Segways for Sukkot! Who Knew??!

*Not an actual segway

Wish your mobile sukkah had a smaller carbon footprint? Or maybe you just feel confused about what exactly Sukkot is. I do, and I'm Jewish. Apparently the holiday now comes with... segways? I mean, beyond building a little hut in your yard (technically called a sukkah) made of corn, hay and decorative gourds -- because that's pretty much what my 4 years of hippy dippy Jewish Sunday School taught me the holiday was all about -- I thought that was it. Harvesting and stuff.

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Is it News That Rent in Brooklyn is High? Apparently so.

Having moved to Brooklyn from (insert name of any other place outside of the five boroughs here) six years ago, I have never thought of rents here as anything but absurdly high. So imagine my amusement upon hearing that Manhattanites actually considerer Brooklyn a magical land of low rents and spacious apartments. Or at least, lower rents and spacious-er apartments. It's all a matter of perspective, right? Well, apparently not.

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[What To Do In Park Slope When...] You Want to Funnel Free Floating Nostalgia

OK, I'll be fair. Park Slope is *not* the Brooklyn epicenter of olde-timey-ness. I'll leave that title for Williamsburg or Cobble Hill/Carrol Gardens to duke it out over. Farmacy and Henry Public give any absinthe-tinged-elixir peddling "public house" north of the BQE a run for their money. That said, we're pretty guilty of that sort of aesthetic, achronological, retro fondness here in the Slope, too.

I've not done the research but I'm willing to bet that the Gimlet-to-Appletini ratio in our hood is about 7:1. Not that it's a bad thing - it's just that you need not limit your appreciation for "simpler" times to cocktails and the occasional blue grass jam at Union Hall. So turn off that Smithsonian Folkways recording, put down that glass of ice cold buttermilk (thanks Boardwalk Empire) and grab some headache powder or tincture or whatever -- we've got a full day or old style activities for you right here in Park Slope!

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What would you do with 1 million dollars in Park Slope?

If you’re like me and identify more with Leslie Knope than with Liz Lemon (or don’t know who I’m talking about but are just enthusiastic about neighborhood improvement and local politics) then I predict you will also have a retardedly dorky reaction to hearing about the advent of “participatory budgeting” in Brooklyn.  If you love town hall style meetings and have always dreamed of claiming a cool title like “assembly delegate,” listen up – you will be stoked.  

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Watch HBO and Drink Cocktails in Gowanus! Yay!

What's a True Blood fan to do when, two weeks after moving and four cancelled Time Warner cable installation appointments (all by the company and only one hurricane related), you STILL don't have HBO? You might think the answer is to make sock puppet mock ups of the principal characters and put on your own True Blood Sock Puppet Theater, but you'd be wrong. The right answer is to head around the corner to a new-ish, perfectly charming, neighborhood bar that just happens to host a True Blood/Curb Your Enthusiam/Entourage viewing party EVERY Sunday night!

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