Music: This is no joke — on April Fool’s Day, a Bee Gees all-metal tribute band will rock your socks off. Comments (2)

Cinema: Get to Greenpoint this month for highly original, experimental film. Comment

Brooklyn Heights: The city’s first solar-powered charging station is up and running in Brooklyn Bridge Park, powering the waterfront development’s five electric cars with good, old-fashioned Brooklyn sun. Comments (6)

Williamsburg: Neighborhood graphic designers, animators, and video producers are discovering Bitmap, an office space on Graham Avenue that opened last month for independent workers. Comments (5)

Books: Book ideas are like belly buttons — everyone has one. But not everyone knows how to make a solid book pitch — so thankfully, there is Pitchapoalooza at Greenlight Bookstore. Comments (2)

Bridge ‘Park’: Community members and elected officials are furious that a report studying ways to fund Brooklyn Bridge Park’s massive maintenance budget may be leaving good cash on the table. Comments (8)

Dining: Kings County Jerky Company knows dehydrated protein. Comment

Perspective: Click below for opinion pieces — pro and con — on the scandal-tarred state senator. (Yes, we found someone to defend him.)

Bay Ridge: It’s finally time to hit the books. Comment

Weekend Watch: Here are all the service changes affecting you this weekend (Saturday, March 26 at 12:01 am to Monday, March 28 at 5 am, unless otherwise noted). Comment

The city is moving ahead to designate a Sears store on Beverly Road in Flatbush a landmark — and if the stunning Art Deco ediface gets the approval, it will have a single enthusiastic preservationist to thank. Comments (1)

Here they are, your inevitable weather photos. Comment

Nightlife: Spring may finally have sprung, but at Bierkraft, the gourmet grocery and beer emporium on Fifth Avenue and Union Street in Park Slope, it’s beginning to look more like Oktoberfest. Comments (7)

Red Hook: It’s a good-looking venue. Comment

Borough President Markowitz says he will not immediately return thousands in campaign contributions from a developer who was arrested earlier this month in a federal investigation into bribing a prominent south Brooklyn state senator. Comments (9)

Prime Time: Joe Raiola from Morton’s puts down the red meat for a week and gives us a great fish dish. Comments (3)

Mean Streets: Eastern Parkway would be transformed from a menacing speedway into a pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly strip under a new city plan that will begin construction next month. Comments (30)

Red Hook: A Manhattan private school is planning to install artificial turf at a Red Hook Park field for the benefit of their sports teams, which have been practicing there off and on for decades. Comments (2)

Music: Taiko may be the Japanese word for drum, but you can expect more than mere banging from Soh Daiko. Comment

Atlantic Yards: The Blackbirds are looking to nest with the Nets. Comments (6)

Downtown: A deep-pocketed developer entrenched in an ambitious, federally funded plan to build the borough’s tallest building at Albee Square has been quietly thrown off the project for his involvement in the FBI’s sweeping bribery probe into state Sen. Carl Kruger. Comments (2)

Bay Ridge: Bay Ridge’s renowned high-rises are not, politically at least, in Bay Ridge. Comments (3)

Park Slope: A long-shuttered Christian school at the heart of Park Slope’s real estate goldmine will soon sprout into a towering condo. Comments (4)

Books: Well, good for her — and us! — it just won an award from the National Book Critics Circle (beating Franzen!). Comments (2)

Fort Greene: Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comments (7)

Williamsburg: The scenic waterfront banquet hall is burglarized. Comments (2)

He told locals that he’ll run a quiet, neighborhood joint while he was telling the State Liquor Authority about his security guards, outdoor serving area and bottle service. Comments (12)

Construction Update: Developer Bruce Ratner has yet to birth a building at the Atlantic Yards site, but he’s already causing labor pains. Comments (9)

Downtown: Our shutterbug has done it again. Enjoy. Comments (4)

State Sen. Kevin Parker — the pugilistic pol responsible for a handful of violent outbursts during his nine years in office — is all but certain to keep his job after a judge sentenced him to probation instead of jail for his 2009 assault on a New York Post photographer. Comments (1)

Williamsburg: Want a unique place to get married in Williamsburg? Go to the bank. Comments (1)

Mean Streets: But the city won’t change the signs because St. Anthony’s on Leonard Street may reopen this fall. Comments (2)

The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: The play may be called “Jitney” and set in a gypsy cab station, but August Wilson’s early work is not about driving cars. Comment

Carroll Gardens: Plus all the other crime news from Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Red Hook’s 76th Precinct. Comments (1)

Red Hook: A gunman was arrested on Monday after shooting two men in Red Hook and one in Park Slope in a flurry of violence early on Saturday morning. Comments (2)

Event: If you go to one “town hall” meeting this spring, this is the one: Councilman Steve Levin’s art “town hall” at the Brooklyn Brewery. Cheers. Comments (6)

The Dad: Our columnist confronts every parent’s fear: that his 16-year-old is addicted to coffee. Comments (24)

Mean Streets: The community board asks the city to install speed bumps along the bike lane. Comments (62)

The New York Aviators now find themselves in unfamiliar territory — with their backs to the wall. Comment

Meadows of Shame: Play ball! Comments (1)

Fort Greene: The Brooklyn Navy Yard has fired its hand-picked developer for a controversial supermarket project after he was arrested in a widening bribery scandal that has already implicated two Albany legislators and a well-connected lobbyist. Comments (1)

Shopping: There’s even more BookCourt to love. Comments (2)

Shopping: Several ups and downs in the Market Watch with week, with two big openings and one quiet closing. Comment

Event: Now here’s an event that’s for the dogs. Comments (3)

Theater: This is one theater troupe that can act its way out of a paper bag! Comment

Downtown: Turns out, the biggest upset in basketball history isn’t so easy. Final score: North Carolina, 103–LIU, 87. Comment

Carroll Gardens: Six people were injured — though two were heroically rescued — as a massive fire ripped through a Court Street building on Friday morning — a blaze that was fueled by years and years of hoarding, officials said. Comments (10)

The Brooklyn Paper has picked up a new bucketful of new honors from a major national newspaper association. Comments (2)

Downtown: Our own basketball nut Gary Buiso profiled the Bad News Blackbirds on the eve of the team’s historic upset bid over the heavily favored University of North Carolina Tar Heels. So before tonight’s exciting action, click above to read Buiso’s yarn.

Instead of jeers, Community Board 18 District Manager Dorothy Turano got flowers. Comments (8)

Bay Ridge: Bay Ridge newspaper legend Frank Griffin, who published the Home Reporter from its creation in 1956 to just a few months ago, died on Monday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan of cancer. He was 83. Comment

Columbia St Waterfront: Things are salty again along the Columbia Waterfront District — and fed up residents are ready for a low-sodium diet. Comments (2)

Podcast: It seems like only yesterday we were telling reporter Andy Campbell, “Welcome to The Brooklyn Paper. Now, work harder.” Alas, after just a year, Campbell has been hired by our sister paper, The New York Post. As such, here’s our loving, somewhat frustrated, tribute to the man we’ll always know as “the Dude.” Comments (7)

The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: The new production of Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” at the BAM Harvey is laughable. Comment

Podcast: The late night funnyman has thrown his considerable weight behind LIU in its underdog fight against North Carolina in Friday’s NCAA Tourney opener. Comment