Taryn Kapronica - who goes by the stage name Bettie B. Goode - slammed into a metal chair 15 feet above a confused Williamsburg audience just seconds into her July 9 performance of Scorpion's "Rock You Like a Hurricane."

Published by New York Daily News on July 18, 2008.

A Pratt Institute architect and his students say they have come up with a way to preserve a row of decrepit, historic buildings in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, yet still allow the city to go ahead with a plan to create a big-box supermarket.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

National Guard hearing. On the agenda: Public comment about the city’s plan to acquire and demolish the historic Admirals Row houses in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to make room for a supermarket. Borough Hall (209 Joralemon St., at Court Street in Downtown), 7 pm. Call (703) 607–2780 for info.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

That’s why Williamsburg’s 3rd Ward is hosting “Pig Out,” its first annual “pig roast and dance party” in the courtyard of its space on Morgan Avenue on Sunday, July 20 from 4 pm to 9 pm.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

The sheer number of these rezonings - from Columbia University to Hudson Yards to Greenpoint-Williamsburg to Willets Point, boggles the mind.

Published by New York Daily News on July 16, 2008.