J. Charles | Friday, May 18, 2012 at 2:00PM 
illustrations jonathan | Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:00PM
View Park Slope Coin Laundry Places in a larger map
While recently doing laundry at Suds on 6th Ave., I noticed that my 50-lb super washer, while seemingly expensive at $4.95 a load, is a lot cheaper than dropping it off and having someone there wash it for 75 cents/pound.
And maybe it’s a cheapskate/anal/control freak part of me that doesn’t mind washing my own stuff. I do use drop-off/fluff-fold service when I’m really busy, but who the heck knows what goes on with one’s clothes when you leave them with strangers? Do they use the suggested settings? Do they separate whites? Do my delicate sweaters get tossed in with dirty socks?
So if you’re one of those “Want-Something-Right-Then-Do-It-Yourself” types of people, the above map is your ultimate guide to DIY laundering in Park Slope. What we’ve attempted to do is visit nearly every laundromat with do-it-yourself coin washers and dryers, and provide you with the following info:
Amanda | Friday, May 18, 2012 at 7:01AM 
Okay, jerks. Googamooga is TOMORROW and you are probably moderately excited about it, since they’ve been sending us a barrage of daily emails that provide mediocre and confusing updates about who else will be on-hand for the festival.
Here’s what it comes down to: it’s an all-weekend food fest punctuated with music performances. If you’re going to be spending hours upon hours in the park, you’re going to want to bring a few creature comforts.
Like every outdoor festival, Googamooga has a laundry list of shit you can’t bring with you (weapons, fireworks, lawn chairs, drugs). Please note that you also can’t bring in any instruments of fun, like footballs, boomboxes, and frisbees. Naturally, since they want you to pay for food and drink, you can’t bring coolers or any outside food.
So what CAN you bring? Lucky for you: we've put together a guide to what the hell you can bring with you to Googamooga, with items you can purchase right here in the neighborhood.
gift guide, googamooga Mike | Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 2:00PM 
Man, the promo and PR push for this GoogaMooga thing has been intense. Everyone's all over this Googa thing's jock (and we here at FiPS have been no better). Clearly, there is absolutely nothing else going on in Park Slope this week, yes? WRONG! In fact, there is so much else going on that it's unreal. Welcome to Whassup: Anti-Mooga Edition:
* Thursday, May 17: Cringe, Freddy's: The shame-fest of teenage diary entries, horrible poetry, and more middle school drama is back to make presenters' faces hot and audience members howl. It's Freddy's own creation and one of the Backroom's most popular events. 7:30pm, FREE.
* Thursday, May 17: Brazilian Dance Party, BK Bridge: The folks behind summer's Celebrate Brooklyn shows in the bandshell gotcher spring covered, too, with the second of three Brooklyn Bridge Park dance parties. The rhythms are Carnival-esque this time, with Brazil-meets-Bayou Brooklyn group Nation Beat, DJ'd Brazilian tunes, and hip-nourishment from the drums of Maracatu New York. Make it your pre-Mooga warmup if you must. 7pm-10pm, FREE.
parowpyro | Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 12:00PM 
It's Great GoogaMooga week, bitches! To prepare you for the upcoming 2-day food, wine and music orgy festival, we here at FiPS are going to be talking about it nonstop from now 'til Saturday.
Yeah, motherfucker! Are you ready to stuff your face, GoogaMooga style? Good luck with that. If you're spending next weekend at the Great GoogaMooga Festival, the two-day Prospect Park event dubbed as "an amusement park of food & drink," you're obviously not doing so for the music. It's all about the food. I mean, sure there's a James Murphy DJ set and a performance by The Roots -- but Hall & Oates as a headliner? That shit's LAME (Ed note: Some of your fellow FiPS writers would disagree, Shawn).
Maybe you were one of those lucky enough to score a free ticket to the event. Maybe you even forked over dough via Craigslist to get your hands on one. If so, you'll have access to food & drink from 75 food vendors, 30 brewers & 30 wine makers. Whether you'll have to wait in ridiculous lines over & over again is yet to be seen. Personally, I'm assuming CLUSTERFUCK.
At this point, if you weren't able to score a ticket, you do have the option of spending that extra $250 you have lying around on an ExtraMooga pass. With it, you get VIP access to as much food & drink as you can handle, alongside events such as a discussion about food & music with Ruth Reichel, Aziz Ansari, James Murphy and David Chang, and multiple Q&A's with Anthony Bourdain. There's even a Gatsby-themed brunch.
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