Post Punk Kitchen, the vegetarian cooking show filmed in an apartment on St. John’s Place, is off BCAT until April. For now, tune in to Manhattan Neighborhood Network (click channel 67) every other
Saturday at 1pm.
Sked:
Saturday January 8th 1pm
Saturday January 22nd 1pm
Saturday February 5th 1pm
Saturday February 19th 1pm
Second time in a month on this block.
via BergenStreet.com
Cathy writes: "Paul and our boys and I have just returned from a wonderful week up at Kripalu … It is the tradition … to do three days of continuous chanting, round the clock, leading up to the turning of the year … carried out in a huge meditation hall, beautifully lit with thousands of blue lights and candles everywhere, dozens of musicians and chanters at the front leading hundreds of people through a repetitious chant of ‘Om Namah Shivaya’" …
2 years ago on St. John’s Place.
Via Village Voice: Though
the name makes it sound like a National Lampoon movie, H of J is one of
the most formidable Jamaican carryouts in Brooklyn, with a more
complete menu of roots cuisine, including thick sweet cornmeal pudding,
meat and fish cook-ups, and ackee and saltcod. The fish soup is
especially fantastic, with a roster of ingredients that runs to
christophene, taro, potato, and carrot in a fish fumet worthy of
bouillabaisse … a plume
of barbecue smoke, which drifts up Classon, crosses over Fulton, and
heads toward Clinton Hill, betokening jerk chicken well coated with
spices. 1060 Fulton; 718-623-5499
Soaring property values draw megabrokerages to the area; street-smart local outfits make service their key defense
Now a seismic shift is in store
for these old-style brokers, who share a unique, small-business culture
in one of the last surviving enclaves of independent real-estate
brokering in the U.S. Young calls it, "a small, genuine, little
brownstone community."
