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NJ.com has a piece about Cobble Hillbilly Dan Zanes:
“We’re practically an orchestra. We play several instruments. I’ve got the best band,” says Zanes from his home in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn.
He’s played to sold-out houses at Carnegie Hall in addition to successful tours in London and Australia.
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From this week’s Brooklyn Paper:
And congratulations to Melissa Murphy, owner of Sweet Melissa Patisserie (276 Court St. at Douglass Street in Cobble Hill and 175 Seventh Ave. at Second Street in Park Slope) who was a contestant on “The Food Network Challenge: Edible Ornaments” last week — and won! Murphy took home bragging rights and [...]

This piece from Gridskipper includes a cool map for bar hoppin:
From Gridskipper: Along with Williamsburg and Park Slope, the collective of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens represents the first wave of Brooklyn gentrification - thankfully while maintaining much of the area’s Italian heritage.

New owner revives nabe fave on Red Hook border:
Gothamist: Insert obligatory phoenix metaphor here: Brooklyn’s Freebird, the used book and corn dogs mecca that closed earlier this year, is set to re-emerge a little later this week from The Embers of Gentrification. While the NY Magazine article linked in that last sentence is about the [...]

The Brooklyn Eagle reports on The Brooklynites, a new book by Seth Kushner and Anthony LaSala. It covers many of the borough’s characters including Emma Sullivan, owner of the Long Island Restaurant on Atlantic Avenue:
Brooklyn Eagle: Internationally famous Brooklynites are included: Spike Lee, Paul Auster and Jonathan Lethem, for instance. So, of course, are [...]

Flight 001, the travel accessories store [132 Smith Street] is having a First Anniversay bash on November 16 from 7 PM - 10 PM.  Folks who present this post card will get a 10% discount on purchases that day. One Girl Cookies [68 Dean Street] will provide yummy snacks.

Vittles Vamp confirms that Flatiron Lounge’s Juile Reiner will be opening a new bar on Smith Street “later this year”.  The Boerum Hill spot will be called The Clover Club named after a classic pre-Prohibition gin cocktail.
VV caught up with Reiner at NY Magazine’s Taste of New York Benefit.

Downtown Bar and Grill [160 Court Street] will be going Dogfish Head beer crazy on November 27th at 6pm. They’ll be featuring 10 DFH beers on tap including the debuts of Dogfish Head Pangaea 07, Dogfish Head WW Stout 07 and Dogfish Head Golden Era 07.
We also noticed that DBG has acquired some [...]