FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you've spent all week listening to Adele's "Someone Like You" on repeat while weeping into a bowl of Annie's Mac & Cheese, or counting down the days until your boyfriend/husband/brother/friend has to shave his Movember 'stache, here's a quick wrap-up of juicy FiPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* People Who Kick Ass: Thanksgiving Heroes Emerge in President Street Fire: The FDNY rescued five people, including an infant baby, from a fire that roared through a four-story home on Thanksgiving Day.

* Why's It Gotta Be *Black* Friday?: Ben Leo poses this question to his elderly Uncle Morty. 

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FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you've spent all week watching Rick Perry's "excruciating brain fart" or freaking out over the whole Joe Paterno/Penn State mess, here's a quick wrap-up of juicy FiPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Brooklyn Nanny survey sheds light on your burning questions: We learned a lot about Park Slope parents while reading this. They're cool with a nanny helping his or herself to anything in the kitchen, but don't like to pay overtime.

* Subway groper arrested: Perv gropes chick. Chick kicks shit out of Perv. Chick snaps photo of perv. Perv arrested. Victory.

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FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you've spent all week recovering from Halloween weekend or watching early stand-up vids of Zach Galifianakis, here's a quick wrap-up of juicy FiPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Cool Or Not Cool: Letting your dog pee in the street?: A FiPS reader sent us an account of a run-in that he had with some neighbors over where his dog peed in the street. We posed the question: where is it cool to let your dog pee? And you guys went NUTS in the comments.

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FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you've spent this week recovering from Breaking Bad's epic season 4 finale, or prepping your pun-heavy signs for tomorrow's Occupy Brooklyn, here's a quick wrap-up of juicy FiPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Bushwick Woman to give birth as part of art exhibit: We can all agree that this woman is going to poop in front of strangers, which is a gross thing. Right? OK, good.

* Occupy Corcoran on Carroll Street: Not to be outdone by Wall Street, a single Brooklyn man occupies Carroll Street over a certificate of occupancy. 

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FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you've spent most of the week occupying Wall Street or wondering about that Florida Lawmaker Who Wants to Repeal a ban on dwarf-tossing, here's a quick wrap-up of juicy FiPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Park Slope Woefully Underrepresented on stupid dive bar list: O'CONNORS was the only Slope joint to make the list. Guess it's hard to be divey in a nabe where the average studio costs $1,800/month. 

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