Archive | March, 2008

Open Thread: Best Cobble Hill Pizza

Who has the best pizza in Cobble Hill? Do you need to trek out of the neighborhood to get a top quality slice? Who delivers the fastest? And what about Domino’s and Papa John’s, do they belong anywhere near us, and for that matter anywhere in Brooklyn?
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Cobble Hill Artist Profiled

The Brooklyn Eagle profiles Cobble Hillbilly/artist Diana Horowitz, known for her landscapes of industrial Brooklyn, in today’s edition:
Brooklyn Eagle: Diana Horowitz…: “It’s not what people expect from the Gowanus Canal,” said Shelley Farmer, director of Hirschl and Adler Modern, the Manhattan Gallery showing 30 of Horowitz’s paintings through March 22. On the other hand, she [...]

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The McCord van Kempen Website

There’s something magical about Googling for entertainment. Today, we uncovered the family website for Real Housewives of New York City star/Cobble Hillbilly Alex McCord. It features photos of Alex, hubby Simon and their kids Francois and Johan. We found Simon’s page to be deliciously informative and laced with clues on his “unique” accent:

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Urban Outfitters Sends Out Whack E-mail

Gothamist reports on a totally whack e-mail blast Urban Outfitters sent out to herald the opening of its Atlantic Avenue store today:

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Sweet Melissa’s Cookbook

The Sweet Melissa Baking Book by Cobble Hillbilly Melissa Murphy is out this week (3/13) and thanks to the magic of pre-promotion we have a recipe for Chocolate Orange Macaroons for you to try:

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Open Thread: Real Housewives of NYC Week 2

So, what did you think of last night’s show? Comment below.. also check out Cobble Hillbilly Alex McCord’s blog:
Alex’s Blog: Simon and I chose French as the language for the boys (for now) by default, because it is the language he and I are both strongest in after English. One could argue that in [...]

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Urban Outfitters Opens Thursday

Cobble Hill is buzzin’ (NOT!..?) about the big Grand Opening of Urban Outfitters at 164 Atlantic Avenue on Thursday (3/13). Are you psyched?
Flickr photo by mkwilliams

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One of Spitzer’s Pimps Lives in Brooklyn

The knuckleheads at WCBS-TV get it wrong – one of the persons involved in the Spitzer scandal lives in Fort Green not Brooklyn Heights while others are from Rhinebeck, NY.

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Preview of Tuesday’s Housewives

What are Cobble Hillbilly Alex McCord and the Real Housewives of New York City up to this week?

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CHB Confirms Alex McCord’s Cobble Hillbilly-ness

Using our SUPERPOWERS aka Google, Wikipedia and Photoshop we have definitive proof that Real Housewives of New York’s Alex McCord does indeed live within the boundries of Cobble Hill. CHB community member “A Real Cobble Hill housewife” had disputed this fact last week:
She’s real, but she’s not ours. Alex McCord does not live [...]

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