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MSM on BHA and BHB

In addition to BHB’s crack team coverage of the Brooklyn Heights Association’s Annual Meeting last night, Brooklyn’s “mainstream media” was also on hand. The Brooklyn Eagle’s Sam “the next Carl Bernstein” Newhouse eloquently recounts Diane Ravitch’s passionate speech about the state of the American education system. More importantly, he mentions us:

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Homer is a Daddy!

Homer and Mrs. Fink are now the proud parents of a seven pound fifteen ounce girl.  More details to follow.

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Homer, Junkersfeld and HQ on WPIX

It was a BHB fiercefest on Henry St., as reporter Emily Frances interviewed us, along with other locals and a group of tourists from Argentina about the New York accent. I’d like to think they were profiling me about my accent documentary, but I’m sure this was all just a ruse to get to media […]

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Homer Talks Choppers on Channel 5

Walking home on the Promenade after dropping off some of our new snazzy Brooklyn Bugle t-shirts to our pals at the Heights Cafe,  we noticed a news van interviewing passersby.  It was a crew from WNYW-TV, channel 5, talking to folks about yesterday’s announcement from the EDC about new rules governing tourist helicopters.   They […]

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“Chop the Choppers” Update: Homer and DrewBurch on TV!

Monica Morales of WPIX Channel 11 News interviewed BHB founder John “Homer Fink” Loscalzo and BHB reader/commenter Drew Burchenal yesterday, and the clip above aired on the 6:30 and 10:00 p.m. news. (Video clip courtesy of Karl Junkersfeld.) Read more about our proposal, contribute your opinion/plan and sign the petition here. Publisher’s Note: While we […]

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Channel 11 Interviews BHB Publisher and Reader About Chop the Choppers

BHB Publisher John “Homer Fink” Loscalzo and BHB reader/Brooklyn Heights resident Drew Burchenal were interviewed today by WPIX-TV’s Monica Morales about the campaign to Chop the Choppers taking off and landing from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport.  Burchenal was interviewed in his apartment and on the roof of his building while Homer pointed out the throngs […]

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The Brooklyn Bugle Atlantic Antic Tent: Melanie, Simon, Farley and the Wine Geek

Some random highlights from Sunday’s Atlantic Antic caught on the Bugle Flipcam by Homer: Melanie Hope Greenberg’s story time for kids Simon Rich and Farley Katz : New York Superheroes The East Village Wine Geek Keith Beavers pairs a wine with LA Slugocki’s Erotica Project …and Dylan the doggie! Amazon.com Widgets

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Twitter Comics

Check out Homer Fink’s comic strip Sweet Tweets an existential look at absurd and sublime wisdom from the Twitter-verse.

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Listen to the New Homer Fink Show

Listen to today’s maiden voyage of The NEW Homer Fink Show. Hear Councilman Yassky’s Blogger Breakfast (thanks to Michael DD White) and Homer vamp all by himself with no co-hosts. Subscribe to RSS Listen after the jump.

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Kuntzman Responds to BHB…On Gothamist

My name is Homer Fink and I wear the Scarlet Letter of being a BLOGGER. Or so says Gersh Kuntzman, Editor-in-Chief of the Brooklyn Paper and my special friend, on Gothamist today.  Responding to our story last week about what we knew and when we knew it about the Busted Chef caper and how we […]

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