Music: The venue’s opening night will start soft and end loud. Comments (5)

Art: It’s not your typical hospital art. Comment

Rhymes with Crazy: Can the United States prison population be cut in half by 2030. This week, Lenore vists with a group that says that dream is wimpy. Comment

Editor’s Picks: Brooklyn gets festive with the Atlantic Antic, Chile Pepper Festival, and an art extravaganza! Comment

Midwood: Famed Midwood pizzeria Di Fara celebrated its 50th anniversary on Sept. 22 with the debut of a special-edition pizza and a gut-busting pie-eating contest that had even the biggest slice savorers swooning Comments (5)

Red Hook: Call him the Surf ’n’ Turf Bandit! Comments (8)

Fuzzy Brooklyn: At this Fort Greene cafe, you don’t just pick up the tab — you can also pick up a tabby. Comments (2)

Books: He’s getting heavy. Comment

Fearless Parenting: This week, our Fearless mom throws caution into the wind and sees what comes back. Comment

Park Slope: And park stewards say there were no complaints from neighbors this year. Comments (3)

Brooklyn Heights: It was a hearty walk! Comment

Page 1: The Brooklyn Paper — the people’s paper — has landed in Brooklyn once again, and as usual it is stopping traffic and turning heads. Isn’t it adorable driving by in its Papermobile? Look, we can’t promise any miracles — just a devout commitment to community news and to deliver a message from above to keep hustlin’ Brooklyn. Comment

The Greatest Story Ever: Call it a corner snore. Comments (16)

Crime: Talk about hot wheels. Comments (5)

Islanders: The puck is about to drop on the New York Islanders’ inaugural season in Brooklyn, but fans got a head start on the action on Sept. 21. Comments (2)

Art: Before the Islanders, we had the Brooklyn Americans. Comments (1)

Red Hook: It is cat-poop coffee — without the cats or the poop! Comments (2)

Fort Greene: Plus more relentless crime from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comments (2)

Downtown: Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that hibiscus-print tote bag in your hand? Comments (6)

Dining: This eatery is off the juice! Comments (1)

Downtown: This festival takes all types. Comment

Photo Galleries: They had a frolicking good time! Comments (2)

Go There Now While You Still Can: These members are looking for a new club. Comments (3)

Clinton Hill: Long-serving St. Joseph’s College coach and athletic director Frank Carbone was abruptly fired from his position at the Clinton Hill school last week, leaving many alumni angry and petitioning for his return. Comments (3)

Williamsburg: Get a tattoo, have your beard trimmed, see some live music — and be home by nap time! Comments (7)

Greenwood Heights: He must have done the right thing. Comment

Bay Ridge: What’s cookin’ daddy-o! Comments (1)

Midwood: She’s out — again! Comments (6)

Williamsburg: Talk about finding a prize in your cereal box. Comments (3)

Brooklyn Heights: Pack your bags! Comments (1)

Downtown: Call it a view to a thrill! Comment

Brooklyn Is Angry: The streets nearby have become so sordid since the refuge opened, even war vets say they are terrified to step foot there. Comments (20)

Vinegar Hill: The city is rushing into a plan to ease overcrowding at a mostly white elementary school in Brooklyn Heights by sending more local kids to a largely black school in Vinegar Hill next year, say residents. Comments (7)

Curbside scrap collection will roll out in Red Hook, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, the Columbia Street Waterfront District, and the northern parts of Park Slope and Gowanus in October. Comments (11)

Midwood: The Edward R. Murrow High School parent-teacher association just unwittingly elected the mom who infamously pilfered $100,000 from a Cobble Hill elementary school in 2010. Comments (15)