Retro Swimsuits from Malia Mills

I stumbled on the Malia Mills shop in Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn one afternoon and just fell in love with her fantastic, retro-inspired swimwear. I also dig the way she uses her real-life customers as models.

Brunch Porn: Brooklyn’s Ted & Honey

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Snuggled right next to a park, this adorable little red cafe is the perfect spot to while away a sunny weekend afternoon. Ted & Honey is in a prime spot in Brooklyn’s lovely brownstone-filled Cobble Hill neighborhood. Here, you order at the counter and they bring your food to you. Or you can get a coffee, sit at their communal table (or at the bar in the front window and read the paper – love that!) As we sat on the patio eating, lots of folks rolled up and ordered their food to go and took it next door to shady Cobble Hill Park to eat.

Of course this being Brooklyn, the chef uses locally sourced ingredients, but I’m over that. What’s more notable is that he makes his own ketchup, salsa and various pickled things that he sells in jars on the shelves of the market (also overplayed in Brooklyn, but still cool). But the real headline is his homemade pop tarts filled with strawberry preserves, bananas and chocolate and a variety of other delicious things. Gourmet junk food – what a fun idea! Now if someone could only get the yodel down…

See our meal after the jump …

Brunch Porn Courtesy of Brooklyn’s Fatty ‘Cue

“What would make you want to pay to eat in an alley like that?” I hear you asking. And I get it. It ain’t cute, but damn, Brooklyn’s Fatty ‘Cue is tasty.

Exhibit 1: The smoked pig brunch special last Saturday ($16). Two eggs sunny side up over smoked pulled pork, ramps (a sort of green onion/garlic-type green all over New York menus in early spring), house made pickled radishes and white rice. Paired by my husband with a watermelon mimosa.

Weekend Beach Getaway … On Your Wall

This print has been following me around. Good thing I love it. We first spotted the print by Brooklyn artist Mina Georgescu at Brooklyn Collective, a gallery in Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. Then it’s been arriving in my inbox ever since. Most recently from the cool print shop Society 6, where it can be had for just $20. Only thing is, it’s a bit derivative, but, hey, what isn’t?

If you have $20k to spare you can go with an originator in the genre of blurry, aerial beach photography: Massimo Vitali photograph. His work is on my when-I-get-rich list. And they’re huuuuge and dreamy. They’d fill up a wall in the most amazing way.

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Inspiration From Norman Rockwell at the Brooklyn Museum

This rainy April day would be a great one to check out the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. It’s interesting because it shows the photographs Rockwell so carefully staged in order to paint from them. I loved this peek behind the lens.He was very meticulous about getting the right characters and expressions.

Brooklyn is the New Richmond

We’ve moved!
Goodbye to our adorable but small-for-Richmond 1,000-square-foot house

and hello 500-square-foot, third-floor-walkup apartment in Brooklyn.
(Half the size and twice the price!)

Robots Invade Brooklyn

One-time Richmond artist, Nick Kyuzyk, is still working on his robot invasion. A Culture Fix associate was recently in New York and spotted a Kyuzyk mural on the side of a bagel shopin Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Makes me wish I bought one of his paintings when they were $25 at Cafe 821 in Oregon Hill.

Kyuzyk’s last appearance in Richmond was at ADA gallery in September and according to a story in Brick Weekly at the time, he illustrated a children’s book for Penguin coming out July 2009.