When 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein was tragically killed three months ago by a driver in Park Slope, his family and friends put up a memorial to honor him. It's been up (apparently without incident) ever since. Well, until a woman who, according to Gothamist, is also a member of the neighborhood decided there had…

Do married dads cheat on their wives because they feel "dethroned" by their kids? And is the rate of male infidelity higher among those families that invest the most emotional energy into their children? Though a new report suggests so, the real root of the problem may not be kids, but the entitlement complex of…

A debate has erupted on Park Slope Parents, the notorious parental hellhole, that is so ridiculous it actually makes you want to cry. Mostly you want to cry because they're trying to take ice cream away from children. But you also want to cry because if this is how much parents are babying their children, we are…

Usually it's people complaining that art shows too much skin and trying to bring more censorship into the picture. But there's a been a refreshing—if somewhat ridiculous—reversal at one Brooklyn cafe. The Tea Lounge, which is in the very child-friendly neighborhood of Park Slope, attempted to make itself less…

In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, Jennifer Aniston calls her self "a retard" and Regis Philbin laughs, Tina Fey's first commercial surfaces, and Dolph Lundgren goes on Fox & Friends.

First The New York Times wondered whether newly hip baby slings were safe. Then, on Wednesday, two brands of baby slings were recalled. But some highly unscientific anecdotal evidence suggests that the baby sling isn't going away so fast.

Paging Amy Sohn: Courtney, the woman who found mommy mecca Park Slope, Brooklyn to be insufficiently fabulous for her fur coat, has gotten the best revenge - or something. Anyway, "Fabulous in Park Slope" is now live. [Via Racked]

"I'll just say that in 10-15 years when you decide to breed and discover that the babysitter's tab is three times your bar tab, and you're still working in publishing…well…good luck :)" — one response to "Baby Barflies" [NYT]

In what she might herself term a "shark-bait" piece in Salon, Lynn Harris asks: why does everyone hate mommies?

In the much-ballyhooed Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn welcomes her readers to Park Slope, where the women are mean, the men are asexual, and all the children wear kneepads.

Amy Sohn's new novel Prospect Park West is set for big things - even a possible TV show. Think, "Momosphere in the City," complete with an SJP producer's credit. And public breastfeeding:

There are few good parts for women in Hollywood right now. This is an incontrovertible fact. When you become a woman of a certain age, somewhere after 30 and before the hot flashes begin, there are no parts at all. Karen Allen, 56, who will be in the new Indiana Jones movie reprising her role as the plucky Marion…