Here's Park Slope: PSBklyn Fishiness & Morgan Spurlock

On Monday there was one less video store in Park Slope than the day before: The Video Forum, on Seventh between Garfield and Carroll, which finally succumbed to the march of technology and closed up shop. And in your bizarre business dealing of the week (last week's was the King of Cupcakes fiasco, naturally), the owners of PSbklyn, everyone's favorite new family friendly gastropub, announced that they were selling the restaurant, but then quickly backtracked when people found out. The official story, as it stands, is that the listing was published "by mistake." I guess we'll just have to see how this plays out.

On Tuesday I met up with filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who recently moved back to the neighborhood after a couple years of living in Fort Greene. We chatted about his path to our lovely neighborhood as well as his new documentary about product placement, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, which was completely financed by product placement. Basically it's the most meta movie ever.

On Wednesday my wild guess that Spice was going to be coming to our hood was confirmed by some temporary signage, hung up at the site of the recently shuttered Lemongrass Grill on Seventh between Berkeley and Lincoln. There's also a Stop Work Order on the door, which Spice's owners apparently didn't realize you get when you do construction work without a permit. Also, two long-shuttered old school southern 5th Avenue businesses, Sea World Fish Market and Gerry's Market, lost their signage.

Thursday saw Bare Burger, the actually-decent burger chain coming to Seventh and First, get some plywood. The space is gutted and the windows ripped out, but hopefully they don't do too much more damage to the old facade. Campo de Fiori, the Roman-style pizzeria on Fifth and Berkeley, also installed some windows that can open up to let in all this lovely Springtime air.

On Friday I visited Grab Specialty Foods, a real utopia for those who enjoy cured meats, cheese, and beer (let's be friends). I also got a tour of Blueprint, the under-construction cocktail and small plates bar coming to the southern half of the old Long Tan space, on Fifth near Union. Looks like they'll be keeping it classy and old-school, and judging by the success of owner Rory Dwyer's other bars, Commonwealth, High Dive, and Sharlene's, it should be a hit.