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.

Supermarket magnate and likely mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis’s project to build 650 apartments has become the bane of Downtown Brooklyn for some residents and elected officials because it flattened a neighborhood supermarket, pharmacy and Laundromat — and now no longer includes 215 below-market rate units that had been promised.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 18, 2008.

“If you’re running for mayor of the city of New York, you have to address the issue of affordable housing,” said Councilwoman Letitia James (D–Fort Greene), backed by anti-Catsimatidis protestors chanting “You won’t win” across the street from the construction site, between Prince Street and Ashland Place.

Published by Brooklyn Paper 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.

All you drivers out there are a bunch of selfish, thoughtless jerks — at least that’s what one Fort Greene resident thinks.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.