Tillary Park Foundation Job Fair to take place on Wednesday, September 14th from 9a-4p at Tillary Park at Tillary and Jay. For further information call 917.440.3247.

This Saturday, September 3rd, come to Touche Lounge with your dancing shoes ON! Labor Day party! Party to soca, reggae, R&B and hiphop. Everyone with a flag gets in FREE before midnight.

Touche is a 4,000sf, bi-level venue w/a bar on each floor, a DJ booth, rich dark wood floors, a VIP seating area and a professionally-sized pool table.

This Saturday–THREE DJs–come out and enjoy the sounds of Jam Central, Mista Menace and DJ Naj.

Ample opportunities to party at Touche: call Touche for more info about their Afterwork Thursdays, First Fridays and Touche Saturdays. Text 'Touche' to 55469 for a chance to win a free bottle during First Fridays.

Touche Lounge is located at 46 Washington Avenue, between Park and Flushing. Touche can be reached at 718.643.6500.

Always wanted to try a particular flavor turkey at Jive Turkey before investing in the whole bird? Well, now's your chance! Jive Turkey has 15 flavors on the menu. Purchase an individual portion size.

Tasting Schedule: every Saturday until Thanksgiving!

September

September 3 (Peking)

September 10 (Vidalia Onion)

September 17th (Cajun)

October

October 1 (BBQ)

October 8 (Cranberry Red Wine)

October 22 (Jamaican Jerk)

October 29 (Orange Zinfandel)

November

November 5 (Fresh Herb, Mexican Mole)

November 12 (Roasted Garlic)

November 19 (Lemon Pepper)

Jive Turkey is located at 570 Myrtle Avenue (between Emerson and Classon). Please call the store at 718.797.1688 for further detail, or just stop in!

Join us for our upcoming fall events! All guests who spend $3.00 will receive 2 ears of corn FREE –

August 30th “Health Fair” 4-7PM
Facepainter extraordinaire Dumeha will paint fun and free designs! Myrtle Eats Fresh Community Chef and nutrition educator Ms. Singleton will cook her “Mexican Chopped Chicken Salad” featuring items from the Farm Stand and share healthy eating tips. Tentative guests include the Brooklyn Department of Health and the “Cares for the Community” Health Van from Cumberland Diagnostic and Treatment Center

Look for more information for our September 20th “Back to School Celebration” and October 18th “Harvest Fest”.

The market is open every Tuesday, 4-7PM at 177 Myrtle Ave (Prince/Navy). We offer fresh, local produce from Glebocki Farms, 12 oz Summer Flower Honey Bears from Tremblay Apiaries and Maple Syrup from Poorfarm Farm in Vermont. We hope to see you at the market!

There's not a single ticket left for this weekend's 'Haute Hair Affair,' the summer's hot summer cocktail affair at Karen's Body Beautiful – but we thought you might want to know about it.

Karen Tappin Saunderson, owner of Karen's Body Beautiful is celebrating 10 years with her full, healthy head of hair that she's been growing thanks to her own handmade hair products. In fact, in the decade of creating hair as well as other beauty products, she's mastered the art of custom blending natural ingredients for all hair types–from the very straight to the very curly. In the words of Karen, “The Haute Hair Affair celebrates the diversity of textures and styles in which we rock our tresses.”

The winner of the earlier Haute Hair Affair Contest will be in attendance and all attendees can expect to be wined, dined and gifted with all types of spa, hair, bath, body products and other treats.

Never fear if you don't have a ticket–you can still experience Karen's Body Beautiful. With hair products like the 'bodacious beauty bar', 'heavenly jojoba hair oil', 'sweet ambrosia', 'hair nectar' and 'the divine duo', your hair will THANK YOU.

Also, connect with Karen on Facebook to keep up-to-date on Thursday sweet spa specials (today's is $49 for a Swedish massage, facial wax and manicure) and Fabulous Freebie Fridays (tomorrow's is free juicy shampoo bar w/a $60 purchase).

The Haute Hair Affair cocktail party will take place this Saturday, August 27th from 4pm 'til 11pm.

Karen's Body Beautiful is located at 436 Myrtle Avenue between Clinton and Waverly Avenues. Please call 718.797.4808 for more information.

photo credit: Karen's Body Beautiful

Delicious decisions. CakeJoy invites you to preview its brand new cupcake on tomorrow, Saturday, 8/20 at 7pm. Its moist and marvelously delicious and almost ready to be added to the stores menu of yummy goodness.

Neighborhood input is requested! Please bring your tastebuds and your thoughts to this FREE tasting event as you help CakeJoy ready the new cupcake for its upcoming public debut.

Drop in any time during the scheduled tasting hours: 7pm-9pm.

CakeJoy is located at 364 Myrtle Avenue, near corner of Adelphi. Please call the bakery at 718.624.CAKE (2253) or just drop in.

(pic above: from CakeJoy's Facebook page.)

The 7th annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival takes place tomorrow, Saturday, August 20th at 3 PM. Come out.

The FGP Summer Literary Festival will feature young writers from their free summer workshops reading alongside the Brooklyn All-Stars: Bryonn Bain, R. Erica Doyle, Bernice McFadden, Rick Moody and Jon Sands. MC: Laurie Cumbo of MoCADA (Museum for Contemporary African Diasporan Arts).

Presented by Akashic Books, Fort Greene Park Conservancy, Greenlight Bookstore, GTHQ, and NY Writers Coalition, with additional support from Amazon.com and The Walt Whitman Project. Sponsors include Amazon.com, Brooklyn Community Foundation, City Council Member Letitia James, the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, TwoWest Foundation and the Union Square Awards.

Note: After party site as well as rain venue is: Greenlight Bookstore.

Read more on the New York Writers Coalition website!

SWEET weekend at CakeJoy Bakery. Come out and enjoy TWO special events while inhaling the purely delicious confections!

FRIDAY, 8/12–That's TONIGHT (7p-9p)
Open mic event. Cupcakes bring out the wordsmith in ya. Seriously, they do. Wordsmiths: poets, spoken word artists, rappers, vocalists, come out! They won't hassle you if you aren't able to let out more than a yummmmmmmmm, ooooooooooooooh, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, heavenlyyyyyyyyyyyy. Promise! Call or stop into CakeJoy to sign up for tonight or future events. Of if you just want to listen, come out too!

SATURDAY, 8/13–Tomorrow! (7p-10p)
Cocktail cupcakes and music by DJ Dex (spinning classics). Got a hankering to groove locally? Here it is! Mojito, Pineapple Rum Punch, Fuzzy Navel, Pina Colada – all cupcakes.

Cost for the events? Purchasing one cupcake will get you IN.

Stop in, bring a friend!

CakeJoy is located at 364 Myrtle Avenue, near corner of Adelphi. Please call the bakery at 718.624.CAKE (2253) with questions.

Dee & Ricky's Homecooking, the new restaurant that is planning a Labor Day 2011 opening is currently seeking wait staff, bartenders and line cooks for the new establishment. Interested? Drop off a resume beginning next week, M-W, 10a to 1p or email to alvin@deeandrickyhomecooking.com or chefdee@deeandrickyhomecooking.com.

Job seekers as well as those with jobs to advertise should also contact the Workforce 1 Job Center at 9 Bond Street (between Fulton and Livingston) for additional job opportunities and related information.

Please note: The Bakery fundraiser is postponed until next week Tuesday, 8/16.

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Friends and fans of much-loved The Bakery (also known as Krumbs 154) located at 154 Vanderbilt Avenue, just south of Myrtle Avenue, continue to lend support for The Bakery's re-opening. The wonderful go-to place for homemade breads and confections has been closed for a few weeks.

Entrepreneurs of New York, together with local business owners, has organized a series of fundraisers in hopes of helping The Bakery to re-open its doors. Actor Delroy Lindo, was among those in attendance at the 1st of the fundraisers, which took place at Pillow Cafe last week. Potential contributors and investors in attendance are guided through a presentation on the The Bakery's business plan.

Organzing a series of fundraisers is just part of the assistance Entrepreneurs of New York has provided. The organization is also lending marketing and organizational assistance to The Bakery.

Please come out to the 2nd of the fundraisers which will be hosted by Fork Cafe's owner, Kimberly Price this Thursday, 8/11, starting at 6pm. Fork Cafe is located at 507 Myrtle Avenue between Ryerson and Grand.

Contributors, investors, friends, fans, concerned neighbors, plese stop in. Enjoy nibbles by The Bakery and Fork Cafe. Cash bar. Please RSVP to Entreprepreneurs of New York @ 347.728.9492 or enybiz@gmail.com (either is preferable) or just stop in.

A 2005 award-winning film documents the life of Krumbs owner, Adrienne Braxton and her dream to open her own business. The film will be shown at the fundraiser and parts of Thursday's fundraiser will be filmed as a part 2 of the film.

By the end of this month, 20 new tree guards and 20 new tree guard benches will dot the avenues block faces between Washington Park and Classon Avenue! The overall design of the tree guards is the result of a collaborative process that began in 2007 with the Pratt Design Incubator, which included a community workshop, field interviews and analysis by Pratt industrial design students, and a series of soft and hard prototypes. No sir, these are not your everyday-run-of-the-mill tree guards. The tree guards were created with a modular design that allows for customization  the panels on each of the guards were designed by local artists! We sent out an open call for panel designs last year, and selected 19 artists from the submissions to participate (see all the designs above!). Designs range from doilies to graphic patterns to skylines to maps, and some even reference the former Myrtle Avenue elevated train.

Hopefully youve already spied the prototype tree guard and prototype tree guard bench on the avenue. We installed these prototypes to fine-tune the designs, and to check out how people responded to them. Every day, we see dozens of B54 passengers at Myrtle and Washington enjoying the prototype bench while they wait for the bus. Thats exactly what wed hoped for!

Were serious about protecting our trees, but we saw this street furniture project as an opportunity for public art, too. Myrtles new tree guards are both functional and durable, and also offer a canvas that reflects Fort Greene and Clinton Hills creative spirit. With over 200 trees in the Partnerships Business Improvement District boundaries (were proud to claim responsibility for having over a quarter of those planted on the avenue, btw), were not able to provide guards for all of them in this round. Were continuing to fundraise, and hope to release another open call for panel art early next year, and install additional guards in summer 2012.

Later this fall, we plan present opportunities to support the avenues greening efforts by sponsoring benches, through a program similar to the NYC Parks Departments adopt-a-bench initiative. Stay tuned for more information on this, for details on a celebration/reception in the fall, and photo-updates throughout the installation process! Have questions? Contact meredith@myrtleavenue.org.

Thanks to: New York Main Street Program, the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership Business Improvement District for supporting this project.

Remember the Easter Day fire that broke out on Myrtle between Adelphi and Carlton back in 2010? Hardee's Chinese Restaurant, one of the businesses displaced by the fire, is currently steadily building out across the street from it at 351 Myrtle Avenue. The biz owner, who owns the building where the business will now be located, is hoping to be re-opened by late August, early September. “I've been in Fort Greene a long time and nothing beats being here. I'm looking forward to re-opening as soon as possible,” shared the owner.

Meanwhile 352-360 Myrtle, the building affected by the fire is also steadily moving forward, Little Louie's Pizza returned last fall, a new bridal retail store will open there this fall and the remaining commercial spaces are available for rent.

Wednesday is movie night @ Wally's Square Root Cafe, movies start at 8:30pm. Free popcorn for all + Wally's great eats and drinks ready to order.

August movie schedule is:

8/3

The Breakfast Club

8/10

Beetlejuice

8/17

The Big Lebowski

8/24

Rocky Horror Picture Show

note: no movie will be shown on 8/31

Call for filmmakers, coo cooooooooo

seeking independent movie shorts for movie night. Are you a local film maker with an original movie short (15 minutes or less)? Show your short before the main feature. Email wally@squarerootcafe.com for details.

Wally's Square Root Cafe is located at 584 Myrtle Avenue. They can be reached by phone at 718.230.7077.

Local Clinton Hill resident and editor-in-chief of The Fashion Bomb Daily blog, Claire Sulmers, has a Polish Bar of Brooklyn contest going for 'Fashion Bomb Daily' readers. Post on the blog for a an opportunity to win a $50 dollar gift certificate to the Polish Bar of Brooklyn. Don't sleep…deadline is TODAY.

Click for the details on how to enter.