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The Feast Conference: Creativity for Good.

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Whether you're a social entrepreneur or socially conscious at heart, The Feast will provide you with an excellent platform for inspiration, connection, and action. The Feast will be held at the Scandinavia House in New York City on October 16th. We hope you will support us and join us in bringing the best and brightest minds together to make the world a better place. - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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"Food manufacturers edge their way back to Brooklyn—with a modern artisanal twist."

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The milkman returns to Manhattan

August 28 at 3:21 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"All that's old is new again... Last week, we wrote about a bank that brought back the shoebox as a no-tech organizing system for their time-starved clients. Now, one of our spotters alerted us to the return of the milkman. Delivering organic milk to customers' doors in glass milk bottles, the Manhattan Milk Company is reviving old-fashioned dairy delivery. For a USD 5 delivery charge, Manhattanites can get a weekly delivery of fresh milk. The company's driver loads up his truck on Wednesdays at 4 am and delivers to all of Manhattan, picking up empty bottles when he drops off the full ones. The milk is sourced from 51 Amish farms in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, about 160 miles southwest of New York City, and is also sold at the Batch store on 150B W. 10th Street." -- www.manhattanmilk.com - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

I wish this was available in Brooklyn, too. Maybe they'll expand. - Joseph Z.

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City of Memory » Map

Tuesday at 7:51 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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City of Memory is a cool site that tags specific locations in New York City with stories that occurred there. It’s an interactive map that plots out all the stories - both complex and simple on to the urban landscape. The tales span time from 40 years ago to an anecdote from the other day. Content is made up of curated examples from the site’s staff and is also open to anyone who wants to contribute. The site was created by Local Projects, who have worked on many other collaborative storytelling projects (like StoryCorps) which generate content from the audience itself, creating diverse archives of personal history. - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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PictoplasmaNYC (Sept 4-6)

Tuesday at 7:46 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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P I C T O P L A S M A - c o n t e m p o r a r y c h a r a c t e r d e s i g n a n d a r t - Cee Bee

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Houston, New York Has a Problem by Edward L. Glaeser

Tuesday at 6:26 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"New Yorkers are rightly proud of their city’s renaissance over the last two decades, but when it comes to growth, Gotham pales beside Houston. Between 2000 and 2007, the New York region grew by just 2.7 percent, while greater Houston—the country’s sixth-largest metropolitan area—grew by 19.4 percent, expanding from 4.7 to 5.6 million people. To East Coast urbanites, Houston’s appeal must be mysterious: the city isn’t all that economically productive—earnings per employee in Manhattan are almost double those in Houston—and its climate is unpleasant, with stultifying humidity and more days with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees than in any other large American city. So if those two major factors in urban growth don’t explain Houston’s success, what does?" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

I'd suggest that Houston has a lot more *room* to grow. If the real estate prices are any indication, there are a lot more people who want to live in NYC than NYC has room for. - Eric

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Aiko Solo Show!!!

Monday at 7:26 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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8th Annual Coney Film Festival Coming Up

Monday at 2:00 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"The 8th Annual Coney Island Film Festival is almost upon us and the films that will be shown have been announced. The Fest takes place from September 26-28 at Sideshows by the Seashore and at the Coney Island Museum." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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Brooklyn Signs

August 30 at 9:21 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Nature is transformed by fire and flood, the shifting of the earth's plates, by the pull of the tides. The urban landscape also metamorphoses over time, though often in more subtle ways. In populated environments, the changes are most often the effect of human directives; growth, expansion, renovation, and decay. Living in a rapidly evolving neighborhood in Brooklyn, we have become fascinated particularly by the signs that point to both a tenuously emerging future, as well as the dusty fingerprints of the neglected past." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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NYC Graffiti Chocolate Bar

August 29 at 1:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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After cracking the box on this set of chocolate bars, you won’t want to unwrap them. This set of NYC Graffiti Chocolate Bars is a cocoa homage to 10 of New York City’s greatest known graffiti artists. Blade, Crasy, Crachee, Crime 79, Dondi, Dr. Revolt, Iz the Wiz, Lady Pink, Spar One and Stay High 149 are paid tribute on bars of chocolate in this set. The set comes in a fine chocolate box holding these golden bars of tasty graffiti magic. I don’t know about Dr. Revolt, but his label would likely be the first to tear, that dark chocolate strawberry bar sounds pretty damn tasty after lunch." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

pricey for 'tag' prints over chocolate. - Carlos Ayala

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City Taps Another Strength, Wins Drinking Water Contest - August 28, 2008 - The New York Sun

August 29 at 11:51 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"already the financial and cultural capital of the state, can add one more achievement to the list: It has the best-tasting tap water. The city beat out 150 other communities around the state to win the annual tap water taste test at the New York State Fair in Syracuse yesterday. Mayor Bloomberg praised the city's Department of Environmental Protection, which manages the city's water supply, and credited it with the victory over the second-place finisher, Pulaski, a town in Oswego County with a population of about 2,400." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

Brooklyn Flora: Greenpoint Sunflower

August 29 at 11:28 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Coney Island Rockabilly Festival

August 29 at 11:10 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"The 2008 Coney Island Rockabilly Festival starts today at Cha Cha’s in Coney Island and runs through the Labor Day Weekend. Tonight’s show (8/29) features: The Memphis Morticians (NYC), The Arkhams (NYC) and Rockets’ Red Glare (NYC). There’s live Burlesque too. Ticket are $15 at the door. Saturday’s show on an outdoor stage will include Jimmy Nations Combo (NYC), Sean Kershaw & the New Jack Ramblers (NYC), Sit and Die Co. (NYC) and Guitar Bomb (NYC). Tickets are $5 advance & $8 at the door. Then, Saturday night there’s the 2nd Annual Big Burlesque Blow Out billed as “The Biggest Burlesque Show in the History of Coney Island with Real Live Sideshow. Those tickets are $20 in advance & $25 at the door. It wraps ith the 2008 Miss Pin Up Coney Island Contest on Monday, September 1." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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The Bohemian Index of NYC

August 29 at 9:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"The Bohemian Index is measured by dividing education completed or currently being undertaken by residents by the median household income. In order to differentiate between which academic accomplishments would signify possible bohemianism among different age groups, the percentage of people 25 or older with a bachelor’s degree is combined with the percentage of people 18—24 with some college or an associates degree or higher at a ratio of 7:1. The ratio of 7:1 is an approximation of the ratio of people over 25 to those 18—24 years old in New York City." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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kithaus brooklyn

August 28 at 8:52 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"when ac and i lived in williamsburg we lived in a crowded, albeit nice, studio apartment that i constantly dreamed of waking up to find transformed into a breezy, sunny home. something like this new kithaus that was just installed in williamsburg, brooklyn. available through dwr, this kithaus’ location required each module to be carried, by hand, through a 3 story brick rowhouse. the builders then added custom decks and wedged it in between warehouses and light industrial buildings to create this compact urban oasis. if we could have one of these houses maybe i’d consider moving back to our old neighborhood. that deck is really calling my name" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

Cee Bee - that is awesome. Makes me want to move to Brooklyn. NOW. - Abby Martin

totally a smart way to do things. and it's only around $40,000 for the kit. the land in bk however is a pretty penny nowadays - Cee Bee

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Pick a Possum: 1916

August 27 at 6:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"New York circa 1916. "Opossums hanging up outside shop." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress. - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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The Scout :: Dining / Bars :: American :: James

August 27 at 4:53 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"James is nestled in the Prospect Heights neighborhood on the corner of St. Marks and Carlton Avenue, tucked inside a century-old brownstone. The interior casts an inviting glow to passersby from the large windows, beckoning you in with a warmly lit interior that combines rustic design elements with contemporary sparseness. A long banquette cradles diners along one wall of the restaurant, and the opposite wall a well-aged mirror from the original Plaza Hotel highlights the bar area—serving up classically inventive cocktails. Other design details include pressed-tin ceilings and a custom Dutch-designed chandelier. The atmosphere has a warm and modern feel with the right amount of patina. Just as much attention goes into the lovely dishes being served. Owners Deborah Williamson and Bryan Calver bring experience from their previous lives as events producers for luxury clients, and stints at Bouley and Union Pacific. The faire is seasonal American with rustic European accents. - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

nice little spot. on the pricey side, but really good food & service and chill ambiance - Cee Bee

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Totalities (Sept 4 - Oct 18) @ Deitch Projects

August 27 at 4:49 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Totalities, a “contemporary living installation” by Chris Johanson, can be experienced at Deitch Projects from September 4th – October 18th. The exhibition presents the artist’s thoughts on contemporary living, involving, plants, animals, and people, expressed through a multi-media construction incorporating paintings, sculpture, installation and musical performance." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

ART PARADE -- Saturday, September 6th

August 27 at 4:47 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Deitch Projects, Creative Time and Paper Magazine are pleased to announce the fourth annual Art Parade. The parade will take place on Saturday, September 6th, at 4:00 PM on West Broadway. Following the success of the past three Art Parades, we have again invited artists, performers and designers to create floats, balloons, placards, portable sculptures, performances and street spectacles. This year’s parade will include over 90 projects, including those by Jim Drain, Barry McGee, Clare Rojas, Beta Tank, Yoko Ono, Dzine, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black and Kenny Scharf, and will involve over 900 participants, making this the largest and most dynamic Art Parade yet." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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NYC Century Bike Tour

August 26 at 8:35 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

" NYC Century Bike Tour Sunday, September 7th, 2008 6,000 Cyclists, 5 route options, the #1 best way to see New York City. -- Choose Your Distance, Ride Your Pace: 100, 75, 55, 35 and 15 mile routes. The Century is your ride—as challenging or relaxing as you choose, but always fun and rewarding. All routes have been carefully designed with your safety and enjoyment in mind. No matter which route you choose, you will be fully supported by experienced marshals and mechanics along the route and plentiful food at scenic rest stops. Plus on ride day all riders will receive a commemorative organic cotton t-shirt." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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Eat BBQ & Watch the U.S. Open Without Leaving Manhattan

August 26 at 3:18 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"For those New Yorkers not fortunate enough to have snagged U.S. Open tickets (and to nibble on the fancy food options out in Flushing), American Express has set up an alternate viewing and eating spot -- no 7 train necessary. From Friday, August 29 through Sunday, September 7 between 11:00 AM and 11:00 PM, you can watch the U.S. Open at Madison Square Park, where they're setting up huge viewing screens and stadium seating. There's no charge to watch, and in addition to the ever-present Shake Shack, Country, Hill Country, and Rickshaw Dumpling Bar will be running stands in" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

sign me up... any excuse to eat a shack-burger - benton yetman

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Diaroogle.com - The Premier Restroom Search Engine

August 25 at 3:04 am - via Reshare - Link

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Find the Classic Bay Ridge at Nordic Delicacies

August 24 at 6:39 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Nordic Delicacies opened in 1987, well after the near-complete demise of Little Norway. It nonetheless thrives not only on those of the Bay Ridge diaspora returning to stock up on foods that can’t be found this side of Minnesota, but also on a successful mail-order business. The store itself is quite small but packed with Scandinavian staples including lefse, a crepelike pancake with a potato base; lingonberry and cloudberry preserves; canned fish balls; and tubes of fish paste. Store-made treats include krumkaker, a large rolled cookie; herring salad; and Norwegian meatballs. 6909 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11209 (on Bay Ridge Avenue) 718-748-1874 " - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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2008 NY Brewfest - Friday September 12th

August 24 at 6:45 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

The 3rd annual NY Brewfest presented by Heartland Brewery will be held on Friday September 12th 2008 from 5:00PM until 10:00PM in New York City at South Street Seaport's Pier 16 & 17. The festival is a celebration of Craft Beer and will showcase samplings from New York State's outstanding breweries. We have expanded our participating craft breweries this year beyond NYS's borders to pay homage to outstanding breweries thorough the US with emphasis in the Northeast region. The festival is sanctioned by the NYS Brewers Association. This is a sampling festival. A commemorative 4-ounce glass is given to all patrons at the Information Booth/Entrance. Admission allows samplings from over 300 styles of hand crafted beers. Four unique and eclectic bands will perform throughout the evening. The event is a venerable gumbo of New York's creativity. - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

\\\ NY CRAFT BEER WEEK ///

August 24 at 6:43 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"September 12-21 is your chance to experience a wide range of breweries, beers and activities during NY Craft Beer Week! Opening and closing Craft Beer Week are the 3rd Annual NY Brewfest and the 2nd Annual Manhattan Cask Ale Festival featuring a selection of beers that is rarely equaled in a similar context anywhere else in the country." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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Legends of Style- Part One Aug.30th -- Greenpoint

August 22 at 9:21 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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are you planning on attending? - Carlos Ayala

i'm not sure. i'd really like to go, but i might be heading out of town next weekend to vermont. plans are still kind of up in the air. - Cee Bee

well if you go dont forget your blackbook. alot of worthy signatures will be in attendance. - Carlos Ayala

yeah there definitely will be. tack, duster, ces, stay high, etc. - Cee Bee

cool! I miss my days at Pratt Institute. Do they still sell Reefer at health food store on Myrtle? - Noah David Simon

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Train Car Project -- Friday, October 10th - Thursday October 16

August 22 at 9:41 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"For almost two years now PROCESS has been organizing a massive group show, called the Train Car Project, which features 60 artists from around the world, ranging in all different styles. For the project, each artist was supplied with a train car illustration, in the medium of their choice; either as a 3-color screenprint or a digital vector file. Once received, the artists had complete creative control to do what they wanted with the train. The Train Car Project will be on exhibit later this year in it’s entirety at Papa B Studios, in Brooklyn, NY. The show will exhibit all iterations of the Train Car illustration, in both print and digital mediums. *Friday, October 10th - Thursday October 16 Opening reception will be held: Friday, October 10th *" -- http://traincarproject.thisisp... - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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Spinach Dumplings at No. 1 East Restaurant -- Flushing

August 22 at 7:32 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Available on the breakfast menu (served until 3 p.m.) at No. 1 East Restaurant, the plump spinach dumplings were stuffed with finely chopped spinach in such a way that resulted in a moist, fluffy texture. No pockets of air here, just lots of spinach goodness held within a thin, slightly chewy, homemade dumpling skin. Compared to my other favorite kind of dumpling—fried pork dumplings—theses seemed downright light and healthy." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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THE $45M CLUB

August 22 at 6:16 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Meet the $45 million club - a group paying at least that much for a new stratosphere of city properties. At the top of the heap is mega-developer Harry Macklowe, who bought $60 million in property at The Plaza for a 13,000-square-foot dream space last year. Only one unit stands between him and owning the entire seventh floor. The original $45-million-and-over club member is billionaire banker J. Christopher Flowers, who runs the investment firm JC Flowers & Company. Flowers plunked down $53 million for the five-story, 50-foot-wide, 20,000-square-foot Harkness Mansion at 4 E. 75th St. in 2006. It was the most expensive single-unit sale in New York City history." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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8TH ANNUAL KUSTOM KILLS & HOT-ROAD THRILLS IN BROOKLYN

August 22 at 11:16 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"This Saturday, the Brooklyn Rumblers are throwing their sick annual car show. Be ready for a lot of noise, a big bbq, great bands and amazing custom cars. The atmosphere is crazy! It’s under the BQE in Williamsburrg Brooklyn." -- http://www.rumblersnyc.com/ - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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New York City settles with anti-war protesters for $2 million

August 21 at 1:17 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"New York City has agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to protesters arrested during a 2003 rally against the Iraq war who said their civil rights had been violated, lawyers for both sides said on Tuesday. The 52 plaintiffs in the lawsuit were among 94 protesters arrested on April 7, 2003, during a demonstration at the midtown Manhattan offices of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm with holdings in the defense sector. "The New York Police Department violated core constitutional rights when it arrested a group of peaceful demonstrators who were lawfully protesting against the commencement of the Iraq war and those who stood to profit from it," said Sarah Netburn, a lawyer for the protesters." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

$2 million seems like nothing compared to the harm and "inconvenience" the powers that be inflicted on peaceful protesters. a couple of my friends were arrested and penned up for 25 hours in the car depot on the west side by abusive riot cops. i almost got arrested, but was lucky - Cee Bee

I was there when it happened. and they weren't peaceful. a bunch of them hit a police horse. it was at that moment that I became a Republican. Is the horse going to get any money? Probably not. - Noah David Simon

settles... means nothing. I saw total chaos. I saw the police doing the best job they could. - Noah David Simon

are you sure you were there? where i was, police were the ones inciting violence and instigating the crowd of protesters. people were being hauled off for stepping off the sidewalk after police came rumbling through with their horses. people were there to protest peacefully. it didn't get chaotic until riot police began to harass people. - Cee Bee

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NYC Subway concept - 1872

August 19 at 9:47 pm - via Reshare - Link

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after a particularly uncomfortable ride uptown on the 4 train today i was really curious about the original intentions of the civilized mode of subway travel. according to this image, my ride should have been a bit more like this today!!! now all i need is that top hat... - benton yetman

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21 Mercer Nike Sportswear Collection

August 19 at 6:36 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Nike officially announced the opening of its first Nike Sportswear retail store in the world today. Located at 21 Mercer in NYC's SoHo and opening its doors this Thursday, 22 August 2008, this newest and top tier Nike shop will be the only location globally to carry the complete Nike Sportswear NSW collection. But what really sets the location apart are a few products exclusively available at the new outpost. The new 21 Mercer LunaRacer (pictured above) is one of the products only found in New York. The latest running shoe out of Nike's Innovation Kitchen, the LunaRacer fuses Nike's two newest technologies — Flywire and Lunarlite foam — making for a lighter, stronger, more cushioned and more responsive running shoe. Flywire filaments strategically placed where support is needed cuts down on the weight of the shoe without comprising durability. - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

Want. - Steve Isaacs

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Shakespeare and Frogs at Sunset Park

August 19 at 5:06 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Free Theatre in Sunset Park! On Saturday, August 23rd, enjoy Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in the open air. The fun begins at 4 PM. The Curious Frog Theatre Company is putting on the show." http://curiousfrog.org/ado/ - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet