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July 27, 2014 Your Neighborhood — Your News® July 27—Aug. 2, 2014 Harry Potter CHEW for adults BY NOAH HUROWITZ Call it Harry Potter and the Goblet of Beer. A party for Harry Potter-lov- ing muggles is coming to the Bell ON House in Gowanus on Aug. 2. And unlike the books, this event is strictly for adults. “There is going to be a little more debauchery,” said PotterCon organizer Margaret Kaminski. The free event promises drink- ing and other activities restricted from the original target demo- graphic of the books, along with THIS trivia, a sorting ceremony, and an Instagram-based costume con- test. Kaminski started PotterCon Anchor hosts food trivia night last year as a small party with about 10 of her friends at Fred- BY MATTHEW PERLMAN the Bell House than you do from dy’s Bar in Park Slope. Her pals Get quizzed by a pro. all the people who watch NY1.” indulged her Harry Potter ob- NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan is Questions for the quiz will re- session, she said, telling her the coming to the Bell House in Gow- volve around food, but they are party could stand in as her birth- anus for an epic food trivia night not aimed at epicureans, Kiernan day party that year. But when on July 29. And the Canadian– said. Each query is connected to other acquaintances started grip- born Williamsburg resident said the world of music, movies, and ing that they hadn’t been invited, the event will be even more fun popular culture — all areas of ex- she realized the event had broader than his broadcast shows. pertise for the host. appeal. “A live audience gives you en- “You’re more likely to be asked “So many people who hadn’t ANCHORMAN: Williamsburg resident Pat Kiernan has cultivated a devoted ergy in a way a television audience what fl avor was the pie in the pie known about it saw pictures and following as an anchor on NY1 since 1997, but he doubles as an expert in just doesn’t,” Kiernan said. “You eating contest in ‘Stand by Me’ Continued on page 10 popular culture. Photo by Tim Hill get more back from 300 people at Continued on page 10 Ridge makes peace Hard time for Rebar owner BY MAX JAEGER lims walking to the Thayba BY NOAH HUROWITZ sought — moments after Brooklyn Supreme Court, Jewish and Muslim lead- Islamic Center on Coney Sorry didn’t cut it. he apologized for the fi rst as the New York Post re- ers came together on Tues- Island Avenue for evening On Monday a judge time. ported. day to denounce two week- prayers on July 18, say wit- sentenced the Dumbo bar “I completely failed the “I’ll spend my time in end harassment incidents nesses, and a similar inci- owner who bilked dozens of trust that was put in me by prison trying to become a targeting Bay Ridge Mus- dent occurred in the early couples out of more than $1 my family and friends and better man so when I come lims. morning hours of July 21 CNG / Matthew Perlman million in wedding money the city and state of New out, I can begin the long Passengers in a car bear- outside of the Islamic Soci- BAD DAY IN COURT: Jason to three years and four York and the borough of process of starting to repay ing Israeli fl ags, sirens, ety of Bay Ridge, according Stevens, owner of shuttered months to 10 years in prison Brooklyn and, most impor- the fi nancial and emotional and fl ashing lights hurled to police. Dumbo event space Rebar, for tax fraud — the exact tantly, my employees and debts that I incurred,” he Islamophobic slurs at Mus- Continued on page 8 leaves court. amount prosecutors had customers,” Stevens said in Continued on page 10
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