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Tuesday
Jun242014

Ben Folds Will Play For An All White (Wearing) Audience in Prospect Park

Everyone knows that white is the most formal of formal attire, reserved for the most important people at their most important events. Like people who go to a Ben Folds concert in Prospect Park. BF’s performance will be part of the entertainment at a picnic this Saturday to raise money for the Prospect Park Alliance. The event will enforce a strict all-white-everything dress code.

"Wearing all white boils down to a unifying theme of the evening,” said Nicole Benjamin-Sathre, co-founder of Hand Made Events, as if that wouldn't be the theme of a Ben Folds show in Prospect Park, regardless of dress code. "It’s very beautiful. It’s simple and elegant. When you get a whole crowd of people doing it, everything flows together," she goes on to say, coming dangerously close to sounding like a conservative in a Onion article. And why is white so important to the event? "You wouldn’t get the same effect if people were in purple and green or anything!” So white is the only unifying color that would create a welcoming atmosphere of casual elegance . Not purple, not green and certainly not black, brown, red nor yellow!

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Monday
Jun232014

[FIPS WAS THERE…] Brooklyn Community Chorus

A few Saturday afternoons ago I was in my living room, drink in hand, proud that I’d just gotten the 1-across (Cause of an artery blockage: STREET FAIR) when the missus announced that were  going down the road to Congregation Beth Elohim to hear choral music. Naturally she had been reminding me about this obligation for a number of weeks, and naturally I unwittingly and consistently allowed it to slip my mind. Our next-door neighbor and good friend was singing in the show, and as I mulled over what a gentile should wear to a secular concert in a synagogue (went with collared shirt and pastel-colored shorts, no socks), I tried to imagine what I was about to experience. I foresaw potential for a bleak Saturday evening. Turns out I was totally wrong.

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Monday
Jun232014

Cheeburger Cheeburger Shut Down Shut Down

On Saturday morning, a friend of FIPS sent in this photo of scaffolding going up around Cheeburger Cheeburger, along with signs saying that the premises are unsafe. Our tipster couldn't get close enough to determine whether it was just Cheeburger that was unsafe, or the whole building, so stay tuned and we'll try and get an update.

Friday
Jun202014

FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

Friday
Jun202014

[Game of FIPS]: If You Had To Choose A Chain

Image via ny.racked.comAs we noted yesterday, more and more 7th Avenue storefronts are shuttering, and many of them have been empty for months, or even years in the case of Yogo Monster's former location, which has been sitting there with nothing in it since October 2012. Park Slope Stoop recently walked up and down 7th and there are 14 empty storefronts. Fourteen!!! So, what the fuck is the problem? The rents are too damn high! For nice little neighborhood shops, anyway. You know why the owners are raising the rents so high? They want them chains, chains, chains!

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