Looks like someone's neon sign got fucked up. PAN y Mas opens tomorrow morning, and is offering cheap coffee:
If you go, please report back.
UPDATE: I walked by this morning and they were definitely NOT ready for opening. Employees were inside, but all the cases were empty and it looked like they were cleaning.
Hello everybody, This Friday the 16th, Olivino wines is hosting another of our favorite wine guys...Spencer from Winebow.
He'll be pouring 2 whites and 2 reds. First is an Alsatian riesling which I promise you is a perfect example of how a wine can be fruity but dry. The second is a white from the Languedoc, which has some similar characteristics to a white bordeaux but completely different grape varieties.
The first of the two reds is a cabernet from Stag Leap's second label, Hawk Crest that is more bordeaux in style than typical big Californian. And last but not least is a delicious malbec from Catena winery in Argentina.
Hope to see you here,
As always, we're at 905 Fulton Street, bet. Clinton and Vanderbilt. Tel. 718/857-7952
Cheers, Olivino
I came across a new vintage-ish clothing store last weekend, though they claim to have been open since Thanksgiving. I see how that's possible- this place is on that teeny stretch of S. Portland between Fulton and Hanson, and I'd have no reason to walk there.
The gold mannequins are a little creepy.
It's owned by the same people who own Habana Outpost, and I believe one of Habana's owners is the clothing designer at The Stroll. It appears he takes vintage items and remakes them. Some of the stuff was really out there, but there were a few things I would have definitely worn.
There's a really cool mural painted on the ceiling:
They offered me a free glass of wine, and they also offer carious crafting nights:
The Stroll
109 South Portland St. Ave.
www.recycledrejectshop.com
(Franklin at Lexington)
Clinton Hill is home to many, many feral kitties, and Slope Street Cats, a volunteer organization, has helped several of them through their Trap-Neuter-Return program. They're having a seminar, so please attend if you have a feral colony nearby you'd like to help: Slope Street Cats Trap-Neuter-Return Workshop March 24, 2007 Be Part of the Humane Alternative
Ever wonder how you can best help the feral cats on your streets, in empty lots and backyards?
Slope Street Cats is hosting a comprehensive workshop, sponsored by Neighborhood Cats, on trap-neuter-return—the healthiest and most humane alternative for feral cats. We'll cover the trap-neuter-return process, feral nutrition, advocacy, socialization, spay/neuter options, and cold-weather caretaking tips.
WHEN Saturday, March 24, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
WHERE Park Slope Food Coop 782 Union Street (betw 6th & 7th Avenues) Brooklyn, NY 11215
WHO Slope Street Cats is a nonprofit, volunteer collective dedicated to reducing feline overpopulation in Brooklyn through trap-neuter-return.
The workshop will be led by Jesse Oldham, founder and board member of Slope Street Cats and a member of the NYC Feral Cat Council. She has been an animal welfare advocate for 14 years. HOW This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to slopestreetcats@yahoo.com.
Website: www.slopestreetcats.com Blog: slopestreetcats.blogspot.com Email: slopestreetcats@yahoo.com
I just found out about a really cool contest sponsored by the Brooklyn Public Library: Enter the My Brooklyn Photo + Essay Contest and you could win $500, plus have your winning work exhibited at Brooklyn Public Library!
My Brooklyn is about what makes this borough unique to you. From the faces and places to the events, food and attitude, show and tell us about your Brooklyn and you could win a $500, $300 or $100 US Savings Bond. From DeGraw Street to DiFara's, from Clinton Hill to the Cyclone, from Greenpoint to Greenwood, Brooklyn is everywhere – show and tell us where it takes you.
You don't have to live here to have a thought, feeling, memory or favorite person, place or thing in the borough to enter. In fact, anyone may enter, except BPL employees and their families.
Visit our website to learn more.
I encourage you to give the Hill a shout-out! Entry deadline is March 30!
What's this sign all about?
It's that time of year again -- the perfect excuse to check out some of the many awesome restaurants in the area. Go back to your favorite place, or try something new. The price is $21.12 per person (not including drinks, tax and tip) Here's a list of all the establishments participating in our area:L = lunch D = dinner Chez Lola (D) 387 Myrtle Avenue 718-858-1484
Chez Oskar (D) 211 DeKalb Avenue 718-852-6250
Five Spot (D) 459 Myrtle Avenue 718-852-0202
iCi (L/D) 246 Dekalb Avenue 718-789-2778
June Restaurant (D) 229 Dekalb Avenue 718-222-1510
Junior's Restaurant (D) 386 Flatbush Avenue Extension 718-852-5257
Le Grand - Dakar Restaurant (L/D) 285 Grand Avenue 718-398-8900
Los Pollitos III (L/D) 499 Myrtle Avenue 718-636-6125
Loulou Restaurant (D) 222 DeKalb Avenue 718-246-0633
Luz Restaurant (D) 177 Vanderbilt Avenue 718-246-4000
Madiba Restaurant (L/D) 195 Dekalb Avenue 718-855-9190
Maggie Brown Restaurant (D) 455 Myrtle Avenue 718-643-7001
Mojito Cuban Cuisine (L/D) 82 Washington Avenue 718-797-3100
Mullanes (D) 71 Lafayette Avenue 718-797-7606
Olea Mediterranean Taverna (D) 171 Lafayette Avenue 718-643-7003
Scopello Ristorante Bar (D) 63 Lafayette Avenue 718-852-1100
Soule Restaurant (D) 920 Fulton Street 718-399-7200
Thomas Beisl (L) 25 Lafayette Avenue 718-222-5800
Veliis 773 Fulton Street 718-596-9070
...and 2 for $21.12 at:
RICE (2 for 1 L/D) 166 Dekalb Avenue 718-858-2700
The Smoke Joint (2 for 1 L/D) 87 South Elliot Place 718-797-1011
(The full list of participating Brooklyn restaurants is here.)
I'm working on doing a general post on St. Joeseph's College, but in the meantime I'm going to start posting some of their cool, free community events. They seem to host a LOT of high-profile authors as well as provide interesting art exhibits. Here's some stuff going on there this month:READING St. Joseph's College is pleased to announce that Emily Barton will be the featured author for the spring 2007 installation of the McEntegart Hall Library Author Series. On March 29th, Ms. Barton will read an excerpt from her latest work, Brookland, and participate in a discussion with the audience. The event will be held at 12:40 p.m. in the library's second floor lounge at McEntegart Hall, located on 222 Clinton Avenue. The event is free and open to the public.
Brookland is the story of a determined and intelligent woman in 18th-century Brooklyn who is consumed by a vision of creating a bridge that crosses the East River to Manhattan. Told mostly through letters to the protagonist's daughter, Brookland imagines a world where personal drama, romance, family relationships, and tragedy play out against the construction of a fictional bridge.
Emily Barton earned her B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College, where she concentrated in English literature; she went on to earn an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first novel, The Testament of Yves Gundron (2000) was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Month, and won the Bard Fiction Prize. Her second novel Brookland (2006) was also named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as one of the twenty-five best 2006 works of fiction and poetry by the Los Angeles Times.
Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Story magazine, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, Poetry magazine, the VLS, and Bookforum. Emily Barton has taught writing and humanities at Bard and at Eugene Lang College of the New School. She is currently a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, and she received a 2006 literature grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
PHOTOGRAPHY St. Joseph's College Council for the Arts is pleased to announce that it will present Transformations: Works by Kristin Holcomb from March 26 to April 26 in the Alumni Room Gallery at Tuohy Hall, 245 Clinton Avenue. The 4th event in the College's Nature’s Lasting Impression, Our Environmental Footprint series, Transformations will open on March 29th with a reception at 5:30 p.m., and there will be a gallery talk with the artist on April 10 at 12:40 p.m. All are free and open to the general public. Regular gallery hours are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. and on Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m.
This exhibit features nature-inspired photographs that remind viewers how nature surrounds us and inspires beautiful art. In the artist’s words, "Transformations is a series of photographs of walls whose surfaces, after years of being changed by weather, paint, rust and algae, are becoming complex, organic paintings with the passing of time. The Transformations photographs are about rebirth; about the possibility of beauty in destruction or death.”
A working artist and educator, Kristin Holcomb received her BA from Cornell University and her Masters of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. Her photography has been seen in numerous exhibitions locally in the New York City and Long Island area, nationally from Chicago to Arizona and recently extending globally to Gangneung, Korea. A Brooklyn resident, she currently teaches at the International Center for Photography, New York University and Nassau Community College.
Founded by Sister Elizabeth A. Hill, CSJ, J.D., president, the St. Joseph’s College Council for the Arts is a coalition of students, faculty members and staff who serve as a focal point for St. Joseph’s College’s educational and community outreach programming in the arts. By expanding and integrating campus arts activities, the Council seeks to enhance the public image of the College as a cultural center in Brooklyn and aims to make arts and cultural events more accessible to its students and area neighbors. For more information about this exhibit or other upcoming cultural events at the College's Brooklyn campus, please call (718) 399-6755.
I'm sad to report that 313 Clinton Ave (the Halloween House) will NOT be on the house tour this year. However, owner Janna is having a Parlor Sale "almost every Sunday" until June. It's the perfect excuse to see the inside of this gorgeous mansion while you shop for: Airbrush Digest magazines, airbrush equipment, Luma dyes, portfolio cases, art books, fabric, lace, trims, glass beads, wood beads, misc beads, metal trims, belt buckles and buttons, vintage jewelry, comic books, records, clothing, vintage toys, discounted handbags and chihuahua knick-knacks.
It's really quite something.
And since it's almost Stoop Sale time, I'll gladly post info on readers' sales every Friday, as long as you send me the location, time and info by Thursday at 5pm before the wknd of the sale. Please include a description of what you'll have.
New Brooklyn neighborhood blog alert! Bed-Stuy finally has its own blog. I hope the writers will update regularly. Bed-Stuy is such a mystery to me, beyond the CH/BS borders. Hoping to see lots of photos, stories and other intriguing tidbits.
Friends of mine in BK Hts are moving, and enlisted my help in driving them to a storage place to purchase boxes. They told me there was a box place in Ft. Greene, so I pocked them up at the G train and drove up to Carlton and Flushing to visit Lockaway Storage. This is what it looks like on a sunny day (aka sketchy), so you can imagine what it looked like after dark:
We had to head around back to get inside, and were greeted by a tranquil fountain by the door! Inside, things got even better. The place is gorgeous inside, done up like an antique post office. It was inviting and cozy (you know, the opposite of the REAL post offices in the neighborhood). If they served beer or food, it might be a nice date place.
And, you can even have your fortune told inside (not sure if this machine is in working order):
How weird is it that all this stuff is tucked inside a shady-looking storage facility?
Society for Clinton HillMarch General Meeting St. Luke's Parish House 259 Washington Ave., (between DeKalb/Willoughby) Wed., March 21, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Refreshments at 7 pm
AGENDA
The meeting will be devoted to committee meetings for the House Tour. This is a huge undertaking by SCH. It is our main fundraiser and supports our activities for the next two years. Come and join a committee and work on the planning phase. You will have fun and do good. Committees will include:
*Fundraising
*House Sitting
*After Party
*Clean-Up
*Set Up
*Ticket Sales
*Misc.
*Publicity/PR
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-April Meeting, Monday, 4/16/07, 7 pm, location to be announced. Joint meeting with FGA about the historic district expansion and the Residential Parking Permit program.
-May Meeting, Wednesday, 5/16/07, 7 pm, St. Luke's Parish House. Photographs by Clinton Irving Jones, Bklyn Photographer of the early 1900's, and Spring Gardening Plans.
-Support the DDDB Legal Fund which is representing SCH, FGA and many other community groups filing suit about the inadequate Environmental Impact Study done by the Ratner consultants for Atlantic Yards. The Legal Fund is also representing owners and tenants who are being subjected to the questionable use of eminent domain. Please make your tax deductible contributions to: DDDB Legal Fund, 89 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, 11217.
-Annual Historic Districts Council Preservation Conference, Fri.-Sun., Mar.9-11, 2007. Everyone welcome to this nationally recognized conference. See www.hdc.org for details.
-House Tour Journal Ads – Help us fill the journal with ads for local businesses and supporters. Ads cost $100 to $1200 and involve various levels of benefits in addition to the ad. Contact House Tour Chair, Linda Scher, for details: Wash308@aol.com
-Visit our new website, www.societyforclintonhill.org and buy house tour tickets
The deadline is approaching for people/businesses who'd like to advertise in the CH House Tour program. Funds go towards tree planting, business grants, local school grants, exterior property renovations, expansion of the landmark district and more. If you'd like to help out or buy an ad, contact:
Linda Scher- 718-638-2978
Jim Barnes- 718-230-4695
The Society for Clinton Hill has just relaunched their website. The new address is www.societyforclintonhill.org.
Some photos from Tillie's 10th Anniversary Party!
That cake looks amazing.
(Tillie's, DeKalb at Vanderbilt)
Holy crap- Brooklyn Record reports that a manhole cover exploded on Clinton and Greene last night. I actually did hear it happen. I was sitting at my kitchen table, and the noise made me jump from my chair. It set off all the car alarms on Waverly Ave. I can only see the Waverly-Greene intersection though from my window, but I kept looking out to see what might have happened.
It's a post-9-11 reaction. Every time I hear a loud noise, I get nervous. Hopefully everyone is OK.
My neighbor let me scan some interesting CH artifacts a few days ago. First, an ad for what appears to be the Clinton Hill Co-Ops:
And, a Clinton Hill postcard mailed in 1911:
I think that's the Halloween house!
Blue Bass Vintage received a shout out in this week's Time Out NY, though it's listed under "Recently Opened." They actually opened six months ago! Also, isn't the G to Classon closer than Clinton-Washington?
Still, props for the listing.
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