FIPS Juicy: Best Stories of the Week

In case you spent all week watching how-to-twerk videos so you can be just like Miley Cyrus, here's a round-up of juicy FIPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Obligatory post-VMAs post

* Breeders, Ballers, Show Us Your Tits! Oops. That Was Yesterday.

* Top Dogs in NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary -- A Cheat Sheet

* Park Slope Missed Connections

* You're A Shitty Cook. You Need Money. We Can Help.

* Viacom Has The Hots for Brooklyn; Nickelodeon's Day of Play in Prospect Park

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Smile for the Security Camera(s)!

Pic via Flickr User Madstfri

Remember when NSA meant No Strings Attached on Craigslist? Don't pretend like you don't.

Nowadays everyone is all up in everyone's privacy grills. We're being watched and monitored and stalked and all sorts of creepy things. And while there are a whole shitload of people screaming about rights infringements, apparently Brooklynites don't care.

According to a Quinnipiac University Poll over 80 percent of Brooklyn residents say they want more security cameras installed in public spaces. Head scratch? As a spokeswoman for the study told The Brooklyn Paper: “Maybe they like that, walking on the street, someone is watching over them.” 

But there are others who say that's weapon's grade bolognium. Chris Dunn a New York Civil Liberties Union lawyer: "There are lots more government cameras out there and there are no protections."

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Illustrated Brooklyn Poster Confirms Our Suspicions: Manhattan & Queens Don't Matter

Is a week after the VMA's took place at the Barclay's Center too soon to declare that Brooklyn is now officially the center of universe? Eh, whatevs. 

As far as I'm concerned, this new Brooklyn Poster from BK's own Blankslate* team gives our fine borough it's proper due. Manhattan looks like some sepia colored, lonely, wasteland and Queens looks like an old western ghost town, but Brooklyn! Ah, our fair Brooklyn looks like Oz after Dorothy made it through the tornado (and/or the X-Pro II filter on Instagram). 

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Who Gives A Shit: Do you like watching TV in bars with strangers?

Photo credit: Freddie Moore for airshipdaily.com

Lately, it seems like every cable show from Mad Men to Game of Thrones gets the viewing party treatment in bars all over the city. According to The Airship, there were at least two Breaking Bad finale events in Park Slope alone:

I arrived at Union Hall for the premiere screening of Breaking Bad’s final season at 8:34 P.M., four minutes after doors had opened. The bouncer asked whether I was there for the screening or for dinner, and as soon as I answered, he told me, “We’re filled up to capacity. People have been lining up since 6:30 to get in for this.”

With roughly 20 minutes to spare before the premiere began, I attempted to speed-walk a mile to Halyards, the nearest bar I could think of that was also screening Breaking Bad. A couple outside warned me about the crowding, and although Halyards was letting people in, the audience was packed in so tight that viewers were squeezed right up against the projector screen. Everyone had staked their spots. There literally wasn’t any room.

This does not sound like fun to me, at all. Just imagining the epic shushing that must go on at these events makes me break out in hives. What about you? Have you ever gone to a bar to watch a TV show? 

Whassup: 72 Hours of Labor Edition

Your second place Cyclones play Labor Day weekend (via uproxx.com)

Labor Day, I'm told, is the unofficial end of summer, which seems like a really shitty unofficial thing to do given that the season actually lasts until Sept. 21. Why not make the unofficial end of summer Halloween? If it's unofficial, we can make it whatever the hell we want. That's how unofficial works. So let's just pretend summer lasts forever, or at least until the first snowfall (which, if y'all remember a couple years ago, can indeed happen on Halloween). In the meantime, you have a Labor Day weekend to enjoy. Welcome to Whassup: 72 Hours of Labor Edition:

* Thursday, Aug. 29-Saturday, Aug. 31: Re-Birthday Party, Sunny's: Clawing its way back from Sandy-related destruction, without the benefit of disaster-relief funding, Sunny's finally re-opens. Crowdfunding brought it back, and it returns with a three-day party: Opening ceremony with speeches and live music Thursday at 7:30pm. The Xylophone People play Friday and the regular Sunny's Bluegrass Jam returns Saturday. 

* Thursday, Aug. 29-Sunday, Sept. 1: On Fonts, Cloud City (Williamsburg): Fresh off an artist's residency in Mexico, talented young actress and playwright Amy Buchanan's new work "On Fonts" premieres in Billyburg. Don't be like your mom. Go to Williamsburg for the youngster's art, and actually like it there (for a while). 8pm, $12.

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