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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. 10 BWN • Saturday, March 11, 2006 • FREE CUT! THIS WEEKEND After complaints, movie crews banned in Heights

By Ariella Cohen For some Brooklyn Heights residents, the deci- The Brooklyn Papers sion to restrict new filming permits didn’t come a Cut — that’s a wrap. In Brooklyn Heights, at least. moment too soon. After three big-budget movie crews turned the Last week, the already cramped neighborhood scenic neighborhood into a Hollywood backlot last was overrun with film crews — and their big movie week, the announced that it would bar future star trailers, catering trucks and equipment rigs. filming there for three months. On Thursday and Friday, Warner Bros. rented St. Ann’s and the Holy Trinity Church to film the Kirsten Sher- idan-helmed “August Rush.” And on Thursday, author-ac- tor-director Ethan Hawke was on the Promenade shooting the film version of his angst-ridden City: Free novel, “The Hottest State.” Paws to reflect Hawke also stars in the film. And the next morning on West, dog-walk- ers were displaced by a white Wegman show kicks off at B’klyn Museum parking on trailer labeled “Lucy” and “Desi” that served the crew of a Castle Rock remake of “Mostly By Lisa J. Curtis graphs of those sad-eyed dogs. Martha,” starring Catherine Zeta- GO Brooklyn Editor “I wanted to give a sense of a mind Jones that races, and I think that comes through As a result of the celebrity in- William Wegman is not just a dog in this installation,” said Trevor Fair- the block vasion, the Mayor’s Office of photographer. brother, the exhibit’s curator. Film, Theatre and Broadcasting So at a press conference at the Brook- Wegman said he felt the exhibition placed waterfront blocks of Rem- lyn Museum on Wednesday, there was was nearly “suffocating” with the crowd- sen, Pierrepont and Montague Eye resident permits Wegman, graciously displaying the same ed amount of work it displayed, but felt streets on the moratorium “hot patience towards dog-obsessed reporters that “the advantages are that it’s easy to By Ariella Cohen list.” that he employs when arranging his Such filming bans are rare, make connections between different The Brooklyn Papers beloved weimaraners into poignant and pieces.” said a spokeswoman for the city hilarious Polaroids. Planners from the Department of Transportation have be- film office. In 2003, the entire “I’m glad that it’s all mixed up, that Some reporters, after all, were frustrated it’s not chronological or by media,” said gun studying a parking permit system that would discour- DUMBO neighborhood was that Wegman hadn’t brought even one of Wegman. age commuters from parking in residential neighborhoods temporarily made off-limits to the grey pups with him for the photo-op. And in most of what this witty rural surrounding Downtown — which could reduce the num- filmic auteurs, thanks to resi- But Wegman is quite serious about his ber of clogging the streets of Brownstone Brooklyn. dents’ complaints — a move art, which ranges far further afield than Massachusetts native has tackled, you’ll If the plan moves forward, residents of Brooklyn Heights, Fort that emboldened other over- those reporters knew. And that’s the sub- find a smidgen of humor, a lighthearted- Greene and will be able to buy curbside spaces with filmed neighborhoods to start text of “Funney/Strange,” the museum’s ness that’s a breath of fresh air in the jad- ed art world. a monthly pass. complaining louder. first retrospective of Wegman’s work in Callan / Tom Boston, Washington, London and San Francisco already have The film office heard plenty 15 years. The exhibition took its name from a such systems, but the Downtown study is the farthest the contro- of gripes from Brooklyn Heights Spanning 40 years of his creative out- simple 1982 ink-on-paper which depicts a versial idea has moved in , where free street parking is last week. put, it includes paintings, collages, ladder going down into a circle, a straw considered a birthright. “The film companies idle their works-on-paper, artist books, black-and- going into a circle, the word “strange” “By not encouraging commuters to park, you may discourage trucks,” said Judy Stanton, exec- white as well as color photography, and and the deliberately misspelled, “funney.” commuters from driving Downtown,” said Ryan Russo, DOT’s utive director of the Brooklyn video works that Wegman directed and “He’s always playing on multiple mean- Papers The Brooklyn coordinator. “But by making it easier for Heights Association. “They take starred in. It will truly be an eye-opener ings,” Fairbrother explained. “He finds (Top) a detail of William Wegman’s chromogenic print, residents to park, you may also be encouraging more driving.” up parking and move our cars. for those who think the multi-talented something twisted, then twists that, too.” “Washed Up.” (Above) The artist in the in See PARKING on page 12 See BANNED on page 12 artist only does splashy color photo- See WEGMAN on page 7 front of “Untitled, 1998,” also featuring his famous dogs. Demolition begins for Nets arena

By Ariella Cohen Solitude,” the Underberg Building stares out at Rat- The Brooklyn Papers ner’s Atlantic Center and Atlantic Terminal malls — two very 20th-century projects that typify Ratner’s Bruce Ratner’s demolition of buildings prior work in Downtown Brooklyn. within the Atlantic Yards footprint has begun Forever looming over Atlantic Avenue’s traffic, Hindy: — albeit one brick at a time. the Underberg Building had a cult status among nos- On Wednesday, workers started dismantling the talgia buffs and preservationists who appreciated the first of six Ratner-owned buildings in the area of his contrast between its moody geometric outline and proposed arena for the Nets. malls’ bright flags. The first to fall will be a forlorn former food sup- On March 23, project opponents will return to I’m all in ply building at the intersection of Pacific and At- Manhattan Supreme Court to appeal last month’s lantic avenues long known by the name stenciled ruling that paved the way for the demolition. across its back and sides: Samuel Underberg. Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) had By Gersh Kuntzman The building is too old to go down by wrecking challenged Ratner’s right to take down the building The Brooklyn Papers ball, according to demolition workers at the site, so before winning state approval for his project. DDDB Let the boycott really begin! it will be torn down brick by brick. argued that by razing the building, the developer was Opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards A moody work of 19th-century architecture im- actually causing the very neighborhood blight that is project renewed their call for a boycott of Brook- mortalized in ’s novel “Fortress of See ARENA on page 4 lyn Brewery beer after owner Steve Hindy offi- cially declared himself in favor of the $3.5-billion mega-development this week. Hindy had toured the site of the project last week with members of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, who hoped to persuade him that Rat- ner’s plan was out-of-scale with the surrounding community. But after the fact-finding mission, the beer meister — who last week said he supported bringing the Ratner-owned New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn, yet was neutral on the larger project — had the opposite reaction: “After meeting with the opposition and touring the site, we are more than ever convinced that the Atlantic Yards project is good for Brooklyn,” Hindy told The Brooklyn Papers. “Not only will it bring a professional basketball team, it also will bring much-needed affordable housing, jobs and economic development to downtown Brooklyn.” Hindy said he felt the need to clarify his posi- Callan / Tom Callan / Tom tion after critics complained that no self-respect- ing Brooklynite could support bringing the Nets to the borough, yet not have a position on the rest of the Atlantic Yards project. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn His brewmaster, Garrett Oliver, had taken just Papers The Brooklyn such a position last month in what he believed brewmaster Garrett Oliver (left) and Steve Hindy in 2000. Oliver sent an email The Underberg Building, which is being torn down by owner Bruce Ratner, has stood near the in- See HINDY on page 4 in which he said that he — unlike his boss Hindy — opposes Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. tersection of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues for a century. 2 BWN THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • (718) 834-9350 March 11, 2006 Everybody’s got a plan for future of Red Hook By Ariella Cohen men, without a cargo port. proposal, complaining about manufactur- ABORTION DENTISTS The Brooklyn Papers The Red Hook Container Port is operat- ers who stink up the neighborhood with ed by American Stevedoring, whose lease open garbage pits and illegal dumping. There are a whole lot of contendas will not be renewed when it expires next But the largest landowners on the wa- on the waterfront in Red Hook. year, according to city officials who cited terfront — Tom Fox, who keeps his New ––––––––– Prosthetically Driven Alternative visions for the future of the a need to expand the cruise ship terminal York Water Taxis at the Erie Basin; Greg hardscrabble neighborhood faced off this now under construction at the foot of Pio- O’Connell, now building a mixed-use de- Jeff C. Implant Dental Practice week, as Mayor Bloomberg’s vision for neer Street. velopment that will include Fairway near PAVILION with Periodontics the borough’s last working waterfront came Yassky said he urged the city to relocate the lofts he rents to artists; and American Strachan, DDS under fire. the container port to Sunset Park — but Stevedoring spokesman Matt Yates — as its Core Councilman (D-Brook- such a plan is not in the works. strongly supported the policy as a safe- at the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Brooklyn 189 Montague Street • Implants Surgically Placed and Restored lyn Heights) criticized Bloomberg for fa- Instead of keeping a working pier in guard for industrial tenants. 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DENTISTRY formed dispatch service [and] All proposals must take a dedicated management into account the Port Authori- –– 245 –– SKIN CARE staff” — another requirement ty’s “cut”: $2 per car or $250 between Carroll & Garfield When was YOUR that many Brooklyn cab cus- per ship, whichever is greater. tomers say does not exist in — Gersh Kuntzman • Emergency Service Dr. Andrew Warshaw last physical? • Pediatric Dentistry Dr. Sari Rosenwein 3AFETY Anahid Nisanian, MD • Root Canal Therapy Dr. Doug Pollack LEGAL NOTICES • Implant Restorations Andras Fenyves, MD RELIGIOUS Rossana Dilmanian, MD SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS. MORT- • Laminates • Bleaching Hours by Appointment 2ESULTS GAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, • White Fillings • Bonding Sat. & Eve. Available INC., Plaintiff against THERESA HAYES, et al SERVICES Primary Care Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of • Fluoride • Sealants Free Consultation Internal Medicine Foreclosure and Sale entered February 9, 2006. 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The Brooklyn Papers suspect entered NYC Tran- West Ninth Street, between Jewels by sit’s management offices on 3:30 and 6 am. Inside, they 2 women slain Amember of the Bloods POLICE BLOTTER Livingston Street, near Jay riffled through the desk draw- gang beat a man who re- Street, around 1:30 pm, ers and made a mess, but did- on Classon Av fused to turn over $1 on n’t take anything, police said. dressed in a bus-driver’s uni- The Brooklyn Papers March 3, police said. evidence of gang member- $500 in various purchases form and bearing a fake tran- Youth robbed The 19-year-old approached ship, including his red and from a 59-year-old woman in The 88th Precinct, which Satnick sit shield, identification card Good sense couldn’t get his 50-year-old victim inside black beads and literature the seconds that it took for her saw only one murder in all and office key. him out of everything. the Hoyt/Schermerhorn sub- about membership in the to zip her coat and pull on her has moved into our new location Employees saw behind the Police said a 17-year-old of 2005, has already logged way station, around 7:30 pm. gang. gloves outside Atlantic Termi- disguise and contacted cops, boy lost his cash and cell- three this year, as a result of He asked for a buck, but the Sundries snatched nal mall. who later arrested the man. the brutal slaying of two victim, a Queens man, said no, Buttoning up one’s coat is phone to a thug who followed Targets transit Shipping shop hit him through the Hoyt/Scher- women in a Classon Aven- 187 State Street prompting the suspect to punch good for the health. But it ue warehouse this week. Cops nabbed a man posing Burglars smashed the glass merhorn subway station and Off Court St. – formerly Alex’s shoe repair shop him in the face, giving him a cost one Brooklyn woman The 23-year-old son of one as a bus driver to try to scam door at a Court Street store attacked him on the G train af- swollen, bloody lip. dearly last week. of the victims discovered the free subway rides. ter school on March 2. Police arrested the teen on Police said someone took a early on March 2, police said. two bodies in a back bedroom robbery charges and collected shopping cart with more than Police said the 43-year-old The vandals busted in, near While the youth waited for We offer quality jewelry, precision timepieces a train, the thief approached inside the industrial building, and snatched his cellphone. off Myrtle Avenue, around 5 and fine giftware at prices to fit every budget When the thug asked, “Are pm on March 5, police said. you ready to brawl for it?” the Both woman — who were teenager responded, “No,” and alive at least until 10 pm the FREE Lay-a-Way Plan On All Purchases Police nab B’klyn Bridge mugger boarded a Smith/Ninth Street- night before — were stabbed bound G, police said. But that multiple times in the head and didn’t stop the thief, who fol- body. The Brooklyn Papers followed him onto the footpath thief approached and said, “Be er attacks on victims crossing lowed him onto the subway The distressed son found JEWELS BY SATNICK, LTD. Police believe they’ve near Adams and Prospect quiet. Do you have any mon- the span during February. A 27- and asked for money. his mother, Lan Juan Chen, • 187 State Street (off Court St.) • (718) 852-1421 streets, around 11:20 pm, where ey?” She turned over $40, but year-old woman lost her iPod to nabbed the man wanted in a When the victim refused, 41, face down in a pool of former location of Alex’s Shoe Repair he robbed a 32-year-old wom- it didn’t satisfy the thug. When a thief with the same descrip- he pulled out a sharp object, blood. Xiu Fang Jiang, 45, series of late-winter rob- an crossing from Manhattan. he asked, “What else do you tion, during a Feb. 14 mugging. was found face down on a The only certified master watchmaker in the 5 boroughs of NYC beries that plagued pedestri- forced the weapon on the “This was a really good ar- have?” she offered her iPod. And on Feb. 7, the suspect teenager and insisted, “I know nearby bed, police said. Serving the community for over 46 years ans on the . rest for us,” a police source He took both and fled, but struck twice — just moments you have money.” — Lilo H. Stainton Officers with the 84th said, noting that cops had been didn’t get far. Police arrested apart, cops said. He stole $10 The victim did, and turned Precinct arrested the 21-year- tracking the crook for over a him there and recovered both and a Metrocard from a 23-year- over $136 before the thief fled old suspect after they caught month, with extra patrols sta- the cash and the popular digi- old woman around 8:45 pm, at Carroll Street. him in the act on March 3. tioned near the fabled tourist tal music player. then attacked a 38-year-old fe- Health or wealth? Cops saw someone who re- attraction. Sources said it’s the same male jogger five minutes later, A burglar seeking good Saint Patrick’s Day sembled the bridge suspect and The latest victim said the man wanted in at least three oth- netting a total of $3. — Stainton health and vitality — or may- be just cash — came away Both All Day and Night: Friday, March 17th empty-handed from a Court LEGAL NOTICES Street job on March 4. A day of Irish Music • Piano Playing • Our 5th Anniversary Celebration! Police were called to the vi- LEGAL NOTICE OF TINROCKET, LLC: Notice of Brooklyn, NY, on March 30, 2006 at 3:00 p.m., tamin store, near Remsen ,iVÞVi`Ê*>«iÀà formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). premises known as 790 Quicy Street, NY. All that ON STAGE: Direct from Belfast, ‘CAVA’, Fiddling from 5:30-8:30 pm Art. of Org. filed with Sec. of State NY (“SSNY”): certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the Street, at 2:20 am to find the January 4, 2006. Office Location: Kings County. buildings and improvements thereon erected, sit- 6i}iÌ>LiÊ>˜` SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom uate, lying and being in the County of Kings and front door smashed and the VARIETY OF BEERS: 7iÊ*Àˆ˜ÌÊ-ÌÕvv -œÞʘŽÃ process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail State of New York, Section 6, Block 1632 and Lot cash register was broken open. 16 in Bottles and copy of any process to the LLC Attn. Thomas A. 32. Approximate amount of Judgment O’Rourke, Bodner & O’Rourke, 425 Broadhollow $595,031.21 plus interest and costs. Premises will The 34-year-old owner lat- 20 on Tap i“ˆV>‡ÀiiÊ Rd., Melville, N.Y. 11747. Purpose: Any lawful be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment er said nothing was missing. 60ft. Full Service Bar *Àœ`ÕV̈œ˜ activity. BP08-13 Index #19747/05. Annalise Cottone, Referee. Berkman, Henoch, Peterson & Peddy, P.C., 100 Caddy clips cop State University of New York. Notice to Bidders. Garden City Plaza, Garden City, New York 11530, The State University of New York Downstate Attorneys for Plaintiff. FG08-11 A Cadillac driver nearly ran Medical Center will receive sealed Proposals for down a cop during a routine Project No. 04-108 Titled: Central Sterile Services. NOTICE OF SALE. SUPREME COURT: KINGS #SPDIVSFT Renovations until 2:00 p.m. Local Time on April COUNTY. NYCTL 2004-A TRUST, et al, Plaintiff(s) March 3 traffic stop and is SPMMJOH!QSFTT 13, 2006 at Basic Sciences Building, Room # 1-15, vs. MINISTRY OF CHRIST CHURCH, INC., et al, now facing charges of assault- where such proposals will be publicly opened and Defendant(s). Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, >˜Êi˜ÛˆÀœ˜“i˜Ì>Þ‡vÀˆi˜`Þ 1PTUDBSET read aloud. All work on this Contract is to be com- ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., One Old Country ing an officer, police said. LœṎµÕiÊ«Àˆ˜ÌÊ œÕÃi pleted within 270 calendar days starting ten (10) Road, Suite 200, Carle Place NY 11514 (516) 741- Police had tried to pull over Join us for $BUBMPHT calendar days after the contract approval date of 2585. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and the New York State Comptroller. Work to include sale entered herein on or about February 3, 2006, the 41-year-old driver near the this Special Irish .BHB[JOFT electrical and plumbing trades under Wick’s Law: I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at corner of and Delight: 5 Electrical distribution, light fixtures, outlets, fire room #261 in the courthouse, of the Supreme Lafayette Avenue, at 9:30 pm. alarm, sprinklers, sinks, relocation of existing ster- Court of the State of New York, County of Kings, Corned Beef and Cabbage, ' .BSLFUJOH ilizers, furnish and install new equipment. The con- located at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York But instead of pulling over, $PMMBUFSBM tractor must have (5) years of recent hospital expe- 11201. On March 30, 2006 at 3:00 PM. Premises the driver floored the gas ped- Chef’s Special Dessert XXXSPMMJOHQSFTTDPN rience and must have done a similar project with a known as 465 Fenimore Street, Brooklyn, New & 2 Pints of Draft Beer value of 50% of their total bid. Bidding and York 11203. Block: 04810 Lot: 0052. As more par- al and tried to ram the officer, <%FOUPO1MBDF1BSL4MPQF#SPPLMZO> &UD Contract Documents may be examined free of ticularly described in the judgment of foreclosure Only charge at the campus and at: Site (SUNY Campus) and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and con- police said. The officer injured 95 Plan Rooms (Offices that apply from Form UF-9 - ditions contained in said judgment and terms of his hand as he swung at the $14 i.e., Brown’s Letter, Inc., Dodge Reports) sale. Approximate amount of judgment driver’s side window as the Complete sets of Contract Documents for bidding $43,535.97 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. may be obtained from: Patrick Paez, Downstate 11034/05. Stephen Vincent Barbaro, Esq., REFER- vehicle sped by. Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, EE. BH09-12 Despite his distress, the cop NY 11203 (718) 270-3060, or the Consultant. For Reservations and Information: (718) 625-9352 LOW ENERGY? Section 143 of the State Finance Law requires pay- NOTICE OF SALE. SUPREME COURT: KINGS caught enough of the license ment of a deposit to receive these documents. COUNTY. NYCTL 2004-A TRUST, Plaintiff(s) vs. MIN- plate for police to track the car, 66 Water Street • DUMBO Brooklyn Accordingly, a deposit check of $50.00, made ISTRY OF CHRIST CHURCH, INC., Defendant(s). At- payable to Downstate Medical Center is required. torney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & AS- and the driver was later arrested. See our menu at www.waterstreetrestaurant.com Deposits less than $50.00 are nonrefundable. Bids SOCIATES, P.C., One Old Country Road, Suite 200, — Stainton must be submitted in duplicate in accordance with Carle Place NY 11514 (516) 741-2585. Pursuant to the instructions contained in the Information for judgment of foreclosure and sale entered herein on Bidders. Security will be required for each bid in or about February 3, 2006, I will sell at Public Auc- an amount not less than five (5) percent of the tion to the highest bidder at room #261 in the court- Total Bid. It is the policy of the State of New York house, of the Supreme Court of the State of New and the State University of New York to encourage York, County of Kings, located at 360 Adams minority business enterprise participation in this Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201. On March 30, project by contractors, subcontractors and suppli- 2006 at 3:00 PM. Premises known as 465 Fenimore ers, and all bidders are expected to cooperate in Street, Brooklyn, New York 11203. Block: 04810 implementing this policy. Contracted personnel Lot: 0052. As more particularly described in the judg- must meet JCAHO Accreditation requirements. ment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the The State University of New York reserves the terms and conditions contained in said judgment Dr. John Guo right to reject any or all bids. BP10 and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment Introducing $43,535.97 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. NOTICE OF SALE. SUPREME COURT: KINGS 11034/05. Stephen Vincent Barbaro, Esq., REFER- COUNTY. MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRA- EE. BP08-11 Ruyi Bodywork of Brooklyn TION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE AND MORTGAGEE OF RECORD AND DEUTSCHE SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS. Index No.: 29189/05. Treatment for: BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS D/O/F: 3/2/06. Borough: Brooklyn. Block: 05494 TRUSTEE, Plaintiff(s) vs. AUDRA WYLLIE A/K/A Section: Lot: 0048. SUPREME COURT OF THE Acupuncture • Herbal Medicine • Acupressure AUDRA BUCKMIRE, et al, Defendant(s). Attorney STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS. Shiatsu • Qi Gon Massage • Foot Reflexology (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCI- NYCTL 2004-A TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW ATES, P.C., 152 Islip Avenue, Suite 18, Islip NY YORK, AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODI- 11751 (631)-224-4678. Pursuant to judgment of AN FOR THE NYCTL 2004-A TRUST, Plaintiffs, - 234 Court St. (near Baltic St.) 718-643-6892 foreclosure and sale entered herein on or about against- MILTON FISCHER; if living, or if either or February 3, 2006, I will sell at Public Auction to all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, the highest bidder at Room 261 of Kings County next of kin, distributees, executors, administra- Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, tors, assignees, lienors and generally all persons New York 11201. On April 6, 2006 at 3:00 PM. having or claiming under, by or through said Premises known as 1159 East 88th Street, Defendants by purchase, inheritance, lien or oth- Brooklyn, New York 11236. ALL that certain plot, erwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in premises described in the complaint herein, and Loose the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City the respective husbands, wives, widow or widow- and State of New York. Block: 8054 Lot: 17. As ers of them, if any, all of whose names are more particularly described in the judgment of unknown to plaintiffs; WILLIAM VOLPE; JOSEPH foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the EDELL; LINDA EDELL;NEW YORK CITY ENVI- Dentures? terms and conditions contained in said judgment RONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; UNITED and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judg- STATES OF AMERICA INTERNAL REVENUE SER- ment $198,471.29 plus interest and costs. INDEX VICE; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICA- NO. 18175/2005. Ralph Casella, Esq., REFEREE. TION BUREAU; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF GO AHEAD.... BH09-12 NEW YORK; OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOE No. 1” through “JOHN DOE No. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW 100” inclusive, the name of the last 100 defen- Eat what you want! YORK, COUNTY OF KINGS. Index No. 30198/05 dants being fictitious, the true names of said SUMMONS: Plaintiff designates Kings County as defendants being unknown to plaintiffs, it being the place of trial. Venue is based upon the coun- Visit Dr. Tony Farha in the morning, intended to designate fee owners, tenants or ty in which the premises is situated. UNICA REAL- occupants of the liened premises and/or persons have the “Mini-Implant System” TY CORP., Plaintiff, - against - ANTONI MIEJSKI or parties having or claiming an interest in or a and TERESA MIEJSKI, Defendants. FOR AN placed in less than two hours, lien upon the liened premises, if the aforesaid ORDER DISCHARGING OF RECORD CERTAIN individual defendants are living, and if any or all of then go out and enjoy your MORTGAGES OF RECORD ON REAL PROPERTY said individual defendants be dead, their heirs at LOCATED AT 1431-35 BUSHWICK AVENUE, law, next of kin, distributees, executors, adminis- favorite lunch. No more messy adhesive or pastes. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. TO THE ABOVE trators, trustees, committees, devisees, legatees, NAMED Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUM- and assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in As recently demonstrated by Dr. Tony MONED to answer the complaint in this action interest of them and generally all persons having and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the com- on ABC & Fox News or claiming under, by, through, or against the said plaint is not served with this summons, to serve a defendants named as a class, of any right, title, or notice of appearance on the attorneys for the interest in or lien upon the premises described in Plaintiff within 20 days after the service of this the complaint herein, Defendants. TO THE summons, exclusive of the day of service (or with- ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HERE- in 30 days after service is complete if this sum- BY SUMMONED to answer the Amended Com- mons is not personally delivered to you within the • This advanced system is FDA-Approved. plaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your State of New York). In case of your failure to Answer, or, if the Amended Complaint is not • It is a one-step, non-surgical procedure. appear or answer, judgment will be taken against served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve you by default for the relief demanded in the a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiffs’ • No sutures, nor the typical months of healing. complaint. Dated: September 27, 2005. Michael Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service • No pain or discomfort. L. Kaplan, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff, 2911 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, New York 11229. (718) 377- of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the • Affordable (Payment Plans 0600. To the above named defendant: the fore- day of service, where service is made by delivery going summons is served upon you by publica- upon you personally within the State, or within available and Insurance coverage) tion, pursuant to an order of Hon. Marsha L. thirty (30) days after completion of service where Steznhardt, Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings service is made in any other manner, and in case Dr. Tony is recognized County, dated Feb. 7, 2006, and filed with sup- of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief as a Professor of the Mini Dental Implant. porting papers in the Kings County Clerks Office. Nature of this action and relief sought is for an demanded in the Amended Complaint. YOU ARE order discharging of record certain mortgages on HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE real property located at 1431-1435 Bushwick ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY *ONLY $495 Call today for your FREE Consultation Ave., B’klyn, N.Y., section 11, Block 3445, Lots INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR 1&2 on the tax map of Kings county, all those cer- THE PURPOSE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFEN- CELEBRATE OUR BROOKLYN HEIGHTS OPENING FOR DENTURE! tain pieces or parcels of land, together with any DANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Limited Time Offer 718-833-6895 improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Borough of B’klyn, County of Kings, City and Honorable Abraham Gerges of the Supreme *with a puchase of MDI www.oraldentalcare.com State of N.Y., designated on the tax map of the Court of the State of New York, signed on City of N.Y. for the Borough of B’klyn, as said tax February 2, 2006, and filed with supporting map was on Lot 1 - Jan. 17, 1978, Lot 2-May 27, papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of 1981. Michael L. Kaplan, Atty. for Plaintiff. KINGS, State of New York. The nature of this CG09-12 action is to foreclose a tax lien certificate record- $675 ed against said premises. Said premises being NOTICE OF SALE. SUPREME COURT; COUNTY known as and by 1856 55th Street, Brooklyn, New FOR 7 MONTHS + MARCH FREE OF KINGS; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGIS- York 11204, which is more fully described as TRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR Block: 05494; Lot: 0048. Dated: February 24, LAST DAYS! OFFER ENDS MARCH 31 SUNTRUST MORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, vs. GUY 2006. Carle Place, New York. Caren Bailey, Esq., BAILEY, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a judg- ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Almost 8 MONTHS of Boxing, Cardio, Dance, Squash, Racquetball, Conditioning, Aquatics, ment of foreclosure and sale duly filed on Attorneys for Plaintiffs, One Old Country Road, February 9, 2006, I, the undersigned referee will Suite 200, Carle Place, NY 11514, (516) 741-2585, Gymnastics, Martial Arts, Billiards, Fencing, Softball, Wallyball, and Junior Sports. sell at public auction at the Kings County (516) 470-0973 Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Room 261, BP10-13 This special Membership expires November 1, 2006. Membership at and LI Clubs is only $650. NEED A RIDE? Membership at all Clubs, including Brooklyn Heights, Metrotech, and , is only $675. 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By Ariella Cohen The Brooklyn Papers Bruce Ratner has finalized a long-standing promise that Interior his $3.5-billion arena and residential project would be linked to 600-1,000 below-market-rate condo units. designers But the question is where. vote Under Ratner’s agreement with the housing group ACORN, the units can be built anywhere in Brooklyn — and that has opponents Benjamin screaming that the project would do nothing to solve the ghettoiza- tion of Brooklyn. Moore “We shouldn’t be segregating homeowners by class,” said Coun- cilwoman (D-Prospect Heights). #1 Paint ACORN says that as long as the developer comes through with his promise to include 2,500 units of affordable rentals in the 8,300-unit Atlantic Yards site, the organization won’t tell him where to put the low-cost condos. “No one is saying that they won’t be on-site,” said ACORN spokesman Jonathan Rosen. “We have a preference, but in the end of the day we want to insure a mix of families living together in Brook- lyn.” Advocates say that the moderately priced units should be built within the development so that lower-income families could get a sta- We AppreciateYour Business! ble foothold in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Located else- where, the affordable condos would still ease the borough’s shortage 85 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn of affordable housing, but not tackle the issue of segregation, whether 10% by race or class. 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HINDY Come home to Continued from page 1 Bay Ridge Jewish Center was a private email exchange with a disgruntled Brooklyn lager lov- WEEKLY EVENTS Saturday, March 11, following Shabbat Service er. The Meaning Beyond the Masks: How to But that was no private email Shabbat Services (Mar) approach Purim as an adult, and how to make exchange: An anti-project group, Fridays at 6:00pm. it enjoyable for children. Fans for Fair Play, leaked the e- 5:30pm Study Session with mail to The Papers, which broke Sunday, March 12, Noon to 2:00pm Rabbi Kelber: Learn about Purim Carnival! Games, fun, prizes! Free admission the “boycott” story last month. the Kabbalat Shabbat “I live in the area and personal- (Friday evening) service. Monday, March 13, 6:30pm ly oppose the project,” Oliver, a Chapel (enter 81st St.) Purim Service and Megillah Reading resident of Cobble Hill, wrote in the email. He did say that he sup- Saturdays at 9:00am. Friday, March 17, 6:00pm ported the arena, “if done right.” Main Sanctuary Family Shabbat Service and Potluck Dinner Hindy’s delectable lagers, Hebrew School, Sunday, March 19, Noon to 2:00pm stouts, pilsners and ales had be- ages 4 through 18 Sisterhood Spring Fling come the target of the boycott af- Saturdays, 9:15 to 11:45am. ter he invited team officials and Sunday, April 2, 11:00am to 3:00pm Borough President Markowitz to “Art Wednesdays,” Open House: “Have You Ever Wondered...” watch a Nets game and quaff his 4:00 to 5:30pm. Learn about all things Jewish, and all about Bay Ridge products at his Williamsburg Jewish Center. Free admission and refreshments. brewery last month. Rabbi’s Torah Study “We supported the boycott Tuesdays at 6:00pm. Saturdays, March 25 and April 1, 8:00pm from the start, but more so now Sundays, March 26 and April 2, 5:00pm that he said he supports the proj- Challah Baking and Ridge Players Present: Steel Magnolias Torah Academy Tickets $13 in advance, $15 at the door ect, despite our attempt to educate Thursdays at 6:00pm. him about its problems,” said Thursday, April 13 Daniel Goldstein of Develop Hebrew Reading Class Passover Community Seder (call for details) Don’t Destroy. (beginners) Scott Turner, whose Fans for Thursdays at 6:30pm. Thursday, April 13 and Friday, April 14, 9:00am Fair Play Web site began the Passover Services “Think Before You Drink” cam- 405 81st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11209 718 836 3103 [email protected] paign, echoed Goldstein, saying, “It’s unfortunate that Steve Hindy supports a project that will make Brooklyn more generic.” Hindy’s announcement comes URBAN VIEW REALTY just days after Fans for Fair Play “Serving Brooklyn’s Brownstone and Waterfront Communities” released the “Oliver Transcript.” The brewmaster had strayed from the company’s existing line Let our courteous and in the exchange with angry beer drinker, Ian McLaughlin, who had emailed Oliver that he would knowledgeable agents join the boycott because of the

©2006 ACS company’s “support of Bruce help you Ratner’s stupid arena project.” Most brewmasters would’ve hit delete and then checked the • Sell your home temperature on the primary fer- menter. But Oliver did what • Buy your home Brooklynites have always done: • Find a rental Today, about half of the 18,040 New York City he gave his opinion. But talking out of turn got Oliver into hot children in foster care are teenagers. Many live wort with his boss. LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED “He went too far and he has in group homes, but what they really need are apologized to me about it pro- www.urbanviewrealty.com fusely,” Hindy said. loving families. These young adults are looking for But he blamed McLaughlin for “hooking Garrett into” the e-mail 164 Fifth Avenue at Lincoln Place (718) 398-2900 guidance and stability... a role model just like you. exchange. “I told Fans for Fair Play that they were ridiculous to claim [Garrett] spoke for the Sadly, without a permanent connection to an brewery. I said, ‘If you want to do THE PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY that, I’ll put you in touch with our adult, many will be left on their own to care for warehouse manager, too.’ Garrett REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS was speaking for himself.” FOR-HIRE CAR SERVICE FOR THE BROOKLYN CRUISE themselves. Each teen needs someone to appreciate Not that he’ll do much of that TERMINAL LOCATED AT PIER 11 AND PIER 12 anymore, Hindy said, deflecting a who they are today and help them develop into request to interview Oliver. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is seeking Requests for Proposals Despite the Fans for Fair Play (RFP) from qualified firms to provide a For-Hire Car service for the Brooklyn Cruise the person they can become. call for a boycott, Brooklyn Lager Terminal located at Pier 11 and Pier 12 in Brooklyn. It is the intension of the Port is still being sold at Freddy’s Bar, Authority to have this service in place by April 15, 2006. which is to the anti-Atlantic Yard If you can provide a loving, supportive environment, side what Rick’s Place was to ex- A pre-proposal meeting is scheduled for March 15, at 10:00 AM. Interested parties iles in Casablanca. shall RSVP to Michael Deveney at 718-330-2977 no later than noon of March 14, a home with commitment, tolerance, patience 2006 to confirm their attendance and/ or receive traveling directions. Two photo IDS are required to attend this meeting. and love, then you can enjoy one of life's most This document can be obtained online under the collective number 9356 at rewarding experiences. www.panynj.info. It is currently anticipated that proposals shall be due no later than 2:00 PM on March 22, 2006. Send proposals to The Port Authority of New ARENA York and New Jersey, Purchasing Services Division, Procurement Department, Open your heart and home... become a foster Continued from page 1 One Madison Ave, 7th floor, New York, NY 10010. required before the state can exer- parent for a teen. cise its power to seize property via eminent domain. The developer had argued that the Underberg Uterine Fibroid Embolization, or UFE, Building, and five others, was in danger of imminent collapse. is a minimally invasive procedure that At intersection of Flatbush, At- relieves symptoms by blocking the lantic and Fifth avenues, opponents blood supply to fibroids and causing of the project reminded passing them to shrink. Available for over ten pedestrians that Atlantic Yards is not a done deal, demolition or no years and used in more than 40,000 demolition. procedures worldwide, UFE is an “This is not the beginning of the effective, safe, and proven treatment project,” said DDDB spokesman option for symptomatic fibroids. Daniel Goldstein. “Until they have approval, their project is nothing Control Your Fibroids but a proposal.” Without Surgery? If you suffer from fibroids, But Ratner is seeking to create a ask your doctor about UFE. perception that the project is mov- ing forward, one building at a time. 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The most common complications associated with hysterectomy are vaginitis, drug reactions, and urinary tract infections, with some more serious complications Goldstein is one of two condo reported after 30 days including pneumonia, bowel injury, vaginal cuff herniation, and recurrent unit owners who have not sold to bleeding from the vaginal stump. ©2005 BioSphere Medical, Inc. All rights reserved. Ratner. March 11, 2006 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • (718) 834-9350 PSZ 3 It’s here! Man thwarts 8th Spring/Summer PURIM 2006 Big Book

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BOOKS Fits to a tee Gowanus do-it-yourselfer Megan Nicolay has written a book illustrating 108 ways to be on the cutting edge of fashion — cheaply. It only takes an old T-shirt — everyone has ’em from basketball tournaments and bar mitzvahs, as- sures Nicolay — and a pair of sharp scissors to get engrossed in her new manual, “Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt.” The 26-year- old jersey girl has created easy-to- emulate patterns for anything from a scoop neck tee to a wedding dress made from seven white Ts (pictured). (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings March 11, 2006 Nicolay says that T-shirt fabric is so versatile and comfortable, that it was an obvious choice for a bridal gown. “I do hope that someone takes me up on wearing Round it for their special day,” says the au- thor. “Think about how much money people would save; it would be the ultimate budget wedding! And she’ll learn new techniques and will have cre- Robbins ated something she’ll feel proud to wear.” Nicolay has attracted a following of women who enjoy customizing their old T-shirts into of-the-mo- ment minis and tank tops. Marine Park’s industry insider on “Now, the fashion trends are going towards this rough-edged, do-it-yourself look,” she said, ac- knowledging that Jennifer Beals’s character in piracy, ‘Shaggy Dog’ & Murphy “Flashdance” was the first to sport it. “It’s one thing for somebody to compliment you on an outfit By Karen Butler ing to a movie the first time.” you put together, and entirely different when you for The Brooklyn Papers The executive producer of “Smallville,” can say, ‘Thanks, I made it myself.’ You’re essen- “One Tree Hill,” “What I Like About You,” tially designing your own label.” hile Hollywood studios lament over “The Amanda Show,” “The Nick Cannon For those new to making clothing, Nicolay as- diminished box-office receipts due to Show” and “Kenan and Kel” warns that the il- sures that one-third of the book’s ideas are no-sew. Wchanging viewing patterns, Brooklyn- legal recording and distribution of movies is the In addition to being an inexpensive way to up- born filmmaker and TV producer Brian Rob- biggest problem the film industry faces today. date a wardrobe, hosting a Tee Party is a fun way to bins says he worries that technology, piracy “It scares me,” confided Robbins. “The tech- spend time with friends — that’s considerably less and new DVD release strategies are going to nology really feels like we have to be really expensive than a Tupperware or Party Lite event — translate into even fewer people watching careful. It’s all about piracy. It’s not about says Nicolay. movies on the big-screen. how many DVDs will you “Just get a group of people together — drinking The Marine Park native and father of two sell versus how many ice tea or Long Island Iced Teas to keep with the says he understands that the high costs of tick- tickets will you sell. theme. Everyone’s making something with their ets and snack-bar trips scare off some moviego- It’s all about how peo- hands, and at the end of the day, they have a perfect ers, particularly ones with families, who think ple are going to steal it. party favor — a garment they can wear and they they can watch a flick more cheaply and conve- Once they start stealing know they’ll like,” said Nicolay. niently if they wait a couple of months for it to movies on a big level, “It’s in the spirit of doing things yourself and

come out on DVD — or buy a bootlegged once the compression Joseph Lederer making things yourself and empowering yourself, copy on the street even sooner. gets really quick and and being able to do it as a community,” she says. But Robbins also argues that there is no easy, once it gets over the Teacher’s pet: (Clockwise “It brings together like-minded individuals to cre- way to duplicate the experience of watching Internet and downloaded from bottom left) On the ate one-of-a-kind, wearable art.” a comedy with an audience of strangers and fast, the movie industry is set of “Shaggy Dog” are Megan Nicolay will kick off her book tour sharing their laughter or viewing an action- in big trouble.” director Brian Robbins with a demonstration from her book “Genera- adventure flick and enjoying the spectacular Pointing to the music in- with Park Slope actress tion T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt” at the special effects on an enormous screen. dustry and how it had to Zena Grey and actor Park Slope Barnes & Noble (267 Seventh Ave. “I truly fear that the whole digital world change to meet the listening Mark Forbes. Robbins at Sixth Street) on March 15 at 7:30 pm. Bring that we’re living in right now in our business, and buying habits of its con- a T-shirt or wear one of your own creations. For first earned fame as Eric in the TV the movie business, could really become like sumers, Robbins notes there information, call (718) 832-9066. the record business and kill it,” “The Shaggy is no comparison between the series “Head of the Class,” at left. (At — Lisa J. Curtis Dog” director and former “Head of the number of songs that get legally downloaded right) and Robert Downey Jr. Class” hunk — remember Eric? — told re- from the Internet now and the quantity of al- in a scene from “Shaggy Dog.”

porters in Manhattan recently. bums record companies used to sell. Joseph Lederer Asked if Robbins would want to buy a theater chain now, he confesses, “No,” but ‘Dog’ days “It’s a classic title,” Robbins said. “It’s re- Gump. And one day on the playground, this BOOKS adds: “You can’t deny that seeing a movie — One film that benefits from being seen in a ally an honor for me to be involved in some- girl comes and rescues him and she’s this big, especially one like ‘The Incredibles’ — on theater with lots of other laughing people is thing like this that could actually have a long, mean girl. They become boyfriend and girl- the big screen, that experience is undeniable. “The Shaggy Dog,” Robbins’s new family long life.” friend, and they go to high school together and I don’t care how big your plasma screen is or comedy about an overworked deputy district- Robbins says he liked the challenge of lay- they end up getting married and she just grows Vaudeville now how many speakers you have at home. It’s attorney (Tim Allen), who turns into a friend- ering the story with humor that would appeal into this mean, nasty, abusive woman to Nor- not the same.” ly, bearded collie. to both kids and their parents. One suggestion bit. And then Kate, the girl from the orphan- Williamsburg resident Trav S.D., author of “No In discussing the industry-wide controver- It’s not all bad news, though. From his new he ruled out early on was having Allen’s dog age, comes back to town, and [Norbit] realizes Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book that sy over the proposed “day and date” practice canine point of view, the DA sees how he has character really talking. Instead, the dog barks that was the girl of his dreams and that’s who Made Vaudeville Famous,” will share his consid- of simultaneously releasing a movie in the- been neglecting his wife (Kristin Davis) and and only the audience hears what Allen is he should have been with. erable expertise at the ’s aters and on DVD, the 42-year-old filmmak- two teen-age children (Spencer Breslin and thinking and saying. “The hook is Eddie plays both parts: Norbit Central branch on March 11 at 4 pm. er admits he is “torn.” Park Slope’s Zena Grey). “I thought this movie had a classic idea like and [the evil wife].” The comedian and singer-songwriter, who has “Let’s say, I went to see ‘Madagascar’ with A man who started out making TV shows a ‘Liar, Liar,’ or a ‘Mrs Doubtfire,’” Robbins For Robbins, working with his fellow performed at DUMBO’s Halcyon and Williams- my boys,” Robbins said of last year’s animated and movies for young people long before he said. “I wanted to make, as much as it’s a kids’ Brooklynite on a big movie like “Norbit” is a burg’s The Brick and Galapagos, will talk about blockbuster, featuring the voices of Chris Rock had kids of his own, Robbins says his work movie, I felt it’s a family movie. It’s a genera- dream come true. the state of modern vaudeville in Brooklyn. and Ben Stiller. takes on new meaning now that his family tional movie, and I feel like a talking-animal “I have been such a fan of Eddie’s for so He’ll be joined by an ar- “If I could go to the movie and buy the DVD can watch and enjoy them. movie would become something else, would long,” he said. “I was a kid in Brooklyn watch- ray of the borough’s on the way out, I would buy it,” he explained. “Now that I have two young boys and my become a little more juvenile.” ing ‘’ before I was involved misfits, including Cirkus “But I wouldn’t go back. I probably wouldn’t life revolves around the Disney Channel and even in any of this, and I saw this guy who was Amok’s Jennifer Miller, go back and see it again, because we had the Nickelodeon and looking for a movie to see Teaming up with Eddie amazing and I memorized every line from the Bindlestiff Family DVD. But a movie like ‘Madagascar,’ we went every single weekend, it’s fun to be able to Next up for Robbins is directing Bushwick every sketch. So, the opportunity to do a script Cirkus, hula hoop to see three times in the movie theater and make a movie that your kids can own and the native Eddie Murphy in “Norbit,” a live-action that I think is as good as ‘Norbit’ and then to di- artiste Miss Saturn and bought the DVD once already, and then it will school community that you are involved with “Shrek-like” fairy tale, which starts out in an or- rect Eddie is an opportunity I can’t pass up.” more. probably get scratched, and I’ll end up owning can own,” said the Los Angeles resident. phanage where Murphy’s character is a child Although he’s concerned about the movie In his book, Trav SD eight copies of it. So, I would buy it ‘day and The director of “Varsity Blues,” “Hardball” who’s heart-broken when the sweet girl he industry’s future, Brian Robbins seems to be claims that vaudeville date,’ but I’m going to buy it anyway when it and “The Perfect Score” says he sees “The loves is adopted. just as positive as Norbit about his upcoming “like a phoenix, appears comes out, but it would stop me from seeing it Shaggy Dog” as an important project because “And he grows up, and he’s always getting projects. to be rising from the again and again. It wouldn’t stop me from go- Disney movies tend to last and even his grand- picked on, but he sees the glass as half-full,” “The Shaggy Dog” opens in Brooklyn ashes, with scores, per- children might some day enjoy it. Robbins revealed. “He’s sort of like Forrest March 10. haps hundreds, of new variety venues pop- ping up at alternative theaters and nightclubs throughout the nation. For a growing subculture of young people at least, vaude- Mother knows best ville is back.” After all, variety is the spice of life. As the first episode of the last season of “The So- Ridge’s Lou Martini Jr.) making his debut, “The Sopra- But perhaps you’re feeling gloomy about the sea- Trav SD’s event at the Central branch, located pranos” nears, it seems fitting to kick off the event nos” are always more fun when shared — over food — son’s impending end and would find comfort in Chap- at Grand Army Plaza, is free. For information, visit with a proper Italian festa. Just as the Academy with friends and family. ter 10’s “The Final Celebration” which has recipes for the Web site www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org or call Awards have spawned in-home Oscar parties, That said, you’ll want to refer to chapters 4 and 5: those important comfort foods: gnocchi; pasta and (718) 230-2100. 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Foragers Market Papers The Brooklyn 56 Adams St. at Front Street, (718) 801-8400, www.foragersmarket.com (AmEx, Disc, Visa, MC) Lunch entrees: $6.95-$12. Foragers Market offers a selection of prepared vege- tarian and meat dishes, with an emphasis on locally Papers The Brooklyn grown and artisanal ingredients. Deli manager Chad The grilled eggplant maki at Rice. Parks says that the same quality ingredients offered for sale in the store (where pricey organic veggies and free range meats can be had) are used in con- dinner and a lot available during the day. A private cocting their sandwiches, such as chipotle chicken party room is available. Open for lunch and dinner salad; the lunch platters, like Berkshire pork chop with Tuesday through Friday; on weekends for dinner Easy to like sweet potatoes and organic asparagus; and a variety only. Closed Mondays. of vegetarian pasta dishes. The make-your-own salad bar offers two sizes: for $4.99 you can fill the large plastic clamshell with ingredients like baby mesclun Rice Stan’s Place imports Robert greens, feta cheese and citrus couscous, and for 81 Washington St. at Front Street, (718) 222-9880, $6.99, a gigantic box is “lavish enough to serve two,” www.riceny.com (Cash only) Entrees: $5-$14. says GO Brooklyn’s Rebecca Migdal. Top it with Gabriele Blecher, a manager at Rice, described her McManus from New Orleans grilled chicken, shrimp or fish for a few more bucks. restaurant’s cuisine as “anything to do with rice.” Can’t argue with that. Boasting specialty rices infused One or two soups are always available; the yellow Mango / Greg squash soup is “deliciously creamy with a nutty fla- with cilantro, parsley and spinach or, instead, — with some delicious results vor,” according to Migdal. steamed in coconut milk, the menu at this 4-year-old restaurant is largely rice-inspired but also features an New this month, Foragers offers pastries “from local eclectic mix of influences including Jamaican, Brooklyn bakeries like Baked,” says general manag- By Tina Barry Lebanese and Thai, not to mention great tamales. for The Brooklyn Papers er Rory Treat, who adds that in the spring, a juice Blecher said the chicken kebab, served with

bar and outside seating will make an appearance. Lebanese rice, steamed vegetables and pita, is one of Papers The Brooklyn Foragers is open Monday though Saturday, 10 am the most popular entrees, but the Vietnamese lemon- hen Stan Williams opened to 9 pm, and Sundays, from 11 am to 8 pm. Crepe expectations: At Stan’s Place in Boerum Hill, a tower of “Crepe grass chicken salad has been turning heads, too. Stan’s Place in January 2005, Seasonal fresh juices, such as watermelon or apple- Gateaux” combines Swiss chard and leek fondue between layers of Front Street Pizza lemon-ginger, are available, as is patio seating, in Whe wanted to offer the Boerum crepes, iced in a Brie creme Mornay sauce. (Above left) On a recent Sat- warmer weather. Owners David Selig and Peter Hill community a comfortable cafe urday evening, the Mukuleles performed old-time string band music. (In- 80 Front St. at Washington Street, (718) 875- Lawrence won a Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce with the feel of New Orleans. It’s a city 3700 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Plain slice: $2; 18- award for the restaurant’s intimate, dimly lit interior, set) New Orleans chef Robert McManus created the Creole-style menu. inch round plain pie: $12.50. which they designed themselves. Weather permit- that’s close to Williams’s heart, and the Although the name says “pizza,” Front Street has ting, outside dining available as well on an adjacent customers enjoyed his down-by-the- just about everything to satisfy your hunger, from deck. Open daily for lunch and dinner and for brunch Bayou po’ boys, spicy gumbos and ba- studded with moist sea bass and previous dishes. Bananas Foster, a salads and calzones to burgers and heroes to on weekends, from 10 am to 4 pm. espressos and decaf cappuccinos. On weekdays, nanas Foster. But Williams longed to shrimp in a briny stock heady with dessert that originated in New Orleans, Front Street dishes out breakfast starting at 6 am; serve full meals, too, where his guests sherry. features sliced bananas sauteed with platters are $3.95 and include choices of pancakes, River Cafe could really dig into Big Easy fa- McManus fries up a superb chicken brown sugar until they form a thin French toast, eggs, homefries, toast, bacon, ham, 1 Water St. at Old Fulton Street, (718) 522-5200, vorites. and serves it with well-matched sides. crust; then they’re splashed with rum. sausage and cheese, served with coffee or tea. Daily www.rivercafe.com (AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, Visa) lunch specials range from chicken cutlet parmigiana Three-course dinner: $85; six-course tasting In August, he closed for a month’s The crunchy, peppery crust on the The fruit is usually served over vanilla to meatloaf. They even offer a salad pizza topped menu: $102. renovation, transforming the cafe into Mango / Greg breast meat looks like ebony-colored ice cream. Here, the crusty-topped with lettuce, tomatoes, black olives, onions and oil This 28-year-old fine dining institution features the a restaurant that brings the warmth of lace. (The bird was so good, I ate the slices form a ring over a small disc of and vinegar. The deli counter offers a full range of most breathtaking river view of Manhattan, making that city to the neighborhood. entire large piece right down to the bread pudding, served with a whisky sandwiches. Also, the iced coffees (16-ounce for it a favorite date destination. The Tavern on the $1.50 and 32-ounce for $2.50) are a bargain. Open Green-esque twinkling lights in the trees out front, Shortly before the transformation, bones.) McManus serves it with creme anglaise. The fruit and sauce daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. and bouquets of fragrant flowers inside are nice Williams was talking with Robert Mc- creamy garlic mashed potatoes; slow- were delectable, the pudding so-so.

touches, too. Executive chef Brad Steelman offers Manus, hoping to lure the Louisiana Papers The Brooklyn cooked collard Atowering, red Grimaldi’s three-course or six-course tasting menus for dinner. chef to Brooklyn as a consultant. Then greens — as mel- slice of velvet Steelman pairs a Colorado rack of lamb with house- 19 Old Fulton St. at Front Street, (718) 858-4300 cured merguez couscous, caramelized “haricot hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on The dining room has brick walls, a low and tangy as cake looked like (Cash only) www.grimaldisbrooklyn.com. Large DINING verts” and lavender flower glaze, and black sea bass New Orleans, and McManus, whose long bar, a huge, gilt-edged mirror and any you’d dream Mardi Gras on a pizzas: $14 and up. with poached artichoke hearts, preserved lemon The lengthy lines at owner Frank Ciolli’s award-win- catering company was destroyed, candlelit tables. The feeling is brothel of; and a deca- Stan’s Place (411 Atlantic Ave. be- plate. A splash of vinaigrette, artichoke raviolini and marinated oven- tween Bond and Nevins streets in ning pizza parlor are as talked about as the pies dried tomatoes. made his way to Stan’s Place. meets elegant eatery. I can’t think of dent, smoky “red- creme fraiche themselves. But if you don’t mind waiting, the coal- Boerum Hill) accepts American Express. For dessert, try the chocolate marquise Brooklyn “He came right from the airport, another restaurant in the borough quite eye gravy” (made Entrees: $16-$18. A three-course, $25 and three maras- oven pizzas are among the best in the city. Lined prix fixe dinner is available Tuesday with framed photos of the Rat Pack, this homage to Bridge, which features a handmade chocolate wrote up the menu, and got to work,” like it. of ham drippings, chino cherries bridge standing tall in a terrine of toasted hazelnut says Williams of McManus’s arrival. I can’t think of another chef who water and some- through Thursday. The restaurant serves made a tacky — Sinatra changed its name from Patsy’s in 1996 to breakfast, lunch and dinner Tuesday avoid confusion with another restaurant in East served with Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream. Open “He’s been shaking things up ever serves crab cakes the way McManus times coffee). but fun — pres- daily for lunch and dinner. Brunch is served on week- through Saturday. Brunch is served on Harlem. Try a hand-tossed with fresh mozzarella, or since.” does, either, and I’ve had hundreds of The “Abita weekends, from 9 am to 4:30 pm. entation. add a few toppings, like sweet, roasted red pep- ends from noon to 3 pm. Outdoor seating, weather permitting, and valet parking are available. An McManus worked with Peter Kaiser them. His “Creole jumbo lump crab braised lamb,” fea- Closed Mondays. For reservations, call Lovely to look pers or sun-dried tomatoes. The pizza sauce is to (718) 596-3110. die for. They’ll also fill a calzone with anything on enclosed terrace room is open daily, after 5 pm, for of the renowned Buckhead Diner in cakes,” shaped like little cylinders, are tures one meaty at, the confection their topping menu, and they have antipasto with appetizers, drinks and desserts. Reservations are Atlanta before catering in New Or- on the baroque side. They are spicy; shank, slow- was slightly dry roasted peppers, mozzarella, pepperoni and green recommended. Jackets are required after 5 pm. olives. Grimaldi’s doesn’t accept reservations, and leans. He refers to Cajun and Creole are full of the winy tasting crab; have cooked in beer and topped with you can’t buy pizza by the slice. But you’ll be lucky Toro cooking as “the original fusion cuisine, slivers of roasted red peppers and ca- from Louisiana’s Abita microbrewery. overly sweet, white icing. if you can stop at just one or two slices anyway. combining classic French cooking with pers; and are served with ravigote (a The ale acts as a tenderizing agent, The restaurant serves chicory-fla- Open 11:30 am to 11 pm, Monday through 1 Front St. at Old Fulton Street, (718) 625-0300 Thursday, Fridays from 11:30 am to midnight, (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $18.50-$63. Creole styling, and tastes heavily influ- tangy French sauce seasoned with ca- softening the meat and imbuing it with vored coffee, a specialty of New Or- Saturdays, from noon to midnight, and Sundays, Executive chef Dudley Nieto and sushi chef Richard enced by local ingredients.” pers, vinegar, shallots and herbs). yeasty tang. While a side of orzo in a leans’s famous Cafe du Monde, which from noon to 11 pm. Fong serve up Spanish and Japanese fusion food in McManus’s dishes reflect the spirit They’re complicated but exceptionally Brie cream sauce was cloying, the pun- is a strong, rich brew with a pleasing- this tapas and sushi lounge, which opened in of the city: big exuberant flavors, lots good. gent “gremolada” (chopped parsley, ly bitter edge. December 2004. Specialties include the “churras- Miso co” (grilled skirt steak) with chimichurri sauce and of spice and heat, and a long list of in- One of the hallmarks of a good garlic and lemon zest) added color to Until the end of March — when 38 Main St. at Water Street, (718) 858-8388 the double-cut pork chop, marinated in brine, and gredients. Louisiana chef is a great gumbo, and the dish and lent a fresh, herbal note. Williams expects his liquor license — (AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $8.95-$15. served with wasabi mashed potatoes. Manager Walk into the eatery on a Saturday McManus’s rich, multi-layered stew, Order a side of macaroni and there’s a BYOB policy without a cork- Miso’s chef and co-owner, Zeo, specializes in the Meg Alvarado recommends the “pinchos gambas” night and you’ll find a lively party un- full of tender chicken and andouille cheese, and you’ll receive a serving ing fee. cuisine of the Shikoku area in southern Japan, also (shrimp on a stick) for tapas, and for entrees, the known as the “Magical Islands.” grilled chicken marinated in garlic white wine sauce, derway. The Deedle Deedle Dees, a sausage, does him proud. So does a fab- large enough for an entree. The dish is I left Stan’s Place with a tinge of with mashed potatoes and asparagus. “Spanasia” Brooklyn band with a longstanding ulous wedge of slightly sweet cornbread on the creamy side, with a crisp top sadness for what New Orleans once For starters, try a bowl of eggplant with ginger ballroom available for private parties. There is out- sauce, served with jasmine rice, or the traditional door seating on the patio, weather permitting. weekend gig at Stan’s, play “Fats with delicate crumb and a crusty edge, and filled with perfectly al dente pasta, was and the long struggle it faces to re- miso soup. Tender salt-and-pepper shrimp or the Open Wednesday through Friday for dinner only, Waller’s version of jazz,” from a perch perfumed with bits of fresh rosemary. but it’s slightly bland. build. It’s comforting though, to know Shikoku tuna are recommended as main courses. and lunch and dinner on weekends. Closed According to GO Brooklyn dining critic Tina Barry, from the second floor balcony, says Equally satisfying was a saffron- Desserts follow the more-the-better that at Boerum Hill’s Stan’s Place, the Mondays and Tuesdays. Happy hour means half-off “[Shikoku tuna] is worth the trip over.” New menu Williams. laced bouillabaisse, a seafood stew mode but with less finesse than the spirit of the Big Easy lives on. on cocktails and selected beer and wine, from 5 pm items include sushi rolls with lobster, snow crab and to 7 pm Wednesday through Friday, and ladies drink king crab, and a creamy soup with snow crab and for half-price from 8 pm to 11 pm, Thursday through “edamame” (soybeans) that’s popular with diners, Saturday. according to manager Charles Chen. Miso was among the first restaurants to win the Golden Apple award for food preparation safety Water Street Dishing it out from the NYC Department of Health, says Chen. Free delivery in Brooklyn. Open for lunch and dinner Restaurant Monday through Saturday; dinner only on Sundays. 66 Water St. at Main Street, (718) 625-9352, What’s the best way to en- a few raw oysters, then move www.waterstreetrestaurant.com (AmEx, Disc, joy a meal? on to “little dishes” like warm Pete’s Downtown MC, Visa) Entrees: $11-$25. A little plate of something hen-of-the-woods salad; This restaurant, built on the bottom two floors of a delicious, followed by anoth- grilled whole baby octopus 2 Water St. at Old Fulton Street, (718) 858-3510, newly renovated 19th-century landmark building in www.petesdowntown.com (AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, DUMBO, has a duplex effect. The first floor of the er, then another, until you’re with lemon confit; or hit the Visa) Entrees: $18-$26. restaurant, with brick walls and a wood bar area, full. pork and beans, that, says Come early to ensure a table with a divine view. The overlooks the 20-foot-ceiling basement area with That’s the idea behind Park Portesi, “is better than any backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan steel columns and old stone detailing. Slope eatery, Little Dishes, pork and beans ever.” skyline off Landing (visible both from the Chef Reginald Taylor’s specialty is the Creole paella, a helmed by Colin Wright and Heartier appetites will ap- outdoor cafe and from inside the restaurant) sets the combination of jumbo shrimp, blackened chickpeas, stage for your Italian meal. Try the pork chops stuffed andouille sausage, mussels and crawfish flavored with Mira Friedlaender (pictured). preciate entree-sized plates, with prosciutto, mozzarella and basil, topped with a Cajun spices and served with rice. The size of the The husband and wife team dubbed “big dishes” on the Marsala wine sauce, served with vegetables and a Cajun burger with andouille sausage, cheese, a crisp — he’s the chef, while she menu. Braised lamb shank potato rosette, a fried potato basket filled with onion ring and house barbecue sauce — served with creamy mashed potato. There’s also a warm goat fries and a small salad — makes it worth its $12 price works the front of the house served with black olive spaet- cheese salad, with seasonal greens and walnut vinai- tag. Daily specials include a chicken filet done your — opened the place on Feb. 2, zle (fine, handmade dump- grette, and linguine Portofino with fresh salmon, way with a choice of sauces and toppings (one each) serving “American style lings) is one stick-to-your-ribs plum tomatoes, red onions, arugula and extra-virgin and two sides (soup, salad or fries) for 10 bucks, $13 olive oil. Not only is this a “landmark restaurant” due for an extra large filet. On Sundays, a jazz trio brunch meze” inspired by Friedlaen- option. to its extraordinary location at the foot of the is offered, with a choice of entree, soup or salad and der who is of Turkish decent, There are eight wines by Brooklyn Bridge, but four generations of the same a cocktail for $14. For dessert, the cinnamon ice family have been serving up great food here since says the restaurant’s manager the glass on the international cream is a favorite, says owner Jeffrey Rodman. The Rachel Portesi. roundup of bottles. A garden 1894. Conveniences include free valet parking for 7000-square-foot restaurant also caters private and corporate parties. Don’t miss Water Street’s fifth The couple revamped the awaits diners in the spring. anniversary bash on St. Paddy’s Day, March 17: they’ll former Cornbread Cafe space, Little Dishes (437 Seventh = Full review available at be serving corned beef and cabbage with two draft coating the walls with Venet- Ave. between 14th and 15th pints all day for $15, plus live music from Belfast — Cava — at night. Open daily for lunch and dinner. ian-style plaster, laying down streets in Park Slope) accepts wood floors, and setting up American Express, Master- comfortable, butcher-block ta- Card and Visa. Small dishes: Editor’s note: These are a sampling of restaurants bles. $5-$14; entrees: $15-$18. The in the neighborhood. The list rotates, and it is not Callan / Tom comprehensive. For more restaurants, go to Wright, formerly of Shop- restaurant serves dinner Tues- Abbreviation Key: AmEx= American www.brooklynpapers.com on the Web. If your sin’s in the West Village and day through Sunday. Closed Express, DC= Diner’s Club, Disc= Discover restaurant is not listed and you would like it to be, Card, MC= MasterCard, Visa= Visa Card please contact GO Brooklyn Editor Lisa Curtis via Laundry in East Hampton, Mondays. For information, e-mail at [email protected]. starts off a meal with cream of call (718) 369-3144. cauliflower soup. You can try — Tina Barry The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn

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played, has changed over time. coyly looking over her shoulder. “And he throws himself into [the ART The public clamors for details on Are you adventurous? WEGMAN... painting] by including a great dog how he trains the dogs — he currently Christmas card,” said Fairbrother. “William Wegman: Funney/ Strange” has several that he’s working with — Continued from page 1 is on display at the Brooklyn Museum’s love to discover new things! Darrin’s March In the catalogue, Fairbrother adds, fifth floor (200 Eastern Pkwy., at Wash- but there is only one room of the exhib- But the artist told reporters that he “I’m captivated by the curious fact that ington Avenue, in Prospect Heights) it dedicated to his signature 20-by-24- Life is just too short to limit Discovery Wines! initially shied away from the title of the the maker of such mercurial, out- through May 28. The artist will give a inch canine portraits. talk, followed by a book signing, on yourself to a routine of the same exhibition — and the accompanying landish, and impudent creations often March 11 at 3 pm. Admission is $8, $4 Mostly, “Funney/Strange” spans I Nyakas, Budai Sauvignon Blanc catalogue — and took a while to warm comes across in public as a quietly pre- students with ID and seniors, free chil- Wegman’s earliest years, the 1960s, to old things, over and over. While I up to the idea of not just one, but his occupied guy.” dren younger than 12. For information, his most-recent landscape paintings, do have a few “old favorites”, when This is one delicious, refreshing visit the Web site www.brooklynmuse- white wine! If your ideas about entire body of work, being labeled Yet reporters always want to know um.org or call (718) 638-5000. which often have intoxicatingly deep I’m in a restaurant and I see a dish “Funney/Strange.” about those captivating dogs. Whether “William Wegman: Funney/Strange” colors, especially his turquoise blue- Hungarian wine were formed, like Examining one of Wegman’s most re- representing Japanese television or by Joan Simon (Yale University Press, green water and skies. I’ve never tried, I’ll order it. I’ll go mine, back in college, drinking “Bull’s $40) is available at the Brooklyn Museum cent works, “Museum,” Fairbrother photography journals, most of the ques- gift shop. “Water is fun to paint,” explained to a gallery or museum to see the Blood” red, have I found a Discovery pointed out how the artist’s use of vintage tions at Wednesday’s press preview Wegman. “Somethings are more sensu- works of an artist I may have read Wine for you! Since democracy came and new postcards were a commentary were about the weimaraners, starting al to paint; water is one of the them.” about or heard of, but whose work to Hungary, wine makers have been on all the different kinds of art people en- with Man Ray in 1970, and moving to was still heartbroken over her loss The artist says that this retrospective joy, whether it’s Michelangelo’s “David,” Faye Ray, and finally to Batty (short for when the catalogue and this exhibition comes at a time in his life when he’s I haven’t seen before. To me, dis- free to make wines the way they see fit, paintings of cowboys, or two men chat- Battina), who died two years ago. were coming together. In the exhibi- “generally very happy,” surrounded by covery is one of the true thrills of and this is an outstanding example of ting in a room full of hunting pictures. Wegman told GO Brooklyn that it tion, Batty is featured in 1999’s “Biki- children (age 8 and 11) and his dogs in life, one of the things that really what’s going on. Made in a crisp, clean, The mural also illustrates the way muse- was fitting that there was so much of ni”; she’s shot while wearing a leopard his Chelsea home. almost New World style, the bouquet ums’ architecture, and the way art is dis- Batty in “Funney/Strange” because he print bathing suit and a blonde wig, “It wasn’t always that way,” he said. makes me feel alive. has aromas of ripe gooseberries. The I’m like that with wine, too. flavors are bright, lively and crisp with There are some wines that I return a hint of citrus. – $12.95 Emperor Jones.” 8 pm. See Sat., PURIM CARNIVAL: at Union Temple. to or buy year after year, true, but I March 11. 6 pm. 17 Eastern Parkway. (718) Parent, Bourgogne Pinot Noir Compiled HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “The Crucible.” 638-7600. Free. love to find wines that I’m not by Susan 2 pm. 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Matt Nettheim LINE DANCING: Jubilee Senior Clinton Hill and Brooklyn Heights. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. See Sat., March 11. Center invites dancers of all levels them, and, like me, will want to $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. Meet at Big ‘Fishes’: Actors Cate Blanchett (pictured) and Hugo Weav- for fun. 1 pm. 55 Pierrepont St. Marriott Hotel Brooklyn, 333 MUSICAL: “You’re a Good Man, Char- (718) 680-2142. Free. share your discoveries with your ing will answer questions from the audience following a screen- lie Brown.” 5 pm. See Sat., March 11. Buy Darrin’s March Discovery 2 Adams St. (718) 789-0430. KIDS BAKING: Almondine Bakery ing of their film “Little Fish” at BAMcinematek on March 12. GALLERY PLAYERS: “Side Show.” 5 hosts a cake-decorating workshop friends! Pack: Save 10% – $26.02 PERFORMANCE pm. See Sat., March 11. NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of for kids. $35 per adult/ child pair. Music presents Cate Blanchett in OTHER 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. Appropriate “Hedda Gabler,” by Ibsen. $30 to a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” $12 (718) 782-2484. MEDITATION: $10 per class. Two for children age 3 and older. 85 $85. 2 pm and 7:30 pm. BAM for all ages. 4 pm and 8 pm. 1012 RECEPTION: Galeria Janet Kurna- locations: 11 am to 12:15 pm at Water St. (718) 596-7509. Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. Eighth Ave. (718) 989-2449. towski hosts a closing reception Micro Museum, 123 Smith St. 2 GLOBAL WARMING: Journalist and 211 Fifth Avenue (718) 636-4100. NATURE: Friends of Gateway Park for the exhibit “Eccentric Space: pm to 3:30 pm at Timeless, 147 author Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff RYAN REPERTORY: “Getting Off in presents “Stone Soup Saturdays.” Sculpture.” 7 pm to 11 pm. 205 Front St., No. 208. (718) 496-5514. writer for Maga- (bet. Union & President) PARK SLOPE Brooklyn,” a collection of one-act Volunteers offer a day of family- Norman Ave. (718) 383-9480. Free. PURIM FEST: hosted by National zine, speaks at Pratt Institute. She plays and monologues investigat- friendly environmental service to BOOK COURT: presents Kevin King, Council of Jewish Women. $25 discusses her book “Field Notes ing sex and relationships. $20, $18 the park and host projects such as who reads from his book, “All the includes food, games and prizes. from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature Open: Mon-Sat, 10am-10pm, Sun, 12-8pm students and seniors. 3 pm and 8 tree planting, care and feeding of Stars Came Out That Night.” 9 pm. 11:30 am to 2:30 pm. 1001 and Climate Change.” 5:30 pm to pm. 2445 Bath Ave. (718) 996-4800. seedlings, and some small build- 163 Court St. (718) 875-3677. Free. Quentin Road. (718) 376-8164. 7:30 pm. 200 Willoughby Ave. www.redwhiteandbubbly.com • 636-9463 (718) 636-3554. VAUDEVILLE SHOW: Talk and per- ing projects. Picnic begins at 4 pm. TASTING: Greene Grape wine and PURIM CARNVAL: Costumes, games, formance by The Bindlestiff Family For info, visit www.treebranch.com. food tasting. Wines from Sardinia food and music, at the Bay Ridge RECEPTION: Thai Cafe presents Cirkus, Baraka the Belly Dancer OTHER are sampled. 6 pm to 8 pm. 765 Jewish Center. Fourth Avenue at paintings by Richard Brachman. 6 and others at the Brooklyn Public Fulton St. (718) 797-WINE. Free. 81st Street. (718) 836-3103. Free. pm to 8 pm. 925 Manhattan Ave. BLOOMIN’ BKLYN: Brooklyn Botanic Library’s Central branch. 4 pm. Ninth annual Diaspora (718) 596-9405. Free. Garden hosts its annual com- REEL SISTERS: FILM FEST: Cinema and discussion Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230- Film Festival and Lecture Series held BAMCINEMATEK: presents “Some munity horticulture spring garden- series presents “Mr. Holland’s 2100. Free. at Long Island University. Kumble Opus” (1993). 1:30 pm. St. Kind of Horror Show.” Today: ing kick-off day. Topics include Theater, Extension “Kuroneko” (1968). $10. 6:50 pm BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- growing food in urban areas. Anselm School, 365 83rd St. (718) cert of Prokofiev, Beethoven and at DeKalb Avenue. For schedule, 238-2900. Free. and 9:15 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. Dave Jacke is keynote speaker. He visit www.africanvoices.com. (718) (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. Chopin. $35, $30 seniors, $25 stu- talks about “Eat the City! Culti- BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY: Brooklyn dents. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry 488-1052. Public Library’s Central branch BEHIND-THE-SCENES OPERA: Series vating Agriculture in Brooklyn continues featuring open rehearsals Landing, Old Fulton Street at the Today.” Also, displays, workshops STUDIO TOUR: Last day for artists to hosts a series exploring DNA test- East River. (718) 624-2083. sign up for upcoming “Park Slope ing, the female orgasm and the and classes on the opera produc- and speakers. Included in admis- tion process as arranged by com- BAM DANCE: Mark Morris Dance sion charge of $5, $3 students and and Environs Studio Tour.” $40. E- history of forced sterilization. Today, performs “V” (2001), “Grand mail: [email protected]. talk by Dr. Elisabeth Lloyd, author poser Susan Stoderi. $15. 7 pm. seniors. 10 am to 4 pm. 1000 Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Ave. 2005-2006 SEASON Duo” (1993) and “Gloria” (1981). Washington Ave. (718) 623-7200. of “The Case of the Female Or- gasm: Bias in the Science of Evo- (646) 831-3303. $20 to $70. 7:30 pm. Opening Women’s Guild of SPRING SALE: lution.” 2 pm. Also, Dr. Shuly Rubin MUSIC: Brooklyn Center for the Per- night cast party follows. Call for Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church SUN, MARCH 12 info. Opera House, 30 Lafayette Schwartz reads from his book, “The forming Arts presents Black Violin, hosts its annual spring rummage Ave. (718) 636-4100. Rabbi’s Wife.” 4 pm. Grand Army DJ “Lethal Weapon” and band sale. 10 am to 4 pm. Flatbush and OUTDOORS AND TOURS Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. “Metronome.” $10 to $25. 7 pm. OPERA: Regina Opera Company pre- Church avenues. (718) 284-5140. sents Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” ICE SKATING: at Wollman Rink in Pros- MOVIE MARATHON: Monster Gal- Walt Whitman Hall, one block from (The Elixir of Love). $17, $12 sen- MEETING: Older Women’s League pect Park. Sessions at 10 am to 1 lery presents cutting edge inde- the intersection of Flatbush and iors, $5 teens, children free. 7 pm. presents David Marcus, President, pm; 2 pm to 6 pm and 7 pm to 10 pendent shorts, features and doc- Nostrand avenues. (718) 951-4500. Regina Hall, corner of 65th Street National Health Program at SUNY pm. $5, $3 children and seniors. umentaries. 2 pm to 10 pm. Visit NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of and 12th Avenue. (718) 232-3555. Downstate Medical Center in a talk: $5 skate rental. (718) 965-8999. Web site for prices and schedule. Music presents Oscar-winning “The Real Solution to Our Health HEIGHTS PLAYERS: perform “The URBAN RANGER WALK: Learn about www.lonebeast.com/sundays- actress Cate Blanchett in “Hedda Care Crisis.” 10:30 am. Brooklyn history of Fort Greene Park. Ranger- inthecity/intro.html. 234 Fourth Gabler,” by Ibsen. $30 to $85. Crucible.” $12 adults, $10 chil- College, room 432, New Ingersoll dren, students and seniors. 8 pm. led walk discusses the 148-foot Ave. (914) 318-4280. 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater, Hall, one block from the intersec- fort’s role in the Revolutionary War 651 Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. 26 Willow Place. (718) 237-2752. tion of Flatbush and Nostrand PAPER FLOWERS: Brooklyn Botanic and the prisoners of war who are Garden hosts an origami work- HEALING MASS: at St. Thomas GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “Side avenues. (718) 891-2490. Free. entombed in a vault. 1 pm. Meet at shop. $5, $3 seniors and students. Aquinas Church. 7:30 pm. 1314 Show,” a musical inspired by the RECEPTION: Tabla Rasa Gallery pres- true story of conjoined twins Daisy Visitor’s Center, Myrtle Avenue and 2 pm to 4 pm. 1000 Washington East. 29th St. (718) 859-7065. ents “Animutations,” a collection Washington Park. Call 311. Free. Ave. (718) 623-7200. and Violet Hilton. $15, $12 chil- of animal-inspired artwork. 2 pm dren and seniors. 8 pm. 199 14th THE NATURE LIFE: Natural “Wild- BAMCINEMATEK: presents “Man in to 5 pm. 224 48th St. (718) 833- man” Steve Brill hosts a wild food the Dunes: Discovering Hiroshi EDS ARCH St. (212) 352-3101. 9100. Free. W , M 15 MUSIC: Brooklyn Conservatory of and ecology tour. Hunt for early Teshigahara.” Today: “Woman in READING: Brooklyn Public Library, Music presents pianist Kathleen spring shoots and greens. $12, $6 the Dunes” (1966). $10. 2 pm, 7 GREEN TEAM: Prospect Park Audu- Central branch, presents “Brook- Supove’s “The Exploding Piano,” children age 12 and younger. pm and 9:30 pm. Also, “Little bon Center drop-in program for 9 a multimedia experience combin- lyn Writers for Brooklyn Readers” 11:45 am. Marine Park, Avenue U Fish” (2005) starring Cate Blan- to 13-year-olds who want to help ing electronics, theatrical ele- series. Today: Emily Raboteau and Burnett Street. Call to chett. 5 pm. Q & A with Blanchett conserve the park. 3:30 pm to 5 Atlanta Ballet ments, vocal rants and staging. 8 reads from her book “The Pro- reserve. (914) 835-2153. and Hugo Weaving follows pm. Call to register. Enter park at pm. 58 Seventh Ave. Call for tick- fessor’s Daughter.” Leonard ART GALLERY WALK: Walks New screening. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) Lincoln and Ocean avenues. (718) Sun., Mar. 12, 2006 at 2 PM et info. (718) 622-3300. Lopate hosts. 2 pm. Grand Army York takes a stroll through 777-FILM. www.bam.org. 287-3400, ext. 114. Free. Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. WOMEN’S FEST: Brooklyn Arts Ex- Williamsburg. $10. 1 pm. Call for SHORTS: Brooklyn Lyceum presents BAMCINEMATEK: presents “Cinema change presents the 2006 Women’s BAMCINEMATEK: presents “Man in meeting location. (212) 696-6617. “An Evening of the World’s Best Tropical.” Today: “Al Otro Lado” Performance Festival with “Bite the Dunes: Discovering Hiroshi PERFORMANCE Short Films.” $10. 8 pm. Also, (2005). Also, “Matapajaros” Shanghai Circus Teshigahara.” Today: “The Face of “Sense of Need: The Story.” $8. 5 (2005). $10. 4:30 pm, 6:50 pm and Your Lip.” $15, $8 low-income. 8 BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the Per- pm. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. Another” (1966). $10. 2 pm, 4:30 pm. 227 Fourth Ave. www.brook- 9:15 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) featuring the Incredible Acrobats of China pm, 7 pm and 9:30 pm. 30 Lafa- forming Arts presents The Atlanta PLAY: Our Lady of Guadalupe Theater lynlyceum.com. (718) 857-4816. 777-FILM. www.bam.org. yette Ave. (718) 777-FILM. Ballet. $15 to $30. 2 pm. Walt RECEPTION: Art World Digest hosts Sun., Mar. 19, 2006 at 2 PM presents “Is There Life After High Whitman Theater at Brooklyn Col- WINE TASTING: Blanc and Rouge School?” $11, $9 seniors and chil- ARTIST TALK: Brooklyn Museum Wines and Spirits offers a tasting a celebration with artists. 6 pm to presents photographer William lege, one block from the inter- 10 pm. Galapagos Art Space, 70 dren age 10 and younger. 8 pm. section of Flatbush and Nostrand of 2003 Glenlyon Estate Syrah. 2 1518 73rd St. (718) 232-6920. Wegman in a discussion about his pm. 81 Washington St. N. Sixth St. Also, after-part at work in exhibit “William Wegman: avenues. (718) 951-4500. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: The www.brwine.com. (718) 858-9463. Maiden Brooklyn, 252 Grand St., An Evening with Bob Newhart Funney/ Strange.” $8, $4 students CHAMBER MUSIC: Brooklyn Friends Wooster Group presents Eugene READING: Night and Day Restaurant Williamsburg. (718) 782-5188. and seniors. 3 pm. 200 Eastern of Chamber Music presents The O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones.” presents a reading by author WINE TASTING: Blanc and Rouge Sat., Mar. 25, 2006 at 8 PM Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Karol Szymanowski Quartet. $15. Wines and Spirits offer tastings. 6 $37.50. 8 pm. 38 Water St. (718) 3 pm. Lafayette Avenue Presby- Jonathan Ames. 6 pm. 230 Fifth 254-8779. LEARN ABOUT DARFUR: Discussion Ave. Call. (718) 399-2161. pm to 9 pm. 81 Washington St. with some members of the Suda- terian Church, 85 S. Oxford St. www.brwine.com. (718) 858-9463. (718) 625-7515. GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: Benefit CHILDREN nese Community including native for the premiere of “Rip Me MEETING: The Bay Ridge Historical BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- HOUSE TOUR: Weeksville Heritage Darfurian Yahya Osman and for- Open.” $10. 8 pm. 70 North Sixth Society presents author Barnet cert of Prokofiev, Beethoven and Call or Go Online Today! Center invites families to take a mer Sudanese slave Simon Deng. St. (718) 384-4586. Schecter. He discusses his book tour. Also, stained glass workshop. Brooklyn Parents for Peace hosts Chopin. $35, $30 seniors, $25 stu- “The Devil’s Own Work.” 7:45 pm. dents. 4 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, CAFE STEINHOF: Movie night: “A (718) 951-4500 10 am to 2 pm. 1698 Bergen St. event. 3 pm to 5 pm. YWCA, 30 Shot in the Dark” (1964). 10:30 Shore Hill Towers, 9000 Shore (718) 756-5250. Free. Third Ave. (718) 624-5921. Free. Old Fulton Street at the East Road. (718) 745-5938. Free. BrooklynCenterOnline.org River. (718) 624-2083. pm. 422 Seventh Ave. (718) 369- RUN AROUND: Brooklyn Lyceum VAUDEVILLE TALK: Brooklyn Public 7776. Free. LECTURE: Brother Thomas Barton, a Walt Whitman Theatre, one block from the junction of Flatbush & Nostrand Avenues opens its theater stage for a “Kid Library, Central branch, presents MUSIC: Music at St. Jacobi Concert Franciscan Brother of Brooklyn, Series presents “Tribute to SPRING SALE: hosted by Women’s Runaround.” Bring your kid in to author Trav S.D., head of American Guild of Flatbush Dutch Reformed speaks on “Clare of Assisi - A burn off some winter energy. 10 Vaudeville Theater. He is joined by Mozart.” 4 pm. 5406 Fourth Ave. Light in the Darkness.” $5. 7:30 Support provided by (718) 439-8978. Free. Church. 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. See am to 2 pm. Food available. 227 performers including Circus Amok’s Sat., March 11. pm. Assumption Parish, Cranberry Fourth Ave. (718) 857-4816. Jennifer Miller and hula hoop artist WOMEN’S FEST: Brooklyn Arts Ex- Street between Henry and Hicks change presents the 2006 Wo- REEL SISTERS: Visit www.african- BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Miss Saturn. 4 pm. Grand Army voices.com. (718) 488-1052. See streets. (718) 625-1161. presents an hour of animated Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. men’s Performance Festival with a DANCE: Mark Morris Dance Group dance and performance. $15, $10 Sat., March 11. films. Appropriate for ages 5 and IRISH FOR A DAY: Assumption CALL FOR ENTRIES: Brooklyn Inter- performs “Four Saints in Three younger. $4. 11:30 am to 12:30 Parish hosts its annual event fea- members, $8 low-income. 6 pm. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. national Film Festival invites com- Continued on page 11... pm. Also, science workshop on turing traditional Irish music and munity members to submit narra- four-leaf clovers. Appropriate for meal of corned beef, cabbage GALLERY PLAYERS: “Side Show.” 3 pm. See Sat., March 11. tive features, documentaries, exper- ages 7 and older. 3 pm to 5 pm. and boiled potatoes. $40. 6 pm. imental and animation. Deadline is 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. 64 Middagh St. (718) 625-1161. PLAY: “Is There Life After High March 15. Visit: wbff.org/submit/. PUPPETWORKS: marionette per- CLOSING PARTY: Jack the Pelican School?” 3 pm. See Sat., March 11 formance of “The Wizard of Oz.” presents the art exhibit, “Guerra OPERA: “L’Elisir d’Amore” (The Elixir of Love). 4 pm. See Sat., March 11. $8, $7 children. Recommended de La Paz.” 7 pm to 9 pm. 487 MON, MARCH 13 An Exceptional meal. for ages 4 and older. 12:30 pm Driggs Ave. Call for ticket info. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “The IS YOUR BUSINESS and 2:30 pm. 338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street. (718) 965-3391. Jewish Festival of Purim PURIM CARNIVAL: at Temple Beth celebrated tonight IN BROOKLYN? Emeth. Kids are invited to come in READING: Author Paula Fox reads costume. $5. 12:45 pm. 83 Marl- from her book “The Coldest Winter: Then you want all the advantages offered by borough Road. (718) 282-1596. LIST YOUR EVENT… A Stringer in Liberated Europe.” 4 IMPACT THEATER: presents “Rudy pm. Woody Tanger Auditorium, BROOKLYN BUSINESS BASE, where you can Rutabaga and the Terrible Dragon To list your event in Where to GO, please give us two weeks notice or Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford of Amsteryork.” All ages wel- more. Send your listing by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Papers, 55 Ave. (718) 951-5426. Free. learn everything you need to help you thrive here. come. $10, $7 children age 12 Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834- BAMCINEMATEK: presents “Some and younger. 1 pm and 4 pm. 90 9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. 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Join BROOKLYN Mordechai & Esta at our Nightlife Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan

Fridays: “The Best of the Best” featuring live DJs, Amarachi Lounge 11 pm, FREE before midnight, $10 after midnight. 325 Franklin Ave. at Clifton Place in Bedford- Stuyvesant, (646) 641-4510, www.amarachilounge.com. Crossroads Cafe Saturdays: The Weekend Workout, 10 pm, $5; 1241 A Prospect Ave. at Reeve Place in Tuesdays: Open Mic Artist Showcase, 8 pm, $5; Windsor Terrace, (718) 972-1852, Thursdays: Fashun4ward, live fashion show fea- www.cafe-crossroads.com. Purim Fiesta! turing Brooklyn designers and models, 8 pm, $7. Tuesdays: Jazz series with Todd Neufeld and friends, 8 pm, $5 donation suggested. An evening of dinner, cocktails and fun! Anyway Cafe 1602 Gravesend Neck Road at East 16th Street Crossroads in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 934-5988, Saloon www.anywaycafe.com. Wear your costumes (Mexican theme preferred) 2079 Ave. at Kings Highway in Tuesdays: Jazzy funk with Karin Okada and Avie Sheepshead Bay, (718) 339-9393. Ruthburd, 9 pm, FREE.

Saturdays and Fridays: Karaoke, 9 pm, FREE. Natascha Rockwin The Backroom Europa Night Club Gutbucket’s album release party — for “Sludge Fest”— is at Northsix Tuesday, March 14, 6pm (Inside Freddy’s Bar) 485 Dean St. at Sixth on March 15. Doors open at 8 pm. Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 622-7035, 98 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in www.freddysbackroom.com. Greenpoint, (718) 383-5723, www.europaclub.com. March 11: M. Shanghai Den with Kristin Mueller, in the sanctuary Saturdays: “VIP Dance Party,” 10 pm, FREE FREE; March 11: Reza, 10 pm, Friends, midnight, 9 pm, Jan Bell, 10 pm, M Shanghai String Band, before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; Fridays: $TBD. Sista’s Place 11 pm, FREE; March 12: Pub Quiz, 9:30 pm, Sexy Progressive/Dance party, 10 pm, FREE 456 Nostrand Ave. at Jefferson Avenue in FREE; March 13: The Moodswing Series, 9:30 before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; March 11: Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 398-1766, pm, FREE, Brooklyn vs. Bush Comedy Hour, 11:30 Les Babouches $36 per adult • $15 per child Williamsburg Jazz Festival featuring Ferenc www.sistasplace.org. pm, FREE; March 14: Jazz Night with Mossad 7803 Third Ave. at 78th Street in Bay Ridge, Nemeth Quartet, 7:30 pm, $10. March 11: Judy Bady, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $20 per (Children will have their own party upstairs) Elephant Squad, Free improv guitar/drums duo, (718) 833-1700. set; March 18: Carla Cook, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $20 Chris Cawthray with Rob Price and Mariano Gil, Saturdays, Thursdays and Fridays: Belly dancer per set. 9:30 pm, FREE; March 15: Free Ham Giveaway, Five Spot Shahrazad, 8 pm, FREE. 9:30 pm, FREE; March 16: The Kings County 459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue in Clinton Opry with Song Circle, 8:30 pm, Homegrown Hill, (718) 852-0202, www.fivespotsoulfood.com. Lillie’s Saloon Southpaw If you’re ready to drink lots of Sangria – String Band, 9:30 pm, Citigrass, 10:30 pm, FREE; Saturdays: DJ Aki, 6 pm, FREE; Mondays: Open 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope, March 17: Liza & the Wonderwheels, 8:30 pm, turntables hosted by DJ Copa, 8 pm, FREE; 46 Beard St. at Dwight Street in Red Hook, (718) 230-0236, www.spsounds.com. Alice Bierhorst, 9:30 pm, The Crevulators, 10:30 Tuesdays: DJ Handspin Dinero, 6 pm, FREE, DJ (718) 858-9822, www.lilliessaloon.com. March 11: JellyNYC presents Jelly, The Nether- Call today to reserve! pm, Sourtongue, 11:30 pm, FREE; March 18: Tommy Talkz, 8 pm, FREE, Hot Damn Tuesdaze March 15: Lillie’s Turns Five! with Chicken & the lands, Aloke, Tall Hands, Tender and Vulnerable, 8 Paranoid Larry with Maggie Roach, 10:30 pm, Avi (comedy night) with Dave Lester, 10 pm, FREE; Superstars, a 12-piece ensemble, 9 pm, FREE. pm, $8; March 13: The Second Annual Grateful Fox Shipping Co., 11:30 pm, FREE. Wednesdays: DJ Copa, 6 pm, FREE, Soul F’Real, Yid Purim Bash with Juez, Rashanim, Asefa, 8 pm, an R&B open mic for Soul Singers, 9 pm, FREE, The Lucky Cat $10; March 15: Isobel Campbell, 8 pm, $13; BAM Cafe back-up band Da Feel, 10 pm, FREE; Thursdays: 245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williams- March 17: Mikey Palms and JellyNYC present Large Professor presents “Timbuktu,” 10 pm, The St. Patrick’s Night Death Disco 2nd 30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort burg, (718) 782-0437, www.theluckycat.com. (718) 596-4840 ext. 13 Greene, (718) 636-4100, www.bam.org. FREE; Fridays: Soul in the Hole, midnight, $5. Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Piano Parlor and key- Anniversary Party with special guest DJs Shane MacGowan and BP Fallon, music by The Assault, March 11: Ivan Milev Band, 9:30 pm, $10 board karaoke, 11 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Jezebel Kickstart, Live Girls, 8:30 pm, $35; March 18: Sam food/drink minimum; March 17: MMDG En- Frank’s Lounge Music Open Mic Night hosted by Dave Cuomo, 7 Prekop, Archer Prewitt, 7:30 pm, $15. [email protected] semble, 9:30 pm, $10 food/drink minimum; 660 Fulton St. at South Elliott Place in Fort pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Hex! with DJ Jeremy, 10 March 18: “Breath as Beauty” featuring an all- Greene, (718) 625-9339, pm, FREE; March 11: Sonic Reduction with Mike Congr. B’nai Avraham female a capella group, 9:30 pm, $10 food/drink www.frankscocktaillounge.com. Quoma Nick Decarmine, 8 pm, $5, First Lady of Spoken Words minimum. Saturdays: Sinful Saturdays with DJs Tyrone and Country and the Cunts, 10 pm, FREE; March 13: Cafe 117 Remsen St. (Clinton/Henry) Infinite, 9 pm, $5; Tuesdays: Tuesday Night Live Crystal Dawn, 8 pm, FREE; March 14: String Bar 4 featuring KoKo H, 9 pm, 2-drink minimum; Wed- Ridge Records presents Fear of a Whack Planet 226 Fourth Ave. at Union Street in Park Slope, nesdays: Karaoke with Davey B, 9 pm, FREE; with DJ Tuskeegee-X, 10 pm, FREE; March 18: (718) 596-3923, www.spokenwordsonline.com. 444 Seventh Ave. at 15th Street in Park Slope, Fridays: (Downstairs) Ffun Dance Party with DJs Tuesdays: The Blake Cohen Group, 8 pm, $8 sug- (718) 832-9800. Root Valdez featuring Leslie Graves, 8:30 pm, The Tyrone, Julian and Infinite, 8 pm, $5. Saturday Night Stomp, 10 pm, $TBD. gested donation. March 12: James Carney Group, 8 pm, 10 pm, $5 (includes both sets); March 17: Greg Bucking, 8 pm, FREE. Galapagos Magnetic Field Stain 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in Brooklyn 766 Grand St. at Humboldt Street in Williams- Barbes (718) 782-5188, www.galapagosartspace.com. Heights, (718) 834-0069, burg, (718) 387-7840, www.stainbar.com. Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 pm, FREE; www.magneticbrooklyn.com. Mondays: “Paint Stain,” 5 pm (often accompa- 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, March 11: (Backroom) Parlor Grand, Alexa nied by the jazz guitar of Noboru, 8 pm), FREE; (718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com. March 11: Sparkle Motion presents Lilys, Georgevich, Int’l Shades, 8 pm, $5, Taste NYC, 11 Hysterics, 8 pm, $10; March 17: St. Patrick’s Day Wednesdays: JAMstain, an informal open mic Mondays: The Velmeers, 9:30 pm, FREE; Tues- pm, FREE, (Frontroom) Boss Tweed and The Dan- hosted by singers/songwriters, 9 pm, FREE; days: Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $8; Wednesdays: Celebration with EDP, Klimpter, 8 pm, $6; March settes, 8 pm, $5, Taste NYC, 11 pm, FREE; March 18: Lungs of a Giant, Westward Trail, 8 pm, $6. March 11: Steve Ferrara and Tali Herskowitz, 8 “Night of the Ravished Limbs,” 9 pm, $8; March 12: Maracatu NY and Nation Beat, 10 pm, $8, Sid pm, Andrew Jimenez, 10 pm, FREE; March 13: 11: Uncle Moon, 7 pm, $8 suggested donation, & Buddy Karaoke, 11 pm, FREE; March 13: Smut, Noboru, Matt Pless, 10 pm, FREE; March 14: Danny Kalb, 8 pm, $8, River Alexander & his Mad 8 pm, Burlesque hosted by Darlinda Just National David White Trio, 8 pm, FREE; March 16: Jazz Hatters, 10 pm, $8 suggested donation; Darlinda, 10 pm, FREE; March 14: Ultra presents Restaurant American String Conspiracy’s Gary Keenan with March 12: The Four Bags, 7 pm, $8 suggested Emily Neustrom, 8 pm, Jon Irabagon Quintet, 10 “The Witnesses Welcome Home Bash” with The 273 Ave. at Brighton Second donation; March 13: Throat Singers of Tuva: The pm, FREE; March 17: Ellie Lawson, 8 pm, Freaky Witnesses, TK Webb, Tomorrow’s Friend, and DJ Street in Brighton Beach, (718) 646-1225, Alash Ensemble with Kongar-ool Onda, 9:30 pm, Funky Family Day featuring an open mic, artistic Margart the Muncheimer, 8 pm, Rapid Response www.come2national.com. $12; March 14: Jenny Scheinman, 7 pm, $8 sug- Team, 10 pm, FREE; March 15: Artworld Digest expression, dancing, and more, 9 pm, $3 sug- Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance show, 9 gested donation, Who’s Your Crawdaddy, 9 pm, Launch Party, 6 pm, FREE, Ella Veres Studio pres- gested donation; March 18: The Third Borger pm, FREE (with $65 prix fixe dinner); Fridays: Live $8 suggested donation; March 15: Kevin Norton ents Fanging My Way Thru America, 7 pm, $7, Band, 8 pm, A Chicago Talent Showcase, 9 pm, Russian music and dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with and Tony Malaby, 8 pm, $8, Gerald Cleaver & The Hazzards Makeout Party, 10 pm, FREE; $5 suggested donation. $50 prix fixe dinner); Sundays: Live Russian music Uncle June, 10 pm, $8; March 16: Shane Endsley March 16: Jezebel Music Presents, 7 pm, $7; and dance show, 7 pm, FREE (with $50 prix fixe featuring Todd Sickafoose, Erik Deutsh, and Matt March 17: (Backroom) Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Superfine Moran, 8 pm, $8 suggested donation, Matt Cabaret, 10 pm, $15; March 18: (Backroom) dinner). Munisteri, 10 pm, $8 suggested donation; March 126 Front St. at Pearl Street in DUMBO, (718) TribalHybrid, an urban convergence of the East 243-9005. 17: Doug Weiselman’s Zitherine, 8 pm, $8 sug- Coast Tribal Dance & Music Scene with Alchemy Night and Day gested donation, The Moonlighters, 10 pm, $8 March 16: Little Red Hen Music presents The Dance Theater and Raquy and the Caveman, 8 Roulette Sisters, 9 pm, Jan Bell & the Cheap suggested donation; March 18: Folklore Urbano, pm, $8, John Moran and his Neighbor Saori, 9 Restaurant 7 pm, $8 suggested donation, Forro for All, 9 230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, Dates, 10 pm, Jay Stagger, 11 pm, Miss Mamie & pm, $TBD, Snap Pusher, 10 pm, $8, (Frontroom) Miss Shawn, 11:30 pm, A Particularly Vicious pm, $8. Uncomun, 10 pm, $TBD. (718) 399-2161, www.nightanddayrestaurant.com. Sundays: John McNeil and Bill McHenry, 8 pm, $5 Rumor, midnight, $5 suggested donation. Bembe Good Coffeehouse and 1-drink minimum; Mondays: Debra and 81 S. Sixth St. at Berry Street in Williamsburg, Mary’s Night on the Town, 9 pm, $10 and 1-drink Tea Lounge (718) 387-5389, www.bembe.us. Music Parlor minimum ($5 for students); Tuesdays: Songwriters 837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, Saturdays: Rhum, live DJs alongside live Latin At Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Showcase with Kevin Ray, 7 pm, FREE with 1-drink (718) 789-2762, www.tealoungeny.com. percussion flavors, 9 pm, FREE; Sundays: No Se- Prospect Park West at Second Street in Park minimum, Live jazz jam hosted by the Dan March 15: Gian Tornatore Group, 9 pm, 10:30 lectors with live DJs, 9 pm, FREE; Mondays: Unin- Slope, (718) 768-2972, www.bsec.org. McCarthy Trio, 9 pm, FREE with 1-drink minimum; pm, FREE; March 16: Loren Stillman Group, 9 tripited, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Natural Se- March 17: Park Slope Food Co-op featuring March 11: Solar, 9 pm, $10 and 1-drink minimum; pm, 10:30 pm, FREE; March 17: Beyondo, 9 pm, lections with DJ Jon Bless and guests, 9 pm, Bruce Markow and Madam Levitsky’s Yiddish March 12: Jonathan Ames, 6 pm, 1-drink mini- 10:30 pm, FREE. FREE; Wednesdays: Convalescence with DJ Ste- Synchopators, 8 pm, $10 adults, $6 children. mum; March 15: Cardamon Quartet, 9 pm, 1- fan Andemicael, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Toque drink minimum; March 16: Brooklyn Conservatory Tommy’s Tavern with DJs Busquelo and MonkOne with live per- Hank’s Saloon presents The Karin Okada Quintet, 9 pm, $10 and 1041 Manhattan Ave. at Freeman Street in cussion by Isabel, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: World 1-drink minimum; March 17: Arturo O’Farrill 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, Greenpoint, (718) 383-9699. Beat Flavors, 9 pm, FREE. (718) 625-8003, www.hankssaloon.com. Quartet, 9 pm, $10 and 1-drink minimum; March March 18: Manded, USAISAMONSTER, 8 pm, 18: Deborah Latz Quartet (2 sets), 9 pm, $10 and Sundays: Shotgun Shack, Sean Kershaw and the $TBD. 1-drink minimum. Black Betty New Jack Ramblers, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: 366 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Mobscenity, 10 pm, FREE; March 11: Scott Trash Bar Williamsburg, (718) 599-0243, www.blackbetty.net. McClathy, The City Streets, 10 pm, FREE; March Night of the 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williams- Saturdays: DJs Yah Supreme and Concerned, 11 13: Live band Kuntry Karaoke with Rob Ryan and burg, (718) 599-1000, www.thetrashbar.com. pm, FREE; Sundays: Brazilian Beat with DJ Sean The Brooklyn Country All-Star Band, 10 pm, Cookers 767 Fulton St. at South Portland Avenue in Fort March 11: Land of Talk, 8 pm, Let Jill Go, 9 pm, Marquand and DJ Greg Caz, 10 pm, FREE; Mon- FREE; March 14: Two Story Doublewide, 10 pm, The Rudds, 10 pm, Emergency Broadcast System, days: Rev. Vince Anderson and his Love Choir, FREE; March 16: Younger Sister Band, 10 pm, Greene, (718) 797-1197. Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Sundays: Live 11 pm, The Bonapartes, midnight, Charlemange, 10:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Hot Rocks, 10 pm, FREE; March 17: Lindy Loo’s St. Patrick’s Day 1 am, $7; March 12: Ted Eddison, 8 pm, Tennis FREE; Wednesdays: Yah Supreme & Brohemia music, noon, FREE; Thursdays: Live jazz, 8 pm, Hayride with The Lonesome Prairie Dogs, The and the Mennonites, 9 pm, Jimmy Winchell, 10 with DJ Concerned, 9:30 pm, FREE; Thursdays: FREE; Fridays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE. New Heathens, and River Klumph Dance Com- pm, JP05, 11 pm, $6; March 14: Thank you, Brian J and the Pimps of Joytime, 10 pm, FREE; pany, 10 pm, FREE; March 18: Shotgun Shack, 9 Goodnight, 9 pm, Fake Problems, 10 pm, $6; Fridays: The Greenhouse with DJ MonkOne, 11 pm, Wissler Family, 10:30 pm, Jack Grace Band, Northsix March 15: Jody Shelton, 8 pm, R.U.O.K., 9 pm, Where I Play pm, FREE. midnight, FREE. Where I Live 66 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williams- Kosmic Daydream, 10 pm, Lumis Glyde, 11 pm, burg, (718) 599-5103, www.northsix.com. $6; March 16: Gentleman Callers, 8:30 pm, The Brooklyn The Hook March 11: Love as Laughter, Swearing at Mo- Twilight of the Idle, 9 pm, The Rosary, 10 pm, Where I Work 18 Commerce St. at Columbia Street in Red torists, Kapow!, 9 pm, $8 in advance, $10 day of Brother Earth, 11 pm, $8; March 17: Two Year Lyceum Hook, (718) 797-3007, www.thehookmusic.com. the show; March 12: (Downstairs) Capsule, Anniversary Show with Sin Destroyers, 8 pm, 227 Fourth Ave. at President Street in Park March 11: Great Plains Pig Roast with Flaming Reservoir, Disnihil, In First Person, Animal, 9 pm, Peter & the Pansexuals, 9 pm, Wilpilot, 10 pm, Slope, (718) 398-7301, www.gowanus.com. Fire, Gift Giver, Magic is Kuntmaster, Bliss Blood $7, (Upstairs) Maxi Geil! & Play Colt, Soft, Heloise Owen McCarthy of The Everyothers (special March 17: Throwdown!!!, a multimedia art and (performs the music of Culturcide), The Jewish, and the Savoir Faire, 9 pm, $10; March 15: Gut- acoustic set with guests), 11 pm, Chariots, mid- music event, 6:30 pm, $5. Panicsville, Eagle Seagull, followed by Dust Dive bucket, Nanuchka, Sxip!Matta, 9 pm, $10; March night, $5; March 18: Madison Ambush, 8 pm, DJ Party, 5 pm, $8; March 17: No Fun Fest with 16: (Downstairs) REDS, Pyramids, Cuddle Rider, 9 pm, The Urgency, 10 pm, Nope, 1 am, $7. Cafe Steinhof (Downstairs) Landed, Grunt, Bone Awl, Deathpile, Machines, ApeShit, 9 pm, $7; March 17: Ris Paul PHOTO: LUCILLE FORNASIERI-GOLD, BEST PHOTOGRAPH, 2004 422 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in Park Slope, Sickness, Air Conditioning, aodl, (Upstairs) Ric, A Day in Black and White, Birthday Boyz, Two Boots (718) 369-7776, www.cafesteinhof.com. Smegma, Solmania, Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori, Plain Lace, 9 pm, $8 in advance, $10 day of the March 15: J. Walter Hawkes Trio, 10:30 pm, Zbigniew Karkowski & Carlos Giffoni, Lee Ranaldo show; March 18: Negatones, Americans, Right on Brooklyn FREE. & Chris Corsano, Aaron Dilloway, Can’t, 16 Bitch Dynamite, The Waylons, Nightwatch, 9 pm, $10. 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, Pile Up, Zaimph, 7 pm, $15; March 18: No Fun (718) 499-3253, www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. Cattyshack Fest with (Downstairs) Sixes, Hans Grusel’s Parlor Jazz March 11: Memphis Train with special guests, 10 Kranken Kabinet, Chronicles of Lemur Mutation, pm, FREE; March 17: The Useless Bastards, 10 249 Fourth Ave. at Carroll Street in Park Slope, 119 Vanderbilt Ave. at Myrtle Avenue in Clinton My Tarantism, Noel Von Harmonson, Pod Blotz, pm, FREE; March 18: Blues Prophets, 10 pm, (718) 230-5740, www.cattyshackbklyn.com. Hill, (718) 855-1981, www.parlorjazz.com. BROOKLYN Antiear, Spider Compass, (Upstairs) Wolf Eyes, FREE. Saturdays: (Main floor) DJs Daryl Raymond & BK Sutcliffe Jugend, Macronympha, Daniel Menche, March 18: Tom Lellis & his Trio, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, Brewster, 10 pm, $5; Sundays: PJ’s Tea Party fea- James Twig Harper, White Rock, Bloodyminded, $20 donation. Fifth Annual Photo + Essay Contest turing rotating DJs and the latest L-Word view- Hive Mind, O.P.C., 7 pm, $15. Vox Po p ings, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: (Downstairs) Trivia 1022 Cortelyou Road at Stratford Road in Night with Sancho, 7 pm, FREE, (Upstairs) After The Performance Flatbush, (718) 940-2084, www.voxpopnet.net. work party with rotating DJs, 5 pm, $5, FREE after Hope and Anchor Coffee House Sundays: Open mic, 7:30 pm, FREE; March 11: midnight; Wednesdays: (Downstairs) “I’m Okay, 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in Red Pilotbox, Jaime Pannone of Dead Language, Hook, (718) 237-0276. (at Bay Ridge United Church) 636 Bay Ridge Photograph and write about your Brooklyn. You’re Okay - Kara-Okay,” 9 pm, FREE to watch, Parkway at Sixth Avenue in Bay Ridge, (718) 7:30 pm, $5 suggested donation; March 15: $5 all you can sing, (Upstairs) “Oink!” with DJ Saturdays, Thursdays and Fridays: Karaoke host- 836-4978. Matt Pless with Meg Cavanaugh, Debra T., Lola ed by drag queen Kay Sera, 9 pm, FREE. Floyd for dirty boys hosted by PJ, 9 pm, $3; March 18: Paul Fox leads an open mic night Johnson, 7 pm, $5 suggested donation; March You could win a U.S. Savings Bond. Thursdays: (Upstairs) Schoolhouse with DJ ‘Lina & (song, dance, poetry, comedy welcome), 7:30 pm, 17: Neil Shah with spoken word artist, 8 pm, $5 Daryl Raymond, 9 pm, $TBD; Fridays: (Main floor) Jazz 966 donation suggested. suggested donation; March 18: Micah Howeson All-request after-work party with DJ Lugnut, 966 Fulton St. at Cambridge Place in Clinton with Marvin The Robot, 8 pm, 2-drink/snack min- Cirrah with DJ Mark James, and rotating go-go Hill, (718) 639-6910, www.jazz966.com. Pete’s Candy imum. Visit www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/mybrooklyn with Maine & Sarah and Cinnamon & Keisha, 10 March 17: Sweet Georgia Brown, $5 and $10 pm, $5; March 11: Fundraiser for the Last Licks donation. Store for an application and guidelines. featuring musical acts, drag, raffles, prizes and Waterfront Ale more, 4 pm, $15, Pisces Party with DJs Daryl 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in Williams- House Raymond, BK Brewster, and friends and go-go The Jazz Spot burg, (718) 302-3770, www.petescandystore.com. Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, FREE; March 11: 155 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn dancer Miss Maine, 10 pm, $5. 179 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at Kosciuszko Street in Heights, (718) 522-3794, My Brooklyn is made possible through generous support from Con Edison of New York. Kate Diamond, 8 pm, 9 pm, Welcome Wagon, 10 Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 453-7825, www.waterfrontalehouse.com.

535.AD.BKGEN (02.11.06) www.thejazz.8m.com. pm, 11 pm, FREE; March 12: Okay Paddy, 8:30 March 11: Lambic featuring Paul Sullivan and The Center for Mondays: Jam session, 8 pm, $5; March 11: pm, Matt Pless, 9:30 pm, Edward Calls Kelli Rae, Steve Moses, 11 pm, FREE; March 17: The Dave Sisters in Scat featuring Allison Crockett, Alva 10:30 pm, FREE; March 13: Comedy Show and Improvisational Gross band, 11 pm, FREE; March 18: Jon Sigel Anderson, Charanee Wade, and Kathy Farmer, 9 Tell, 7:30 pm, El Ret, 9:30 pm, Madagascar, 10:30 Quartet, 11 pm, FREE. Music pm, 10:30 pm, midnight, $15; March 18: Dotti pm, FREE; March 14: Bingo, 7 pm, Tim Reale, 9 295 Douglass St. at Third Avenue in Park Slope, Anita Taylor Quartet, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, midnight, pm, Matt Heaton, 10 pm, Mike Winograd, 11 pm, (212) 631-5882, www.schoolforimprov.org. $15. FREE; March 15: Quizz-Off, 7:30 pm, New Water Street March 11: Scott Colley, 8 pm, $12; March 18: Tim American Wing, 10 pm, Why Twist the Hair, 11 Restaurant & Berne, 8 pm, $12. Kili Bar-Cafe pm, FREE; March 16: Graham Smith, 8 pm, Mike 81 Hoyt St. at State Street in Boerum Hill, (718) Robertson, 9 pm, Ellie Everdell, 10 pm, Sara Beck, Lounge Chocolate Monkey 855-5574. 11 pm, FREE; March 17: The Shellye Valauskas 66 Water St. at Main Street in DUMBO, (718) 329 Flatbush Ave. at Seventh Avenue in Park Tuesdays: Open acoustics, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: Experience, 8 pm, Drew Victor and We Are the 625-9352, www.waterstreetrestaurant.com. Slope, (718) 789-7896. DJ Chappy plays rock, hip-hop and funk, 10:30 Beautiful, 9 pm, The King Canutes, 10 pm, Pee- March 17: CAVA, 5:30 pm, $TBD. Saturdays: Express a.k.a. open mic poetry talent pm, FREE. Wee Fist, 11 pm, FREE; March 18: Claremont showcase, 10 pm, $7 (performers), $10 (specta- Taylor, 9 pm, Ursa Minor, 10 pm, Matty Charles The Wicked Monk and the Valentines, 11 pm, FREE. Galleries in DUMBO @ 111 Front Street tors), Sexy Lounge After-Party with DJ Ozkar Laila Lounge 8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street in Bay Ridge, Fuller spinning house, classics and rare grooves, 113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue in (718) 921-0601, www.wickedmonk.com. Space Available call Chris Havens 718.222.2505 12:30 am, FREE; Sundays: Krazy Nanny’s Sunday Williamsburg, (718) 486-6791, Rbar March 11: Closenuf, 8 pm, $TBD; March 17: The Karaoke featuring Lisa Love, 9 pm, FREE; www.lailalounge.com. 451 Meeker Ave. at Graham Avenue in Dirty Stayouts, 8 pm, $TBD; March 18: The GNB, Two Trees www.dumbo-newyork.com Tuesdays: Femme Elite Entertainment music by Mondays: Karaoke with the Corn-Fed Sisters, 10 Greenpoint, (718) 486-6116. 8 pm, Conrad Bain, 11 pm, $TBD. DJs Candy and Inez hosted by Lisa Love, 6 pm, pm, FREE; Tuesdays: APA League, 7 pm, FREE; Mondays: Guest bartender nights, 9 pm, FREE; FREE ($5 after 9 pm); Wednesdays: Comedy Wednesdays: Jezebel Music Showcase with an Tuesdays: “Mikey’s Big Gay Pajama Party,” 11 Zebulon Showcase hosted by Ray DeJon, 9 pm, $10; open mic, 7:30 pm, Live music, 8:30 pm, FREE; pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Karaoke, 9 pm, FREE; 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan Avenue in Thursdays: A Taste of the Underground, 9 pm, Fridays: All Night Cookin’, 9 pm, OHM, 11 pm, Thursdays: Comedy Night, 8 pm, FREE. FREE; Fridays: “After Work Karaoke” hosted by Williamsburg, (718) 218-6934, 5+5 Gallery | MF Adams Gallery | Howard Lisa Smiles, 6 pm, FREE, Live music and DJ, 11 www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. pm, $5. March 11: Zemog, el Gallo Bueno, 10 pm, FREE; Schickler Fine Art | Henry Gregg Gallery | March 12: Unbroken, 10 pm, FREE; March 13: Club Exit Orchestra Slang (Kenny Wollesen, Butch Morris, s.e.e.dgallery | Safe-T-Gallery | Wessel + TALK TO US… Jonathon Haffner and a 16-piece ensemble orches- 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in tra), 7 pm, 9 pm, The Foreigners, 10:30 pm, FREE; Greenpoint, (718) 349-6969, www.club-exit.com. O’Connor Fine Art | Underbridge Pictures | To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as possible. Include name of March 14: Orchestra Slang, 7 pm, 9 pm, FREE; Saturdays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, $15 (ladies venue, address with cross street, phone number for the public to call, Web site address, dates, times March 15: Orchestra Slang, 7 pm, 9 pm, Akim Funk Nelson Hancock Gallery | Gloria Kennedy Gallery FREE until 11 pm); Fridays: DJ Dance Party, 10 and admission or ticket prices. Send listings and color photos of performers via e-mail to Buddha, 10:30 pm, FREE; March 16: Orchestra pm, FREE. [email protected] or via fax at (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space Slang, 7 pm, 9 pm, FREE, Rabecano Forro, Eliano available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. Braz, 11 pm, FREE; March 17: Orchestra Slang, 7 Club Xo The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the venue before you go to confirm event pm, 9 pm, FREE, Bonga, 11 pm, FREE; March 18: 1819 Utica Ave. at Avenue J in Flatlands, (718) details. 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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT Yards plan not just Nets RESS COVERAGE OF failed Atlantic Center mall). having the Nets in Brooklyn, and This debate, for example, the initial demolition work The Frank Gehry-designed arena our reporter, Lucky Ngamwajasat, should revisit the sweetheart deal Pat Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic has always been the carrot, while has been covering their games in Ratner received to obtain the de- Yards project this week tended Ratner has spent hundreds of thou- anticipation. velopment rights from the MTA, to focus on the gleaming bas- sands of dollars in public relations And while the team’s relocation bidding $150 million less than the ketball arena that may rise campaigns to hide the stick: 17 sky- here will cost millions in taxpayer agency’s own appraisers said it from the rubble of the six scrapers containing a mini-city of subsidies, as pre-eminent Brooklyn was worth. 8,300 units of housing and millions boosters, we’re not about to say it’s This debate is about whether the buildings Ratner is bringing of square feet of probably unneeded wrong to put a high price on civic state should use its power of emi- down this month. office space sitting on a neighbor- pride. nent domain to condemn privately But Atlantic Yards is not — hood-deadening superblock. That said, we’d still like to see a owned buildings and transfer them and never has been — simply Ratner says the project’s elimi- real debate about the serious issues to Ratner. about bringing the Ratner-owned nation of the Long Island Rail surrounding the entire Atlantic And this debate should be about New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn. Road “cut” will heal an open Yards mega-project, a development the impact of the full Atlantic It may surprise Ratner to learn wound that separates Fort Greene in which the arena is a tiny part. Yards project on surrounding that many skeptics — including from Prospect Heights, but those Such a debate is unlikely as long neighborhoods. this newspaper — actually sup- towers and that superblock will ac- as the city’s media and political All of these issues have been port the notion of an NBA team tually do the opposite, permanently leaders pretend that the multi-bil- covered extensively by this paper, playing in Downtown Brooklyn cutting the neighborhoods off from lion-dollar, city-changing Atlantic but not by Manhattan-based me- (although the perfect site was each other. Yards project is about basketball. It dia, which still treats Atlantic Yards where Ratner chose to build his We remain enthusiastic about is about so much more. like a basketball story.

LETTERS Cristian Fleming ‘Sacre Jew!’ That Frenchman is anti-Semitic To the editor: , are questioning this ple behind the commercial development President Bush never said that people Your article about the French protest Off the Mark development. of the Brooklyn Bridge Park, look no were not going to die. figure Jose Bove being barred from the To the editor: And virtually all of the organizations further than the BQE. He has paid his tributes to the fallen United States mentioned that he once Alas, the news is true: Mark Lanes in now suing FCR and the state have said The trench was supposed to be cov- soldiers and has expressed his condo- drove his tractor through a McDonald’s Bay Ridge will close (“Game Over,” Feb. they favor development of the Vander- ered by a park to mitigate the noise and lences. We need to move forward and in France (“Border Patrol,” Feb. 18). 25). Well, I would like to thank Mark bilt Yards, but cannot support the At- to keep the neighborhood from being di- help the Iraqis establish a free country, But there are other things about Bove Lanes for its many years of giving us lantic Yards project as currently pro- vided. Promises, promises — now it’s which is why our soldiers sacrificed that may be less well known in this great moments, a place to socialize and posed. decades later and they’re still unmet. their lives. Victor Davis Hanson, author of country. meet people we might have never been Your paper has taken a very unfortu- Paul Banks, Cobble Hill able to. nate turn, allowing snide editorial quips “Iraq’s Future — and Ours,” stated, Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc. He has made common cause in France “Americans have forgotten that there Established 1978. Copyright 2006. with Islamist groups as part of the anti- With owners who cared for the com- into news stories and abandoning its munity, Mark Lanes is, and was, what previous professionalism. I hope we can In favor of war can be much worse things than war. 55 Washington St, Ste 624, Brooklyn, globalization crusade, making “anti- NY 11201 • Phone (718) 834-9350 Bay Ridge is all about. On Saturday see a return to previous standards. To the editor: Stalin, Hitler, and Mao killed far more Zionism” a new acceptable form of anti- I am writing in response to your re- off the battlefield than those lost in Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105). Semitism on the left. This distinguishes mornings, I couldn’t wait to go there, and James Vogel, Prospect Heights schooldays dragged on ever so slowly cent coverage of an anti-war rally in World War I and II; bloodbaths in Cam- itself from more-traditional French anti- bodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda transpired in PUBLISHER Celia Weintrob (ext 104) until I could get there to throw the ball Brooklyn (Feb. 25). EDITOR Gersh Kuntzman Semitism, which had historically been a peacetime precisely because there were (ext 119) and hear the crashing of the pins. Protester Carson Hendricks brought a SENIOR EDITOR /PRODUCTION MGR right-wing trait. The beef on pork no troops around to thwart the mass The 212 score I bowled there last sign that read, “U.S. soldiers are nothing Vince DiMiceli (ext 125) Bove, on his return to France from a To the editor: but hired murderers.” I presume that Mr. murders.” month means more to me now than ever, How dare you call the money Rep. Ny- GO BROOKLYN/BROOKLYN BRIDE EDITOR visit to Ramallah, claimed that a series of Hendricks voted for John Kerry — does Ms. Benn and Mr. Hendricks should Lisa J. Curtis (ext 131) because it is a lesson to seize the day dia Velazquez (D-Sunset Park) secured attacks on synagogues in France had ac- he consider Mr. Kerry a “hired murder- have an anti-Saddam rally. ART DIRECTOR Leah Mitch (ext 127) while you can. Tom Brice, Bay Ridge for a pollution and noise study of the tually been orchestrated by the Israeli se- er” for being a soldier in Vietnam? They could construct mass graves and COMPOSITION OWNERSHIP: Entire contents copyright Brooklyn-Queens Expressway “pork.” cret service, the Mossad. The men and women who join the drape them with Iraqi flags symbolizing 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc. All ads and other Talk about bias! content prepared by our staff, including ART WORK, DE- military are brave, courageous, and hon- the millions of innocent people killed by SIGN and COPY, remain the sole property of The Brook- To his credit, he did issue an apology A different standard I have lived with the noise, smog, and one year later, after his release from a orable for making sacrifices to ensure Saddam. Faith Tuohy, Bay Ridge lyn Papers and may not be reproduced elsewhere with- To the editor: vibrations from the BQE for years. I’ve our freedom and our way of life. These out the Publisher’s written permission. French prison. Saul D. Raw, Park Slope ADVERTISING: Subject to Terms Governing Acceptance Contrary to what Forest City Ratner seen the neighborhood children get asth- qualities are what separate soldiers from of Advertising published in our latest rate card. spokesman Joe DePlasco believes, op- ma and I’ve been awakened many a people like Carson Hendricks. EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: The Brooklyn Papers as- ponents of Atlantic Yards project are, in night by the noise. While much-less-pop- Protestor Ruth Benn defended the sumes no responsibility for unsolicited materials. Articles, Don’t blame Dick Send us a letter story ideas, letters, photography, and all other materials fact, interested in responsible develop- ulated neighborhoods across America anti-war rally: “The coffins represent the delivered to The Brooklyn Papers, whether or not solicit- To the editor: ment, jobs and housing (“Full Court have tall barriers to keep out interstate very thing the Bush Administration By mail: Letters Editor, Brooklyn Papers, ed by Publisher or Publisher’s agent and whether or not I object to Gersh Kuntzman’s column 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 they contain or are otherwise accompanied by restric- Press,” Feb. 25). It is Forest City Ratner noise, we, the hard-working people of doesn’t want us to see: the deaths that tions on publication or use, will be treated as uncondi- By fax: (718) 834-9278. about Dick Cheney (“Brooklyn to Dick that has excluded all the long-estab- Brooklyn, have to just put up with it. tionally assigned to The Brooklyn Papers for publication have occurred because of this war.” By email: [email protected] Cheney: Don’t Shoot,” Feb. 25). The vic- lished community groups from this I’ve spoken to my 70-year-old neigh- One would be a fool not to realize and copyright purposes, unless otherwise agreed in writ- tim of the shooting should know to stay All letters must be signed and include the writer’s ing by the Publisher prior to publication. All submitted process. FCR has manufactured commu- bor about what this neighborhood once that unfortunately people do die during home address and phone number (only the material becomes the property of The Brooklyn Papers off the range when hunting is in progress. nity groups to mouth its propaganda. was. It always brings a tear to his eye. which may edit, publish and assign the material for use in wars. President Bush is not responsible writer’s name and neighborhood are published any medium now known or later developed. Submissions Can we get real journalists please? More people everyday, including long- If you want to know why Brook- for what ignorant people choose to see with the letter). will not be returned and may not be acknowledged. Janet Abdel Megeed, Park Slope time supporters like Borough President lynites don’t trust developers or the peo- and not see. Letters may be edited and will not be returned. CIRCULATION: Net figures, based on period norms.

Flatbush Avenue. (212) 439-1090. and 8 pm. 1012 Eighth Ave. (718) WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence 989-2449. hosts his Metro Tour Service, tak- OTHER BCAT Program Guide – What’s on Brooklyn Community Access Television Where to GO... ing a walk through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Brooklyn Heights. SPRING SALE: Women’s Guild of $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. Meet at Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church Continued from page 7... “What Love Means To You People.” Marriott Hotel Brooklyn, 333 hosts its annual spring rummage 8 pm. JJ Byrne Park, Fifth Avenue Adams St. (718) 789-0430. sale. 10 am to 4 pm. Flatbush and Acts” and “Dido and Aeneas.” $20 Church avenues. (718) 284-5140. to $70. 7:30 pm. BAM Opera House, between Third and Fourth streets. PERFORMANCE SALE: Sunset Park Community 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 624-8400. (718) 768-3195. Free. JAZZ: Central Brooklyn Jazz Consor- Church hosts a flea market. 10 am BOOK COURT: Maud Casey reads NEXT WAVE: “Hedda Gabler.” 7:30 pm. See Sat., March 18. tium presents “Jazz! The Women’s to 3 pm. 5324 Fourth Ave. (718) from her book, “Genealogy.” Also, Viewpoint.” $20. 1 pm to 4 pm. 439-6944. Darcy Steinke reads from “Milk.” 8 ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “The Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration LUNCHEON: St. Patrick’s Day cele- Who Says Art pm. 163 Court St. (718) 875-3677. Emperor Jones.” $37.50. 8 pm. Corporation, 1360 Fulton St. (917) bration. $15. 1 pm to 4 pm. Christ Free. See Sat., March 18. 676-8251. Church of Bay Ridge, 7301 Ridge PETE’S CANDY STORE: New Ameri- MUSIC: Brooklyn Public Library’s Blvd. (718) 745-5478. can Wing Trio performs. 10 pm. Flatbush branch presents “Music AUTHOR TALK: Brooklyn Public 709 Lorimer St. (718) 302-3770. RI ARCH F , M 17 Off the Shelves: Mozart’s Latest Library’s Central branch offers a NEXT WAVE: “Hedda Gabler.” 7:30 St. Patrick’s Day Show.” 1:30 pm. 22 Linden Blvd. discussion series. Today, “How the pm. See Sat., March 18. (718) 856-0813. Brooklyn Heights Pro Choice Movement Saved Isn’t Easy? ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “The SENIOR CINEMA: Brooklyn Aca- branch, at 280 Cadman Plaza America.” Cristina Page, writer Emperor Jones.” $25. 8 pm. See demy of Music and Oxford Health West, presents the performance at and activist, is guest speaker. 2 Sat., March 18. Plans host a movie series for sen- 4 pm. (718) 632-7000. Free. pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230- By Leonard Jacobs iors. Today: “Bringing Up Baby” DANCE: Mark Morris Dance performs 2100. Free. (1938). 10 am. Free popcorn and “Solos, Duets and Trios.” $40. 5 pm. BAMCINEMATEK: presents “Man in THURS, MARCH 16 soda. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636- 3 Lafayette Ave. (718) 624-8400. the Dunes: Discovering Hiroshi 4122. Free. BAM DANCE: Mark Morris Dance Teshigahara.” Today: “Woman in SAFETY TALK: Brooklyn Chamber of BAMCINEMATEK: presents “Man in Group performs “Four Saints in the Dunes” (1964). $10. 3 pm, 6 ive Melvin Isaac a brush and his fingers will quickly turn a blank Commerce presents the director the Dunes: Discovering Hiroshi Three Acts” and “Dido and pm and 9 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. page or canvas into art. But Isaac, who hosts Artistic Talent of the Lead Education Program, Teshigahara.” Today: “Woman in Aeneas.” $20 to $70. 7:30 pm. (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. G NYC Department of Housing. the Dunes” (1964). $10. 3 pm, 6 BAM Opera House, 30 Lafayette RECEPTION: Hogar Collection monthly on Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT), Contractors, building owners and pm and 9 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. Ave. (718) 624-8400. Gallery presents “Into the Air,” an tenants are invited to learn about (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- exhibit of sculpture and works on isn’t content merely to create art or to display it on his website, lead paint. 8:30 am to 10:30 am. MOVIE: Brooklyn Public Library’s cert of Mozart, Dohnanyi and paper by Alfonso Cantu and Todd 25 Elm Place, suite 200. (718) 875- Central branch hosts “Friday Night Brahms. $35, $30 seniors, $25 stu- Rosenbaurm. 6 pm to 9 pm. 111 www.creativeafricanamericanartist.com. He is deeply committed to a 1000. Free. at the Movies: Leading Ladies.” dents. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Grand St. (718) 388-5022. Free. project called Uth Turn, a nonprofit effort involving churches, the BUSINESS TALK: Church Avenue Tonight: “All About Eve” with Landing, Old Fulton Street at the DINNER DANCE PARTY: Progressive Merchants Block Association offers Bette Davis. 6 pm. Grand Army East River. (718) 624-2083. synagogue Kolot Chayeinu hosts a criminal justice system, the Fund for Community Leadership Melvin Isaacs, producer a talk on how to start a home- Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of benefit party honoring Wisconsin’s based daycare business. 10 am to BROOKLYN LYCEUM: presents a Music presents Cate Blanchett in U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold and others. Development and the New York Theological Seminary that works with of the weekly program 1 pm. 884 Flatbush Ave. (718) multimedia art and music event. “Hedda Gabler,” by Ibsen. $30 to $90 includes cocktail reception, silent 282-2500, ext. 242. Free. $5. 6:30 pm. 227 Fourth Ave. (718) $85. 2 pm and 7:30 pm. BAM auction and dance party. 7 pm to at-risk youth ages 13–21. Isaac’s contribution relates directly—and Artistic Talents on BCAT. FOOD GUIDE: Visiting Nurse Health 857-4816. Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. 11 pm. Grand Prospect Hall, 263 proudly, one should note—to the healing power of art. Care System gives a talk about ORIGINAL PLAYS: Young playwrights (718) 636-4100. Prospect Ave. (917) 853-6965. diabetes and nutrition and the present their works in “Off the HEIGHTS PLAYERS: perform “The HOLIDAY DINNER: Boy Scouts of new food guide pyramid. 11 am. Hook: Original Plays by Red Hook Crucible.” $12 adults, $10 children, America hosts its 27th annual St. On Artistic Talent, in essence, Isaac genial attitude and his confidence- After taking the classes, Isaac adds, Jay Senior Center, 2600 Ocean Kids.” 7 pm. PS 15, 71 Sullivan St. students and seniors. 8 pm. 26 Patrick’s dinner featuring corned Ave. (718) 923-5350. Free. (718) 254-0328. Free. Willow Place. (718) 237-2752. beef and cabbage, potatoes, and is teaching art to the youths of Uth building approach to art. “I went into the studio for a lot of LECTURE: Heights and Hill Com- BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: The other Irish trimmings. $15, $10 Turn on camera. So while the program “With a troubled kid, the first thing practicing” and that led him to munity Council presents a speaker cert of Mark O’Connor’s works. Wooster Group presents Eugene kids. 7:30 pm. New Utrecht series for seniors. Today: Professor $35, $30 seniors, $25 students. O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones.” Reformed Church, 18th Avenue is about showing the viewer how to I do is take their picture with a digital consider how often he might air the John Barrett discusses “That Man: 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, $37.50. 8 pm. 38 Water St. (718) and 84th Street. (718) 975-2548. draw and paint, at its deepest level it is camera,” he says. “I tell them I do this show, for which the concept was fast- An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Old Fulton Street at the East River. 254-8779. Roosevelt.” 2 pm to 3:30 pm. 160 (718) 624-2083. about showing everybody—whether because I see positive things in them. I evolving. “BCAT [advisors] suggested Montague St. (718) 596-8789. Free. CHILDREN RECEPTION: Tastes Like Chicken Art SUN, MARCH 19 they happen to be on camera or say, ‘I want you to see what I see.’ They monthly was the way to go because BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Space presents group show “Make RUN AROUND: Brooklyn Lyceum presents “Symbols of Spring.” Over.” Show features video, sculp- opens its theater stage for a “Kid PERFORMANCE happen to be sitting at home, that all don’t mind. Once I’ve done that, I with a weekly program, you do have Appropriate for ages 6 and older. ture, photography and installation. Runaround.” Bring your kid in to $4, free for members. 3 pm to burn off some winter energy. 10 BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the Per- of us possess a certain measure of download the picture and say, ‘I’m to put four tapes in their hands every 8 pm to 11 pm. 300 Morgan Ave. forming Arts presents the Shang- 4:30 pm. 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) (718) 384-0456. Free. am to 2 pm. Food is available. 227 talent. The only mistake you can going to show you how to draw your- month.” He says he has been 735-4400. Fourth Ave. (718) 857-4816. hai Circus. $10 to $20. 2 pm. Walt GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: presents Whitman Theater at Brooklyn make is to attempt to tell Isaac that self.’ I have tracing paper I put over the enormously gratified and encouraged LITERARY SERIES: Brooklyn Academy “Neal Medlyn: Superstar Duets.” HOUSE TOUR: Weeksville Heritage College, one block from the inter- of Music and the National Book $12. 8 pm. Also, Bindlestiff Family Center invites families to take a section of Flatbush and Nostrand you can’t draw, that you lack artistic picture and I let them trace it out. by the feedback so far. “I did the Awards Foundation host “Eat, Cirkus Winter Cabaret. $15, $5 dis- tour. Also, woodworking work- avenues. (718) 951-4600. Drink and Be Literary: Dinner and a shop. 10 am to 2 pm. Free. Also, skill. He’ll have none of it because, Then they’ll put it on regular paper, program maybe three, four times and count for clowns in make-up. 10 pm. CONCERT: Old Stone House presents Reading.” Today: John Sayles is 70 N. Sixth Street. (212) 868-4444. handmade book design workshop each day, he is working with young then drawing paper—I’m showing a lot of people caught it. And they guest author. Jessica Hagedorn for kids, ages 7 to 10. $4 donation. a series called “Zeemeeuw” (“sea- NEXT WAVE: “Hedda Gabler.” 7:30 gull” in Dutch). Today, music with moderates. $42. 6:30 pm. 30 pm. See Sat., March 18. 3 pm to 5 pm. 1698 Bergen St. people who are learning otherwise them, step-by-step, how to draw their emailed me and said, ‘That’s a great Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. (718) 756-5250. Leanne Darling and the Near East DANCE: Mark Morris Dance Group River Trio, in a program of Middle about themselves. own picture. It’s all there—just lining it show—we’ve never seen anything like FILM: Brooklyn Public Library’s performs. 7:30 pm. See Sat., POKEMON CHAMS: NY Pokemon Eastern music. $10. 2 pm. JJ Byrne Central branch presents “Tokyo March 18. Trading Card Game State Park, Fifth Avenue between Third “Uth Turn helps at-risk youth focus up, learning the techniques and the it.’ These were directors of art studios Story.” 7 pm. Grand Army Plaza. Championship. 11 am. 1724 East and Fourth streets. (718) 768-3195. in a positive direction,” Isaac explains. shading. They become so involved that, (718) 230-2100. Free. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “The 12th St. Visit op.pokemon-tcg. or regular people into art,” he says. Emperor Jones.” $37.50. 8 pm. com. Call. (718) 336-1955. HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “The Crucible.” “These are court-mandated, court- before you know it, I’m only with them MEETING: Community Board 15 See Sat., March 18. 3 pm. See Sat., March 18. “You know, most artists see things presents School Chancellor Joel ARTY FACTS: Brooklyn Museum invites adjudicated kids—maybe kids with an hour or two, we’re finished, and they people don’t see, so it’s all coming Klein. 7 pm to 9 pm. Working ses- kids, ages 4 and older, to look at art BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- sion at 6 pm. Brooklyn New School, and have an arts and crafts ses- cert of Mozart, Dohnanyi and substance abuse problems, what have say, ‘Wait a minute—I want to stay.’ from what you feel,” Isaac concludes. 610 Henry St. (718) 935-4267. SAT, MARCH 18 sion. $8 adults, $4 seniors and sen- Brahms. $35, $30 seniors, $25 stu- dents. 4 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, BAMCINEMATEK: “Some Kind of iors, free for children younger than you—so what we do is provide services And I say, ‘Look what just happened. “With art, you become the preacher. age 12. 11 am and 2 pm. 200 Old Fulton Street at the East River. Horror Show.” Today: “Innocent OUTDOORS AND TOURS (718) 624-2083. for them. We give them counseling, You see a picture that looks like you You’re teaching things people don’t Blood” (1992). $10. 7 pm. Q & A BIRDWATCHING: Learn what to look Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. with director John Landis follows MOVIE: Brooklyn Public Library’s NEXT WAVE: “Hedda Gabler.” 3 pm. group sessions. And I use art as art and you didn’t get into trouble. You see yet—or see in themselves. And for. Noon to 1:30 pm. Wollman See Sat., March 18. screening. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) Rink, Prospect Park. (718) 287- Central branch hosts a “Saturday therapy so it relieves the anger and didn’t curse, you didn’t fight.’ ” that itself is art.” 777-FILM. www.bam.org. 3400, ext. 101. Free. at the Movies” series. Today: ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “The BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- “Cinderella” (1950). 11 am. Grand Emperor Jones.” $37.50. 8 pm. stress. They’re missing a father figure: Isaac began Artistic Talent in 2004, BAY RIDGE NORTH: Brooklyn Cen- See Sat., March 18. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– cert of all Mark O’Connor. $35, ter for the Urban Environment Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. caring and love has broken down in shortly after becoming a certified $30 seniors, $25 students. 7:30 hosts a tour of a neighborhood CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Brooklyn CHILDREN the home. So we become the father BCAT producer and also getting Artistic Talents can be seen pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old filled with mansions, row houses, Children’s Museum presents a BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Fulton Street at the East River. suburban cul-de-sacs and large Mardi Gras celebration. $4, free presents a comedy and clown the- figure. It’s our mission to give back to video editing with the AVID XPress (718) 624-2083. in Brooklyn on BCAT on the apartment houses. $11, $9 mem- for members. Noon to 3 pm. 145 ater. $4, free for members. 1 pm the community, to try to find ways of program under his belt. All along, CEREMONY: State Sen. Martin Gol- bers, $8 seniors and students. 2 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. and 2 pm. Also, “Wondrous Women third Thursday of the month den’s office honors women who pm to 4 pm. Meet at Fourth and PUPPETWORKS: presents a mario- Inventors” workshop. Appropriate helping kids.” his goal has been to share his experi- have performed community serv- Bay Ridge avenues. (718) 788-8500. nette performance of “The Wizard for ages 5 and older. 1:30 pm to at 2pm and 10pm on Time ice. 7:30 pm. Bay Ridge Manor, URBAN RANGER WALK: Learn of Oz.” $8, $7 children. Recom- 2:30 pm, and 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. By putting them on camera, however, ence—and, yes, some of his own 476 76th St. (718) 238-6044. about the history of Fort Greene mended for ages 4 and older. 12:30 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. one supposes there are risks—what if a formidable artistic talent—with the DISCUSSION: Park Slope Hadassah pm and 2:30 pm. 338 Sixth Ave. at Warner Cable channel 35, Park. Ranger-led walk discusses MUSIC OFF THE WALLS: Brooklyn sulky teenager throws up his hands general public. “I have a passion to presents “Heart to Heart,” a dis- 148-foot fort’s role in the Revo- Fourth Street. (718) 965-3391. Museum presents the Brooklyn Cablevision channel 68, and cussion in honor of women’s heart- lutionary War and the prisoners of IMPACT THEATER: presents “Rudy Philharmonic in a family program and declares, “I can’t do this”? That, show people art, and my little nephew, health month. Nurse and physical war who are entombed in a vault. Rutabaga and the Terrible Dragon of “Carnival of the Animals,” fea- therapist conduct talk. $5. 7:45 1 pm. Meet at Visitor’s Center, of Amsteryork.” All ages welcome. turing music by Gershwin, Honeg- Isaac says, doesn’t happen—and that who’s into photography and cameras, streaming live online at pm. Madison Jewish Center, 2989 Myrtle Avenue and Washington $10, $7 children age 12 and ger, Saint-Saens, Bimstein and oth- may have something to do with his said this would be ideal,” he recalls. Nostrand Ave. (718) 282-2954. Park. Call 311. Free. younger. 1 pm and 4 pm. 90 ers. Program ties into the current www.bcat.tv/bcat. BOOK COURT: Emily Barton reads PARK SLOPE WALK: Big Onion Tours Underhill Ave. (718) 783-1348. William Wegman Weimaraner photo from her book “Brookland.” 8 pm. takes a walk around Brooklyn’s MUSICAL: Brooklyn Family Theater exhibit. $15, $10 students, seniors 163 Court St. (718) 875-3677. Free. 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The Brooklyn Papers “Orientation?” said Andrews, Not so fast, Senator! who is running to replace retiring BRIEFS Rep. (D-Crown State Sen. (D- Crown Heights) went into the bel- Heights). He also suggested that ly of the beast — or is it the beast lobbying his fellow lawmakers of the belly? — at the Park Slope could serve as his work shift (full Food Coop last week to get a disclosure: This reporter is also a briefing about the bete noir of member of the Coop — and if An- Vote ‘cheesy’ Coop activists, genetically modi- drews gets such a deal, this re- porter is counting this article as The Brooklyn Papers fied foods. The senator impressed many this month’s shift). To paraphrase the old Levy’s rye bread ads, you don’t have people with his understanding of It was a minor slip-up on an to be from Wisconsin to love Sen. Russ Feingold. the “Frankenfoods” that lurk on otherwise uneventful campaign As evidence, the junior senator from the famous cheese your grocer’s shelves and said he stop — although Andrews denied state will be honored next week by Kolot Chayeinu, a feisty, believes such foods should be suit- he had come to congressional rival liberal Park Slope synagogue that billed the event as part of ably labeled. Councilman David Yassky’s dis- Feingold’s effort to become the first Jewish president. But he risked losing all 13,000 trict in search of votes. “We’re a synagogue, not a political organization, but we of the famously liberal Coop’s po- “I’m not here as a candidate for do know he’s trying to become a national figure,” said An- tential votes when he misunder- Congress,” he told The Brooklyn drew Stettner, president of the congregation, which will hon- stood one of the institution’s most- Papers. “I’m here because the or Feingold at its 13th anniversary celebration on March 18. frustrating tenets. [Coop’s Safe Food] committee “It’s a good opportunity for him to speak to smart, pro- “I want to join up today,” he said, visited me twice in Albany to talk gressive Jews in Brooklyn,” he added. playing to the hometown crowd. But about labeling laws. Plus, I’ve al- As if Russ Feingold — the only senator to vote against the Mango / Greg his enthusiasm waned when he was ways had an interest in food.” Patriot Act in 2001 and the liberal half of the McCain-Fein- told that all would-be members must Andrews said he was most im- gold campaign finance partnership — needed help winning first attend a two-hour “orientation” pressed by the Coop’s commit- the smart, progressive Jewish vote in Brooklyn. — and sign up for their once-month- ment to the environment, its dona- “We admire his stand for social justice and civil liberties, ly work shifts — before they can tions to area soup kitchens and its

which few have done since 9-11,” said Stettner. “He’s Papers The Brooklyn start buying organic bok choy for 97 $2.42 price on Naked Juices. against-the-grain, like we are.” State Sen. Carl Andrews looks over some organic ground turkey at the last Friday. cents a pound. — Gersh Kuntzman How progressive is Kolot Chayeinu? It’s so progressive that congregants don’t even need to believe in God. “At Kolot Chayeinu,” the mission statement says, “doubt can be an act of faith.” The anniversary party, which will be held at the ornate Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope, will also honor the usual suspects of progressive Jewry, such as Legal Aid Society at- torney-in-chief Steve Banks, WNYC reporter/crusader-for- ‘826NYC’ fundraiser a hit justice Andrea Bernstein and writer Tisha Arlin. Nixon’s nemesis, Brooklynite Liz Holtzman, and Village The Brooklyn Papers gers and Park Sloper Jonathan — just wine, beer and mixed nuts Voice writer Wayne Barrett will make special presentations. There were many reasons for Safran Foer, author of the best book — and Foer was nowhere to be For tickets or information, visit the synagogue’s Web site of the last 50 years, “Everything is the literary-wannabes of Park found, but would-be donors were at www.kolotchayeinu.org. — Kuntzman Illuminated.” amply entertained by authors Mo Slope to donate at last week’s 2. It was held in the “Superhero Willems (“Don’t Let the Pigeon fundraiser for 826NYC, a tutor- Vault,” the rarely open secret back- Drive the Bus”) and Jon Scieszka ing center for kids: room of the quirky Superhero Sup- (“The True Story of the Three Little 1. The group’s board is a verita- ply Store at 372 Fifth Ave. Pigs), who are the Philip Roth and ble Barnes & Noble calendar of lu- 3. It was billed as a “cocktail Norman Mailer of the under-5 set. minaries, so the fundraiser offered swirl,” which sounded like a chance “Sorry about the [lack of] cock- the potential to schmooze with Eric to get drunk, yet do so in utter so- tails,” said 826NYC Executive Di- Bogosian, Ben Karlin of “The Dai- phistication. rector Scott Seeley. ly Show,” Sarah Vowell, Dave Eg- Alas, there weren’t any cocktails “All the wine and beer was do- nated.” The event did raise $20,000 for / Julie Rosenberg the group, which was celebrating the opening of its tutoring center at / Tom Callan / Tom PRESS RELEASE the Brooklyn Public Library’s Williamsburgh branch. “It’s a dream location for Papers The Brooklyn OF THE WEEK 826NYC’s second home,” said 826NYC volunteers Mo Willems (“Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus”) Vowell, the board president. and Jon Scieszka (“The Stinky Cheese Man”) address the crowd at a cock-

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn — Kuntzman tail-less cocktail fundraiser in Park Slope. A woman carring a baby crosses Vanderbilt Avenue at Dean Street in Prospect Heights. You’re invited Traffic calming to celebrate ‘Millionaire’ wins for Vanderbilt a measly $50G The Brooklyn Papers Stroller moms to the rescue! Steve’s stroke The Brooklyn Papers “I was thinking the right an- Vanderbilt Avenue, which has become a four-lane mini-ex- Leave it to a sheet metal swer was a Hershey bar, so pressway for motorists seeking to bypass clogged Flatbush The Brooklyn Papers worker to know when to I’m so glad I didn’t risk it all,” Avenue, will be losing two lanes under a Department of Hey, Assemblyman Cymbrowitz, happy stroke day! Bleil said, who had an- fold. swered earlier ques- Transportation plan to calm Prospect Heights’ main artery. Lawmaker Steve Cymbrowitz (D-Sheepshead Bay) earned the Russ Bleil of Ma- tions such as what the Sometime next month, DOT workers will paint new lines coveted “Press Release of the Week” award when he invited Brook- rine Park walked narrator in the folk on the thoroughfare, from Sterling to Dean streets, essentially lynites to join him in marking the first anniversary of his stroke re- / Julie Rosenberg away with $50,000 song, “On Top of converting two opposite-flowing lanes into one left-turn lane. covery at Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park. on “Who Wants to Old Smoky,” la- “Cymbrowitz was rushed to the emergency room one year ago “Everyone is very excited,” said Danae Oratowski, a mem- Be a Millionaire?” ments losing (his this week,” the release said. “He was experiencing stroke symptoms ber of both the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development this week rather true lover) and what and was quickly assessed by the neurologist stroke director. After Council and the Prospect Heights Parents Association. than risk a wrong new test was added

confirming the presence of a blood clot in his brain, Cymbrowitz Papers The Brooklyn “It’s too unsafe to cross because cars are speeding to make answer on the to the SAT in 2005 was treated in the advanced Interventional Neuroradiology Suite at all the lights. And they make crazy left turns.” $100,000 question: (writing). Maimonides. The specialist removed the blood clot — without sur- The numbers bear that out. From 1995 to 2001, 32 pedes- “In 1974, what prod- He also knew that gery. All of the Assemblyman’s symptoms disappeared and he made Sneaky graffiti trians were injured — one fatally — along Vanderbilt Avenue, uct became the first to the U.S. Postal Service a complete recovery.” Enough already with the sneakyweasels.com according to Transportation Alternatives, a traffic watchdog be scanned using the UPC still uses mules to deliver He returned to the hospital this Thursday to “join the Maimonides group. More recent numbers are not available. bar code?” mail in Arizona. graffiti! Seventh Avenue in Park Slope was Stroke Center staff for a celebration of the one-year anniversary of Oratowski said DOT will install a raised median rather than The answer, of course, is a But he didn’t know the il- awash in chalk promoting the Web site, and his miraculous treatment.” just painted lines if the community can raise the money for it — pack of Wrigley’s gum. lustrious history of the UPC many residents fired off angry emails, said The only thing missing from the press release was advice on what which prompted at least one Vanderbilt resident to complain on By not answering, Bleil bar code. David Scott, its creator. “We wanted to be in to get someone for the first anniversary of his stroke. Is that the pa- his blog that taxes are typically collected for such purposes. held onto the $50,000 he had “I’m still happy,” he said your face, like Coca-Cola,” Scott said. “In the per anniversary? Gold? Platinum? Stent? Foley catheter? Oratowski also said that it was actually a stroller dad, Mike already won. Had he answered this week. “Fifty-thousand end, folks, it’s just chalk!” Sneakyweasels offers Dowd, who started the Vanderbilt traffic calming crusade last — Kuntzman incorrectly, he would have dollars is a good day.” comedy videos — but Scott said he wasn’t year. — Kuntzman gone home with $25,000. — Chester Hawkins laughing at locals’ threats to call the cops. CHECKIN’ IN WITH... BANNED… Continued from page 1 billion of economic activity, Michael Cairl People are just exhausted by it.” according to the film office. The Second Avenue Subway. A cross-harbor freight tun- Of course, it could have “Short-term inconvenience nel. High-speed trains from Midtown Manhattan to JFK. been worse. Last fall, an Indian translates to big-time tax rev- To the list of unrealized transit dreams you can now add production company, Bolly- enue and jobs,” said film office a tunnel to replace the Gowanus Expressway. But one wood Hollywood, filmed a spokeswoman Julianne Cho. thing is different: This pie-in-the-sky transportation proj- love story on Cranberry Street. And film crews are well ect is actually going to happen — or so says its chief Over the course of several days known for paying hush money cheerleader, Michael Cairl, chair of the Gowanus Commu- of shooting, crew members to local groups. nity Stakeholders Group. This week, the group finalized Martin Scorsese, for exam- routes for the proposed $13- to $18-billion tunnel for full climbed up a brownstone to string lights, squashing plants ple, gave the Brooklyn Heights environmental review. And Cairl says the state, which Association a nice “donation” once resisted the notion, is now backing it. This week, and shocking its owners, who to thank the group for its coop- Callan / Tom Gersh Kuntzman checked in with the transit consultant. came home to find a trail of big-watt bulbs strung over their eration during the filming of his terrace, Stanton said. soon-to-be-released gang dra- Q: Forgive my cynicism, but I find it not just a road-building project, but an eco- While no houseplants were ma, “The Departed” (which, very hard to believe that the nomic development project that involves harmed in last week’s filming, ironically, is set in Boston).

Gowanus will someday be replaced public health, public safety, land use and area residents hope that the tem- And Warner Bros. said it Papers The Brooklyn would make a similar contribu- with a $13- to $18-billion tunnel. economic benefits that more than offset the porary ban in the Heights will Parking was banned on Pierrepont Place near Pierrepont Street for filming on March 1. tion in the name of getting A: True, it’s not a measly amount, but look cost of the tunnel. give movie-makers a chance to scope out other scenic areas. along with the natives. at it in the context of the future economic Q: How did this come about? “I don’t know if the people New York saw more film Last year, Steven Spielberg a Long Island City rooftop. development of the Gowanus corridor. Hav- “Other neighborhoods in A: In the 1990s, several community organi- Brooklyn offer the same struc- around [here] consider them- crews last year than it had in chose Fort Greene as New And during the fall, director ing a tunnel will aid retail expansion, make zations asked the state to consider a tunnel selves lucky,” said “August more than a decade, with York base for “Munich,” and Julie Taymor descended on Red the waterfront accessible for parkland, and tures that we have. Why don’t rather than rebuilding the viaduct. The state they go there?” asked one far- Rush” spokeswoman Patti 31,570 shooting days on loca- ended the film with an iconic Hook to shoot her latest drama, make more buildings to the west of the high- turned it down, so the coalition sued. In Hawn, “but [we’re giving tion — a 35-percent increase shot of a computer re-generated “Across the Universe” on a des- way available for mixed-income housing. from-starstruck Heights resi- 2001, the lawsuit was settled, and the state dent. them] a good deal.” over 2004. World Trade Center taken from olate patch of waterfront. Q: Is this Brooklyn’s Big Dig? agreed to consider a tunnel alternative. But not everyone is quite so A: We avoid that term because Boston’s Big That’s where we are now. embittered. Dig was best known for cost-overruns. But Q: The good news is that you have Holy Trinity says the movie it has created a boom in Boston’s North End personal credibility on these issues. business pays nicely to rent the next 10 years,” added major battle line in the war that we think is comparable to what we You’re working on the extension of space — and the church lead- Aaron Naparstek, the author of against Bruce Ratner’s At- would experience. What we’re planning is the Newark subway system, right? ers’ vow of poverty doesn’t PARKING… “Honku: The Zen Antidote to lantic Yards project. Already, Road Rage” and a moderator 4,600 vehicles pass through similar to when the West Side Highway was A: And light-rail for Phoenix. mean they don’t devour torn down. That area was a blight. But it’s celebrity magazines. Continued from page 1 neighborhood as a parking lot at last week’s well-attended the intersection of Atlantic and not now. Besides, something has to be done Q: Oh, man, what a lousy city that is! “The sextons do get excited No word yet on how much will be discouraged from do- Park Slope Civic Council traf- Flatbush avenues every hour because the viaduct will only last for anoth- Traffic, smog, sprawl and unrelenting if there is a really big star the passes would cost, but ing so,” said Carolyn Kon- fic forum. during commuting times, ac- er 15 years or so. heat! It actually may be Hell on earth. around,” said parish adminis- prices range from $60 a year heim of Community Consult- Since 2002, traffic crossing cording to DOT. Q: But the state could rebuild it for A: Did you have a question? trator Gregory Eaton. “Plus, in San Francisco to $15 annu- ing Services, an independent Brooklyn bridges has risen by And if Atlantic Yards is ally in Washington. transportation analysis firm. about three percent annually, built, 40,000 more vehicles $4 or $5 billion. Isn’t that better? Q: No, just making a statement of it’s a good source of income.” That’s true for the church Transportation experts say “With streets as congested to more than 300,000 cars a will join the mix every day, A: Cheaper, yes, but not better. Our tunnel is fact. — and for the city. In 2005, the price is worth it. as they are now, our neighbor- day. according to a Community the film industry created $5 “People who are using the hoods aren’t going to survive The gridlock has become a Consulting Services study. March 11, 2006 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • TO ADVERTISE CALL (718) 834-9350 AWP 13

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