We’ve been noticed, darlings! Perhaps recession solidarity is behind overalls percolating on the street and trickling down from the runway. Long associated with farmers, Rosie the Riveter and OshKosh B’gosh babies, the uniform is having a moment: the blog Brooklyn Home Companion has declared that “2010 is the Year of the Overall.” The blog, chronicler [...]

In The Gap: (want – though I’d wear it all summer with a bikini top, not a crew-neck tee) In Forever 21: On this guy who is some kind of artist and throws parties I want to go to: He is also the host of the Doo Nanny, the annual alt/folk art “micro” festival, as [...]

Goodness, gracious, why aren’t more people talking about this? Meat, poultry industries await new antitrust rules: Federal regulators are set to release the most sweeping antitrust rules covering the meat industry in decades, potentially altering the balance of power between meat companies and the farmers who raise their animals. At issue is how much power [...]

Katie Holmes sporting some fancy bibs:

Fresh off my “Why I Love Greenpoint” post, I see this: Tonight marks the launch of a weekly dance jam called No Lights No Lycra. It takes place inside a dimly lit church where attendants are encouraged to do nothing but dance in the dark. It’s an ingenious alternative to dancing in clubs where intoxicated [...]

NY Magazine says Greenpoint, Brooklyn (my home sweet home) is NYC’s 5th “most livable” neighborhood: Ah, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. A neighborhood at once blessed and cursed. Upside: It borders the East River and has glorious views of Manhattan’s spires. Downside: Much of the waterfront is blocked off by a grim stretch of decaying industrial sites. Upside: [...]

I have a longstanding tradition of railing against wrinkle cream. Wrinkle cream and everything that goes with it, I mean – facials, laser rejuvenation techniques, microdermabrasion (I can’t even spell that), etc. etc. etc. I’ve seen too many of my perfectly lovely girlfriends in their early-20s to early-30s stressing out and spending gobs of money [...]

Says organizer Joann Kim: April 10th, we will present the next market with uncontainable excitement as we present SPRING AWAKENING. Join us for a hippiefied day of flowers, patchouli, butterflies and eat some vegan granola bars! This just might be our BIGGEST market day yet, the church will be PACKED with all sorts of goodies [...]

NY has organized its own ‘Crop Mob. ‘ Crop Mob NYC is “for aspiring farmers or the merely ag-curious.” We will organize mobs to descend on farms around the metro area to help them for a few hours with whatever tasks are in front of them. Learn about organic agriculture, meet cool people, have fun, [...]

The seeds he’s lying next to refuse to sprout. Good to know they’ve got a second purpose as cat pillow.

Start with: 1 Medium Spaghetti Squash Cut in half, remove seeds Smear top and inside of squash halves with olive oil, lightly. Add a little salt. And a little honey inside. Cook at 450 for about 45 minutes. Check after 30 minutes or so (inside should be easily penetrable, like a baked potato). After cooking, [...]

AP ran an article today titled “Farmers group touts lentils, other healthy legumes.” Lentil and other legume farmers … (have) formed a new marketing venture aimed at promoting the health and other benefits of lentils, dry peas, garbanzo beans and other so-called “pulse” crops. I often think I should eat more lentils, but I’m not [...]

Continuing what I began yesterday … Breakfast: Coffee, apple Lunch: pre-packaged vegan/macrobiotic dumplings sauteed with fresh carrots, cabbage, olive oil, cashews and clementine oranges Snack: fresh celery/carrot/beat/ginger juice, Raw Revolution bar, small soy latte Dinner: miso soup, salad, teriyaki tofu with brown rice from the place that used to be Wasabi on Bedford Ave (not [...]

A celebration of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, featuring short screenings from all 25 members, plus a dance party curated by DJ Phantom Power & DJ Knight of the Goddamn Cobras and live music from Dynasty Electric. Knitting Factory 361 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, New York Cover: $10 Doors: 7:30

Rooftop Farms co-founder Annie Novak will participating in EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn, a conversation about growing food in public spaces on Thursday, April 8th at WNYC’s The Greene Space.  [44 Charlton Street (at Varick Street)] For EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn, Annie will be joined by Manhattan Borough President Scott [...]

While I’ve still been eating healthier lately than I ever have in my life, I’ve found myself slipping a bit, making too many allowances for just a bit of cheese, a little dairy, a drunkenly-consumed hamburger. To curb this before it gets out of control and I fall back on thinking Triscuits with Laughing Cow [...]

So Niels Windfeld Lund, aka The Bib Professor, is visiting New York for a conference and asked your Brooklyn Home Companion bloggers here if we would support him organizing an overalls party in Greenpoint while he’s in town. Of course! This is the kind of just-random-enough-to-be-fun endeavor we fully support. So, if you happen to [...]

[Secretly snapped by Gina Telaroli]

Everything I read online about starting seeds had me convinced that only, say, 1 in 35 seeds I planted would actually sprout. For basil, I lined up a whole tray of peat pots (18 total) and sprinkled each one with a couple seeds and … they have all sprouted. I now have 18 pots of [...]

Lots of food policy, agriculture news this week: * Pittsburgh considers reining in urban agriculture, beekeeping and chicken raising. Says the mayor’s spokesperson, “Anytime you see something growing and expanding and there are no rules, you need to regulate it.” Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear …(but darling for the way she manages [...]

Cafe Royal: It is adorable. It is owned by Cody Utzman, the same guy who owns Brooklyn Standard & Papacitos. It has coffee/tea/pastries now, and plans on alcohol and light food in the future (for now, you can bring in sandwiches from Brooklyn Standard across the street). It is, like, 4 blocks from my house. [...]

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: 2010 is the year of the overall. But don’t just take our word for it; both Vogue and Glamour are touting the trend. Well, touting may be a strong word. Says Glamour‘s fashion blog: When overalls popped up at a few spring 2010 shows, I kinda [...]

Cobra Pate featured on Greenpoint Food Market blog: What the hell is cobra pate? Awesome sauce for your next ninja bedtime love fiesta. How’d you come up with the name? The Goddamn Cobras’ hot films don’t make themseles – this is our preferred fuel source. Why the decision to share your product at GFM? Why [...]

This Saturday, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s “Making Brooklyn Bloom” conference will feature workshops and lectures dealing with growing things in the city: Kick off the spring gardening season at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with this daylong conference on how to green up our communities by revitalizing our soil, the foundation of life in the garden. This [...]

It’s seed-starting time, and I’ve gotten much more ambitious than I was last fall. I am attempting: spinach, two different kinds of arugula, sorrel, rosemary, thyme, lavender, dill, cat grass, chives, mugwort, feverfew and cornflowers! Oh my. The seeds I ordered either don’t come with instructions or the packaging is printed in Italian, so I’ve [...]