A group of Park Slope residents have a petition going around demanding that a big new restaurant and bar on the corner of Flatbush and Sixth Avenue change its programming from hip-hop to "indie local artists." The petition's author fears the club, called Prime 6, will drive up crime with its hippity-hop music. And this has nothing to do with race! As the petitioner explains: [ MORE]  | The State Assembly blocked a bill introduced by Sen. John Flanagan that would require teacher layoffs based on merit and not on tenure yesterday, and Bloomberg says that could lead to a devastating number of layoffs. Governor Cuomo reportedly announced his own bill to reform the policy, but Bloomberg says it isn't enough: “I have not seen the details, but I think the bottom line is we need legislation that allows us to lay off teachers this year using merit, and that’s the legislation the governor should put in the budget, and anything else just doesn’t help us right now."... [ MORE ] |  | Aside from being illegal, it is generally frowned upon when an adult urinates in public. Ergo, this is not the kind of behavior you want to teach your children. But what if they're not your children? FIPS writer "Bitchy Mom" (who gets very angry about things like vegan ballet slippers), relays the story of a recent disturbing encounter she had in Prospect Park:... [ MORE ] |  | After the revelation that MLB loaned $25 million to the Mets last October, months before the Madoff "fictitious profits" lawsuit was filed against their owners, the team has continued to search far and wide for help from outsiders to fix their dire financial situation. They can't expect to receive any more help from MLB though: the commissioner's office will reportedly not make another substantial loan to the team, which makes the Mets sound like the wastrel cousin you know is never going to pay you back. But the team has forwarded a list of 30 potential "legitimate" buyers to MLB for approval.... [ MORE ] |  | Here's a video showing a group of white teenage boys singing a vulgar, misogynistic rap song that includes plenty of n-words. So what else is new? Well, these kids reportedly attend the prestigious Stuyvesant High School, and it seems the song is not only their own creation, but it allegedly targets a black classmate with such lines as:... [ MORE ] |  | The case made its way to the nation's highest court after a federal appeals court threw out a $5 million judgement for the family of a soldier. Arthur Snyder sued Westboro's leader, Rev. Fred Phelps, for $11 million after Westboro picketers using Snyder's son's 2006 funeral in Maryland to protest about gays in the military. In the ruling, Chief Justice Roberts also pointed out that the Westboro protesters were 1,000 feet from the church and followed police rules. But Justice Samuel Alito, the lone dissenter, wrote, "Our profound national commitment to free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case." You can read the opinion here (PDF).... [ MORE ] |  | As you can see in this photo, 1994 was a confusing time—you were either going to go full grunge, or you were white knuckling onto your '80s fashion sensibilities. Let's go back for a moment: Bill Clinton was in office, Schindler's List would practically sweep the Oscars, Woodstock '94 would deliver us the gift that was Trent Reznor covered in mud playing Closer (revisit now, we'll wait), Pearl Jam would go after Ticketmaster, Jeff Buckley would release his full-length studio album Grace, ice hockey would become Canada's official winter sport (what was it before, curling?), and Kurt Cobain would be found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound just 16 days after this photo was taken.... [ MORE ] | | |
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