Brooklyn News

That's not to say his music is edgy or difficult. The song "Brooklyn With Your Highest Wall" from Witmer's new, ninth album, surrounds listeners with warm guitar tones and an easy, swaying rhythm.

Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve announces the line-up of award-winning speakers and authors for its Annual Spring Garden Symposium on Saturday, March 24.

Nevine Aly Elshiekh is a dog lover who teaches children with developmental disabilities.

A United Nations Security Council effort to end the violence in Syria ended in acrimony hours after the Syrian military attacked the ravaged city of Homs.

"American Idol" went looking for contestants in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday and came up big - especially in the case of Jermaine Jones.

Over hundreds of people have made it through to the vicious Hollywood round. But will the Portland, Oregon contestants be able to continue receive yeses from judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler? Keep reading to find out.

Rose and Apple The 'culinary cross-pollination' between Portland, Oregon and NYC.

If you ballpark the number of coffee roasters in the United States who are seasonally finding the tastiest coffees from around the world and roasting them to perfection, you really only have more than a few dozen.

Last year, the Brooklyn scrape-rock trio Mr. Dream released Trash Hit , their ferocious debut album.

With the GOP's impending Florida primary dominating national discourse this week, California outfit Princeton come through with a finely cut indie-pop nugget well timed to ride some sweet politico SEO coattails.

This man - 58-year-old Carl Kim Swanholm - was arrested on several charges, officials say, after failing to stop when caught speeding.

Northbound drivers on S.E. McLoughlin Boulevard slowed to see why police were present at the intersection with S.E. Rhone Street, just south of the Ross Island Bridge, at about 4 pm on January 2nd.

The Pok Pok-ization of New York City has begun. Pok Pok Wing , which hawks the Thai-style fried chicken popularized stateside at hound hangout Pok Pok in Portland, Oregon, opened this month on the Lower East Side.

Bklyn Larder or the Brooklyneer might be one-stop shops for all edibles hailing from Brooklyn, but now non-New Yorkers can get their hands on the best of the borough.

Craig Finn released his debut LP , Clear Heart Full Eyes , today via Vagrant. You can stream the entire thing on NPR .

Full disclosure: your humble Portlandia recapper lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and has a handful of friends who reside in Portland, Oregon.