Saturday, May 19, 2012
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 …
Born in February, the trio of little ones were released into the Discovery Trail exhibit in early May and are already learning to swim.
A visitor favorite on the Discovery Trail at Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo has just increased its appeal threefold. The North American river otters have a trio of pups now on exhibit and already, they're charming everyone with their antics. When the zoo’s animal care staff suspected 2-year-old Dixie was pregnant, Dixie and Oogie’s night house was modified to allow her to create a nesting area in preparation for the birth. On Feb. 11, keepers noted the tiny squeaks of the newborn otter pups. To protect the pups and make sure Dixie felt completely secure and not exposed to unnecessary stress, keepers kept them in their den while the father, Oogie, had the run of the exhibit. Like all otter pups, Dixie’s were born blind…
Friday, May 18, 2012
If you're going to the Great GoogaMooga or trying to avoid it, make sure to check out the map which spells out which locations in Prospect Park that will be closed this weekend.
Prospect Park is always popular during the weekends, but with the Great GoogaMooga moving in for this Saturday and Sunday you're going to want to know where to go, if you're going, and what sections to avoid, if you're not. The Prospect Park Alliance has created a handy map depicting the portion of the park that will be closed for the Great GoogaMooga, the food, drink and music mega-spectacle which is taking place this weekend. The red line on the map above illustrates the festival's borders. The Nethermead, the Boathouse and the Lullwater trail will be closed off for the event. Runners will also be in the park this weekend for the Brooklyn Half-Marathon, which will begin near the Brooklyn Museum, loop around Grand Army Plaza, head down …
The barnyard's eight sheep will lose their winter coats, plus live music, arts and crafts demonstrations all weekend.
Two Cotswold, three Babydolls and three Jacobs four-horned sheep will get their annual haircuts this weekend at the Prospect Park Zoo’s annual Fleece Fest. Now in its 18th year, the annual festival is one of the zoo’s most popular, according to a zoo official, who added that since the sheep need to be sheared for summer anyway, it made sense to turn the event into a festival. The barn-wide haircut, which takes place all weekend at Prospect Park Zoo and Lefferts Historic House, also includes a demonstrations of felt making, finger-knitting and how wool is made into yarn as well as the sheep shearing itself, accompanied by ample explanation and a chance to ask questions. In addition to the shearing of Duggan, Wallace, Bonnie and the zoo’s …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The concert series will take place at Prospect Park Bandshell.
The 35th season of Celebrate Brooklyn! will kick off on June 5 with a free concert by reggae icon Jimmy Cliff, and continue with 32 shows throughout the summer. The concert series, hosted by Fort Greene’s BRIC Arts and held at the Prospect Park Bandshell, will also include performances by Ghostface Killah on June 23, Wilco on July 24, Wild Flag and Mission of Burma on August 3, M. Ward and Yo La Tengo on August 7, and Lyle Lovett on August 11. The full festival line-up can be found here. Most shows are free, with a $3 suggested contribution at the gate, while a few of the bigger names will perform ticketed concerts. Memberships are also on sale, which offer reserved seats and access to food and drink at the Friends of Celebrate Brooklyn! …
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Monday, May 7, 2012
What's your favorite daytripping destination in the neighborhood?
Sometimes planning a vacation can be more stressful than it’s worth. So, instead of trying to coordinate your family’s or friends’ schedules why don’t you just take off work and hang out in Park Slope? Seeing your neighborhood without the stress of work or the time crunch of the weekend can be super relaxing and rewarding. Plus, you don’t have to buy a plane ticket, fill the gas tank multiple times or sleep on a lumpy motel mattress. But, how do you make your staycation feel like a vacation? The key is to do things that you never have time for usually or places that you’ve never been to. Brooklyn is a borough filled with vast green parks, cultural centers, music and theatre venues. And Park Slope has destinations in all of these …
The hot pink, purple and yellow 'El CaVino' leads a traveling scavenger hunt.
Aching for the summer of '69? You're not alone. The founders of The Great GoogaMooga have a crush on that year too. Today a custom-detailed 1969 Chevrolet El Camino Super Sport will be taking over the streets of New York City as part of a traveling GoogaMooga scavenger hunt in the run-up to the food and music festival taking place in Prospect Park May 19-20. Nicknamed the 'El CaVino,' the hot pink, purple and yellow hot wheels will be rolling to various locations throughout the city today offering those who spot it the opportunity to win last-minute tickets and other prizes. Festival co-founder Jonathan Mayers told Patch he will be driving the wine-inspired Chevy around town himself. According to the rules of the scavenger hunt, "Those who…
Monday, April 30, 2012
Ali Roman rides his chromed-out vintage Schwinn around Park Slope everyday.
Ali Roman has been riding around Park Slope on his vintage Schwinn for 20 years, he says. But it is no regular Schwinn, it is the 1960 Panther, a cruiser model that is he has spent over $1,000 to make it unique. Although Schwinn still makes the Panther, Roman’s is of a different time and his style. And his attitude and lone-wolf mode of operation is something that he lets everyone he passes by on Seventh Avenue know with just one look at him. He installed speakers on the frame, which connect to an iPod on his handlebars. On Monday, he was cruising past pedestrians on Seventh Avenue blasting Tito Puente and Selena while his Puerto Rican flags on his handlebars waved in the wind. His hand-pump air horn, which has a chrome skull on top, …
Saturday, April 28, 2012
According to the 100 years of records at the Audubon Center, there have never been great horned owlets hatched in Prospect Park.
Up in a tree in Prospect Park, two young, fuzzy great horned owlets are hooting in their parent’s nest. But who gives a hoot? Prospect Park’s many birders and the Audubon Center do. According to Michele Dreger, a volunteer for the Audubon Center and a tour guide for the Brooklyn Bird Club, the two young hooters are the first to be hatched in the park in at least 100 years. She said that the Audbon Center’s records, which go back 100 years and keep track of the park’s bird population and species, show that great horned owls have never hatched in Prospect Park. Patch found out about the owlets thanks to a tip from AnimalTourism.com. The website published a couple of articles this week with pictures of the young owls fluttering about in …
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The sculptor of Prospect Park, Stephen Rudley, tries his hand at making a woman.
As the sun shone down through the boughs in Prospect Park, a woman's naked body lay on a workbench. Her body is nearly perfect; her shape is defined by smooth curves, symmetry and just the right amount all allure. The problem is, no one can talk to her for she’s made out of wood. The sculptor responsible for the woman, poised with a wood chisel, chips little bits off of the woman's wooden torso. "She doesn’t have a name, that’s not how I work," said Stephen Rudley, a 66-year-old man who spends his time sculpting wood on his mobile workbench in the park. “I don’t have names for any of my pieces.” She is made out of two pieces of basswood, which is a lightweight wood that is not too heavy for Rudley to carry on his workbench on wheels, which…
Jad2k
11:26 am on Monday, May 21, 2012
They can't have this event open to all; for the ticket holders (tickets were free, for the most part) the lines were ridiculously long and they ran out of almost all of the food HALF WAY INTO THE EVENT. If anything, they would need to limit this event to far fewer people. It was total chaos! more ›