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Superbowl in Brooklyn (Go Giants)

By , 3 February, 2012, No Comment

With a classic northeast face-off coming to a head this Sunday, you may be looking for a place to watch the game in BoCoCa–or just somewhere to order amazing food. Here’s a few tips in case you don’t have an, AHEM, game-plan.

Brooklyn Based gives a great Borough-wide guide to Sunday’s festivities:

The Bell House will be showing the game on its big screen, with color commentary in the form of a live feed of Super Bowl-related tweets from the funny folks at Witstream, plus drink specials and hot food from Urban Rustic. If you’re heading to North Brooklyn, you can catch every play (and commercial) in movie theater-quality and surround sound at Williamsburg’s Nitehawk Cinema. Brooklyn Bowl will be throwing its annual Super Bowl bash, with plenty of Blue Ribbon fried chicken to go around, Brooklyn Winery will be offering a 92” screen, hanger steak-chili, and buckets of Brooklyn Brewery beer, and The Knitting Factory will have a 12-foot projection screen running with free snacks and the option to reserve special party packages. Finally, if you just aren’t into football, you can while away the evening watching classic sports-themed sci-fi flicks at The Way Station’s Too Nerdy for the Super Bowl event.

Buttermilk Channel (524 Court St.)-Need a last minute game day take-out order? Pick-up some of Buttermilk Channel’s famous fried chicken (Half Chicken) $13. Other accompaniments include Baby Back Ribs, Fingerling Potato Salad, Cole Slaw, Bread & Butter Pickles and Dill Pickles. To order, call 718 852 8490 or drop by in person to.

BARK & SIXPOINT’s 1st ANNUAL TAILGATE PARTY-Price:$75 per person; Pre-Game Starts at 5:30pm. For reservations, call 718-789-1939 or email events@barkhotdogs.com. And if you’re staying home to watch the game, check out the special SUPER BOWL CATERING MENU HERE for a full arsenal of game day fare.
Schedule: 5:30pm: Pre-Game Snacks
Chips and Cipolinni Onion-Sour Cream Dip
Sixpoint Beers and Pop
Super Bowl Squares Raffle Sign Up (Sixpoint and Bark prizes given at end of game)
6:30pm: Kick-off
Hot Dogs, Sausages, Wings, and Jalapeño-Cheddar Croquettes
Still more non-stop pours of Sixpoint, and some surprises
Halftime: Epic Sky-box Buffet
Choucroute Garnie, Shells and Cheese, Bark Nachos, Baked Beans, Cole Slaw
Second Half: The Endless Nosh
More free flowing Sixpoint Ales
Hot Dogs, Sausages, Wings, and Jalapeño-Cheddar Croquettes

Brazen Head (228 Atlantic Ave)-Think $1-off cask beers and free chili (beef and veggie)–plus with other snacks after 6pm. The game will be showing on four screens.

Vinegar Hill House (72 Hudson Ave)-Hike it over to Vinegar Hill for classics like wings, artichoke dip, seven-layer dip and three kinds of pizza.

Carroll Garden’s Patch also did a great round-up. Here are a few of their picks:

Angry Wade’s (224 Smith St.)-On Super Bowl Sunday Angry Wade’s features an all-you-can-eat menu with barbecue turkey, pulled pork, roast beef sandwiches and bratwursts from Wisconsin. The cost: $50 for men and $35 for women. Wade’s opens at noon, and til 3 p.m., well drinks and drafts are $1 off.

Floyd (131 Atlantic Ave.)-British soccer games are shown at Floyd every weekend but on Sunday the Super Bowl will be screened too. Floyd is known for its cheap and diverse beers, and they open around 11 a.m.

Cody’s Bar and Grill (154 Court St.)-Cody’s is Steeler territory through and through. It’s also one of the neighborhood’s classic sports bars. No fuss, no specials, just a good old fashioned bar with lots of TV’s. There will be food too, we just don’t know what’s in store, yet. Cody’s opens at noon.

Downtown Bar and Grill-(160 Court St.)-Downtown is another classic sports bar, but with some classier touches– mussels, anyone? Get there early. Downtown opens at noon.

PJ Hanley’s Tavern (449 Court St.)-PJ’s is called the oldest bar in Brooklyn by the management and the location has been a pub since 1874. Opening at 11:30 a.m., PJ’s will have beer bucket and pitcher specials.

Carroll Gardens Plus-Size Store Getting Its Close-Up

By , 29 January, 2012, No Comment

Let’s face it ladies, sometimes we just can’t squeeze into that size 8. At least not all of us. So Lee Lee’s Valise, a plus-sized clothing store at 368 Court St., is a welcome oasis for larger sizes–10 to 18. According to Racked NY, the store will soon have its very own reality show with Stacy London of TLC’s What Not to Wear, giving the hood even more reality TV cred.

On each episode of the as-yet-unnamed show, London and the Dolans [Lisa and Jim] will give fashion advice to curvy women.

Oprah Stops By Kiddie Korner for New OWN Show

By , 26 October, 2011, No Comment

So, I’m picking up my son at Kiddie Korner preschool (117 Remsen St.) this afternoon and lo and behold, who was hangin’ with the rabbi? Queen Oprah herself. Turns out, she’s in NYC to film her new TV series “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” premiering in January. In addition to sitting down with two Jewish families in Borough Park and Crown Heights for a look into the daily life of Chasidic Jews, the talk show maven came by Brooklyn Heights to have a look at the synagogue’s mikvah, a Jewish bath used mainly for ritual purity.

ABC’s Pan Am Pilot Being Filmed in Cobble Hill

By , 1 September, 2011, No Comment

Walking down Clinton St. yesterday with my kids (around Degraw St.), we suddenly came upon the set of ABC’s new period drama, Pan Am. When a nice young man with a headset asked us to stop as they filmed a scene, my son eagerly ogled the classic cars littering the street. At which time, said man with headset smirked and told us how they stalled out in the middle of the street every five minutes. Oh well. The show premiers in the fall starring Christina Ricci and according to the NY Times, the pilot cost $10 million to shoot.

‘Clean House’ Tag Sale TODAY at Plymouth Church

By , 9 July, 2011, No Comment

Josh again — this process has been far more exhausting than I thought! Wish I’d done a followup post but I’ve just been collapsing at the end of the days

But none of that matters — today is the BIG SALE DAY.

It’s at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, doors open at 11 AM. Auction starts at noon. All done by 3 PM.

Plymouth Church is at 75 Hicks Street but the entrance to the sale is around the corner on Orange Street.

Furniture, men’s and women’s clothing, dishes, books, records, CDs — and a couple tons of handbags, women’s shoes, and Playboy magazines will be on sale.

See you there!

Clean House Cobble Hill, Day One: There Are People in My House

By , 6 July, 2011, No Comment

Clean House logoLots of people. They are setting up lights and clamping things to metal posts. There are giant industrial-strength carrying cases for god-knows-what stacked in my son’s tiny bedroom.

My wife and I are messy people. Really messy. Messy enough, evidently, to beat out a number of other families in New York City for this show–Clean House, which airs on the Style Network. Those other families were merely everyday messy, they were not in need of the sort of emergency intervention we have earned.

So as “winners” of the slob-off, we are now surrendering our apartment to various expert sorters, deaccessioners, organizers, and designers. Last week, the designers walked through (we were just very briefly introduced to them) to examine the raw materials, and did a good job masking their disgust at any number of things–our messiness, our hodgepodge of furniture, disrepair of said furniture, the strange ’70s-style imitation kitchen, the terrible living conditions we are inflicting on our children.

I really don’t know what to expect out of this. We went through the application process (nominated by a couple of friends of my wife who have basically given up on us, thank you Amy and Adina) feeling we would not get picked. We knew we were bad, but have you seen this show? There are some people on it who are just a few pet carcasses away from Hoarders, and we do not to our knowledge have any dead pets. (Because we have avoided having pets, because we do not want the responsibility of caring for them. No pets, thanks, just children.) Once we received the news that yes, we need this intervention, and it will happen on national TV (cable–phew!), I began to feel severe buyer’s remorse. Jesus, do we really want this? I want a cleaner house, but … well, if we really wanted a cleaner house, perhaps our house would already be cleaner. It’s not like we’re invalids or have some kind of mental disorder that prevents us from throwing out wire coathangers and other utterly useless items.

Well, if we have the mental disorder, it has yet to be diagnosed. Which is as good as not having it in my book.

I used to live with a guy in film production, and his buddies would occasionally want to film in our tenement-style apartment, and he always said absolutely not, no way, if you film something in your place it will end up a shambles. Equipment will leave black scuffmarks on the walls, gaffers holding long poles will break stuff, etc.

But the point of this show is to take our shambolic place and leave it pristine. Surely that will happen as planned, right?

Right?

So far the damage is not so much to the house, but I sense our rep is going downhill. A gas generator placed next to our landlords’ window polluted their place and set off their carbon monoxide detector. I watched with dread as a tow truck showed up this morning to remove cars from the street. A lady down the block was disturbed by a production powwow outside her window at 7 AM. These are everyday occurrences for TV and film crews–I have had my car moved twice for the same reason–but I can’t help feeling we will look like jerks, at least ’til the show airs and everyone we pissed off can laugh at our problems.

(Hm. The landlord/CO problem was really not good. The lady down the street is of less concern to me.)

I’m exiled to Starbucks right now, but before sign off, to go back to box up my overgrown life, I do want to send out a call to action: Come to our sale this Saturday. Buy something–we got good stuff, we just got too much of it.

(Psst! If you wear a woman’s size 7 shoe or need a new retro handbag you will really score.)

The details:

Saturday, July 9
Auction starts at 11 AM, sale goes on until at least 3
Plymouth Church
69 Orange Street (This is the back entrance to the church, which is officially at 75 Hicks St.)
Brooklyn Heights

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