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Kids Drama Fair With Free Demos For Kids Through Teens

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:02:00 +0000

Kids Drama Fair With Free Demos For Kids Through Teens

Brave New World Repertory Theatre, a company of Brooklyn-based theatre professionals is hosting a fun afternoon drama fair with theatre workshops and classes to introduce kids and teens (ages 3 to 18) to their exciting program that is set to open in April 2012. Held at the Brooklyn Lyceum, the sessions and demos will include theatre games, improvisation and comedy, Shakespeare for kids, teens and adults, movement and music and technical Theatre like scenic painting, green theater, stage combat, costume design for teens and puppet-making. Kids and teens can even get in on the act where they will have the chance to participate in various theatrical acts like a tap dance, puppet show or a sword fight from Romeo and Juliet. Through this interactive and hands-on day teens can also register and meet staff members from the Brave New World.

Details:
Saturday September 17, 2011 from 10am – 5pm
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
www.brooklynlyceum.com

Directions:
R train to Union Street
Between Union and President Street

Cost: $5 admission to participate and observe (pay at the door

Have a special weekend

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:48:00 +0000

Wonder how many little Irenes will show up in about 9 mos from this weekend ;-)

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Footbridge Lobster Rolls: Voted Number One in the State of Maine

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:03:00 +0000

This sick lobster roll is the best I've ever had. It was about $14, and comes from Footbridge Lobster Rolls of Perkins Cove in Ogunquit, Me.

It was 100 percent meat, claw (as you can see easily) and tail, on a traditional New England style hot dog bun. Footbridge offers it with butter, mayo, either on the side, or plain. I had mine straight up, and didn't miss the oil at all.

My server said the meat was particularly fresh, but given the location and the fact that this shack is owned and operated by a real Maine lobsterman, I doubt the meat at Footbridge is ever not fresh.

At the end of the day, this is the best lobster roll ever. Must have had close to a pound of meat. Maybe the server was indulging me, but I went back and had a second roll and got the same fill, and another for my wife also the same.

Barnacle Billy's up the street is well worth a visit, but don't get your lobster rolls there. A stroll across the parking lot and over to Footbridge should be a daily must for every day you're lucky enough to visit Ogunquit.

NFL Extra Points: Ad for dads

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:55:00 +0000

So you can get an NFL Extra Points card and collect points on everyday purchases, and then cash those points in for NFL experiences? I guess the offer appeals to this dad, who's clearly indulging his daughter since there's something in it for him, too.

Community of Dads

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:58:00 +0000

Walking Lila in park this a m. Another dad with baby in stroller across lawn calls over, she's sleeping, right?

I look at lila and yell back no she's wide awake.

Other dad smirks and says no, your wife!

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Ogunquit Beach, Maine

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:38:00 +0000

The beach in Ogunquit is sick beautiful.

Secret to watching kids and catching a break

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:02:00 +0000

Everybody wants to be watched while they are doing their thing. So when my kid is about to jump off the big slide all it takes is eye contact and a big wow. As long as I watch what she's doing she's so happy. I can sit on the side, go on my smartphone and relax in general. Not that this qualifies as amazing father hood. But sometimes a guy needs a break, right?

My other little one loves when I pull out the camera and start shooting. She's not even a year old And she mugs for the camera like a star. Again everyone loves to be you watched whatever they're doing.

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Reader Review: A Day Trip To A Natural Pool- Highlands

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:52:00 +0000

Reader Review: A Day Trip To A Natural Pool- Highlands

This seems worth a visit: a swimming hole fashioned into a pool, but fed by a real stream. Driving time is 1.5 hours from Park Slope. This is why you go to New Jersey.

Also posting by email

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:13:00 +0000

Just linked SMS and email posting!

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noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:11:00 +0000

I'm posting via SMS now!

WORKSHOPS: KIDS

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:03:00 +0000

WORKSHOPS: KIDS

Socrates sculpture park is ramping up free kids' workshops for the rest of the summer.

Lots to do, and kids will love the hands on.

Here's a list, generally Saturdays around noon to 3:

August 20: Odysseus at Hell Gate: An East River Puppetscape with Processional Arts Workshop
See Featured Workshop section.

August 27: Old to the New: The T-shirt Project with Darren Goins
After collecting t-shirts from friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers we'll set out to reuse these once loved t-shirts from the inside out. Using a variety of materials and printmaking processes, scribble your own insignias, glyphs, and phrases onto the insides and wear them outside. Whoopie!

September 3: DIY Bookmaking with Linda Ganjian
Transform an ordinary sheet of paper into a small book by using paper, feathers, glitter, and anything else your heart desires.

September 10: Wooden Beast with Free Style Arts Association
Build a giant wooden creature out of hundreds of long thin pieces of wood. Utilizing tape, staples and screws, participants will actually build a real wooden sculpture in the form of a dynamic, bristling, imaginary beast.

September 17: Sprouted Sculptures with Harriet Salmon
Come make sculpture that grows! Using paper maché filled with real seeds, you can build sculptures that sprout into living creations. By pressing the seed-mush into recycled plastic packaging and other discarded forms, children will build objects that you can put out in the garden or in a flower pot and watch them grow into a creature. Add glitter, paint and other decorations to make the transition even weirder!

September 24: The Wonderful World of Terrariums with Danielle Frazier & Trenton Duerkson
Create your own miniature world of plant life! Bring along your favorite clear container, be it a fish bowl, plastic container, jug, jar, etc. Tiny crystals, rocks, figurines, or marbles also make great additions to any terrarium. We will supply the moss, seeds, some stones, soil and other accents to make these tiny landscapes as mystical as possible. With regular watering, you will be able to enjoy a living miniature habitat on your windowsill, all year long.

CityParks PuppetMobile Presents

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:54:00 +0000

CityParks PuppetMobile Presents

We're going to see Bessie's Cow jump over the Brooklyn Bridge, or something like that.

Friday Aug. 19 at 10:30.

Entertaining News

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:53:00 +0000

Netflix will replace The New York Times Co. on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index of publicly traded companies. The movie and TV show rental company moves up from the S&P MidCap 400 index for mid-sized stocks, while the newspaper and media company was demoted to that index.

Digital has net degraded NYT shareholder value while it has boosted Netflix. It comes down to superior alignment of content with delivery and external forces. In Netflix case that's long tail movies and TV shows plus broadband plus consumer adoption of delayed viewing habits.

http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/12/14/netflix-replace-new-york-times-sp-500-stock-index

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Reflective Lace for Strollers Reduce Accidents

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:48:00 +0000

Reflective Lace is the safety-minded and stylish embellishment that makes bicyclists more visible at night. Now bringing similar reflective qualities to baby strollers is Wagalum, a German maker of self-adhesive strips designed specifically to keep young children safe while on the go.

Wagalum's reflective sticker set includes eight pieces in four different sizes to provide all-around visibility for babies in strollers. The stickers' microprismatic surface shines nine times brighter than comparable materials do, causing strollers bearing them to be seen six times earlier by other traffic participants and 85 percent less likely to be involved in an accident, Wagalum says.

Wagalum's reflective strips are currently available at a number of stockists in Germany, but the company aims to expand to other countries soon, and it welcomes dealer inquiries. Retailers of children's products: this one's for you! (Related: Five business ideas focused on babies & new parents — Color-changing sleep suit signals baby's fever.)

Bugaboo in Park Slope for $360, now $420

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:34:00 +0000

Saw this stroller at 78 8th Avenue today. Advertised as "great condition" but the poster neglected to mention that the break didn't catch. Kinda important if your tot is hanging out on a hill. I was wary and a bit miffed that I drove the Toyota across the Slope only to find a stroller that wasn't in quite such great shape.

He called me 20 minutes after I left to say he'd fixed the break and it was working fine. I sort of agreed to come back, but D talked me out of it after I told her the guy let slip he paid $420 for it, which means he bought it used, too. And do you want your kid relying on a break that this guy fixed in 20 minutes?

Anyway, he reposted this evening, boosting the ask up to $420 - exactly what he said he paid for it.

shop rite is a humiliating experience

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:23:00 +0000

Fairway is cool and people don't care how much things cost. At shop rite they push and fight and line up for a few cents off.

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Greenwood Playground Brooklyn 3pm

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:27:00 +0000

Day before Thanksgiving and the kids are bundled up.

Brooklyn Commune Opening Tuesday

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:51:00 +0000

Saw the owner out front. Coffee, cafe and market with seating for 20. Features ingredients from locally sourced farms. Can't wait!

The geese are back in Brooklyn!

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:09:00 +0000

Just spotted this gaggle from my window. The geese have returned to Brooklyn. Looks like they are flying over to Prospect Park.

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Graco does it again: stroller recall

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:56:00 +0000

Gracious recalls stroller after 4 infant deaths.

Last year it was a stroller that severed kids' digits. Now it's a stroller that strangles. Or 2 million of them.

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mr Rogers brought to life

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:45:00 +0000

Pittsburgh in Words - Can You Say ... 'Hero'? by Tom Junod

If you ever wanted to understand the man, this is the story to read.

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Dads, take the family leave, just like in Sweden (NY Times)

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:50:00 +0000

Swedish dads are more manly, and in ways American fathers could never imagine. Sweden, home to Saabs, girls with dragon tatoos, gender equality, 80% tax brackets and utopian living, as well as a relatively high suicide rate, also practically mandates that fathers take lots of leave when they have a kid. In fact, when in 1995 they incurred a penalty if they did not take time off, dads started to in droves:

Introducing “daddy leave” in 1995 had an immediate impact. No father was forced to stay home, but the family lost one month of subsidies if he did not. Soon more than eight in 10 men took leave. The addition of a second nontransferable father month in 2002 only marginally increased the number of men taking leave, but it more than doubled the amount of time they take.Clearly, state money proved an incentive — and a strong argument with reluctant bosses.

I have my domain of responsibilities around the house, but never realized how important it is. While the US is far from a Swedish utopia, every little bit means something. As far as my wife's future earnings are concerned, a month at home would drive her salary upwards:

The daddy months have left their mark. A study published by the Swedish Institute of Labor Market Policy Evaluation in March showed, for instance, that a mother’s future earnings increase on average 7 percent for every month the father takes leave.

What's sad is how much American moms give up when they pull back on their careers. Ooops, gotta go, my wife is stuck making dinner.

Mommy will I go to jail?

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:50:00 +0000

Here in Park Slop our playgrounds have themes of classical music and animal art. In Bed-Stuy at the Tompkins Houses, the theme is incarceration. Brownstoner posted this story of NYCHA's ham fisted design and construction. One resident of the community, which is in an uproar over the kiddy poke, said it was a poor choice for an area where many residents actually end up in jail. A child reportedly asked, "Mommy, if I play there will I end up in jail?"

Way to raise the bar, people!

Brownstoner report on Jail-themed playground.

Location : 483 16th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215,

Baby Boys With Nannies May Grow Up to Be Womanizers

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:48:00 +0000

You've got to be kidding. And check this out: when a baby girl has a nanny, it creates a "cascade of need" that some females will eventually fill with sex, drugs and alcohol.

Apparently after age 1 you're in the clear, however.

Kid-free Weekend; St. Paddy's Day Bagels

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Konieczko) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:56:00 +0000

This weekend the kid got shipped off to grandma's house for the full weekend Fri-Sun a.m. We are about to get her back and will take her to gym class right away. It was very eye-opening to have our first weekend together since birth w/o the baby around. Plus the weather rocked so we did everything we used to do when we were just two. Dinner at Sandobe, movie out, Broadway show. Slept in til 10 and walked outside for bagels and coffee:

In fact, we saw God of Carnage last night, which hit close to home. It's a morality tale of bad parents acting out and damaging themselves and each other far more than their kid-bullies do to each other on the playground of life. It's a delicious treat for parents who get some time away from the kids. The parents end up tearing each other apart and acting like Neanderthals along the way.

Time away from the kids is highly recommended. Send 'em to grandmas once a month, and live it up.