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CNN hits up Bklyn: "The Rise of the Local Chain"
The Brooklyn Beat has been m.i.a. for a while as its editor-in-chief has been gallavanting around the country working like a madwoman on the Auto Show Circuit (and yes "Diary of An Auto Show Model" will be updated soon) and would like to apologize fo...
German American Friendship Day Party
I had the pleasure of attending the German American Friendship Day Party in Central Park last Saturday. It was a festive day full of music, dancing, bratwurst and of course beer, beer and more beer! I captured some images and video to share my exp...
Pizza in the Cone
Pizza in the Cone, the grab and go pizza treat made famous in Brazil and popular in many countries around the world, has finally made it's way to United States. And where did they choose to open their first US location? Why Astoria of course! Trad...
Mommy Needs a Cocktail
Nabe blogger Melissa Lopata, known in the world of Twitter as @HipSlopeMama, has co-founded a new business with Ellen Bari called Momasphere. Momasphere is an organization that is focused on empowering moms and celebrating individuality. Their uniq...
FLOAT
Yesterday I embarked upon the long inter-borough journey of taking the G to the 7 to the N train in order to get to Astoria. I then walked 10 minutes on Broadway to Vernon to finally arrive in LIC and escape into the FLOAT exhibit at the Socrates Scu...
American Beer
Brooklyn Based, one of my favorite thrice weekly e-mail list-serves that delivers pointers on the "best food, art, shops, services, and people in the County of Kings," is hosting it's last outdoor event of the summer tonight. Yes people, I said LAST,...

