What's Lizzie Linking to? (Brooklyn, Mostly)

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** Please, check out I Guess I'm Floating's coverage of SxSW (and their blog in general). It's lovely.
*The free IKEA bus in Red Hook was slapped with 50 safety violations today.
*Check out Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases for this week, highlighting the Decemberists.
* Ever wanted to make authentic, NYC bagels in your own home? BushwickBK tells you how!
* If you want to know what kind of people make up NYC, check out the 1 in 8 million beautiful photo slideshows at NYtimes.com. This is what beauty looks like.
* Lola is back (!) at Stuff Hipsters Don't Like, and is now writing for FreeWilliamsburg!

What's Lizzie Linking to?

Drive Thru (in Bushwick), created by D. Billy.

* The Brooklyn stoop drinking case from Sept 2008 was stalled due to Judge Jerome Kay believing that his long-time residency in Brooklyn would cause him to be bias to the case (pro or con, he did not say). [Gothamist]
* North Brooklyn's industrial heritage through old train tracks. [BushwickBK]
* Mike Lupica says A-Rod did in fact give us the truth about his steroid use in his public apology yesterday, but it was still just A-ROD's version of the truth. (That's right, I'm a Yankee's fan.) [NY Daily News]
* "Fucking shit," he realized. "I live in the new McKibben Lofts." A story of Bushwick. [My Memoirs]
* NYC Graphics interviews Al Jaffe, Mad Magazine's veteran Fold-In artist.
* The WHOLE LIVE WAVES SHOW, from Market Hotel! [NY Taper]
* Go see Hunger, a riveting look at the IRA hunger strike. [Film Details]
* I will not miss the next Chili Takedown @ Union Pool (last one was Sunday). [FreeWilliamsburg]

Music Suggestions:
The Low Anthem (American/Folk/Indie), The Happiness Project (interview segments, looped, and set to music by Charles Spearin), Laura Marling (Alternative/ Folk)

What's Lizzie Linking to?

Uphill Climb, from the series Sweet Science, credited to Elizabeth Fraser Photography.

* New Yorker has decided on their top 12 Eustace covers from 2008, and gave the wonderful Banksy some love.
* Velo Brooklyn (Bushwick's lean, mean bike shop) gets profiled at BushwickBK (preview: it's owned by a young chick!)
* If you buy chicken from Murray's, you can now track where it came from and find out more about that local farm!
* BrooklynVegan reports on the Motel Motel show (amazing!) at Market Hotel. Definitely the band to look out for in 2009.
* Photosmashing makes me want to break out my Holga camera again.
* The beautiful, new site NYC Graphic has a chat with Dean Haspiel who is "Bleeding Hipster Ink".
* 25 Random Things (the Facebook chain letter), has taken over the internet. (NYtimes.com)
* Tell my brother to update his site.

Music Suggestions:
Passion Pit (electronic/pop), Sondre Lerche (pop/indie/dub), and The Depreciation Guild (pop/experimental).