It's Finally Here! Just Salad Opens Today in Park Slope!

After years of begging and months of waiting, it's finally here. Today, Just Salad will open it's first Brooklyn location right here in our very own Park Slope - 252 7th Avenue (between 4th and 5th Street)!

Okay, so it's really just a soft opening. According to store manager Suhel Ahmed, grand opening is officially on Saturday, February 23 and will include all sorts of fun giveaways and promotions. Like a free Vitamin Water with any purchase. Or the ability to get two salads/wraps for the price of one when you bring a friend.

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10 Things We Hope To See When Beyoncé Comes To Barclays

Stop. The. Motherfucking. Presses. 

The flawless Beyoncé followed up her epic Super Bowl performance with an annoucement of a European and North American tour. The "Mrs. Carter Show Wolrd Tour" (awwww) will hit the states this summer. And just as you might have expected, SHE'S COMING TO BARCLAYS! YAY!

Queen B will swing by on August 3 for the last stop on her tour (welcome home, gurl!). Tickets go on sale Monday via Ticketmaster at 10am, and run from $50-$250. Meaning after scalpers, you're probably looking at $400-$550 for good seats. TOTALLY WORTH IT. 

There's a lot of things we've come to expect from a Beyoncé show. There will be a lot of projections. There will be guest stars (we'd bet all the money in the world that Jay-Z shows up for "Crazy in Love" and "03 Bonnie & Clyde" - and don't be shocked if Gaga, Rihanna, and Azelia Banks show up to do their big new single). There will be dancing. There will be more backup dancers than you know what to do with because the only thing Beyoncé loves more than Beyoncé is backup dancers who dance like Beyoncé.

But there are a few other things we're expecting when Beyoncé hits our fair borough:

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Park Slope’s Theresa Rebeck Is Not Doing Too Well These Days

Image courtesy of NBC2012 was not too kind to Park Slope resident Theresa Rebeck. The playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist had taken a new gig, as creator, head writer, and showrunner of NBC’s Smash. Billed as a West Wing-approach to Broadway, Smash was supposed to be NBC’s golden ticket to pull the network up from their fourth place network spot. But despite getting not-so-bad ratings, the show quickly became prime hate-watching television due to its awful characters, ludicrous plot points, and laughable modern musical numbers.

When the show ended its first season in May, Rebeck was quickly removed as showrunner for Season 2. May also saw the closing of Rebeck’s 2011 comedy, Seminar, due to low ticket sales without recouping its investment. And although Rebeck would have another play open at the end of November, that didn’t going very well either. Dead Accounts – the Katie Holmes “I divorced Tom Cruise and now I’m focusing on my work” play – announced in December it would close on January 6 – seven weeks ahead of schedule. The play received mixed-to-negative critical reviews, didn’t recoup its investment, and was one of the lowest grossing shows on Broadway in the fall. To say 2012 sucked for Rebeck would probably be putting it nicely.

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[FIPS WAS THERE...] 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' at Studio 54

[VIA JOAN MARCUS]

We here at FIPS spend a hell of a lot of time out and about, attending outdoor concerts, comedy shows and various other events. So [FIPS Was There...] is where we're gonna' talk about all this shit.

I see a lot of theater. Like, a lot. If there was a "Buy 10, Get 1 Free" punch card at the TKTS Booth in Times Square, I'd have nabbed up at least 5 free shows last year. 

But as someone who loves theater, even I get nervous at shows that involve audience participation. The second I see actors creeping through the audience, looking for potential victims to interact with or pull up on stage, I immediately duck for cover. I avoid eye contact as if I'm on a crowded subway filled with buskers. "Please, dear God, leave me out of it," I say to myself. 'Cause after a busy day of interacting with all sorts of crazy people, the last thing I want to do when I'm seeing a piece of entertainment is talk to someone.* 

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Park Slope's own Patrick Stewart returning to Broadway... with Ian McKellen!

Exciting news for our favorite Park Slope All-Star, Patrick Stewart! Word on the street is, he'll be joining his bestie Ian McKellen on Broadway this fall in a two-play repertory of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. 

If you don't know anything about either of those plays, then let me pull out my B.A. in Theater and fill you in.

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