FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you spent this week acting like a DVR ninja to make sure you're recording all the premiers of all the shows that are back in prime time, plus all the new ones that everyone is talking about, here's a round-up of juicy FIPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Only One Food Vendor When Brooklyn Flea Comes to PS 321

* Who Gives A Shit: Large Scale Events in Prospect Park

* P-Stew's Wedded Park Slope Bliss

* Brooklyn Restaurant Serves Up Silence

* Mid-Century NYC Crime Photos + Modern Locations + Photographic Genius

* Rumorsville: Jonathan Safran Foer Could Be Leaving Park Slope

Caption This Park Slope Photo!

I passed this car while walking my daughter to school today. Obviously, the car wasn't actually in motion, but there's just somethign funny about a poodle in the driver's seat. The dog in the passenger seat was barking at dogs in the back of the van. What do you think he was "saying?" Give us your wittiest captions in the comments!

Cool or Not Cool: Hunting in Prospect Park

Get your fingers off your iPhone’s 311 speed dial! I’m talking metal hunting. Much like extreme ironing, metal detecting is a hobby (some call it a sport) that takes place in our own Prospect Park. I often see a lone 60-something year old man prodding his metal rod (NOT a euphemism) on the dusty grounds, as in this recent picture taken by the Tennis House in Long Meadow. Apparently these folks aren’t just after the loose change that spills out of your pocket because you just ate at cash only Dizzy’s. Some are after far more interesting bounty, like a grape shot left by George Washington’s Continental Army in 1776, or your grill that popped out last week while you were spitting rhymes gangsta style in the LM (that’s Long Meadow, beeyatches)! Whatever your treasure hunt aspirations, there are park rules about this shit so listen up, all you would-be detectorists (proper term, btw). 

Basic Prospect Park Detectorist Rule #1: Metal detectors are not allowed on manicured lawns or in wooded areas. That basically leaves you with what, dusty areas and playgrounds? 

Basic Prospect Park Detectorist Rule #2: You have got to get a permit. You already have a gun permit for pigeon target play, so get one for your metal hunting hobby. Hunting is hunting. Click here for the application. Tip: They only give out a few hundred a year so hop to it.

Basic Prospect Park Detectorist Rule #3: Metal Detecting in Prospect Park is only permitted on Saturdays and Sundays. That’s right, you can only be a weekend hobbyist/metal sportster. Save the weekdays for waiting in line to take your little ones to their Mommy and Me Capoeira classes.

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Only one food vendor when Brooklyn Flea comes to PS 321

Brooklyn Flea has announced some more details about how their Park Slope invasion at PS 321 will differ from what they've got going on in Fort Greene and Williamsburg:

The idea at 321 is to update that fabled and well-loved (including by us!) market's tradition of antiques and vintage vendors in the Seventh Avenue schoolyard by sprinkling in a few of our longstanding Flea vendors from Fort Greene and Williamsburg among a crop of new faces, since we have a waiting list for these folks. Let's shine a spotlight on what we consider the heart and soul of the Flea—vintage/antiques and handmade—and create a neighborhood market that harkens back to our roots at Ye Olde Schoolyard in Fort Greene circa 2008.

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Whassup: September's Rear End Edition

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By the time the next Whassup rolls around, we will all be hip deep in cloth scraps as we furiously construct the most original Halloween costume ever, ever made ever. Or, perhaps, instead, just eating Snickers after Snickers and buying a wolfman mask or something. Either way, September has nearly ended, which means the annual tradition of waking Billie Joe Armstrong up can soon proceed. But you, fair Park Slopers, must still wring what life you can out of this Septemberiest of months. Welcome to Whassup: September's Rear End Edition: 

* Thursday, Sept. 26-Sunday, Sept. 29: Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, Union Hall and Bell House: Eugene Mirman, emperor of the Park Slope comedy scene, will again bestow his gifts of comic festivalyness upon us all. Un-sold-out shows (so far) include "Invite Them Up!" with Todd Barry and Michael Ian Black at Bell House on Friday and the hilariously named "Comics Marc Maron Will Probably Resent in the Next Couple of Years" at Union Hall, also on Friday. I say it's hilarious because I think that must include every comedian not named Marc Maron (and probably him, too). Prices and show times vary.

* Friday, Sept. 27: Two-Book Minimum, Community Bookstore: Bookstores can be stolid affairs: all that serious literature, the still-resonant voices of long-dead genius moldering within the pages, the awareness that Amazon and iPads are driving you out of business. So, this new comedy series, set for the last Friday of every month at Community Bookstore, seems like a welcome jolt of jollity. Comedians will tell jokes, naturally, but will also be "required to mention a few books that shaped those stories and jokes," according to the show's press. "Required?" Yikes, a little school-marmy, but I suppose that makes sense for a bookstore. Dan Wilbur (creator of Better Book Titles and a Community employee) and Ross Hyzer (New Yorker contributor) host. This month's comedians are Mike Drucker, Elliott Kalan and Alison Leiby. (Note: it's just a clever show name: you do not have to buy two books.) 9:30pm, FREE.

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