FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you've spent the week gawking over the greatest photobomb in the history of photobombs, here are some stories that recently graced the pages of the FiPS blog:

* Your FiPS guide to spotting patrick stewart in park slope 

* Potty Drama: still no love for ps 124's bathrooms

* the salads are coming! the salads are coming!

* brooklyn brewery brews a beer for lewis skolnick

* Park slope will soon be home to a new whisky bar

* Cool or not cool: Tricked-out strollers for your babes?

Park Slope Company Creates Software to Herd People Out of the Barclays Center Like Sheep

A Park Slope mobile app company called Roadify has created an app to help shepherd Nets fans, Jay-Z concert-goers (Update: and Babs, Gaga and the Smashing Pumpkins fans, too -- calm down, haters; I mention Jay-Z because he's playing this weekend) and other barnyard animals out of the Barclays Center and onto their trains to Manhattan, Oyster Bay, and Ronkonkoma (among other places).  Roadify joins other agriculture mobile app developers, such as The University of Nebraska, with their Aphid Speed Scout app, iCropTrak, which tra(c)ks your crops so they don't move around, and the Grain Shrinkage Calculator, which is an app that is designed to keep your wheat and corn from being embarrassed when it goes to the swimming pool on a cold day.

Baa. 

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L Magazine Uses Math To Name Park Slope The 2nd Best Brooklyn Neighborhood to live in

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"WE'RE NUMBER TWO!" - chanted no one, ever.

In what they call a "mathematically foolproof system," The L Magazine has ranked the top 13 most "livable neighborhoods in Brooklyn," naming Park Slope the second most desirable in the borough, beat only by Fort Greene SLASH Clinton Hill.

Though the magazine's "math" still seems to be a matter of personal opinion, they did put in the leg work of ranking each neighborhood on a scale of 1-10 based on the following criteria (Park Slope's #'s included below):

access: 7
affordability: 4
greenspace: 9
culture: 7
food: 7
nightlife: 6
architecture: 9

I think it's the affordability aspect that did us in... Also, Williamsburg came in 6th place. Suck it, Bburg.

[You can read the entire list HERE.] 

Patrick Stewart Fills In For John Oliver on The Daily Show

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In light of the recent NFL ref strike, The Daily Show's own correspondents have also "gone on strike" and have therefore "been replaced" by actors of a much higher caliber. Last night, Patrick Stewart, the Slope's own newest celebrity resident, filled in for senior correspondent John Oliver. Never before has sports news been reported in such a beautifully theatrical way. 

Whassup: Anti-Barclays Edition

Chile Pepper Fiesta

Maybe you heard about this. Tomorrow, some basketball owner or something will do some rapping at a new venue in Prospect Heights. It's apparently named after the subway stop or something? Anyway, those tickets are totally sold out, so whatever. No Jay-Z for you! Still, you might be curious to see what happens up around there once this whole Moby Dick of an arena finally gets rolling. Will Prospect Heights/Northern Park Slope instantly douchify? (Like, in a different way than they already have, I mean.) Personally, though, I recommend staying far away from there and entertaining yourself with Whassup: Anti-Barclays Edition:

* Thursday, Sept. 27: NY Burlesque Fest Turns 10, Bell House: Part of the larger 10th Annual New York Burlesque Festival, this show is all packed full of the naked. Twenty-plus breast-havers from across our fair planet will be amazing on stage for you. 8pm, $10.

* Saturday, Sept. 29: Chile Pepper Fiesta, Botanic Garden: Hot-ha-ha-hooott! *fans mouth* Come experience one of the few societally accepted forms of masochism and put all the peppers on your tongue. You can sample salsas, hot sauces, and chile-chocolate concoctions. All with Latin American music, juggling, storytelling, dancing, and more. Imagine if the Red Hot Chili Peppers were having a concert in your mouth. It's totally not like that, but I just wanted everyone to picture that for a while. 11am-6pm, $15.

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