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The Great… GoogaMooga

Have you heard about The Great GoogaMooga? It’s an outdoor food and music festival coming to Prospect Park this spring, and I’m hoping that it’s about as awesome as its name is stupid. And since the name is very stupid, hopefully it will be very awesome.

The event is free, but you must register online beforehand to eventually receive an e-ticket to the event. Early registration is already closed, so if you haven’t gone on their website and signed up to get signed up to register for the event, I recommend you do so, post-haste! [Register here.]

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Burger(on)Smith and the Brooklyn Burgerpocalypse

Let me begin by saying I like burgers. I think they’re great. I mean, if Shake Shack had an actual mayor, not a fake-ass Foursquare one, I’m pretty sure I’d run for that office and win. Now all that said, can someone (Mayor of Brooklyn? Marty??) get some zoning laws on the books that limit the amount of burger joints legally allowed to exist per square mile??

I can’t help but notice that areas like Park Slope, Cobble Hill and Downtown Brooklyn have seemingly overnight become riddled with burger joints. There are three kinds – the fast food kind, the gourmet kind, and that pompous jerk kind who is trying to ride the line between the two. Let’s take a look.

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