What's Your GoogaMooga Food Strategy?

Seventy-five food vendors are competing for space in your stomach. What's your plan?

The Great GoogaMooga boasts 75 food vendors, but alas, you boast only one stomach. The real estate therein is more valuable than a Madison Avenue penthouse overlooking Central Park: You have, at most, the space only for a few culinary creations, and you want to choose wisely. With that in mind, we asked a few people to explain to us their GoogaMooga consumption strategy. Click on the photos above and read the captions to learn about the various battle plans employed in the Great GoogaMooga War, and add your own in the comments below

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The Great GoogaMooga Arrives in Prospect Park

The inaugural food and music festival opened its gates to ticket holders Saturday morning.

After months of anticipation, announcements and scrambling to get tickets, The Great GoogaMooga food and music festival opened its gates on Saturday morning in the Nethermead of Prospect Park. The smell of cotton candy wafted through the air as vendors were still getting set up, but the early word is that this looks to be a very colorful, gluttonous event. A gigantic tiered cake at the entrance is expected to explode at some point throughout the day. Meanwhile, in the Hammageddon area celebrating swine, a gigantic pig-shaped oven was getting fired up to roast pork and promises to shoot flames from tip to tail.  Patch will continue to upload photos of the festivities to this gallery throughout the day. Feel free to share your own and tell …

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Rick Oshea

9:33 am on Monday, May 21, 2012

Hey chicken underwear we agree on something. It was bound to happen. And just wait to see what the meadow looks like when all the trucks and portisans leave. Your idea about Floyd Bennett Field is much better.   more ›

It's Coming: The Great GoogaMooga Takes Over Prospect Park

The Great GoogaMooga is almost here, and evidence of its arrival is splashed across Prospect Park. We snapped some photos as stages, booths and an incredible looking contraption called "Hamageddon" began to appear this afternoon. Feel free to add your own as well.

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Bloomberg Opens Brooklyn Botanic Garden's New Visitor Center

With its living roof and energy-saving design, building is first step in a campaign to bring the garden into the next century.

  Calling it "the threshold to the garden’s growing future," Michael Mayor Bloomberg cut the ribbon on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s new visitor center Wednesday morning, opening it to the public after four years of construction. The 20,000-square-foot glass, steel and concrete building with a living roof, and two-walled, leaf-shaped atrium was built through a combination of private donations and public funding including $28 million from the City of New York. “This is the kind of investment in our cultural institutions and organizations that have brought tens of millions of visitors to our city each year and keeps New York the number one tourist destination in the United States,” Bloomberg said before cutting garland made of mountain …

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Jimmy Kimmel to Broadcast Late Night Show From BAM

The comedian will return to his birthplace of Brooklyn to tape five live episodes of his show.

Update, 2:56 p.m.: This just in from BAM president Karen Brooks Hopkins on news Monday of Jimmy Kimmel Live's planned tapings this fall: "We're thrilled to have Brooklyn native Jimmy Kimmel bring his wonderful program to our Harvey Theater and culturally-vibrant borough for a week. Considering the wealth of local Brooklyn talent these days, our only question is will a week will be long enough?" -------- Comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel will broadcast his show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" from Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAM Harvey Theater between Oct. 29 and Nov. 2—fitting, since the host was born in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Mill Basin. The five-day run will feature the new Brooklyn Nets, as well as the Barclays Center, in addition to …

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Sneak Peek at Brooklyn Botanic Garden's New Visitor Center

Opening Wednesday, 20,000-square-foot building has a living roof and what may be the first two-walled event space.

  With its 10,000-square-foot living roof, and innovative design that includes a two-walled, leaf-shaped atrium, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s new visitor center offers a bold departure from the 102-year-old garden’s Beaux-Arts Palm House or 1917 Administration Building. The 20,000-square-foot glass, steel and concrete building is slated to open with a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor Michael Bloomberg next Wednesday. But the press got a tour this week with its architects, the husband-and-wife team of Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. “When I first came to the garden, I felt like I had discovered this place personally and wondered if anybody else knew about it. It felt infinite and intimate at the same time,” Weiss said. The couple won …

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Date Set for Barbra Streisand's 'Back to Brooklyn' Concert at Barclays

Singer will take the stage on Oct. 11 for first-ever public concert in her native borough; Tickets go on sale later this month.

  Get your speed dial ready: tickets for Barbra Steisand's first-ever Brooklyn concert go on sale soon. The Brooklyn native will perform at the Barclays Center on Oct. 11, just two weeks after the new home of the Nets opens. This will be the first time that Steisand, who grew up in Flatbush and graduated from Erasumus Hall High School, has ever performed in Brooklyn, and it's her first large-scale performance in six years.   "Brooklyn to me means the Loews Kings, Erasmus, the Yeshiva I went to, the Dodgers, Prospect Park, great Chinese food. I'm so glad I came from Brooklyn‚ down to earth. I guess you CAN come home again," she said in a news release on her website. "When I first thought about building an arena in Brooklyn, I always …

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Memorialize Maurice Sendak’s Life at Congregation Beth Elohim

Congregation Beth Elohim will hold an event on Tuesday to honor the author and illustrator of “Where the Wild Things Are” who died on May 8.

Maurice Sendak, the author and illustrator of “Where the Wild Things Are” died due to complications from a stroke on Tuesday. He was 83. The New York Times has more information on his life and work.   Click here to listen to NPR’s Fresh Air, where they are rebroadcasting Sendak’s final interview.  Like Max, the main character of “Where the Wild Things Are” which was published in 1963, it is appropriate to say that Sendak has now “…sailed off through night and day…to where the wild things are.” Sendak was born in 1928 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. To honor his life, a life that bent the genre of children’s books with his raw, even at times grotesque, yet beautiful illustrations, Congregation Beth Elohim on Eighth Avenue and Garfield Place is …

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