One evening on a midsummer’s walk home from the subway, the golden light began to illuminate one of the houses that has long captured my imagination — the big blue house on 9th Street which is home to Slope Music. Recently, I stumbled across its history on the web and remembered the photo, which had [...]

Get your cameras ready tonight, because Brooklyn Borough Hall will be illuminated in glowing red lights to observe the 23rd Annual World AIDS Day! Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will be joined by Malaak Compton-Rock, supermodel Christy Turlington Burns, and actresses Gabrielle Union and Gabourey Sidibe for the lighting ceremony, which will run from 5-6:30pm [...]

Until its closure two weeks ago, The Baseball Card Dugout was an institution in Brooklyn, gracing the borough in two locations since the late Eighties. From 1988 until 2001, the store was on Sackett and Smith, and from 2001 until 2010, the store had its proud home on Court and 4th Place. The store was [...]

On a recent chilly autumn evening, I found myself out and about with friends in Fort Greene in search of a cozy to grab a bite. In the mood for a good pint of beer to warm us up, we ended up at Brooklyn Public House, a cozy Irish-style gastropub located in a beautifully-renovated brownstone [...]