Give $$$ To Comedy Fest And Ride Eugene Mirman's Awkward Party Bus

Photo by Brian Tamborello

What's the most exciting thing you've gotten in exchange for a financial contribution to support local culture? A canvas WNYC tote bag to keep your other 5 canvas WNYC tote bags in? Yeah, me too. Which is exactly why it's so awesome that Brooklyn-based comedian Eugene Mirman has launched a campaign to raise money for his local comedy festival -- AND he will give you an exciting gift that isn't a tote bag in exchange for your financial support!

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Brooklyn Woman Will Read Eat Pray Love To Lull You To Sleep, If You So Desire

If you're anything like me, you regularly resolve to read more before bed - and then just as regularly fall prey to Jon Stewart, a comfortable pillow or the crushing exhaustion of daily life in New York City. Well, good news for us! Just like everything else in Brooklyn, we can have our reading delivered.

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Babies Banned in First Class on Air Malaysia

 

Here's how I imagine first class on Air Brooklyn: flight attendants of ambiguous ethnic origin and sexual identity serve classic cocktails and a dinner includes truffled mac n' cheese, a beet and goat cheese salad and a salted caramel tart. The inflight movie selection is sorted by auteur, and on your headset you can listen to Jonathan Franzen reading excerpts from the latest New York Review of Books. But most importantly, every seat has a built-in cradle and the aisles are stroller width. Despite the fact that (luckily) this airline only exists in my brain, Air Malaysia has still managed to position itself as the anti-Air Brooklyn by banning infants in first class. 

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The Baby-Kini: Fashion's Most Unsettling Decision Yet

On first blush (OK, possibly bad choice of metaphor), baby-kini's don't sound that bad, right? I mean, young children run around half naked all the time. Well turns out, putting a child under three years old in a string bikini is very, very creepy -- as Babi-Kini's website seems to go out of its way to prove. 

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By The City / For The City: Calling All Architects & Designers

Back in April FIPS reported the announcement of the Institute for Urban Design's By the City/For the City competition. We jumped on it again when the eccentric ideas for Park Slope started trickling in. The two months since have brought hundreds of additional contributions, some of them even more useful than dog cabanas. Actually, MUCH more useful. In fact, if reading through the suggestions for Park Slope has taught me anything, it's that my neighbors hate and fear cars as much as I do (see this, this and this) and actually have some good ideas on how to deal with them. Someone on my block actually even recommended eliminating traffic from the service road in front of our buildings! Where are you, my kindred spirit!

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