Cobble Hill Blog

Check out the Brooklyn Taco Experiment at the Bell House (149 Seventh Street) this Sunday, from 1-5 pm. Taco chefs will create tacos that range from savory to sweet, and a culinary judging panel along with the audience will choose their favorites for prizes. Want to enter? Fill out the form here.

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CHB pals Jon “Captain” Quinn, Katharine Heller, Lynn Rosenberg and Abigail Gullo have created a wacky and wonderful E-Harmony parody of newly elected U.S. Senator/centerfold Scott Brown.
Note: Capt. Quinn is about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime — training Brooklyn Bugle honcho Homer Fink [...]

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Tonight is Strenght Through Unity, a benefit for the victims of the Haiti earthquake at the Bell House. The Bell House website is reporting that the event is sold out, but tickets are still available online. Scheduled to appear are Jimmy Fallon, Eugene Mirman, AC Newman, and more. All of the proceeds will be split between [...]

Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge” opened on Broadway this week, and the New York Times has a review of the play starring Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber. The story focuses on an Italian American family in 1950s Red Hook, made up of a longshoreman and his immigrant relatives.

The long-anticipated Mile End Montreal Jewish Deli opens today at 97A Hoyt Street, according to Canada’s The Globe and Mail. Something I do not appreciate published alongside the story: a video entitled “American Ignorance Extends to Montreal Smoked Meat.” C’mon, like we really need to be bothered with knowing about Canadian meat? Note to Mile [...]

There will be no parking on Smith Street this Sunday, from Degraw Street to Baltic, according to the fliers posted on the meters on one side of the street. Hungryman appears to be a production company that makes commercials, music videos, web shows, and other types of media. Not sure why they’d pick a Sunday [...]

Catch Cobble Hillbilly and Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate in her final performance of her one-woman show, Dead Millionaire, tonight. The show is about her own funeral, if she was a millionaire who left all her money to her dog. Dead Millionaire is at 7pm tonight at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (307 [...]