflated and Hepcat left Manhattan Park Slope Families shirt, black stretch pants), hood.” view of itself. donned her snazziest jeans when Teen Spirit was born, Then she shooed Smart- Next, Smartmom walked in search of a big apartment, Arts & Crafts This Week’s Workshops and leather jacket (so as to mom away. “I hope you past 70 Washington St., ––––––––––––––––––– blend in with the DUMBO a nearby playground, and a Store and Studio Printmaking for Adults Tues,1/31 don’t mind, but I’d like to David Walentas’s condo, crowd) and took a car serv- fairly quick commute to jobs Make a Clay Pot for Kids Wed,2/1 talk to my friend.” where lofts are selling for • Arts & Crafts ice to the Pirate Playground, in Manhattan. Painting a Jewelry Box Manhattan, indeed. millions. 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By Lilo H. Stainton made her heart sink, she said. tied more often,” she said, The Brooklyn Papers The house of worship — noting that church leaders are For the third time in two on 14th Street near Fourth Av- also thinking about installing a enue — was also robbed last security camera. years, burglars broke into spring and in 2004. According to Holy Family the Holy Family Church in “It was the same glass win- leaders, at least two other Park Slope, stealing dona- dow,” said the secretary, who Catholic churches in Park tions from the collection declined to give her name out Slope have been burglarized box while the Roman of fear of revenge. “They have during the same two-year peri- Catholic facility was an agenda, these people.” od. Perps struck St. John the Eat-In or Take-Out closed for the night, police The thief pried open the Evangelists during the spring of

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/ Gersh Kuntzman his bedroom closet. of money from two collection In that case, however, noth- boxes next to a pair of candle ing was stolen, police said. racks, where the faithful de- In the latest break-in, the posit $1 for a prayer candle. Z longtime secretary at Holy The cash boxes had tradition- Family — arrived for work ally been emptied once a The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn around 8 am on Jan. 17, to find week, but that policy will def- Holy Name School A parishoner points to the gift box at Park Slope’s Holy Family Church, at Fourth Avenue a window on the side of the initely be changed. and Ninth Street, that has been robbed three times in the past two years. church bashed in. The sight “They’re going to be emp- Windsor Terrace Providing a Christ-Centered Education to Brooklyn’s Children since 1885

10th Street man is tossed to Come discover what makes our school x Grades Pre-K - 8 so special: caring teachers, a diverse x Toddler program (age 3) student body, a century-old x Spanish, art and music tradition of academic excellence, and x Computer and science ground, robbed outside home a deep respect for Catholic values. labs --Robert Hughes, Principal x Resource Room/Title I By Lilo H. Stainton Subway attack at 9 am. When she returned at x Imagine Tomorrow® The Brooklyn Papers A Maryland woman fought 7 pm, she found someone had computer classes POLICE BLOTTER off a mugger who tried to steal pushed in the air-conditioning x After-school program Two masked thugs unit attached to a second-floor Join us for Open jumped a 10th Street resi- her bag in the Seventh Avenue x Diocesan Aquinas honors B train station on Jan. 15, po- window and robbed her apart- dent as he opened his front Police said the robber Robbed on 6th program walked into the branch, near lice said. ment, according to police. House! door on Jan. 18, police A St. Johns Place resident The stolen items included x School bus service said. Windsor Place, at 12:40 pm lost his wallet to a pair of The 26-year-old woman was Grades 5-8: and passed the teller a note, waiting on the Bronx-bound over two dozen DVDs and x Primary and upper-grade The 51-year-old victim ar- black-clad muggers who at- CDs, a Sony stereo, a Dell prompting her to quickly emp- platform with her sister, 27, a Tues, Jan. 31, 10-11 a.m. libraries rived at his home, near Fifth tacked him on his home street resident of Manhattan, when a laptop and an HP desktop ty her cash drawer into a bag. School choir, chess club, Avenue, around 9:30 pm. But Jan. 14, police said. man tried to grab the pocket- computer, police said. Pre-K through 4: x as he put the key into the lock, The robber bolted with The 36-year-old man student council $3,693 in cash and dashed up book from her shoulder, around Biz robbed the muggers grabbed him neared the corner of Sixth Av- Thur, Feb. 2, 10-11 a.m. Prospect Park West. Police 11:45 pm. The sister ran to her A robber stole $2,600 in x Parish sports and scouting from behind and tossed him to enue at around 6 pm when aid, and the women struggled Toddler: Thur, March 2, 9:30- programs the pavement, where they scouring Prospect Park on merchandise from the base- foot and circled the area with two strangers blocked his with the mugger, who gave up ment of a radio and electron- punched and kicked him. One path, and one demanded, and ran from the station. The 10:30 a.m. thug demanded, “Gimme your NYPD helicopters, but did not ics store on Seventh Avenue find the wanted man. “Give me your wallet.” After women described him as a that was closed for the night money,” and snatched the the victim complied, the pair black man, 5-foot-6 and 160 man’s wallet. Officials continue to search on Jan. 16, police said. 241 Prospect Park West Brooklyn, NY 11215 for the robber, a white man de- ran off, police said. pounds, dressed in blue pants, A 26-year-old worker at the The pair of thieves then The man said the muggers tan boots and a black leather (F train to Prospect Park; B69 and B75 bus) dashed down Fifth Avenue, scribed as between 5-foot-9 and well-known national franchise, 6-feet tall, weighing 160 to 180 were both black men, roughly jacket. at Fifth Street, arrived at 7:30 For information, call: 718-768-7629 police said. 5-foot-5 and 120 pounds, The victim said his attack- pounds, and sporting tattoos on Techno thief am on Jan. 17 to find the pad- dressed in traditional mugger- or visit: www.hnjbklyn.org ers were Hispanic men, both both hands and his neck. A burglar snatched $2,700 in lock on the cellar-door snipped. roughly 5-foot-10 and 160 Armed mug wear: black hats, black pants electronics from a Ninth Street Once inside the basement and black sweatshirts, accord- storage area, the burglar Accredited by the Middle State Association of Colleges and Schools pounds, according to police. A knife-wielding robber apartment while the tenant was ing to police. The wallet held at work on Jan. 17, police said. helped himself to a pair of HP One wore a black snorkel stole cash and a card key from Supported by the Holy Name Foundation $30, gas and credit cards and The 25-year-old victim left laptops, a Sony home stereo jacket and both covered their a man on Berkeley Place on his driver’s license. her home, at Eighth Avenue, system and other items. faces with black ski masks. Jan. 18, police said. The man’s wallet contained The thief jumped his 38- bank and credit cards, his year-old victim at 7:50 pm, as New York State pistol license the man walked between February at and the registration for his Sixth and Flatbush avenues — 1999 Chrysler, police said. less than a block from his WT bank heist home, according to police. Union A thief armed with a note es- With the weapon in hand, the caped with nearly $3,700 from mugger said, “Don’t make me Temple a bank on Prospect Park West hurt you,” and snatched the on Jan. 21, police said. But the victim’s wallet. tattooed bandit left behind a Police said the thief re- Shabbat Services lasting impression on the staff moved $20 and a card key 1st Friday every month, 6:30 pm — fingerprints and his image from the billfold and ran away burned into video on the bank’s on Sixth Avenue toward the Other Friday evenings, 8:15 pm security camera. Bergen Street subway station. 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By Ariella Cohen preserve industrial zoning. 3 would “prohibit residential venture that is transforming The Brooklyn Papers The so-called Industrial rezoning in the area.” much of industrial Brooklyn. Business Zones are drawn by The letter writer, Ofer Co- But letters like Cohen’s are On the eve of a vital pub- the city in a contentious de- hen of Massey Knakal Realty provoking the ire of some of lic hearing to discuss freez- bate over preserving what is Services, said the “ultimate their recipients. ing residential development fast becoming an endangered goal [of his letter] is to … help “An industrial building [that in parts of Sunset Park and species in Brooklyn — facto- property owners like you can be redeveloped into hous- Red Hook, property owners ry and warehouse buildings make informed decisions ing] sells for three times as are being actively courted that can’t be converted into about their real estate assets.” much as regular industrial by interest groups on both profitable condos or lofts. In other words, Cohen fa- buildings,” said Phaedra Thom- sides of the issue. That explains why one form vors the current zoning, which as, executive director of the The hearing will be a letter sent to warehouse and allows property owners to ap- Southwest Brooklyn Industrial chance for public officials, factory owners in Sunset Park ply for zoning variances that Development Corporation. planners and business owners reminded property owners that could lead to residential rede- “The inflated values make to speak out on a city plan to the hearing at City Hall on Feb. velopment — a profitable it really hard for someone to expand his business or develop an industrial building for an industrial tenant, but it works for a Realtor who makes money on his commissions.” Dangerous roads. Slippery sidewalks. Jailed, they sue feds Thomas said she has been urging businesses owners in Associated Press The case was bolstered by a Sunset Park, where the men her group to attend the meet- No milk in the fridge. Four men who claim they 2003 report by the Justice De- were held, along with 75 other ing and voice support for the were illegally jailed and partment’s Office of the In- people “of high interest” to the business zoning plan. abused at the federal deten- spector General, which found FBI. 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BCAT Program Guide – What’s on Brooklyn Community Access Television NEW SCHOOL A Road to New Expression by Marianna Hernandez

HEN ARTIST OLEN HSU MOVED TO WNEW YORK FROM CHICAGO TWO YEARS AGO, HE WANTED TO ENHANCE HIS Brooklyn artist Cynthia Lovett sets up a video KNOWLEDGE AND CREATE A STEPPINGSTONE shot with card players; her animations will appear on the surrounding walls in the final version. FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE.

Hsu, who studied at the Art remote video editing, or multimedia Interactive Telecommunications Institute of Chicago, works with production, as well as training and Program (ITP), recently completed a large-scale installation and rhythmi- technical assistance in video and digi- new project at BCAT to which she cally composed sound but wanted to tal production and post-production added her art and video installation branch out further and explore anoth- technologies, at no cost. skills. The project, which features er field. That is when he discovered an Upon completion of the training different groups of men playing cards opportunity for an artists’ residency at program, artists are given an allot- and dominoes, was shot from multi- BCAT/Brooklyn Community Access ment of up to fifty hours of lab time ple cameras to portray various points Television, to study web design. to work on independent projects, of view. It can be seen this week as INFORMATION FAIRS “Learning a new skill is wonderful which can then be cablecast on part of a group show curated by the because you never know when you BCAT. A stipend of $200 is provided Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. might need it. I do installation work to each of the artists selected and the Greg Sutton, executive producer of and it is a part of me, but I wanted to training fee is waived. BCAT, noted that what makes the learn something else – something I According to Patrick Grenier, program so unique is that “it gives FIND A SCHOOL THAT’S can either relate to my work or be Rotunda Gallery’s associate director, Brooklyn artists access to a world- able to use in the future,” he said. the residency program serves to edu- class media program and also allows Each year, BCAT, developer and cate and introduce new talent to the them to collaborate with BRIC’s sister RIGHT FOR YOU! manager of four public access televi- field. “It allows for a new body of programs – and that, in turn, helps sion channels, and the Rotunda work to be created and to be brought strengthens our organization,” says Gallery, a not-for-profit exhibition into their own profession. The best Sutton. Martin Luther King, Jr. Campus space for contemporary art, sponsor a part is that you do not need any pre- Another artist who participated in joint residency program to make vious experience in video or multime- the program is Larry Racioppo, an 122 Amsterdam Ave., Manhattan (at West 65th Street) BCAT’s Media Center and training dia to apply. You just need to have the avid photographer whose work is part programs available to professional interest,” he says. of the permanent collections of the th Brooklyn-based artists. BCAT and Brooklynite and grant recipient Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Saturday, February 4 11 am – 3 pm the Rotunda Gallery are programs of Cynthia Lovett works with computers Museum of the City of New York, th BRIC/Brooklyn Information & and installation and teaches at The New York Historical Society and Sunday, February 5 11 am – 3 pm Culture. College of New Jersey and wanted to the New York Public Library. Thursday, February 9th 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Hsu received a grant to attend mul- learn about video editing. Racioppo said the course he took timedia classes at BCAT where he Last spring, she attended BCAT’s helped him to revive his dream of learned to use Photoshop, After four week basic video production video production. “Now that I’ve • New small high schools offer an excellent education through personal Effects and how to design a web page workshop where she learned the taken the course, I want to work with attention & partnerships with non-profits & businesses. using Macromedia Dreamweaver. He process of shooting, lighting, audio video and editing and see if I can put is now able to manage his own online and non-linear editing using digital the people behind my photographs • Representatives of new small high schools opening in September 2006 portfolio. video to create and complete a project. and their thoughts on video.” Now in its eighth year, the residen- “It was a good introduction. I BCAT and the Rotunda Gallery are will be at the fairs to answer questions. cy, which is supported by a grant found it very accessible, flexible, easy gearing up for another round of from the Electronic Media and Film to work around, and a way to meet grants. All Brooklyn-affiliated artists • Students who attend a fair or information session receive admissions Program at the New York State other people who are interested in the are invited to apply by February 28, priority; students can resubmit HS Choice Forms. Council on the Arts (NYSCA), allows same thing,” she says. 2006 for this year’s fifteen slots. For fifteen artists who live or work in Lovett, who studied at Tyler School more information about the residency Brooklyn to gain valuable experience of Art, Howard University in D.C., program, log on to www.bcat.tv/bcat Call 311 or visit www.nycenet.edu for in television studio production, and at the New York University or call 718-875-4047 x10. more information about high school admissions.

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Visit DUMBO If you thought that all the waterside neighborhood of DUMBO had to offer was the Jacques Tor- res Chocolate Factory and the offices of The Brook- lyn Papers, and you still weren’t enticed to (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings January 28, 2006 disembark the F train at York Street, there’s more temptation now than ever to visit. To entice art aficionados and shoppers Down Un- der the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, residential and commercial developer Two Trees has organized “Shop DUMBO” on Jan. 28, from noon to 7 pm. Among the galleries slated to participate in the day-long open house is the Brooklyn Arts Council, which will unveil its first-ever juried exhibition of works on paper, “Making Your Mark: On Paper” at 55 Washington St. at Front Street, Suite 218. Among the works on display will be Christopher Hairy, hairy night Walsh’s “Fountain 2” (pictured). From 4-6 pm, the artists will be on hand to meet and greet. While shopping maps are available at all of DUMBO’s shops and galleries, the public is en- Clothing is tossed aside in hirsute’s pursuit of canned meat couraged to begin exploring at 111 Front St. and 68 Jay St. For more information, visit By Lee Cabot Walker www.dumbo-newyork.com. — Lisa J. Curtis for The Brooklyn Papers NIGHTLIFE rmed with two beers worth of courage, The “Karaoke Big Ass Ham” contest is a notebook and pen, I entered Freddy’s held at Freddy’s Bar & Backroom (485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue in Prospect Heights) on THEATER ABar & Backroom in Prospect Heights the third Wednesday of each month. For on a recent Wednesday evening. more information, call (718) 622-7035 or visit I’m here to be entertained. I’m consider- www.karaokebigassham.com. To learn about other special events at Freddy’s, see Brooklyn ing becoming an entertainer myself. Nightlife on page 8. Mostly, I am going to watch some Brook- Judge & jury lynites vie for a very special prize: 48 ounces of 97 percent fat-free pork with added gelatin howl-singing. His face red, he is very happy. Are you a Simon or a Paula? and natural juices, valued at $2.99 a pound. “Karaoke’s like a natural high,” Casey says. Spoke the Hub puts the audience in the judge’s A Krakus brand, canned Polish ham, to be “I never did it before tonight, but tonight I was seat with its “Winter Follies,” featuring more than precise. drunk, so I thought, ‘What the hell?’ two dozen dance, music and multi- The “Karaoke Big Ass Ham” contest is “You should do it,” Casey tells me. “You say media artists through Jan. 29. staged at Freddy’s on the third Wednesday of you don’t want to, but I know that deep down “This annual showcase is kind every month. “Are you a ham?” is the main you want to.” of our own funky, downtown question the contest asks of its participants, Casey’s right: I want to. I scan the list again dance/theater version of ‘Ameri- each of whom responds by singing horrendous- for songs I know. can Idol’ (without the public ly, loudly, hammily — and often repeatedly — The Bangles’ “Eternal Flame”? humiliation and the mean-spir- songs from a list of nearly 200 by all the Heather McCabe, another regular who hap- ited Three Stooges panel of karaoke-friendly artists you’d expect: Elvis pens to sing in New York City’s oldest choir, St. judges),” explained Spoke Presley, The Beatles, Don McLean, Bee George’s Choral Society, performs Doris Day’s the Hub’s Artistic Director Gees, Queen and Diana Ross. “Que Sera Sera” and Alicia Bridges’ “I Love Elise Long. “‘Professional’ The hammiest performance wins the the Nightlife,” and Ellen O’Shea — Pat’s wife performers can sign up to canned meat, awarded by the KBAH Master — does Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll,” perform five minutes of of Ceremonies, the charming Bill Carney. condensing the foot-stomping, hip-swinging whatever it is they do best, The karaoke contest takes place in Freddy’s and eye-narrowing, as most of us would, into then the audience gets to vote backroom, in front of about 10 wooden ta- the “me, yeah, me” parts. on its favorite artist or group.” bles. Stephanie Wissinger, a regular who has Among the scheduled per- “This is the alternative to sliced, spiral ham,” performed under such stage names as Surly formers is flamenco dancer Sol Carney says of the prize as I pore over the Temple, Ivana Winna Ham and Ana Mono- Koeraus (pictured), who will playlist for that perfect ham-winning song. “I pea, sings Men Without Hats’ “Safety perform on Sunday. think the spirals are not all they’re cracked up Dance.” It’s ambitious because it’s a “spelling The “Winter Follies” began to be. This ham is straightforward. You cut and bee and karaoke combined,” she says: “S-s-s-s on Jan. 27 and continues Jan. 28 you serve.” A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y/Safe, and 29 at 7:30 pm (with new seat- I was soon to discover that KBAH regulars dance!” ings every hour, for those who can’t

are liable to go to great lengths to win this cho- Mango / Greg The night is plagued by minor technical dif- stay for the entire performance marathon). At the lesterol-rich prize. ficulties, mainly affecting the duet singers be- end of each evening, the audience votes on the artist “I want that ham,” demands one contestant cause of a troubling microphone discrepancy or group it would like to see more of in the coming as she poses with her back to the 20-person — one mic is piercingly loud and the other is year. The performers with the most votes at the end crowd, awaiting her cue to spin around dramat- inaudible. McCabe and Reynolds, in particular, of the weekend receive the grand prize: 50 hours of

ically and begin: “At first I was afraid, I was Papers The Brooklyn sing Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time,” all free rehearsal space plus their own weekend pro- petrified . . .” the while struggling over the good mic. duction at the Gowanus Arts Building in the 2006 Tony Limuaco, the technician who sets up In a later duet, O’Shea and Wissinger avert season. the speakers and microphones and provides the the problem by cozily sharing one mic during It’s not a record contract, but it ain’t shabby. free karaoke MP3s from his laptop, explains “California Dreamin.’ ” “Winter Follies” admission is $15 for adults, $5 the Krakus ham’s allure. for kids. The performances will take place at the “Krakus is a delicacy,” Limuaco says. “I Then there were two Gowanus Arts Building (295 Douglass St. be- grew up on Guam, and around holidays, the Pat O’Shea returns with a nerdy “Whip It” tween Third and Fourth avenues). For more infor- American military would give away free by Devo, marching around and again baring mation, call (718) 408-3234 or visit the Web site Krakus hams to the locals. Oh, Krakus was his hairy chest, at the end proclaiming: “That at www.spokethehub.org. — LJC fancy — much better than Hormel.” song was for everyone who didn’t get laid un- Carney agrees, explaining that the prize is til they were 22.”

“delicious” when washed (washed!?) and Mango / Greg Mango / Greg Mango / Greg Gangsta Casey, evidently, wants that ham, cooked with orange juice, honey, maple syrup too, as he revisits the stage with the Monkees’ and cloves, as one previous KBAH winner pre- “Daydream Believer.” Although he sings DANCE pared it. earnestly, the lyrics, presumably blurry on the Carney kicks off the evening, buttering his sheet he’s holding, escape him, and he be-

voice to make it sound like Presley’s in “Suspi- Papers The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn comes aggravated. cious Minds”: “Caught in a trap/I can’t walk High cholesterol carrot: (Top) “Karaoke Big Ass Ham” Master of Ceremonies Bill Carney “Eaaggh!” says Casey, veins popping from See it first out/Because I love you too much baby.” His dangles the prize in front of the crowd. Among the contestants who vied for the Polish his neck, frustrated as he misses another cue. performance is saucy; you’d never guess that foodstuff at Freddy’s Backroom on Jan. 18 were (above, left to right) Ellen O’Shea; Pat “I love this song!” I begin to think Casey On Feb. 4, Brook- Carney, by day, is an attorney for the Legal Aid O’Shea, who won the ham for his “Mississippi Queen” striptease; and Heather McCabe. should get the ham for the humor and drama lyn Center for the Per- Society. of his passion. forming Arts brings The criteria for winning KBAH, as Carney O’Shea, now Casey’s arch rival, returns with DanceBrazil to Brook- lays them out, are a bit vague. I think, but by then, Mountain’s “Mississippi whiteys, offstage to get dressed in his seat. “Crimson and Clover,” impressively simulating lyn College for the New “There are a few options,” Carney explains. Queen” has started, and I’m thinking, “Oh my “This kind of thing usually doesn’t happen the underwater effect at the end: “Crimson and York premiere of “Re- “Number one: You channel the song’s original God, he’s taking off his shirt.” until 11 or 11:30,” Carney observes. “That’s Clover/Over and Over.” tratos da Bahia,” an artist. Number two: You give a personal, inter- As O’Shea’s abundant torso writhes to the the disadvantage of starting the night late.” Casey approaches me again. evening-length work in- pretive performance. Number three: Your per- music, his body spinning around, I wonder “If you’re in the crowd, you’re almost ex- spired by French pho- formance is very stylish. Whoever is number which is hairier: his chest or his back? Then, The competition pected to sing,” he says. “Either you’re with us tographer and anthro- one in that entire spectrum,” he says, waving a off come his soiled, white socks, flying It’s a tough act to follow, but valiant or you’re not. So do your thing.” pologist Pierre Verger.

hand emphatically, “wins. It’s all equally valid, though the air, one sticking precariously to the KBAH regular Josh Reynolds gets up and He’s right. Lois Greenfield Verger’s book of the artistically.” ceiling fan. does an energetic rendition of the Coasters’ I want to be with them. same title documented “Way down around Vicksburg/Around “Yakety Yak.” Up next, there’s newcomer I decide: CCR’s “Bad Moon Risin.’ ” Short the culture of Bahia, the northeastern state that’s Naked determination Louisiana way/Lived a Cajun lady/Called the Chad Casey of Park Slope. and easy. home to the largest number of Brazilians of African The first contestant, Pat O’Shea — stage Mississippi Queen.” Casey has kind of a tough-guy look about But it’s too late. descent — as well as the troupe’s own dancers and name Peter Granite — approaches the micro- He’s unzipping his fly. him. When his friend Mikey Palms describes It’s time to give away the prize; I’ve musicians. The score of “Retratos da Bahia” weaves phones with a strut. O’Shea, also of Prospect “You know she was a dancer/She moved him as one of Park Slope’s “old gangstas,” missed my chance. the Afro-Brazilian roots of traditional Bahian music, Heights, is a regular at KBAH and is a better on wine.” How much wine has he had? although I don’t know exactly what he “Who’s the ham now?” I think. such as call-and-response songs, with pop music. standup comedian by trade. He’s doing it. The crowd hysterical, means, the description seems apt. In short, “Tonight, the ham goes to the hairiest per- Tickets for DanceBrazil are $15-$35. “Re- The first thing I notice about him are the O’Shea whips off his pants, and there he is, Casey is the last person one would imagine former of the evening, Pat O’Shea, a.k.a. Peter tratos da Bahia” will be performed on Feb. 4 at massive chops — sans mustache — on the performing absolutely jubilantly in his baggy, singing at all, much less singing Presley’s “I Granite!” 8 pm at the Walt Whitman Theater, located on side of his face. They’re bushy and impres- white Fruit-of-the-Looms. Can’t Help Falling in Love,” which is just “All I had to do was strip twice,” O’Shea the Brooklyn College campus (one block from sive, and little do I know, they’re a sign of the As the song ends, we give ecstatic ap- what he proceeds to do. says appreciatively, accepting his reward. the junction of Flatbush and Nostrand avenues follicles to come. But then I notice O’Shea’s plause, and there’s an awkward moment Smiling charmingly with his arms gesturing There is much applause from the audience, in Midwood). For tickets and information, call socked feet on the backroom’s linoleum floor. while O’Shea gathers his clothing from high about, Casey’s performance builds from and, as the noise dies down, someone shouts, (718) 951-4500 or visit the Web site at “That’s funny — he’s forgotten his shoes,” and low and scampers, still clad in his tighty- singing to talk-singing to shout-singing to “Don’t get too much hair on the ham!” www.brooklyncenteronline.org. — LJC

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Arirang Hibachi Papers The Brooklyn Steakhouse 8814 Fourth Ave. at 89th Street, (718) 238-9880, www.partyonthegrill.com (AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $16.75-$36.95. At Arirang, open since 1993, you can dine at one of 22 hibachi tables in a “fun and relaxed atmos- phere,” in the words of manager Dan Guenther. At Callan / Tom these tables, dishes such as the “Imperial Deluxe” (filet mignon, lobster tail, shrimp and scallops) are “all prepared in front of you by expert Oriental Got chops chefs.” Guenther also recommends the miso-glazed Chilean sea bass — a large portion of sea bass,

quickly fire-broiled and served with an assortment Papers The Brooklyn of Japanese pickles. There’s also a calmer private Casa Calamari owner Leo Lykourezos Chef Daniel Wu’s Indonesian dining room without hibachi, two sushi bars and two additional private party rooms. Takeout and party outside his Third Avenue restaurant. packages available. Open daily for dinner. dishes are exciting fare ra and banana topped with spicy tuna) and the Banana Leaf “Monster” [fried crab and spicy tuna in light batter By Tina Barry 6814 Fourth Ave. at 68th Street, (718) 238-5531 on a “kani” (artificial crabmeat) salad bed]. A heat- for The Brooklyn Papers (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $7.95-$22.95. ed patio is available to accommodate winter diners who smoke; for the health conscious, brown rice is Banana Leaf chef and owner Peter How, formerly of a newly added option. Open daily for dinner. he bright yellow awning providing Manhattan restaurants Jean-Georges and Mercer Kitchen, serves up a medley of French, Malaysian, a note of good cheer among the Indian and Thai fusion dishes at this intimate Bay Greenhouse Cafe Tbleak gray storefronts that define Ridge bistro. GO Brooklyn dining critic Tina Barry 7717 Third Ave. at 77th Street (718) 833-8200, Atlantic Avenue in winter belongs to describes How’s cooking as “vibrant, light and www.greenhousecafe.com (AmEx, DC, Disc, clean, and at other times, rich and complex.” Mai, a Southeast Asian restaurant that MC, Visa) Entrees: $12-$20. opened in September. Try the soft-shell crab and mango salad or the Since 1979, Brooklynites have been sitting down in plump, pan-seared scallops dressed in red, pickled one of this Bay Ridge restaurant’s three dining Inside Mai (pronounced “My”), the ginger. The “nasi lemak” dish, featuring jasmine rooms, or weather permitting, on the back deck to serene dining room’s cream-colored rice cooked in coconut milk and served with cubes indulge in the menu’s variety of soups, salads, pas- walls glow with the light of glass / Jori Klein of curried chicken and anchovies that are fried with tas and meat dishes. Floor-to-ceiling windows sur- sconces; the tables are glossy black lac- onions and lime, provides an array of pungent fla- round one of the dining rooms in the back, giving vors. For dessert, try the sesame creme brulee, a the restaurant its name. Co-owner John Keegan quered wood; and matching benches unique twist on its French counterpart, served with recommends the roasted, boneless Long Island are strewn with rose and apricot In-

house-made strawberry ice cream and caramelized duckling served with a fruit sauce, which changes donesian pillows, their golden threads / Jori Klein

bananas or the “pisang gulung,” banana rolled in daily. The entree is served with fresh-cut vegetables Papers The Brooklyn roti (West Indian bread). and rice or potatoes. Also popular, according to glinting in the subdued glow. Waitress- In celebration of Chinese New Year, How plans to manager Donald Rodriguez, is the seafood platter es glide among the diners, pouring tea He’ll Wu you: (Clockwise from top left) The crispy shrimp pancake with dish up a traditional specialty, shark fin soup with a — a combination of three different fish that change with the practiced gracefulness of Bali- mushroom and chives at Boerum Hill’s Mai restaurant; grilled whole sea light lobster egg drop broth, on Jan. 28 and 29. daily. Keegan and his partner Bobby Daquara also nese dancers. own Cappuccino Cafe at 7721 Third Ave., which is bass wrapped in a banana leaf; and Mai chef Daniel Wu. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Delivery and cater- The restaurant’s owner and chef is Papers The Brooklyn ing available. also accessible from Greenhouse’s interior. Cappuccino Cafe offers cappuccino and desserts, Daniel Wu, who is a partner in Man- as well as burgers, salads and sandwiches. hattan’s Jefferson and cooked at Cafe Versions of this soup are served all strong to consume as is. Use the green the fruit plate. The other two choices Bay Ridge Sushi (Greenhouse’s menu is available at Cappuccino Asean. over; they’re fine for a cheap, quick as an edible scoop, top it with fresh were more odd — at least to this 6819 Third Ave. at 68th Street, (718) 491-0662 upon request.) For more information about (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $7.95-$17.95. Cappuccino Cafe, call (718) 238-8700. “I serve light, healthy dishes with meal but their ingredients rarely distract mint and a crisp shrimp cracker, and writer’s taste — than satisfying. One, a Step into Jenny Lin’s Bay Ridge Sushi and you’re in Greenhouse Cafe is open daily for lunch and dinner, lots of seasonal vegetables,” Wu told from a good book. If you order this the pungent filling is tamed by the veg- tapioca pudding served warm, was fla- another world; the hustle and bustle of the busy with a “Dining Before Sunset,” $19.95 prix fixe menu GO Brooklyn, defining his style. “I heavenly brew at Mai, you’ll want to etables. Equally delicious is the smoky, vored with banana and cinnamon, then neighborhood gives way with each step inside. The Monday through Saturday, from 11:30 am to 7 pm, want to give people the opportunity to save the reading for bed. grilled squid, its stuffing chewy and topped with crushed peanuts and engaging sushi chefs will carve up your favorites, and a $25 Sunday brunch with unlimited cocktails. discover different produce and flavor Like an uninspired noodle soup, a tender, woodsy and sweet. Try it. grilled pieces of the fruit. It was slight- including tuna, salmon, yellowtail, scallops, fluke, mackerel, flying fish roe, crab stick and many more. Pazzo combinations.” spring roll can be And don’t pass up the dazzling ly salty and subtly sweet: not bad, but Of course, Bay Ridge Sushi hasn’t forgotten all of During a meal a lackluster affair. “ikan bakar.” The entree features a nothing I’ll develop a taste for. The 10007 Fourth Ave. at 100th Street, (718) 238- that journeyed Not Wu’s “cha do smallish fillet of pan-seared snapper same goes for the dense, somewhat the other Japanese favorites and neither will you as 4747 (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $19-$25. DINING you select from their colorful menu. There are many This restaurant is ornately decorated with arches of through Thai- ca,” with its with the sort of moist, silvery flakes I grainy lime and coconut pudding, al- hand rolls, like the shrimp tempura or the smoked land, Malaysia, Mai (497 Atlantic Ave. between crisply fried wrap- associate with smoked sablefish. Vel- though the slices of Asian pear (a fruit salmon. Or try the pork with ginger sauce or the artificial flowers, private alcoves, mezzanines and Third Avenue and Nevins Street in seafood teriyaki with lobster. Just make sure to elegant curtains and drapes. Pazzo, which means Vietnam and Sin- Boerum Hill) accepts cash only. Entrees: per. The appetizer vety grilled zucchini and eggplant that tastes like pear with the crisp tex- leave room for the tempura green tea ice cream! “crazy” in Italian, offers a variety of wines and mar- gapore, each dish $9-$15.50. The restaurant serves lunch is filled with moist make worthy partners. Wu swirls the ture of an apple) and perfectly ripe Open daily for lunch and dinner. tinis, as well as a mouth-wateringly long list of was vibrant with and dinner daily. For reservations, call salmon and ci- plate with an apricot-colored blend of slivers of mango that accompanied the appetizers. Chef Theo Hernandez prepares Old (718) 797-3880. World Italian favorites with contemporary accents. bright flashes of lantro leaves that coconut milk thickened slightly with dessert were refreshing. Casa Calamari Pizza A few entree highlights include roasted rack of citrus and direct add tang to the ground candlenuts (like a macadamia Instead, I’d conclude the meal with lamb, blackened mahi-mahi and grilled jumbo & Pasta shrimp with risotto. Pazzo also offers live entertain- hits of fresh fish. Dunk the ci- but crisper), then heightens it with lime a pot of ginger tea. We leaned in close 8602 Third Ave. at 86th Street, (718) 921-1900 ment Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights with herbs. gar-shaped cylinder into a dip made of juice and lemongrass. The sauce is a while the waitress whispered that the (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $8-$21.95. dancing until 4 am. Open Tuesday through Sunday Take the “mi quong,” a deep bowl of basil, mint, lime juice and a bit of showstopper on its own, and a gener- ginger was freshly grated, not dried. A Boasting a large sidewalk cafe, Leo Lykourezos’ for dinner. Closed Mondays. broth, noodles, Chinese ham and huge chopped, fresh bird chile, (a fiery hot ous ensemble player beside the other cup of the steaming liquid was as Casa Calamari Pizza & Pasta is a fun, family-style prawns that Wu described as typical pepper associated with Caribbean ingredients. soothing as a nap beneath a down quilt. restaurant that makes the most of its corner win- Pearl Room dows and open kitchen. Now you’ll also find all Vietnamese street food. The stock is cooking) and the dish comes to life. I was just as impressed with the “vi In fact, everything about Mai — the 8201 Third Ave. at 82nd Street, (718) 833-6666 types of pizzas, rolls and calzones in addition to their richly flavored with meat; the noodles Two stellar appetizers are the “ca xao gung,” slices of succulent, rosy quiet jazz playing, soft lights, even its Italian specialties and many seafood choices. The (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $12-$26. are firm yet tender and surprisingly bam,” wok-fried monkfish eaten with a duck breast rimmed with a deep layer name that means “cherry blossom” in chilled seafood sampler ($30) includes a half-pound This elegantly appointed, six-year-old restaurant complex thanks to their turmeric mari- lettuce leaf wrapper, and “muc nuong” of crisp-edged fat, and a leg as moist as Chinese — can lull you into a state of lobster, two cherrystone clams, two littleneck clams, offers American cuisine with an emphasis on fresh four oysters and a quarter-pound of jumbo shrimp. seafood. Chef-owner Anthony Rinaldi’s specials nade. Slices of the spicy pork had the a single, grilled squid stuffed with confit that sat atop Chinese broccoli in tranquility. Everything that is, but the Golden fried calamari can also be ordered with fried include avocado crab Napoleon with “lemon density of rich pate, while a sprinkling shrimp, glass noodles and shiitake a thin, full bodied wine and ginger food. Wu’s cooking provides as much shrimp. Or go for the broccoli rabe, cheese and leblanc” (Rinaldi’s own creamy white-wine-lemon of ground peanuts gave the mixture a mushrooms. The monkfish, a salty, sauce. excitement as my palate can take in parsley-sausage platter. Open daily for lunch and sauce), pepper-crusted tuna with a wasabi soy dip- dinner. Outdoor seating available mid-spring ping sauce, and an oven-roasted Persian snapper salty kick. heavily seasoned hash of sorts, is too For dessert, we should have ordered one evening. through mid-fall in its sidewalk cafe. with fresh crab meat and truffle sauce. Pearl Room also serves filet mignon, shell steaks, chicken and veal dishes, salads and pastas. The cantaloupe- Chadwick’s sized vanilla ice cream ball — fried in banana bread — is a must-try delight, says GO Brooklyn Editor Restaurant Lisa Curtis. Pearl Room also offers seating in their 8822 Third Ave. at 89th Street, (718) 833-9855 heated garden patio. Open daily for lunch and din- Hipster (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $12-$30. ner, with a $19.55 prix fixe lunch from noon to 4 Chef Russell Titland is no stranger to wowing Bay pm, and Sunday brunch from 11:30 am to 3 pm. Ridge diners. Check out his signature dish, beef Wellington, served every Saturday night. But this 18- Saint Germain taqueria year-old Bay Ridge institution also offers the pista- chio-crusted rack of lamb with Lyonnaise potato, 8303 Third Ave. at 83rd Street, (718) 745-8899 sauteed spinach and fresh mint sauce, and crabcakes (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $7-$20.95. If the name doesn’t give this how ironic that setting may be. dredged through special Japanese breadcrumbs, Saint Germain replaced Provence en Boite at this Williamsburg canteen away, then let Here, one side of the room sports a that owner Steve Oliver says are “so good, they location in August 2004. The French country-style me explain. curving, deep red wall; the ceiling is were featured on The Food Network show, ‘The interior decor is little changed, and they serve, as Best Of.’” Lunch and dinner are offered Monday their menu affirms, “fine French bistro cuisine in the The “it” dish at Taco Chulo is — vivid sky blue and the bar is zinc. through Saturday; dinner only on Sundays, begin- best Parisian tradition.” Saint Germain, named for you guessed it! — tacos. Prepared by There’s an ample supply of Mexican ning at 2 pm; Monday though Thursday, a four- Paris’s bohemian neighborhood, has a huge wine two Angelica Kitchen expats, Dija bottled and draught beers, Spanish course, $15.95 prix fixe lunch menu is offered from selection including several from France. Owner Amer and Greta Dana, the crisp shells wines, and how could any self-re- 11:30 am to 2:45 pm and a three-course, $20.95 prix Jerome Vidy offers sweet crepes loaded with fresh fixe dinner is available from 4:30 pm to 7 pm. berries and chocolate sauce. For lunch there’s are housemade and filled specting place in this locale Vidy’s “moules a la meriniere,” steamed mussels in with mostly organic in- not have a signature cock- a Chardonnay wine broth. The appetizers include gredients that include tail? Taco Chulo’s “Chi- Dish escargot sauteed in garlic, parsley and Pernod but- 9208 Third Ave. at 92nd Street, (718) 238-2323, ter and “foie gras frais” (a $23 luxury featuring Niman Ranch pork. huahua” (inset), a (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $13-$25. goose liver “over toasted challah bread and berry Open since Au- lethal blend of tequi- Amid bamboo plants and leather sofas, waiters reduction”). At dinner, they offer traditional dishes gust, Taco Chulo la, grapefruit and serve up chef Jack Woo’s wide range of sushi, sashi- like steak au poivre, cooked in a green peppercorn, — loosely translat- lime juices served mi and noodles in this Japanese-French fusion brandy and cream sauce and served with French restaurant. The house cocktail is a lichee martini fries or “magret de canard,” breast of duck with ed — means “taco in a salt-rimmed made with lichee and lime juices. Choose from sauteed spinach and a berry reduction. After it all, pimp.” You’ll un- glass, is the house appetizers that include “Lord of the Ring” (baked sample one of their fresh-baked desserts, such as derstand why Amer drink. salmon with crab meat) or “Dynamite” (baked scal- “the Sultan,” which is a chocolate biscuit topped and Dana, who also Taco Chulo (318 lop, shrimp and mushrooms). The funky list of spe- with hazelnuts, chocolate mousse and hazelnut cialty rolls includes the “Firehouse” (shrimp tempu- mousse. Weekend brunch served till 4 pm; an own the place, chose Grand St. between $11.95 prix fixe lunch (including an entree, mesclun the name when you Havemeyer Street and salad and pastry) is served Tuesday through Friday peruse their menu. Order Marcy Avenue in Wil- and $21.95 prix fixe dinner (including soup or salad, = Full review available at entree and pastry) is served Tuesday through the “Surf y Turf,” a shrimp, liamsburg) accepts Master-

Thursday; and there are weekday two-for-one lunch Mango / Greg potato, beans, baby cactus, salsa Card and Visa. Tacos and burri- and dinner specials, too. Closed Mondays. and crema taco or burrito, and you’re tos: $4.50 to $12; large plates and invited to “pimp it up” with extras combos: $9-$14.50. The restaurant Editor’s note: These are a sampling of restaurants like sliced jalapeño peppers and “ra- serves lunch and dinner daily. Week- in the neighborhood. The list rotates, and it is not comprehensive. For more restaurants, go to jas” (roasted peppers and onions). end brunch is served, from 11 am to Abbreviation Key: AmEx= American www.brooklynpapers.com on the Web. If your Express, DC= Diner’s Club, Disc= Discover Pimping can relate to the decor, too. 5 pm. Delivery is available to sur- restaurant is not listed and you would like it to be, This is Williamsburg after all, home rounding neighborhoods. For more Card, MC= MasterCard, Visa= Visa Card please contact GO Brooklyn Editor Lisa Curtis via e-mail at [email protected]. of the hipster, so forget paneled rooms information, call (718) 302-2485.

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How to Eat Well Call for reservations (718) 852-5015 WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence Today.” $25, $20 members. 7:30 pm hosts his Metro Tour Service, taking a to 9 pm. 250 Baltic St. (718) 236-1862. Visit our website: www.MarcoPoloRistorante.com walk through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert of and Brooklyn Heights. $25. 2 pm to 5 selections from Brahms, Schumann • Free Valet Parking pm. Meet at Marriott Hotel Brooklyn, and Chopin. $35, $25 students. 7:30 333 Adams St. (718) 789-0430. pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East River. (718) 624- PERFORMANCE 2083. lso A MUSIC FROM CHINA: Brooklyn Public ONE-ACT OPERA: Vertical Player Prize for best costume • Anything goes! Library’s Sunset Park branch presents Repertory presents a performance of CARNEVALE GALA Live entertainment, buffet dinner – $65 music in honor of the Chinese New Giacomo Puccini’s “Il Tabarro.” $25. 8 Year. 11:30 am. Fourth Avenue at 51st pm. 219 Court St. (212) 539-2696. Friday, Feb. 24 Call to reserve today! Street. (718) 567-2806. Free. ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: “Major Bang, or: ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: presents Foundry How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Theater’s “Major Bang, or: How I Love the Dirty Bomb.” $30. 8 pm. See Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sat., Feb 4. the Dirty Bomb,” part suspense IMPACT THEATER: “The Tempest.” 8 thriller, part magic act and part instruc- pm. See Sat., Feb. 4. tional seminar. $25 at 4 pm; $30 at 8 pm. 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. PHOTO COMPETITION: Brooklyn Public Library hosts its fifth annual photo and YOUTHWORKS: Brooklyn Arts Exchange essay competition entitled, “My Brook- presents original plays, choreography lyn.” Deadline to enter is March 31. and performance work by young peo- Visit: www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/ ple, ages 7 to 18. $15, $10 members, mybrooklyn. $8 low-income. 7 pm. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. SINGLES CLUB: Bay Ridge Club hosts a Galleries in DUMBO @ 111 Front Street dinner for single men and women, RHYTHM & BAM: presents Morris Day ages 35 to 60. Call. (718) 745-8659. Space Available call Chris Havens 718.222.2505 and The Time. Also, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings in a funk performance. ONE-ACT PLAYS: “The Brooklyn Plays.” Two Trees www.dumbo-newyork.com $20, $30, $35. 7:30 pm. Also, screen- 8 pm. See Thurs, Feb. 2. ing of the film “Purple Rain.” $10, $8 concert ticket holders. 11 pm. BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Looking sharp: Actors Adam Baritot, as Antonio, and Kristin Jones, SAT, FEB 4 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4129. 5+5 Gallery | MF Adams Gallery | Howard as Sebastianne, in Cage Theatre’s production of “The Tempest,” OUTDOORS AND TOURS BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert of which runs Feb. 2-18 at the Impact Theater in Prospect Heights. Schickler Fine Art | Henry Gregg Gallery | Mozart, Strauss, Francaix and Poulenc. ICE SKATING: at the Wollman Rink in $35, $30 seniors, $25 students. 7:30 Prospect Park. Sessions at 10 am to 1 s.e.e.dgallery | Safe-T-Gallery | Wessel + pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton pm; 2 pm to 6 pm and 7 pm to 10 O’Connor Fine Art | Underbridge Pictures | Street at the East River. (718) 624- SALSA NIGHT: Brooklyn Hadassah hosts series of documentaries “What’s So pm. $5, $3 children and seniors. $5 2083. a night of salsa and sangria. Dance les- Funny About Appalachia?” Today: the skate rental. Enter the park at junction sons, snacks and more. Couples and film “The Holy Ghost People” (1967). Nelson Hancock Gallery | Gloria Kennedy Gallery WINTER FOLLIES: Spoke the Hub pres- of Ocean Avenue and Lincoln Road. singles in their 20’s to 40’s are invited. 7 pm. 396 Ninth St. (718) 288-1761. (718) 965-8999. ents its fourth annual event featuring $12. 8:30 pm to midnight. Brooklyn Free. more than 24 rising stars in dance, Conservatory of Music, 58 Seventh FEEDING YOUR TODDLER: Families PERFORMANCE music and multi-media theater. $15, $5 Ave. (718) 375-2596. kids. 7:30 pm. 295 Douglass St. (718) First offers a talk on how to find good ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: presents Foundry DUMBO_come see what they see 408-3234. foods for your picky eater. $25, $20 Theater’s “Major Bang, or: How I members. 7:30 pm to 9 pm. 150 Baltic Learned to Stop Worrying and Love WINTER ONE-ACT FEST: Impact SUN, JAN 29 St. (718) 236-1862. Theater hosts a festival of one-act per- the Dirty Bomb,” part suspense formances of comedy, tragedy and LECTURE: Congregation Beth Elohim thriller, part magic act and part instruc- everything in the middle. $15, $12 stu- PERFORMANCE hosts a course which explores the writ- tional seminar. $25 at 4 pm; $30 at 8 dents and seniors. 8 pm. Call for pro- CHORAL MUSIC: Grace Choral Society ings of Abraham Joshua Heschel, a pm. 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. gram. 190 Underhill Ave. (718) 852- of Brooklyn and Spiritus et Anima Jewish leader in the 20th century. 7:30 PEOPLE’S HISTORY: “Voices: World 2105. present “Celebration and Longing: A pm. Call for ticket info. 274 Garfield Changing Radical Historical Figures Place. (718) 768-3814. Brought to Life by Brooklyn Youth,” Owning A Home GALLERY PLAYERS: presents romantic Musical Journey Through the Psalms.” comedy “As You Like It,” by William $15, $12 in advance, $10 students and ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: presents Foundry narrated by Anthony Arnove and Brian Shakespeare. $15, $12 children and seniors. 2 pm. Grace Episcopal Theater’s “Major Bang, or: How I Jones. $15, $10 under 21. 7 pm. seniors. 8 pm. 199 14th St. (718) 832- Church, 254 Hicks St. (718) 707-1411. Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Brooklyn Nonviolent Communication, 0617. CONCERT: Park Slope Singers presents the Dirty Bomb,” part suspense 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 797-9525. Has Never Been Easier! thriller, part magic act and part instruc- HEIGHTS PLAYERS: presents Eugene its winter choral concert featuring BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert Schubert’s Mass in G Major plus other tional seminar. $25. 8 pm. 38 Water St. “Winterreise” by Shubert. $35, $25 O’Neill’s “Ah, Wilderness!” $13, $10 (718) 254-8779. seniors, students and children. 8 pm. works. $10, $5 seniors and students. 3 students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry 26 Willow Place. (718) 237-2752. pm. St. John’s Episcopal Church, St. Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East Johns Place between Sixth and River. (718) 624-2083. CHILDREN Seventh avenues. (718) 788-2282. WEDS, FEB 1 BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the Per- • Streamlined BROOKLYN MUSEUM: presents “Astride forming Arts presents Dance Brazil, in FILMS FOR KIDS: Brooklyn Public BAMCINEMATEK: presents the film Application Process the Centuries: Mellits and Beethoven.” a program of traditional and contem- Library’s Central branch screens series “Month of Malick.” Tonight: Included in admission of $8, $4 stu- porary Afro-Brazilian dance. $15 to “Chicken Run” (2000). 11 am. Grand “Badlands” (1973). $10. 7 pm. dents and seniors, free for members. 3 $35. 8 pm. Walt Whitman Theater, • Pre-approvals Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. Discussion with film writer Amy Taubin pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638- Brooklyn College, one block from the BARNES AND NOBLE: Story time for and producer Ed Pressman follows 5000. intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand in 24 hours toddlers with ABC’s, 1,2,3’s and colors. screening. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 777- avenues. (718) 951-4500. 11 am. 106 Court St. (718) 246-4996. ONE-ACT OPERA: Vertical Player film. www.bam.org. Repertory presents a performance of FIRST WEEKEND: Brooklyn Arts Free. MEDITATION: Class with Western • Residential & Giacomo Puccini’s “Il Tabarro.” $25. 4 Exchange hosts its monthly perform- ARTY FACTS: Brooklyn Museum invites Buddhist nun. $10. 7 pm to 9 pm. First pm. 219 Court St. (212) 539-2696. ance and discussion series featuring Commercial Mortgages kids, ages 4 and older, to look at art Unitarian Congregational Society, 48 choreography, short plays and more. and have an arts and crafts session. $8 GALLERY PLAYERS: “As You Like It.” 3 Monroe Place. (718) 496-5514. pm. See Sat., Jan. 28. $15, $10 members. 8 pm. 421 Fifth adults, $4 seniors, free for children ART WORKSHOP: Freebird Books and Ave. (718) 832-0018. • 1st & 2nd Mortgages younger than 12. 11 am and 2 pm. WINTER ONE-ACT FEST: Impact Goods hosts a Valentine-making work- IMPACT THEATER: presents Cage 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Theater hosts a festival of one-act shop. Use glitter and glue to make a plays. 3 pm. See Sat., Jan. 28. Theater Company’s production of • Direct Lending BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: holiday card. All ages welcome. 7 pm. “The Tempest” by Shakespeare. $15, hosts a workshop for families with spe- ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: “Major Bang, or: 123 Columbia St. (718) 643-8484. $12 students. 8 pm. 190 Underhill cial needs: “Signs of Winter.” Kids How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Free. Ave. (718) 390-7163. • Low or no down learn about the signs of the changing Love the Dirty Bomb.” $25. 4 pm. See ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: “Major Bang, or: seasons. Arts and crafts project fol- Sat, Jan. 28. BROOKLYN LYCEUM: In-house troupe payment options How I Learned to Stop Worrying and “Improv Centric Unit/ ICU” performs. lows. $4, free for members. 11:30 am BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert of Love the Dirty Bomb.” $25. 8 pm. See to 1 pm. 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735- $10. 9:45 pm. 227 Fourth Ave. (718) Mozart, Strauss, Francaix and Poulenc. Sat., Feb 4. 857-4816. • Post-bankruptcy & 4400. 4 pm. See Sat., Jan. 28. PUPPETWORKS: presents a marionette WINTER FOLLIES: at Spoke the Hub. CHILDREN no credit approvals performance of “Puss in Boots.” $8, 7:30 pm. See Sat., Jan. 28. THURS, FEB 2 SWIM LESSONS: NYC Parks and $7 children. Recommended for ages 4 Recreation hosts registration for its and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. 338 CHILDREN KIDS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: Families winter learn-to-swim program. 9:30 am • No income / Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street. (718) 965- ARTY FACTS: at Brooklyn Museum. 11 and professionals needing programs to noon. Metropolitan Pool, Bedford no asset verification 3391. am and 2 pm. See Sat., Jan. 28. and services for children with disabili- and Metropolitan avenues, ties are invited to attend a talk on LIVE MUSIC: Gustafer Yellowgold hosts a PUPPETWORKS: “Puss in Boots.” 12:30 Williamsburg. For info, call 311. Free. program of giant moving images and advocacy skills for parents. 10 am to 1 pm and 2:30 pm. See Sat., Jan. 28. pm. Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn ARTY FACTS: Brooklyn Museum invites live songs. $5. 2 pm. The Healing Rain kids, ages 4 and older, to look at art Space, 256 Sixth Ave. (718) 965-0041. OTHER Heights branch, 280 Cadman Plaza West. (212) 677-4650. Free. and have an arts and crafts session. $8 PUPPET SHOW: Talking Hands Theater HEALTH TALK: Dr. Edna Valdes, breast adults, $4 seniors, free for children presents Rudyard Kipling’s “How the surgeon, offers a talk: “What Every READING: St. Joseph’s College presents younger than 12. 11 am and 2 pm. LIBERTY CAPITAL Elephant Got Its Trunk.” $7, $5 chil- Woman Should Know About Early award-winning author Jonathan Safran 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Foer. 12:40 pm. 222 Clinton Ave. (718) dren. Appropriate for ages 2 to 7. 4 Detection and Treatment of Breast PUPPETWORKS: presents a marionette ––––––––––––––––– 636-6858. Free. pm. Monster Gallery, 234 Fourth Ave. Cancer.” $12 includes light brunch. performance of “Puss in Boots.” $8, PURCHASES MORTGAGES REFINANCE (914) 318-4280. 9:30 am to noon. Bay Ridge Jewish BEIJING OPERA: Brooklyn Public Library, $7 children. Recommended for ages 4 John Errante FAMILY PARTY: Brooklyn Museum cele- Center, 405 81st St. (718) 382-6454. Dyker Heights branch, presents and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. 338 SENIOR brates Lunar New Year at its annual BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: Freebird “Lingchong Sought Shelter from Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street. (718) 965- (718) 351-5050 CELL (718) 612-1122 MORTGAGE fundraising event to benefit its educa- Books and Goods celebrates its sec- Blizzard at the Mountain God 3391. Temple,” a Chinese folktale. 3:15 pm. BANKER tion division. Celebration is for Lunar ond anniversary with raffles and give- SEUSS: Celebration of the life and work New Year and activities include treas- 8202 13th Ave. (718) 748-6261. Free. aways. 10 am to 10 pm. 123 Columbia of Dr. Seuss. Skits, audience participa- 2351 HYLAN BLVD SI NY 10306 • LICENSED MORTGAGE BANKER NYS BANKING DEPT ure hunts, art making, films, dancing, St. (718) 643-8484. Free. MUSIC FROM CHINA: Brooklyn Public tion and songs. Kids: $5, adults: free. 1 music and food. $25 per child, $60 per LECTURE: Brooklyn Society for Ethical Library, McKinley Park branch, pres- pm. Lafayette Avenue Church, 85 S. adult; family of four starts at $150. 6 Culture presents a talk on “Acting to ents the sounds of the erhu (two-string Oxford St. (718) 488-9233. pm to 8:30 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. Elicit the Best: Identifying Tools for fiddle) and the yangquin (hammered (718) 638-5000. PUPPET SHOW: Talking Hands Theater Ethical Living.” 11 am to 12:30 pm. 53 dulcimer). 4 pm. 6802 Ft. Hamilton presents Rudyard Kipling’s “How the KIDS’ MONTH: Brooklyn Arts Exchange Prospect Park West. (718) 768-2972. Parkway. (718) 748-8001. Free. Elephant Got Its Trunk.” $7, $5 chil- hosts performances for young people, DISCUSSION: Brooklyn Hadassah offers BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Brooklyn dren. 4 pm. Appropriate for ages 2 to ages 3 to 18. $8, $5 members. 7 pm. a talk: “You Be the Judge: Gender Public Library’s Coney Island branch 7. Monster Gallery, 234 Fourth Ave. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. Issues Before Israel’s Supreme Court.” presents “Madame C.J. Walker,” a (914) 318-4280. OTHER $15 includes light lunch. Noon to 2 solo theatrical piece by actor Jo AUTHOR TALK: Brooklyn Public Library, pm. 1416 Ave. M, suite 302. (718) 382- Tanner. Learn about life and times of Central branch, presents historian Eric Madame Walker, inventor and entre- STROLLING, SHOPPING & SIPPING: 6454. Foner as he reads from and discusses 2005-2006 SEASON 28 neighborhood shops, galleries preneur. 4 pm. 1901 Mermaid Ave. at “Forever Free,” his examination of the and restaurants in DUMBO host a HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES: Discussion West 19th St. (718) 265-3220. Free. of issues encountered in completing years of Emancipation and Recon- day of fun. Noon to 7 pm. Start at RECEPTION: Works by sculptor Jeff struction following the Civil War. 4 pm. 111 Front St. or 68 Jay St. health care directive documents. Call to receive packet of information prior Jaffee, “Pairings,” is presented at 440 Also, Noliwe Rooks discusses her book www.dumbo-newyork.com. (718) Gallery. 6 pm to 9 pm. 440 Sixth Ave. “White Money/Black Power.” 2 pm. 222-2505. to meeting. $15, $10 members, $5 seniors and students. 1 pm to 3 pm. (718) 499-3844. Free. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. PROTEUS GOWANUS: Travel-related Park Slope Jewish Center, Eighth COCKTAIL HOUR: Brooklyn Industries OTHER themes explored by artists participat- Avenue and 14th Street. (718) 768- Design Collective hosts a retrospective ing in the gallery’s interdisciplinary 1453. exhibit. 7 pm to 9 pm. 100 Smith St. KNIT ONE, PERL TWO: Creative Arts travel exhibit and installation. Noon to Studio hosts a “Pic-knit.” Knit and SHORTS: Brooklyn Lyceum presents “An (718) 599-7757. Free. 6 pm. 643 Union St. (718) 243-1572. nosh while working on your own cre- Evening of the World’s Best Short MEETING: Community Board 15 meets. www.proteusgowanus.com. Free. ation. $20. 2 pm to 5 pm. 310 Atlantic Films.” $10. 7 pm to 9 pm. 227 Fourth 7 pm to 9 pm. 131 Livingston St. (718) Ave. (718) 797-5600. NEW MEMBERS: Ocean Parkway Jewish Ave. www.brooklynlyceum.com. (718) 332-3008. Center hosts a special luncheon after 857-4816. BARNES AND NOBLE: presents Arthur CLOSING RECEPTION: Tabla Rasa services to honor all new members. Gallery hosts an artist talk with presen- ISRAELI FILMS: Second annual Brooklyn Nersesian, writer of “Unlubricated.” 7 550 Ocean Parkway. Call. (718) 436- pm. 267 Seventh Ave. (718) 832-9066. tation by Gregory William Frux. He 4900. Israel Film Festival presents “Pro- speaks about connections between his mises.” $10. 7 pm. Discussion follows Free. LECTURE: Brooklyn Public Library’s wilderness travels and his urban land- film. Also, lecture by a cinema Judaica WINTER SPEAKER SERIES: Immaculate scape paintings “Landscapes Urban Central branch presents “Centennial expert and poster exhibit. 4 pm. Free. Heart of Mary RC Church presents of Dmitri Shostakovich.” 2 pm. Grand and Wild.” 2 pm to 4 pm. 224 48th St. Kane Street Synagogue, 236 Kane St. Msgr. Michael J. Curran. He speaks on (718) 768-0305. Free. Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. (718) 875-1550. Pope John Paul II’s “The Gospel of DanceBrazil BOOK TALK: Park Slope Jewish Center Life.” 7:30 pm. 2805 Ft. Hamilton FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn Museum CAFE STEINHOF: Movie: “Five Corners” hosts its monthly event of First Sat., Feb. 4, 2006 at 8 PM offers a discussion of “The Rabbi’s (1987). 10:30 pm. No cover. 422 Parkway. (718) 871-1310. Free. Cat,” by Joann Sfar. 4 pm to 6 pm. Saturdays. Tonight’s program features Seventh Ave. (718) 369-7776. MEETING: Bay Ridge Mental Health a mix of music and culture. Music with Call for location and registration. (718) Council hosts a meeting. 7:30 pm. Fort Valentine’s Concert 768-1453. Free. Folklore Urbano from 6 pm to 8 pm; Hamilton Clinic, 8710 Fifth Ave. (718) Brooklyn Philharmonic performs with Shirley Alston Reeves OPEN HOUSE: Brooklyn Arts Council MON, JAN 30 680-0006. Free. medieval French music and other hosts a group exhibit of 22 artists in Sat., Feb. 11, 2006 at 8 PM Sales Tax-Free Week Begins BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert of selections at 6 pm; arts and crafts, “Making Your Mark: On Paper.” 4 pm selections from Brahms, Schumann 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm; tour of “Ameri- to 6 pm. 55 Washington St. (718) 625- and Chopin. $35, $25 students. 7:30 can Identities” galleries at 7 pm; film 0080. DANCE WORKOUT: Mark Morris Dance Group presents Rhythm and Motion pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton “Daughters of the Dust” (1991) at 8 Harlem Gospel Choir and SAMPLE SALE: Pretty Inside, a spa and Dance. Adult exercise class uses hip- Street at the East River. (718) 624- pm; and dance party with music from beauty accessories store, hosts a sale hop, jazz, African, Latin and modern 2083. the 1980s, from 9 pm to 11 pm with The Harlem Jazz & Blues Band before it relocates to DUMBO. Noon dance forms. $12. 7 pm to 8 pm. 3 HEBREW COURSE: Further your Hebrew DJ Emskee of WBAI-FM. Event runs Sat., Feb. 18, 2006 at 8 PM to 6 pm. 433 Atlantic Ave. (718) 222- Lafayette Ave. (718) 624-8400. skills in a conversational style, eight- from 5 pm to 11 pm. 200 Eastern 9303. week course. Students at the Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Free. DINNER DANCE: The Heights Players advanced level are welcome. $180, EXHIBIT: Clinton Hill Art Gallery presents Luciano celebrates its 50th anniversary at a cel- TUES, JAN 31 $120 members. 7:30 pm to 9 pm. Park an exhibit featuring 15 Brooklyn Sat., Feb. 25, 2006 at 8 PM ebration. $75. 7 pm. Giando on the Slope Jewish Center, Eighth Avenue Continued on page 8... Water, 400 Kent Ave. at Broadway in INFO SESSION: Brooklyn Junior League, Williamsburg. Call for reservation. a women’s service organization, is (718) 237-2752. seeking new volunteers. 6:30 pm to 8 Call or Go Online Today! RECEPTION: Monster Gallery presents pm. St. Francis College, 180 Remsen the show “Arranged Fantasy.” 7:30 St. (718) 624-3288. (718) 951-4500 pm to 9:30 pm. 234 Fourth Ave. (914) BEHIND-THE-SCENES OPERA: Series of LIST YOUR EVENT… BrooklynCenterOnline.org 318-4280. Free. six open rehearsals and classes on the To list your event in Where to GO, please give us two weeks notice or more. Send your Walt Whitman Theatre, one block from the junction of Flatbush & Nostrand Avenues ISRAELI FILMS: Second annual Brooklyn opera production process as arranged listing by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Papers, 55 Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, Israel Film Festival presents “Walk on by composer Susan Stoderi. $15. 7 Support provided by pm. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Ave. NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available Water.” $10. 8 pm. Rated R. Kane basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. Street Synagogue, 236 Kane St. (718) (646) 831-3303. 875-1550. 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Continued from page 7... Stop Worrying and Love the painters. 154a Vanderbilt Dirty Bomb.” 4 pm. See Sat., Laughing in Feb 4. Ave. Call for time. (718) 852- 0227. Free. CHILDREN GROUNDHOG SERIES: Brook- SUN, FEB 5 lyn Arts Exchange hosts its family program and presents “Cubanana: Melodias y Dan- OUTDOORS AND TOURS zas de Cuba,” a performance EARLY BIRD WALK: Learn about of Cuban, American and the Great Backyard Bird Latin-American folk music. terror’s face Count and search for your $10. 2 pm. Recommended favorite “backyard bird.” Find for ages 3 and older. 421 woodpeckers, chickadees Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. Foundry’s ‘Major Bang’ is fine and nuthatches. 8 am to 10 PUPPETWORKS: “Puss in am. Meet at Wollman Rink, Boots.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 Prospect Park. Enter the park pm. See Sat., Feb. 4. send-up of post 9-11 culture at junction of Ocean Avenue and Lincoln Road. (718) 287- OTHER 3400, ext. 101. Free. SUNDAY AT SUNNY’S: Several By Drew Pisarra continual effervescence but the ongoing PERFORMANCE authors read from their for The Brooklyn Papers buoyancy can be explained — at least works including Joel Agee, CHINESE OPERA: Brooklyn author of “In the House of in part — by the choice of playwright Public Library’s Central My Fear,” Amy Charlotte an you invoke the Twin Towers Kirk Lynn (“Lipstick Traces”) and di- branch presents a Chinese Benson, author of “The without eliciting a sigh of exasper- rector Paul Lazar to continually and New Year Festival with Ba Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Ban Chinese Music Society. 2 ation? Does a Code Orange warn- coyly intercut the action with well- Memoir of Love Grown Up.” C pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) Others. $3. 3 pm. 253 ing affect your behavior less than the timed parlor tricks. 230-2100. Free. Conover St. (718) 875-3677. weatherman’s forecast of rain? Do you The plot itself concerns one real-life JAZZ: The Jazz Spot celebrates ONE-ACT OPERA: Vertical sometimes go days — even weeks, David Hahn, an ambitious Eagle Scout Black History Month and Player Repertory presents a hosts a talk on the partition- performance of Giacomo maybe months at a stretch — forgetting who attempted to build a nuclear reac- ing of Africa. Music by The

Richard Termine Richard Puccini’s “Il Tabarro.” $25. 4 that you’re living in a nation at war? tor in his backyard in the Detroit sub- African Drumming and Per- pm. 219 Court St. (212) 539- The normalization of terrorism urbs about a decade ago. But as actors ‘Strangelove’ bedfellows: Maggie Hoffman and Steve Cuiffo star in Foundry Theatre’s multimedia theatrical cussion Ensemble. $10. 3 pm 2696. work, “Major Bang, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb,” on stage at DUMBO’s to 6 pm. 375 Kosciuszko St. would’ve made the late George Or- Steve Cuiffo and Maggie Hoffman re- (718) 453-7825. FREDDY’S BACKROOM: Movie well shudder, but enact this comical- St. Ann’s Warehouse through Feb. 19. Madness series with “Flash BARGEMUSIC: Classical music Gordon’s Trip to Mars” one man’s dys- ly embellished bi- concert “Winterreise” by (1939). 4 pm. 485 Dean St. topic vision of ography (replete theater. If you thought the bomb shel- adaptable outfits and Raul Vincent En- nally let go of being overly impressed Shubert. $35, $25 students. (718) 622-7035. Free. THEATER 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry the future is an- with father-son ter building craze of the 1950s was rique’s sound design (which includes a by the gadgetry and the philosophy Landing, Old Fulton Street at CRAFTS WORKSHOP: Learn other everyman’s conflicts, a despot- ridiculous, how do you interpret the Geiger counter’s gurgle set to music), behind it all. The simultaneity of film the East River. (718) 624-2083. the art of block printing and Foundry Theatre’s “Major Bang, make a Valentine card for or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying shoulder-shrug- ic scoutmaster’s present-day advocacy of survival kits evince too light a touch to support and live performance as well as any OPERA: Regina Opera Company your sweetie. $8 materials and Love the Dirty Bomb” runs Tues- presents a salute to Broad- ging existence or day through Saturday at 8 pm, and mad ravings, and a stocked with bottled water and duct heavy-handed symbolism. Sure, this self-referential remarks are now sim- fee. 6 pm. Lion in the Sun, way. $10. 4 pm. Regina Hall, 463 Fourth St. (718) 369-4006. a deft satirist’s Saturdays and Sundays at 4 pm radiation plant tape? The lightheadedness (and ensu- troupe has something to say but the ply organic aspects to the act of story- corner of 65th Street and raw material for through Feb. 19 at St. Ann’s Ware- manager’s strange ing laughter) triggered by dirty bomb company is also concerned with pro- telling for a modern audience. This 12th Avenue. (718) 232-3555. SHORTS: Brooklyn Lyceum house (38 Water St. between Main presents “An Evening of the pointed critique. and Front streets in DUMBO). Tickets fantasy life), the jokes and gags about mass murder viding a good time. time around, when the conspiratorial IMPACT THEATER: “The Tem- World’s Best Short Films.” “Major Bang, are $25-$30. For reservations, call two cagey per- must be at least partially attributable to That commitment to showmanship, winks are made, Cuiffo and Hoffman pest.” 2 pm. See Sat., Feb. 4. $10. 7 pm to 9 pm. 227 Or: How I (718) 254-8779. For more informa- formers are also an unspoken sense of helplessness and lowbrow and highbrow alike, allows are layering the knowingness with a ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: “Major Fourth Ave. www.brooklyn- Learned to Stop tion, visit www.artsatstanns.org. making glasses of the giddiness that’s released by tick- “Major Bang” to escape the ponder- naivete that forbids any feeling of Bang, or: How I Learned to lyceum.com. (718) 857-4816. Worrying and Diet Coke float in ling a repressed fear. ousness sometimes associated with ex- smug understanding. Love the Dirty mid-air, pieces of Are Cuiffo’s sleight of hand maneu- perimental, multimedia productions. Outside of some out-of-place philo- Bomb,” the Foundry Theatre’s sly lam- paper burst into fire and themselves dis- vers a metaphor for the slipperiness of Somehow, a fractured storyline and sophical waxing at the end, which du- CORRECTION poon of our current flirtation with insti- appear from under a flimsy blue tarp the current administration’s policies wry self-analysis aren’t as off-putting biously asserts that mankind’s eternal In “All the Best” [GO Brooklyn, Jan. 7], the hours of operation tutionalized paranoia, reveals just how ready to levitate itself. abroad? Is the shtick equating foam when you know there’s a good piece of battle between enlightenment and fun- of Applewood restaurant were incorrect. The restaurant does not far we’ve come — or sunk — since 9- Even more than the rope tricks, balls with innocent victims a coded slapstick just around the corner. damentalism always finds enlighten- serve dinner on Sundays. Applewood is open for dinner Tuesday 11: This multimedia romp (at St. Ann’s card tricks and presto-change-o cos- way to illustrate how the mass media Indeed, what’s so refreshing about ment victorious in the end, you’ll find through Sunday and for brunch on Sundays, from 10 am to 3 pm. Warehouse in DUMBO through Feb. tume changes (or the campy recitation minimizes the humanity of thousands “Major Bang” is that the studied air little moralizing on tap. “Major Bang” They are closed on Mondays. 19) plays with Molotov cocktails, secu- of lines from “The Bodyguard” and of casualties? You could say so. But — that has long been a hallmark of is a radioactively guilty pleasure. If In “Hitting a High Note” [GO Brooklyn, Jan. 21], the neighbor- rity breaches, and the threat of nuclear “Dr. Strangelove” with original this eclectic ensemble would probably the contemporary avant garde — is you’re unsure if you’ve seen some- hood of Christina Porter was misidentified. Porter was a resident mishap with many a giggle and nary a footage screening overhead), the wince at the suggestion since nearly pointedly absent here. It’s as if the thing substantial or not come the final of Clinton Hill. groan. chortling and chuckling elicited by every aspect of the production, includ- generation raised on post-modernism blackout, remember that’s generally In “Love Blooms in Winter” [The Brooklyn Bride, Jan. 21], Kerri The serious nature of the subject “Major Bang” stems from the absurd- ing Michael Casselli’s roadshow set and deconstruction (as opposed to the how magic works — not to mention Silvestri’s job title was incorrect. Silvestri is an event designer. matter might logically preclude a near- ity of the current situation outside the pieces, Wendy Meiling Yang’s ever- one that trumpeted the ideas), has fi- radiation. We regret the errors.

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Feb. 1: Fat Little Bastard 9 pm, 10:30 Night hosted by Claire Bowman, 7 30: The After-School Comedy Special, Nightlife Fuller spinning house, classics and rare pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Hex! with pm, FREE; Feb. 2: Briggan Kraus 7:30 pm, Kieran McGee, 9:30 pm, Cat Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan grooves, 12:30 am, FREE; Sundays: DJ Jeremy, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 28: Quartet, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, FREE; Feb. Krazy Nanny’s Sunday Karaoke featur- Martino, 10:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 31: 3: Gilad Hekselman Trio, 9 pm, 10:30 Neurolytic Collapse, 9 pm, Take This Bingo, 7 pm, Randi Russo, 9 pm, Dina ing Lisa Love, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: City by Nightfall, 10 pm, Randall pm, FREE. Knot, 9 pm, $8 suggested donation; Dean, 10 pm, Gabriel Miller Phillips, 11 The Backroom Femme Elite Entertainment music by Flagg, 11 pm, Biolich, midnight, $5; Jan. 31: Klezmer Trio, 7 pm, $8 sug- pm, FREE; Feb. 1: Quizz-Off, 7:30 pm, (Inside Freddy’s Bar) 485 Dean St. at DJs Candy and Inez hosted by Lisa Jan. 29: Bodhi, Bloodred Residual gested donation; Feb. 1: Dee Pop, 8 Emilia Dahlin, 10 pm, Ken Beasley, 11 Trash Bar Sixth Avenue in Prospect Heights, Love, 6 pm, FREE ($5 after 9 pm); and Cipher 4, 9 pm, $5; Jan. 31: pm, $8, Sam Newsome’s Black Gypsy, pm, FREE; Feb. 2: Perfesser Zeke, 8 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in (718) 622-7035, Wednesdays: Comedy Showcase Williamsburg Variety Show, 10:30 pm, 10 pm, $8; Feb. 2: Nano, 7 pm, $8 pm, Alice Lee, 9 pm, Terrence Russell Williamsburg, (718) 599-1000, www.freddysbackroom.com. hosted by Ray DeJon, 7 pm, $10; FREE; Feb. 4: Bill Pop, 9 pm, Benefit suggested donation, The Alan Ferber Prayer, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. 3: Stuart www.thetrashbar.com. Jan. 28: Seeing Voices, 9:30 pm, The Thursdays: A Taste of the Under- for Animals in Need with The Feral, Nonet, 8 pm, Rachelle Garniez, 10 Valentine, 9 pm, A Night with Parlor Jan. 28: The Lookaways, 8 pm, The Second Fiddles, 10:30 pm, Jeff Winter, ground featuring DJ Ras & DJ Cloud 9, Deaf by Stereo DJs Anatar, Mange, pm, $8 suggested donation; Feb. 3: Grand and Baron Von Spanghamer, 10 Mad Owls, 9 pm, The Empire State 11:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 29: Pub Quiz, 9 6 pm, FREE; Fridays: After Work Nekromantra and Annabelevil, 10 Oscar Noriega, Chris Speed and pm, FREE; Feb. 4: Erin Regan, 9 pm, Troopers, 10 pm, Los Chaparros, 11 pm, FREE. Karaoke hosted by Lisa Smiles, 6 pm, pm, $5. Anthony Burr Clarinet Trio, 7 pm, $8 FREE. pm, Buzzard, midnight, $5; Jan. 29: suggested donation, Mark Dresser FREE, Live music and DJ, 11 pm, $5. Sharon van Etten, 9 pm, Kyp Malone, BAM Cafe with Rudresh Mahanthappa and Gerry Magnetic Field Rbar 10 pm, The Finches, 11 pm, Moon & 30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Hemingway, 8 pm, $10, The Moon- Club Exit 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in Moon, midnight, $6; Jan. 30: 451 Meeker Ave. at Graham Avenue Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100, lighters, 10 pm, $8; Feb. 4: Las Rubias 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Brooklyn Heights, (718) 834-0069, Juneteenth, 8 pm, The Boroughs, 9 in Greenpoint, (718) 486-6116. www.bam.org. del Norte, 10 pm, $10. Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) 349- www.magneticbrooklyn.com. pm, Cholo, 10 pm, Strange Attractors, Jan. 28: Brooklyn Sax Quartet, 9 pm, 6969, www.club-exit.com. Mondays: Rock ‘n’ Roll DJ Exchange, Mondays: Guest bartender nights, 9 11 pm, This Day Forever, midnight, $7; pm, FREE; Tuesdays: “Mikey’s Big Gay $10 food/drink minimum; Feb. 3: Black Saturdays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 28: The Fabulous Jan. 31: Aunt Ange, 8 pm, Odd Zero, Bembe Pajama Party,” 11 pm, FREE; Wednes- Rock Coalition featuring Dr. Israel & $15 (ladies FREE until 11 pm); Fridays: Soul Shakers, 8:30 pm, $8; Feb. 1: 9 pm, Shiloh, 10 pm, Class, 11 pm, 81 S. Sixth St. at Berry Street in days: Karaoke, 9 pm, FREE; Thurs- Dreadtone International/Martha Red- DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE. Dick Swizzle’s Live Action Trivia, 9 pm, Anorak, midnight, Holy Mountain, 1 Williamsburg, (718) 387-5389, days: Comedy Night, 8 pm, FREE. bone Trio, 9 pm, $10 food/drink mini- www.bembe.us. FREE; Feb. 2: Talent LTD presents am, $6; Feb. 1: The Skeptics, 9 pm, mum; Feb. 4: Will Holshouser Trio, 9 Saturdays: Rhum, live DJs alongside Club Xo Fisherman Plays the Vibes, 9 pm, $5; Red Tree, 10 pm, Suicide Pact, 11 pm, Feb. 3: Dead Flowers presents Ripple Bar $6; Feb. 2: Blood from Stone, 10 pm, pm, $10 food/drink minimum. live Latin percussion flavors, 9 pm, 1819 Utica Ave. at Avenue J in Klimpter, Gold Streets, 8 pm, $TBD; The Divide, 11 pm, with DJ Steve FREE; Sundays: No Selectors with live Flatlands, (718) 209-0525, 769 Washington Ave. at Sterling Place Bar 4 DJs, 9 pm, FREE; Mondays: Unintrip- www.clubxonyc.com. Feb. 4: Sparkle Motion presents Lilys, in Crown Heights, (917) 657-3468, Blush, $8; Feb. 3: Heap, 8 pm, Red (The Sounds of) Kaleidoscope, www.ripplebar.com. Invasion, 9 pm, Crimson Sweet, 10 pm, 444 Seventh Ave. at 15th Street in ited, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Natural Fridays: The Best of the Best featuring Graham Smith, 8 pm, $8.50 in Saturdays and Fridays: Live DJ party, The Sleazies, 11 pm, The Bamboo Kids, Park Slope, (718) 832-9800. Selections with DJ Jon Bless (JB) and live DJs, 11 pm, FREE before mid- advance, $10 day of the show. 10:30 pm, FREE; Mondays: Comedy midnight, $8; Feb. 4: Baker the Band, 8 Jan. 29: Ted Poor Quartet, 8 pm, $5. guests, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: night, $10 after midnight. Convalescence with DJ Stefan Ande- night, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Live DJ, pm, The Silent Years, 9 pm, In Pencil, micael, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Crossroads National 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Live jazz 10 pm, Ten Pound Strike, 11 pm, The Barbes Filip Meichsner session, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: “Toque” includes DJs Captain Planet Restaurant Heroine Sheiks, midnight, $10. 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park and Busquelo, live rumba with Cafe “Circus in Outerspace” party lands in Galapagos on Feb. Jeph’s Night, 10:30 pm, FREE. Slope, (718) 965-9177, 273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton Romain Diaz, Pupi, and the Oriki Omi 1241A Prospect Ave. at Reeve Place Two Boots www.barbesbrooklyn.com. 4 at 8 pm. Second Street in Brighton Beach, Oddra Rumba Ensemble, 9 pm, FREE; in Windsor Terrace, (718) 972-1852. Sista’s Place Mondays: The Velmeers, 9:30 pm, (718) 646-1225, Brooklyn Fridays: World Beat Flavors, 9 pm, Tuesdays: Jazz series with Todd www.come2national.com. 456 Nostrand Ave. at Jefferson FREE; Tuesdays: Slavic Soul Party, 9 Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in FREE. Neufeld and friends, 8 pm, $5 dona- Saturdays: Live Russian music and pm, $8; Wednesdays: Night of the Johnnies Foreigner, 9 pm, Truephoria, 398-1766, www.sistasplace.org. Park Slope, (718) 499-3253, tion suggested. Galapagos dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with $65 prix Ravished Limbs, 9 pm, $8; Jan. 28: 9:30 pm, Dead Man Dreaming, 10 Jan. 28: Lenora Zenzalai Helm and www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. Black Betty 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in fixe dinner); Fridays: Live Russian The Brooklyn Playboys, 8 pm, $8 sug- pm, Infectious Disease, 10:30 pm, Trio, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $20 per set; Feb. Jan. 28: Mike Mok, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 366 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Williamsburg, (718) 782-5188, music and dance show, 9 pm, FREE gested donation, Chicha Libre!, 10 Crossroads Salute the Dawn, 11 pm, Salgo, 11:30 4: Atiba Kwabena’s Songhai Djeli, 9 31: The 12th Street Playboys (a special Street in Williamsburg, (718) 599- www.galapagosartspace.com. (with $50 prix fixe dinner); Sundays: pm, $8 suggested donation; Jan. 29: Saloon pm, $10; Feb. 2: Emergenza Festival pm, 10:30 pm, $20 per set. Mardi Gras Tuesday show), 8 pm, 0243, www.blackbetty.net. Sundays: Sid and Buddy Karaoke, 10 with Alone With a Ghost, 8 pm, Shiny Live Russian music and dance show, 7 FREE; Feb. 2: Jack Grace Band, 9 pm, Gina Leishman, 7 pm, $8 suggested 2079 Coney Island Ave. at Kings Saturdays: DJ Lil’ Shalimar, 11 pm, pm, FREE; Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Mama, 8:30 pm, Jack, 9 pm, Local 5, pm, FREE (with $50 prix fixe dinner). FREE; Feb. 3: Michael Louis, 10 pm, donation, Matt Munisteri’s A Frayed Highway in Sheepshead Bay, (718) FREE; Sundays: Brazilian Beat with DJ Nights, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 28: The 9:30 pm, Shelley Nicole’s Blakbushe, Solomon’s 339-9393. FREE; Feb. 4: Benecio & the Del Toros, Sean Marquand and DJ Greg Caz, 10 Looseness, 11 pm, FREE; Jan. 29: 10 pm, Ordinary K, 10:30 pm, In Night and Day Porch 10 pm, FREE. pm, FREE; Mondays: Rev. Vince Saturdays and Fridays: Karaoke, 9 Kitchensink Music with QNG, Dave Extremis, 11 pm, Noah, 11:30 pm, 307 Stuyvesant Ave. at Halsey Street pm, FREE. Deporis, The Undisputed Heavy- Restaurant THIS WEEK AT Anderson and his Love Choir, 10:30 $10; Feb. 3: Emergenza Festival with in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 919- 200 Fifth pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Hot Rocks, 10 weights, 8 pm, FREE; Jan. 30: Smut, Incuria, 8 pm, Louvre, 8:30 pm, GC 230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in 8001. 200 Fifth Ave. at Sackett Street in pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Yah Su- Dakar Cafe 8 pm, FREE, Burlesque hosted by and Soul Mafia, 9 pm, Midnight Pass, Park Slope, (718) 399-2161, Sundays: Open mic, 6 pm, FREE. Park Slope, (718) 638-2925. preme & Brohemian, 9:30 pm, FREE; 285 Grand Ave. at Lafayette Avenue World Famous Bob, 10 pm, FREE; 9:30 pm, Noa, 10 pm, Eschaton, www.nightanddayrestaurant.com. Fridays: The Greenhouse with DJ in Clinton Hill, (718) 398-8900, Jan. 31: (Backroom) Punch Puppetry, 10:30 pm, Neutral Ground, 11 pm, Tuesdays: Songwriters Showcase Saturdays: DJ Blazer spinning reggae THE BACK ROOM BEGINS MonkOne, 11 pm, FREE. www.dakarcafe.net. 8 pm, $5, (Frontroom) Regie Cabico’s Code 6, 11:30 pm, $10; Feb. 4: with Kevin Ray, 7 pm, Live jazz jam Southpaw and hip-hop, 10 pm, ladies $5, men $10; Fridays: Friday Night Salsa with a Jan. 29-Feb. 2: Julia Starr and Patrice SULU Performance Program, 8 pm, Emergenza Festival with New Piracy, hosted by the Dan McCarthy Trio, 9 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in live salsa band and DJs Blazer One and The Brooklyn Larose, 8 pm, $5. FREE; Feb. 1: The Monster Project, 8 pm, Intogreen, 8:30 pm, Lester pm, FREE; Jan. 29: Don Militello, 6 Park Slope, (718) 230-0236, 10 pm, $5; Feb. 2: Scott Poole, The Swing, 9 pm, End of all Dreams, 9:30 pm, The Jambalaya Brass Band, 9 www.spsounds.com. Big Will spinning salsa, reggae, hip- Conservatory Europa Night Velmeers and Jan Bell, 7 pm, $5, pm, Fading Fast, 10 pm, Game pm, $TBD; Jan. 30: Cintra Wilson, 7 Jan. 28: Cody Chestnut, Martin Luther, hop, 10 pm, ladies $5, men $10. of Music Dankfunk presents Arts & Sciences Rebellion, 10:30 pm, Finding Four, 11 pm, Debra & Mary’s Night on the Alice Smith, Tiombe Lockhart, 8 pm, Club and the @Work Photo Exhibit with pm, A Change for Tomorrow, 11:30 Town with Debra Barsha, Mary Cleere $12 in advance, $15 day of the show; Vox Po p 58 Seventh Ave. at Lincoln Place in 98 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan The Shift and DJs Tommy Moye & pm, $10. Haran, and friends, 9 pm, $TBD; Feb. Jan. 31: My Potpurri Smells Like 1022 Cortelyou Road at Stratford Park Slope, (718) 622-3300, Vicky Slicks, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. 3: 3: Arturo O’Farrill Trio, 9 pm, $TBD Southpaw presented by Tom Rhodes www.bqcm.org. Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) 383- Road in Flatbush, (718) 940-2084, 5723, www.europaclub.com. Rachel Shukert in Sequins for Satan, 8 and 1-drink minimum. with Speed of Life, Marissa Levy, Willie www.voxpopnet.net. Jan. 28: A Night of Sizzling Salsa and Hope and Saturdays: VIP Dance Party, 10 pm, pm, $10 in advance, $12 day of the Breeding, Whiskey Rebellion, 7:30 pm, Sundays: Open mic, 7:30 pm, FREE; Sangria, 8:30 pm, $10 in advance, $12 Friday, January 27 FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 after show; Feb. 4: “Circus in Outerspace” Anchor Night of the $5; Feb. 2: Karsh Kale and special Jan. 21: My Dad’s Truck, 8 pm, 2-drink day of the show (includes dance les- 10:30 pm; Fridays: Sexy Pro- presents performances by Valeze and 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in guests, 8 pm, $10 in advance, $12 day (or snack) minimum; Jan. 28: Micah 9PM IN CONCERT: David Budway, sons, snacks, and sangria). Cookers piano; E.J. Strickland, drums; gressive/Dance party, 10 pm, FREE fire-eater Tyler Fyre and more, 8 pm, Red Hook, (718) 237-0276. of the show; Feb. 3: Low, His Name is Howeson, 8 pm, 2-drink (or snack) min- 767 Fulton St. at South Portland & James Genus, bass before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; $10 ($7 in sci-fi costume). Saturdays, Thursdays and Fridays: Alive, 8 pm, $15; Feb. 4: The Rub with imum; Feb. 1: Songwriter’s Exchange Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 797-1197. The Brooklyn Jan. 29: The Tuba Project album Karaoke hosted by drag queen Kay DJ Ayres and Cosmo Baker and spe- hosted by Rebecca Pronsky featuring Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Sunday, January 29 release party, 7:30 pm, $10 (FREE Sera, 9 pm, FREE. cial guest A-Trak, 10 pm, $TBD. Mary Mulliken, Amy Hills and Christine Lyceum Good Sundays: Live music, noon, FREE; before 8 pm with student ID); Feb. 4: Havrilla, 8 pm, FREE. 6PM WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN JAZZ: 227 Fourth Ave. at President Street in Thursdays: Live jazz, 8 pm, FREE; Fri- Bajm, 8 pm, 11 pm followed by a Coffeehouse Stain Don Militello Park Slope, (718) 398-7301, Kili Bar-Cafe days: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE. 9PM THE JAMBALAYA BRASS BAND www.gowanus.com. dance party, $35. Music Parlor 81 Hoyt St. at State Street in Boerum 766 Grand St. at Humboldt Street in Waterfront Ale Williamsburg, (718) 387-7840, Feb. 4: Don Slovin’s Improv Centric At Brooklyn Society for Ethical Hill, (718) 855-5574. Northsix www.stainbar.com. House Monday, January 30 Unit and the Improv Summit with Five Spot Culture, 53 Prospect Park West at Tuesdays: Open acoustics, 10 pm, 66 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Mondays: Paint Stain, 5 pm (often 155 Atlantic Ave. between Henry 7PM ONSTAGE: Cintra Wilson Scotchatory Tape, Creep and Hot- 459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Second Street in Park Slope, (718) FREE; Fridays: DJ Chappy plays rock, Williamsburg, (718) 599-5103, accompanied by the jazz guitar of and Clinton streets in Brooklyn 9PM DEBRA & MARY’S Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) 852- 768-2972, www.bsec.org. hip-hop and funk, 10:30 pm, FREE. Sauce, 9:30 pm, $10. www.northsix.com. Heights, (718) 522-3794, NIGHT ON THE TOWN 0202, www.fivespotsoulfood.com. Feb. 3: Frank & Nancy Moccaldi and Noboru, 8 pm), FREE; Wednesdays: Jan. 28: (Downstairs) Municipal Waste, JAMstain, an informal open mic host- www.waterfrontalehouse.com. Debra Barsha, Mary Cleere Haran Saturdays: DJ Aki, 6 pm, FREE, Back friends, 8 pm, $10 adults, $6 children. Cattyshack Laila Lounge Caustic Christ, Deathcycle, JDA, 9 pm, ed by singers/songwriters, 9 pm, Jan. 28: David Berkman Trio, 11 pm, & friends to Brooklyn with The Beat Miners, 249 Fourth Ave. at Carroll Street in 113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue $8, (Upstairs) Jimmie’s Chicken Shack, FREE; Jan. 28: Stefko & Matt Logan, FREE. midnight, $5; Mondays: Open turnta- Park Slope, (718) 230-5740, Hank’s Saloon in Williamsburg, (718) 486-6791, Almost Violet, Excuse Me, 9 pm, $15; 7:30 pm, Third Border, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesday, January 31 bles hosted by Elijah, 8 pm, FREE; www.cattyshackbklyn.com. 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in www.lailalounge.com. Jan. 30: (Downstairs) Capillary Action, Jan. 31: Army of Bjork, a costume 7PM Kevin Ray’s Tuesdays: DJ Handspin Dinero, 6 pm, Zebulon Saturdays: (Main floor) DJs Daryl Boerum Hill, (718) 625-8003, Mondays: Karaoke with FAYE Faye Hi Red Center, The Fugue, People, 9 party dedicated to cold weather, hot Songwriters Showcase FREE, DJ Tommy Talkz, 8 pm, FREE, www.hankssaloon.com. Faye, 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Fruity 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan 9PM Dan McCarthy’s Jazz Jam Raymond & BK Brewster, 10 pm, pm, $8; Jan. 31: (Downstairs) Sunday wine, and all things Bjork, 8 pm, $TBD. Hot Damn Tuesdaze (comedy night) Wednesdays: Mobscenity, 10 pm, Loops (Gay Night), 10 pm, FREE; Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 218- $TBD; Tuesdays: (Downstairs) Trivia Driver, The Actual, The Specs, 9 pm, 6934, www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. with Dave Lester, 10 pm, FREE; FREE; Jan. 28: Gravel Pit Ramblers, Wednesdays: Jezebel Music Show- $7; Feb. 2: Some Girls, Gospel, Night with Sancho, 7 pm, FREE, Syrup Room Jan. 28: Bonga, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 29: Judy Joice of The Lion’s Head and Robin (Upstairs) After work party with rotat- Wednesdays: DJ Copa, 6 pm, FREE, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 29: Sean Kershaw case with an open mic, 7:30 pm, live Birthday Boyz, 9 pm, $8 in advance, Hirsch of Cornelia Street Cafe have Himalayas CD release party with Soul F’Real, an R&B open mic for Soul and the New Jack Ramblers, 10 pm, music, 8:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 28: DJ $10 day of the show; Feb. 3: Big Bear, 100 Ingraham St. at Knickerbocker joined forces to open Night and Day. ing DJs, 5 pm, $5, FREE after mid- Ave. in East Williamsburg, (917) 608- Kenny Wollesen, Jonathan Haffner, Singers, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: FREE; Feb. 2: Bareback Mountain, QZR, 10 pm, FREE. Dirty Projectors, Aa, 9 pm, $10; Feb. 4: night; Wednesdays: (Downstairs) “I’m 2467, www.thesyruproom.com. Tony Scherr and more, 10 pm, FREE; We are delighted to welcome Simon Okay, You’re Okay - Kara-Okay,” 9 Large Professor presents Timbuktu, 10 Mary McBride, 9:30 pm, FREE; Feb. Calla, The Boggs, Daylight’s for the Glenn, who comes to us from ten years in Jan. 28: Black Dice, Gang Gang Jan. 30: Underground Petting Zoo, pm, FREE; Fridays: Soul in the Hole, 3: The Company Picnic, Lonsome Birds, 9 pm, $10 in advance, $12 day of New Orleans, as our new chef. pm, FREE to watch, $5 all you can Legacy Dance, Bill Cosby and his White Alessandro Ricciarelli, 10 pm, FREE; sing, (Upstairs) “Oink!” with DJ Floyd midnight, $5. Billys, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. 4: Cash the show. Carson, The Jody Grind, 10 pm, Nightclub Pudding Pops, 8 pm, $10; Feb. 4: The Jan. 31: Marianne, 10 pm, FREE. Restaurant • Bar • Jazz • Performance for dirty boys hosted by PJ, 9 pm, $3; Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner Thursdays: (Upstairs) Schoolhouse Frank’s Lounge FREE. 437 88th St. at Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, (718) 836-2646. Parlor Jazz Weekend Brunch • Parties • Champagne with DJ ’Lina & Daryl Raymond, 9 pm, 660 Fulton St. at South Elliott Place in Escargots • Tuna Confit • Flights of Wine Jan. 29: Gay and Lesbian Party pre- 119 Vanderbilt Ave. at Myrtle Avenue $TBD; Fridays: (Main floor) All-request Fort Greene, (718) 625-9339, The Hook in Clinton Hill, (718) 855-1981, Tequila • Single Batch Bourbon sented by Escape Productions, 8 pm, after-work party with DJ Lugnut, www.frankscocktaillounge.com. 18 Commerce St. at Columbia Street www.parlorjazz.com. A touch of New Orleans in the kitchen Cirrah with DJ Mark James, and rotat- Saturdays: Sinful Saturdays with DJs in Red Hook, (718) 797-3007, $10. TALK TO US… and dining under the stars in the most Feb. 4: Lezlie Harris & Pure Tones, 9 pm, ing go-go with Maine & Sarah and Tyrone and Infinite, 9 pm, $5; Tues- www.thehookmusic.com. beautiful back room in Brooklyn 10:30 pm, $20 suggested donation. To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as possi- Cinnamon & Keisha, 10 pm, $5; Jan. days: Tuesday Night Live featuring Jan. 28: Icon Killer, 9 pm, Dirty Les Babouches ble. Include name of venue, address with cross street, phone number for the pub- 230 Fifth Avenue 28: ’Shack 249 with DJs BK Brewster KoKo H Live, 9 pm, 2-drink minimum; Mother Nation, 10 pm, The Rip, 11 7803 Third Ave. at 78th Street in Bay Pete’s Candy lic to call, Web site address, dates, times and admission or ticket prices. 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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT Bridge ‘protection’

HE TERRORISTS win “no comment” spoke volumes. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer ture exhibits at Ground Zero again. For several months, Clearly, there are some questions grimly cautioned Americans to would be expunged of any search T Brooklyn drivers have been that “we the people” no longer “watch what they say [and] watch for meaning, has imprisoned peo- complaining about the two police have a right to ask. what they do,” to the most-recent ple without charging them or let- squad cars that sit idling in the left What we remember most about repudiation of American values, ting them see a lawyer, has em- those nervous days after 9-11 was namely the federal government’s boldened rent-a-cops to demand lane — day and night, seven days our steadfast, defiant belief that we spying on its own citizens, the so- the IDs of law-abiding citizens, a week — in both directions on would not let the terrorists “win” by called “War on Terror” has be- has allowed police to search the the Brooklyn Bridge. forcing us to change our way of come a kitchen sink filled with bags of innocent people simply They are there, according to life. the smelly detritus of prior efforts because their number came up, the NYPD, for “security reasons,” The larger concept, of course, by goverment to curtail freedom. and has put four cop cars on the but all they are doing is tying up was that we were not going to let Since 9-11, our government Brooklyn Bridge day and night traffic. the threat of terrorism define us as a has asserted it could torture sus- with no explanation. When contacted by The Brook- people. pects, has routinely squelched de- N THE CASE of the squad lyn Papers, an NYPD spokesman But, alas, that is what we have bate by questioning dissenters’ cars, the most it will accom- could only say that the deploy- done. patriotism, has demanded guaran- I plish is send terrorists to the ment is terror-related — but his From the very start, when then- tees from cultural groups that fu- Manhattan Bridge.

LETTERS Cristian Fleming I mean, really, why can’t they just build a park?!

To the editor: chance to create another city. (“In Brooklyn, bowling strikes out”). her Manhattan liberal independent re- the fix is in. I hope somehow the powers that be will But there’s trouble in River City. The After getting past your reporter’s sar- Hang ’em high former image to reveal that she is a sea- The five county Democratic bosses give further thought to the part of the quality of a neighborhood must be measured casm, as well as CB10 member Steve To the editor: soned Democratic party machine leader. don’t care if you are liberal or conserva- Brooklyn Bridge “park” that is set aside in terms of the level of commitment of its in- Harrison’s excitement for the project, I, for I was trying to mind my own business, She has already committed to overturn tive, gay or straight, man or woman — for high-rise/luxury housing (“Ire over habitants. If you snatch away the joy and one, was left to mourn our neighborhood but the more I read of Ratner’s Atlantic the voters’ wishes by considering repeal- they just want you to play ball. housing,” Jan. 21). peace experienced by those who live here bowling alley. It was a place where family Yarks project, the more infuriated I get. ing term limits. And her appointments to If you do that, like Speaker Quinn is Throughout the five boroughs, there is and maintain their homes so lovingly, these and friends met to talk, laugh and encour- He should be hung by his own wreck- various council committee chairs speaks learning, you’re one of the boys in the a tremendous rush towards building high- same individuals eventually become despon- age each other in a game of bowling. ing balls. volumes. smoke-filled clubhouse back room! rise towers in formerly low-rise areas. I believe that communities are made up Council members who are loyal to their dent and overshadowed, and in time, these Amy Levenson, Brooklyn Heights Larry Penner, Great Neck If the “park” planners truly took the homes are not maintained. of homes supported with services, shops respective county bosses (the ones who long view, they will see the danger of and jobs — but a community also needs endorsed her candidacy for speaker) have Please give us an honest-to-goodness adding these awful towers to our shore- places for residents to go and have fun; to been rewarded with “lulus” ranging from Send us a letter real park. line. We expect that kind of thing in Man- commune with neighbors, meet old friends Same old same old $4,000 to $28,000. By mail: Letters Editor, Brooklyn Papers, hattan, but not in Brooklyn. Amanda Tree, Brooklyn Heights and spend quality time with family. To the editor: The average salary for a New Yorker is 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 Gersh Kuntzman’s recent article, “No- The planners say they need revenue to I feel lucky that this bowling alley was $41,000 per year, yet every councilmem- Fax: (718) 834-9278. support the “park,” but what they are do- here while I raised my children. Bowling vote Felder’s inauguration features what’s ber has a base salary of $91,000 for a part- ing is merely opening up the entire Brook- Miss the Mark taught them math, teamwork, and how to her name” (Jan. 21), illustrated the obvi- time job. By e-mail: [email protected] lyn waterfront to exploitation. To the editor: behave politely in public. ous political hypocrisy of Councilmember It’s all about buying loyalty. Vote as in- All letters must be signed and include the This new residential enclave will create I recently read in your paper about the I hope Bay Ridge doesn’t become like Simcha Felder, but missed the same in structed by the speaker and those mem- writer’s home address and phone number (only a demand for stores, restaurants, parking proposal to tear down the Mark Lanes in those towns on Long Island where people others. bers will continue to receive the perks of the writer’s name and neighborhood are pub- garages, gourmet groceries, cafes, etc. It’s Bay Ridge and replace it with a parking pass through shopping, but no one knows his Consider how new Council Speaker office. Be an independent member and lished with the letter). a developers’ dream come true — a lot for the Century 21 department store neighbors. Christine Sellitto, Bay Ridge Christine Quinn has removed the veil of suffer the consequences. Everyone knows Letters may be edited and will not be returned.

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New City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) took her. Most councilmembers got something — except Letitia the reigns of power and promptly doled out leadership posi- James, who was left on the outside looking in. Here’s how your tions (and raises, known as “lulus”) to her loyal supporters — councilmember fared (both professionally and financially) in the The Mighty Quinn and even created a high-ranking job for the man who opposed power shake-up at City Hall. — Gersh Kuntzman

COUNCILMEMBER BACKED THE RIGHT HORSE? WHAT HE/SHE HAD WHAT HE/SHE GOT WHAT IT MEANS LULU NET GAIN

David Yassky Eventually. Yassky did not declare for Quinn Chair, Waterfront Chair, Small Business Committee Greater attention to small businesses in $0 (D-Brooklyn Heights) until late in the process. Committee Brooklyn, if Yassky makes good on his promise.

Bill DeBlasio No way! He ran against her. Chair, General Welfare Retained his committee chair, but also Quinn is saying “No hard feelings” by giving $15,000 (D-Park Slope) Committee got a new “assistant majority leader” DeBlasio a no-show job. position.

Letitia James No. Supported DeBlasio, even after he Did not chair a Zilch. Not only didn’t get a chairman- Was slapped for not backing Quinn, but also for $0 (D-Prospect Heights) conceded. committee ship, but was taken off the Housing and being on the outs with Brooklyn Democratic Buildings committee, which she cherished. boss Vito Lopez, who backed Quinn.

Vincent Gentile Backed DeBlasio, but likes Quinn. Did not chair a Chair of a newly created subcommittee No hard feelings with the Speaker. And Gentile $4,000 (D-Bay Ridge) committee on libraries gets to focus on libraries, a big issue for him.

James Oddo Didn’t commit to anyone — all the candidates Are you kidding? He’s a Will head the new, “Task Force on Oddo’s district mostly covers over-developed Stat- $0 (already gets $18,000 (R-Bath Beach) were Democrats! — but worked behind the Republican! Operations and Improvement of the en Island. He says only a task force can “fix” the lulu as “minority leader”) scenes for Quinn because she backed his call Department of Buildings.” Department of Buildings and ensure that over- for a Buildings Department task force. development is stopped throughout the city.

Domenic Recchia Backed Quinn from the start. Chair, Cultural Affairs Retained his committee chair Recchia wanted to stay with the committee. $0 (D-Bensonhurst) Committee

Sara Gonzalez Could not be determined because Gonzalez Did not chair a Chair, Juvenile Justice Committee, Quinn wanted to expand this subcommittee $10,000 (D-Sunset Park) does not typically return phone calls from committee which was formerly a subcommittee. into a full committee so it could “continue its the press. good work,” said a spokeswoman. BROOKLYN Ratner paid for state’s lawyers

BRIEFS The Brooklyn Papers anteed the Empire State Development recommendation in February, 2004. velop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Take my lawyer, please. Corporation that he would pay all the He stopped working for the developer sued the ESDC and Ratner last week, Carol Edmead refused to grant a tem- Facing an environmental review by legal and consulting costs incurred shortly before he began counseling claiming Paget’s role tainted a decision porary restraining order stopping a state agency, developer Bruce Ratner during their environmental review of the ESDC in September, according to made earlier this year to allow the de- Ratner from beginning his demoli- recommended that the agency hire his his $3.5-billion arena, residential and the New York Observer, which ob- veloper to tear down six buildings in tions — although the developer has Indy bank condo law firm for the state’s assessment of commercial project. tained the document through a Free- his project’s footprint before the proj- said his wrecking balls will remain his Atlantic Yards mega-project. David Paget, a partner in the firm, dom of Information request. ect has been formally approved. out of sight until at least the next Ratner suggested the firm of Sive, was working as Ratner’s lawyer when A coalition of block associations The ESDC refused to comment on hearing, scheduled for Feb. 14. plan put on hold Paget Riesel in a letter that also guar- the developer’s company wrote the and landowners spearheaded by De- the litigation. — Ariella Cohen

The Brooklyn Papers A plan to convert a historic Cobble Hill bank into a six- story luxury condo was temporarily derailed on Wednesday when city landmarks officials took issue with the develop- PET er’s bid to tear down an annex to the landmarked, 83-year- old Renaissance revival-style bank. Weeksville savior Maynard dies SERVICES Landmarks Preservation Commission spokeswoman Diane Jackier said the panel believed that the condo could be built Associated Press Borough President Marko- vidual donors. Her hard work without demolishing the annex and other historic details. Joan Maynard, who fought witz. “Through a singular de- was rewarded when the The developer, Two Trees Management, would preserve the to preserve a 19th-century set- termination, she made it her Weeksville houses were open- main hall of the 1922 Independence Bank building at Atlantic tlement of free blacks called life’s work to see that an im- ed to the public at a June dedi- Avenue and Court Street, but add six stories on top. Its architect Weeksville, died Sunday. She portant piece of African-Am- cation ceremony. says he can’t redesign without sacrificing the annex. was 77. erican history, long buried in “No one can say how many Puppy Love Community Board 6 has repeatedly rejected the develop- The death caused an out- Brooklyn, was protected from generations of Brooklyn chil- Cookie and other er’s proposal, objecting to its height and style. pouring of grief from people demolition and preserved.” dren will grow up with a The new limestone-and-brick building would rise 60-feet, who appreciated Maynard’s Once a flourishing commu- stronger, prouder sense of Valentine’s Day violating the 50-foot limit of the Cobble Hill Historic Dis- importance to black history in nity that included New York’s their own identity because of trict. Brooklyn. first black police officer and Joan,” Markowitz said. treats for FIDO Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D-Brooklyn Heights) said “She was one of the most first black woman physician, — with Gersh Kuntzman the building “will only serve to encourage other developers to extraordinary individuals ever Weeksville had been largely flout regulations” of the historic district. — Ariella Cohen to call Brooklyn home,” said forgotten when its remnants / Kathryn Kirk PLUS: holistic remedies, holistic pet foods, were discovered in 1968 after aromatherapy, canine couture and more… historian James Hurley saw RELIGIOUS references to it in some 19th- century archives. Hall Borough SERVICES Hurley and a pilot went up Joan Maynard in a small plane and spotted CHECKIN’ IN WITH... four wood-frame cottages hid- became its executive director. Congregation den in an alley once called Restoring the cottages and Mount Sinai (718) 399-2228 Hunterfly Road — all that re- turning them into a function- 250 Cadman Plaza W. OPEN M: 1-7, Tu-Sat: 11-7, Sun: 11-6 mained of Weeksville. ing museum was a daunting Conservative/Egalitarian www.buttercupspaw.com • ™ Lexy Funk After an archaeological dig task, with setbacks including a A House for Prayer / A Home for People 718-875-9124 turned up artifacts including a break-in by crack addicts who Friday Eve Services 6:30pm Brooklyn Industries — that purveyor of edgy, slave’s shackles, Weeksville did $36,000 worth of damage. Saturday Morning 10:00am Rabbi Joseph Potasnik but always colorful, garments — is marking its was designated a New York “We thought it was going to A29-41 sixth year in business with a retrospective exhib- City landmark and listed on take 10 years to build a muse- it of its original T-shirts. The company is more the National Register of His- um when we started,” May- than just Brooklyn’s Gap, but has emerged as a toric Places. nard said in 1996. “Frankly, Union Now Open! symbol of the borough’s effort to market a Day- Maynard was a founding it’s amazing we’re still alive.” Temple Glo version of its post-industrial self. Even Bor- member of the Weeksville So- But Maynard persisted, Park Slope’s Friendliest Reform ough President Markowitz wore a green BI logo ciety and served as president raising funds from the govern- from 1972 to 1974, when she ment, corporations and indi- Congregation T around town “until it shrank — in the wash!” SHABBAT SERVICES: he claimed. Our Ariella Cohen checked in with First Friday monthly co-founder Lexy Funk at last week’s party/exhib- followed by Potluck Dinner 6:30 p.m. it at the Williamsburg store. All other Friday evenings 8:15 p.m. Saturday mornings 10:30 a.m. Democrats to Wal-Mart: 17 Eastern Parkway Q: How do you respond to people was a predominantly industrial area. We at Grand Army Plaza

who criticize the branding of Brook- named the company Brooklyn Industries af- 638-7600 R44 lyn’s urban identity in the name of ter that factory. It became economically un- It is time to pay up fighting the good fight against gentri- viable for us to produce bags there. [They Congregation fication? are now produced in Turkey, Canada, India The Brooklyn Papers Side) unveiled the bill Sunday. Kol Israel A: I don’t think that anyone has the monop- and other countries.] “I believe that the largest, Located in Prospect Heights Big box retailers like Wal- since 1924 oly on authentic Brooklyn. I moved to Q. If you’re not manufacturing in Mart would be forced to pro- most profitable organization 603 St. Johns Place Williamsburg in 1991. It was almost com- Brooklyn, what are the Brooklyn In- vide better health-care cover- in the world, at a minimum, bet. Classon & Franklin better products, naturally pletely Hispanic. I moved there because it dustries now? should provide basic health in- 638-6583 age for their New York Rabbi Elkanah Schwartz was the cheapest place to live. I think the A: It’s the creative force behind both the employees under a just-intro- surance,” said Savino. Fri. at Sunset • Sat. 10:30am Brooklyn’s largest selection of natural and gentrification I’ve seen is mainly positive. It product and the company. We couldn’t find duced bill by state Sen. Diane Wal-Mart pays its sales as- W34/37/52 homeopathic products for dogs, cats & rabbits brings businesses to Brooklyn who are able garment workers proficient in bag-making Savino (D-Bay Ridge). sociates, the store’s most com- PARK SLOPE to employ more people, give opportunity to here, but we had no problem finding brilliant Following efforts in other mon position, an average of young people. It revitalizes areas that were $8.23 an hour, and $13,861 JEWISH CENTER food, treats, collars, leashes creative people to design and collaborate in states to crack down on Wal- 8th Avenue at 14th St. shampoos, toys, and much more down and out. other ways. Mart, the bill would require a annually. That’s more than Fri. nights 6:30 pm Q: Are you comfortable calling creativ- $3-per-hour health-care contri- $700 below the poverty line Sat. mornings 10 am Q. The city marketing office is now Adult Ed e Hebrew School Free delivery until 10pm, 7 days a week! ity Brooklyn’s new market output? for a family of three. working on a new fashion line using bution by any company with Rabbi Carie Carter A: I am comfortable with creativity as long more than 500 employees and The company provides health Park Slope’s Egalitarian, the borough’s name on caps, T-shirts care for 48 percent of its workers. Conservative Synagogue See our daily special on as it is economically viable. facilities of 10,000 square feet the pet section of Craigslist and “authentic replica vehicles.” They Other states have recently 768-1453 W29-31 Q: Do you manufacture in Brooklyn? or any company that occupies plan to roll out the new line in April. 100,000 square feet, with five proposed similar bills and A: No. We began manufacturing our bags at Are you scared? percent used for groceries. nearly 30 other states are ex- 169 Lincoln Place at 7th Ave. (718) 246-4600 North 15th Street and Wythe Avenue in what A: No. Savino and colleague Eric pected to introduce them this Shabbat Shalom! Mon-Fri: noon-9pm; Sat & Sun 11am-7pm Schneiderman (D-Upper West session. Maryland was the Presented by first to approve legislation ear- B’nai Avraham lier this month. of Brooklyn Heights “It may take us more than 117 Remsen St. • 596-4840 one session to get this bill Rabbi Aaron Raskin passed because I can’t imag- ,iVÞVi`Ê*>«iÀÃ ine Governor Pataki would Candle edcliffe sign it,” Savino said. “But I’m Lighting 6i}iÌ>LiÊ>` R young. I’ve got time on my f 7iÊ*ÀÌÊ-ÌÕvv -ÞÊÃ side,” she said. 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More than agad Selected Kitchen & 150 of top pro- N fessionals in the The AVP Professional Beach Volleyball tour will put up a temporary, Vanity Cabinets 4,000-seat stadium, like this one in Chicago, on the Coney Island beach. abinets Inc. If it ain’t broke, “sport” will C But if compete — and 2367 60th Street (near McDonald Ave.) don’t fix it. the event will be televised live Walsh spike. For those who don’t want to on NBC. And Brooklyn’s volleyball- pay to see the Sports Illustrat- www.nagad.com • (718) 382-7200 it’s broke That last detail was even fan-in-chief, Borough President ed swimsuit issue come to life, By appointment only • F train to Ave N station more important to Coney Is- Markowitz, was jumping for joy there will be plenty of prelimi- landers than the skimpy bikinis. — not as high as Holly McPeak nary contests on the beach- “The TV coverage is going (but, then again, where was she front flanking the stadium. to help bring thousands of peo- during the transit strike?). While many fans enjoy ple to Coney Island,” said “Beach volleyball may have beach volleyball for less-than- Community Board 13 District had its origins on the West sportsmanlike reasons, it’s im- VORNADO Manager Chuck Reichenthal, Coast, but with an AVP tourna- portant to remember that Am- AIR SOFTENING HUMIDIFIERS who predicted that the stadium ment coming to Coney Island, erican women won the gold plan would blitz through the the sport has hit the big time — and the bronze medals at the review process like a Kerri Brooklyn,” Markowitz said. 2004 Athens games. after Vornado Vornado Model 30 Model 40 • Expert restorations $59.99 $79.99 and repairs of lamps, Gas tanks slow down work at WHY HUMIDIFY THE AIR? For both health and comfort reasons! lighting fixtures before Physicians have long-recommended humidification to help relieve nasal and chest congestion for infants, children and adults. Humidification also and chandeliers helps with dry skin. A humidifier can also minimize annoying static and Whole Foods construction site provide your furniture with much needed moisture. • Huge inventory Bring it to us! The Brooklyn Papers a glistening store at the Third Conservation, who is oversee- WHY HUMIDIFY WITH VORNADO? First, the Vortex Action of of shades Vornado Vortex Humidifiers effectively distributes moisture and recovers Initial construction of the Avenue and Third Street site ing the work. We’ll make it look — a marked departure for the “It’s not routine, but some- heat throughout an entire room. Second, the evaporative style system is • Hundreds of bulbs first Whole Foods super- clean running, delivering moisture the same way Mother Nature does. two-acre lot, hard by the time this happens.” Finally, you will enjoy Vornado’s easy-to-use, hassle-free design that just like new. market in Brooklyn — Gowanus Canal. Going back Before other cleanup meas- in stock slowed since underground includes a patented, easy-fill, no-spill, leak-free bottle design. It also to the 19th century, the land ures can begin, Whole Foods operates very, very quietly in comparison to competitive models. gasoline storage tanks were had hosted a lake, a coal yard, must complete a full investiga- found this fall — will be an oil-processing company tion of all damage to the site delayed even longer, state and a radiator manufacturer. and solicit public comments. officials said. Oh, and it was also a junk- And boy are local activists The toxic barrels were sup- yard at one point. ready. posed to be removed in two Since excavation began in “If you look out there, you weeks, but now the project’s su- the fall, a lake of green water see a day-glow green pond of pervisor says the work won’t be has overtaken the site, a conse- sludge,” said Marlene Donnelly, We AppreciateYour Business! 1073 - 39th St. (718) done until at least March. quence of digging below the a member of the environmental- (cor. Ft. 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