Okay. Here they are: my first words on OTBKB about Madoff, the man who has brought so much anguish to members of my family. Today, EXACTLY  three months to the day that Bernard Madoff was arrested for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, Madoff will plead guilty. That will be music to ...

Brooklyn Beat of Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn had the pleasure of attending a lunchtime lecture today by Sir Salman Rushdie at St. Francis College today, as part of its Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series on Global Business & Finance. He filed this report on his blog. Here's an excerpt, read mor...

Here's an excerpt from a recent sermon by Tom Martinez.  Not only is he a photographer and photo contributor  to Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, he is also the pastor of All Souls Bethlehem Church, a "funky little house church that rocks" in Kensington, Brooklyn. Open to the ...

This caught my eye this morning on Park Slope Parents. Leave a comment if you've seen Baby. I think we left a hard rubber Corelle baby doll (no clothes, answers to the name "Baby") at the 3rd St. Playground in Prospect Park.  It was on Sunday, around 3pm, most likely over by the ...

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion will celebrate the release of their new HD DVD Folksong at the Jalopy Theatre in Red Hook on Thursday, March 12, 2009! I am giving away two tickets to OTBKB readers. But first you have to tell me this: What New York county did Sarah Lee Guthrie's dad name one...

My friend Pastor Daniel Meeter has a guest post about lent from Jessica Stockton, blogger of The Writtern Nerd, on his Old First Blog. I was interested to read that she is blogging for the  New York Times' new Local blog project for Fort Greene/ Clinton Hill. So she's the literary blog...

Great time to be cutting services to the homeless. This just makes no sense. I know wer're in an economic nightmare. But what are people to do if services dry up? Below is the PR blurbage I just got from CAMBA and it really makes me MAD. Here's an excerpt and a link to CAMBA. Governor Patter...

I'll never forget the day that a perfect stranger by the name of Bob Guskind called to say that he was starting a blog. He told me that he was a seasoned journalist and a reader of OTBKB—and that he'd be focusing on development issues. He was calling his blog, Gowanus Lounge, named after a...

Rumors have been swirling around for the last 24 hours about the whereabouts of Bob Guskind, the journalist who runs Gowanus Lounge. I found out yesterday that his immensely popular blog, which focuses on real estate and development issues in Park Slope, Gowanus, Williamsburg and Coney Island, was n...

Once again, Scott Tuner, a graphic desinger and writer, who runs the Pub Quiz at Rocky Sullivan's honors us with one of his magical missives. Greetings, Pub Quiz Snowdrift Searchers... The two most magic works in children's ears rang through New York City yesterday. No, not "Pub Quiz!&q...