Two birds with one stone!

classon

(Classon Ave, Girly Ghost)

Sunday at Move With Grace (Myrtle bt Washington and Hall):

Join our next session of Belly Dancing for Beginners with a FREE class (6-7:30pm)!

Egyptian Belly Dance (Beginners with Alexandra)

Free Belly Dancing Class + 6 week series…

Enjoy not only a free class, but reduced rates when you sign up on or before SUNDAY November 2nd. Enjoy a full 90 minute introduction to the ancient dance of African and Eastern Culture “Rak Sharshi”. Visual Artist, Teacher and Dancer Alexandra Zevin will guide you with shimmies, swaying and figure 8′s.

This is a wonderful workout for your body and soul, a great stress relief and a way to get away from day-to-day rituals.

What to wear: Come as you are. No shoes will be needed in the class. Please wear comfortable, breathable dance or fitness attire. You may bring a hip scarf if you have one.

Time: 6pm-7:30pm Please arrive at least 5 minutes early as class will begin at 6pm sharp! Students must join the class before warm-up is over (15 minutes into class)

Our Price: $84 Reduced price when you sign up on the day of or before the FREE class 11/2

List Price: $92 when you sign up after this demo class.

Drop in Fee: Drop-ins are welcome at $16/class or Pay $135/10classes and you may take both the Tuesday 7pm class in addition to the Sunday Class!

Received a blog post notice from the fine floral/plant gurus at Root Stock and Quade on Myrtle.  It seems their Park Slope headquarters were damaged in a fire, and they’re making Myrtle their official home base.

Sad to hear about the original store, but nice to know they’ll be investing even more into their gorgeous Clinton Hill shop!

If you’ve walked down Clinton this week, you’ve seen the set at 313 Clinton Avenue.  You may have even seen a rehearsal or two!

Shows start Friday at 5:30 and run every half-hour or so until 9ish.  The theme?  High School Musi-Ghoul.  You’ll want to catch the dance finale, choreographed by yours truly.

our set!

Congrats to PBB for this exciting opportunity!

Anyone who’s lived in the ‘hood for more than a year should be eagerly anticipating this Sunday’s big neighborhood event: The NYC Marathon!

The marathon runs straight down Lafayette Avenue, through Fort Greene and Clinton Hill into Bed-Stuy, from Ashland to Bedford.

Crowds fill the streets, high school marching bands replay the Rocky theme, people wave signs and call out the names of the runners, people blast sound systems.  It’s really quite inspiring (especially to me this year, nursing a sprained ankle).

Lots of people have Marathon brunches for friends- it’s a great day to invite people out to Clinton Hill!

closeup of the action

Breaking news, and the gunman has not been caught.

Info:

Il Porto, the tremendously tasty new brick-oven pizza outfit on Washington near Flushing now has a beer/wine license (to fill out that huge bar they have in the sit-down dining room!).

I checked out brunch a few weekends ago, and it was delish.  The portions were ginormous.  And there is absolutely no reason why you can’t have the dessert pizza after the crabmeat eggs benedict.

Didn’t have the camera, as I was meeting friends with a new baby, and just wanted to socialize, but trust me.  Giant. Portions.

Halloween is one week away, and I couldn’t help but share a few more HHs.

haunted on fulton

(Fulton bt Clinton and Waverly)

leaves by the curb

(Greene Ave)