Plums and Jazz @ Farmers Market last Saturday
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Bingo night at Rope
Sunday night is bingo night at Rope. I have played about a half a dozen times and no matter how many cards I’ve purchased, I’ve never won. Until last night. I had a choice between a free drink, some (ahem) porn and a surprise gift. I chose the surprise gift which turned out to be a Tommy Lee Jones film. Many in the crowd thought I made the wrong choice and were quite vocal about it.
I then competed for the Grand Prize (two tickets for a movie at BAM) along with the evening’s other winners but this time my luck fell short.
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Afro-Punk Festival, Skate Park BAM
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Unite for Change Walk - On the bridge
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Unite for Change walk kickoff at Cadman Plaza
Senator Eric Adams, Borough Prez Marty Markowitz and NYC for Obama organizers just kicked off the event here at Cadman Plaza and we are beginning our walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Event organizers Sara Haile-Mariam and Matt Walters.
Kneeling: State Senator Eric Adams. Standing, from left: Borough Prez Marty Markowitz, unknown, Sara Haile-Mariam, Tamara Hood, Matt Walters.
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Meshell Ndegeocello at Grand 275 on Wednesday
Grand 275
Wednesday June 25
Probably free! I did not see a cover charge on the email I received from Mark and Carmen.
“Residents” photo exhibit at Smooch
The Residents photo exhibit at Smooch on Dekalb and Carlton features various Fort Greene/Clinton Hill residents. The artist is Ara Koopelian who is one of Smooch’s fixtures.
Fort Greene’s very own green toilet
This story could be seen as a feel good hilarious treat by some … and a piece of crap by others.
(Sadly the Brooklyn Paper’s videos can’t be embedded, so you’ll actually have to click on the link.)
An evening full of tattoos
20 Grand Avenue, last saturday night. Tattoos on models, tattoos on the bartender, tattoos on canvas, tattoos on screen and … lots of Pratt students.
Will we have a new Congressman?
Myrtle Avenue is in the news again as Kevin Powell announced his candidacy for Ed Towns’s Congressional seat at an event at the Five Spot last Sunday. Ed Towns, our current Congressman, has been in office representing our Congressional District for about 26 years!
Many believe that the odds are not in Kevin Powell’s favor but Kevin hopes to make waves by energizing the 98% of the district’s voter base who *don’t* vote in the district’s congressional elections. Apart from age and generation, one big distinguishing factor between the two politicians is that Ed Towns endorsed Hillary Clinton for President while Kevin Powell helped Brooklyn for Barack win our district for Obama in the New York Primary. The event was charming in its cosmopolitanism as Kevin demonstrated his ability to speak several of the languages spoken in C.D. 10 (including Spanish and Haitian Creole) and expressed a strong desire to support appropriate policies regarding countries of interest to the district. 
About
A friend of mine who used to work at Il Torchio (now Anima), calls my practice of hopping from spot to spot when I come back from a long day’s work in Manhattan “the Myrtle Shuffle”. A beer here, a burger there but lots of love everywhere. I’ve lived in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill for 11 years, 4 of which have been on Myrtle.
Last summer (07), I watched a critical mass of restaurants and businesses pile onto the avenue. Now my friends have a hard time peeling me off of what was once “Murder Avenue”. I have been a blogger for a while now and I thought I’d start sharing my Myrtle adventures.
The wider playground is all of Fort Greene/Clinton Hill.
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News of the hood- Brooklyn Folks: We Need To Talk… | Kitty BradshawIn any event this was the most interesting time I’ve had at Moe’s bar in Fort Greene. Sometimes I go there after the movie at Habana Outpost. Usually I tell people it’s boring but after this past Sunday I gained a little more respect for it. It
- The Brooklyn Paper: Youth vote? That’s a laughThe good news is that Powell isn’t the only candidate who knows his way around the Interweb. The bad news is that the 74-year-old Towns hasn’t exactly figure out how to use the ‘Net to court voters who are nearly six decades younger than he.
- Daily Kos: No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Ed Towns Expenditures (NY10)Some of his transgressions as a Democrat in a +41 D district are working against Net Neutrality and being to the right of his district on other votes like the Bankruptcy Reform Bill.
- Daily Kos: Urban Youth Initiative - First Stop BrooklynThese Democrats are changing the political paradigm in central Brooklyn.
- Catsimatidis backlash begins… « The Real Fort Greenewhy deprive the local residents of services for YEARS if you aren’t even sure if the project can be completed?
- abistro - Fort Greene, Brooklyn « Jeffrey TastesGreat food, cozy (small) and clean restaurant. What a glorious date place to show her you know all the amazing, little-known local spots. Seriously, if you take a date here, he or she will melt.
- Burglary Row in Fort GreeneA repeat burglar — or a team of crooks — has tormented DeKalb Avenue restaurants, seemingly striking at will and with precision over the last two months.
- Is the Brooklyn Flea in trouble? « The Real Fort GreeneFor the record I’m not a big fan of it but that is primarily due to it’s location. Brooklyn could use a good flea market but put it somewhere that needs the foot traffic. I’m sure the Navy Yard or Columbia Street in Red Hook would be happy to have i
- Is the Brooklyn Flea in Danger? -- Daily Intel -- New York News Blog -- New York Magazinealthough he was unclear about exactly what the problem was, it was pretty clear the tussle has something to do with that old bogeyman, gentrification.
- metro: Supermarket battle causes deeper issues to surfaceIt wasn’t that long ago, recalled Kevin Powell, that Myrtle was known as “Murder Avenue,”... “All of a sudden, because we’re close to Manhattan, folks want to bring some money into the community... Don’t displace us. We have a right to be here
- Brooklyn Folks: We Need To Talk… | Kitty Bradshaw
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