Twitter Love Flows For Chiara deBlasio

While some cynics pondered the political nature of Chiara deBlasio’s Christmas Eve announcement of her challenges with depression and substance abuse, the reaction on Twitter has been overwhelmingly supportive and positive.

Here’s the Tale of the Tweets:

Yusef Lateef, 1920-2013.

My introduction to the music of Yusef Lateef, who died Monday at 93, came in 1967, when I was a first year law student. My dorm neighbor, Bob Bell, was a jazz aficionado. I knew next to nothing about jazz. I’m not sure how it came about: I may have bee…
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The Week Everyone Lost Their Minds Over Whole Foods In Brooklyn

Whole Foods opened its long anticipated store at 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Gowanus on Tuesday (12/17). As expected, people went a little crazy over it.

Have you visited yet?

The Tale of the Tweets after the jump.

5 Awesome Photos From Brooklyn This Week

These are the five best pics from Brooklyn this week:

Are These The Five Cutest Cats In Brooklyn?

Are these the 5 cutest cats in Brooklyn? Comment away!

Remarkable Information: Christmas Gifts

Happy Holidays, all of you joyous Brooklynites, from Cobble Hill to Court Street, from Boerum Hill to Bed Stuy!!!…

Gram and Emmylou; Emmylou, Dolly, and Linda

When I go for walks, I usually take my iPod set in the “shuffle” mode. Because of my eclectic interests in music, this sometimes leads to odd concatenations, as on a recent walk during which the Sinfonia from Verdi’s Nabucco was followed immediately by…
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LIU Brooklyn and St. Francis College Both B-ball Winners

Sports guy Michael Randazzo is courtside with a report about college hoops. This week Brooklyn hoops fans experienced heart attack inducing thrills on consecutive nights, as both LIU Brooklyn and St. Francis College had players hit for game-winning three pointers at the buzzer. On Wednesday night at LIU’s Steinberg Wellness Center, Blackbird junior guard Gerrell […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Heather Quinlan’s NY Accent Film “If These Knishes Could Talk ” Covered On FOX 5

FOX 5 10:00 News spent time in the Heights last night interviewing BHB’s Heather Quinlan about her New York accent documentary, If These Knishes Could Talk. They also did a little man-on-the street action—see if you can spot the loc…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City” by Robin Nagle

As a long-time resident of New York City I knew two things about New York City’s Sanitation Department: its…