Sunday Screech: This week, Carmine enjoys a Cylcones game, but wishes the mayor would lay off his fast food! Comments (23)

Music: A ground-breaking musician who turned the traditional tunes of Sierra Leone into the soundtrack of a conflict has reemerged as a star in Brooklyn — even after an eight-year stint as a fast food employee. Comments (3)

Bridge ‘Park’: A Prospect Heights woman exploited her position on an influential Brooklyn Bridge Park advisory committee to land a sweet business deal, claim her former colleagues who are lobbing allegations of cronyism over a $40-million bike track development. Comments (13)

Music: Bring your kids, but only if they have good taste in singing puppets. Comment

Bar Scrawl: Our roving illustrator discovers a charming new wine bar in one of the borough’s quietest neighborhoods. Comments (3)

One man wants to be Brooklyn’s next district attorney. The other used to be a Brooklyn supreme court judge. Thankfully, The Brooklyn Paper is here to help you remember which one is which. Comments (1)

Weekend Watch: To you, fair beach-goers and Cyclone aficionados, we can say this: Coney Island-bound service is mostly restored, ending one of the MTA’s cruelest long-running jokes. So get out there, dear readers! Comment

The Ride: Brooklyn’s boys of summer continued their strong play when they’re out of town. Comment

Park Slope: It’s not brown and it’s not made of stone, but a foam-covered Park Place abode merges classic brownstone looks with green Park Slope sensibilities, according to its owner and designer. Comments (2)

Development: The “G” on this train stands for gentrify. Comments (7)

Fearless Parenting: This week, our fearless mom learns that her son (and dog) can (someimes) handle themselves in scary situations. Comment

The Ride: Brooklyn’s boys of summer kick off their six-game road trip in style. Comment

Link: Coney Island’s faithful are lashing out against the owner of the historic Shore Theater, claiming he has turned a seashore gem into a urine-soaked home for rats and vagrants. Comment

Theater: The evil robots are taking over — one Facebook update at a time. Comments (1)

Mean Streets: Cops in three Brownstone Brooklyn precincts ticketed just two speeding motorists for the second straight month — a disturbing trend that could cost pedestrians their lives, politicians fear. Comments (36)

Greenpoint: A plan to build a North Brooklyn public boathouse has been floating up Newtown Creek without a paddle for nearly a year and a half — and if it doesn’t reach shore by 2015 it might be sunk entirely, water lovers fear. Comments (2)

Dining: We’re all very proud of Michael Phelps and the other Americans heroically competing in sports we don’t normally care about, but it wouldn’t be the Olympics without cheering guiltlessly for some other country’s team. Comments (2)

Bay Ridge: Vandals have attacked a group of flowering trees at the Narrows Botanic Gardens — the second wave of destruction in the last two weeks to hit the southern tip of a green oasis directly across the street from residents who have clashed with the garden’s leadership. Comments (39)

Fort Greene: Plus more relentless crime from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comment

The Ride: The lowly Aberdeen IronBirds once again toppled the pride of Coney Island as starter Rainy Lara blew a two-run Clones lead and reliever Tim Peterson put the team even deeper in the hole. Comment

Link: The standoff between Cha Cha’s Coney Island Seafood Bar and Pizzeria and the encampment of homeless people at the Shore Hotel next door has erupted into violence three times in the past week, employees claim. Comment

Atlantic Yards: The Atlantic Terminal “sarcophagi” have been relegated to the land of the dead. Comments (7)

Changing Brooklyn: Tenants at one of Downtown’s last rent-stabilized buildings say they aren’t just getting evicted — they’re getting kicked out of Brooklyn. Comments (11)

Head coach Rob Miller says Brooklyn’s boys of winter are no more. Comments (4)

Fuzzy Brooklyn: Monster, a Brooklyn Brewery mouser whose carefree charm helped him become the beer-maker’s Williamsburg mascot, passed away on Monday morning from liver failure. He was 13. Comments (5)

The Cyclones are having trouble at home. Comment

The Ride: The bottom-feeding Aberdeen IronBirds kept the Cyclones off the scoreboard, knocking Brooklyn down to second place in the division in a shutout at home. Comment

Gowanus: A soon-to-open shuffleboard bar will bring the old folks’ game back to Brooklyn — but neighbors of the sprawling Gowanus venue fear the kitschy sport will come hand in hand with loud parties and inebriated revelers. Comments (16)

Bay Ridge: The city has spoken, and green-thumbed Ridgites won’t be getting the sound wall they’ve been clamoring for. Comments (12)

The Ride: Brooklyn topped the hated Staten Island Yankees in a walk-off win in the 12th to split a four-game cross-borough series — and end a five-game home losing streak. Comment

Checkin’ in with: Newly crowned Miss New York Mallory Hagan checks in with The Brooklyn Paper, and tells us why she should be Miss America and why she won’t ride a bike in Brooklyn. Comments (8)

The Ride: Jeffrey Glenn hits a homer, but the rest of the Cyclones’ offense fails to live up to his example during an embarrassing outing at MCU park. Comment

The Ride: Hated cross-Narrows rivals the Staten Island Yankees pounded Clones starter Luis Mateo as the pride of Coney Island fell at MCU Park. Comment

Cobble Hill: Long Island College Hospital laid off workers on Friday. Comments (15)

Brooklyn Heights: Brooklyn Heights will boast the city’s first boutique climbing gym, according to a fitness entrepreneur who says bigger isn’t necessarily better. Comments (3)

Downtown: NYU-Poly added a new field of study to its engineering curriculum this week — water tower maintenance. Comments (2)

The Ride: The pride of Coney Island bested their hated rivals in a Thursday night nail biter. Comment

Mean Streets: Atlantic Avenue will become a parking paradise and that’s easier for pedestrians to cross, say Boerum Hill neighbors and merchants who convinced the city to ease no-standing regulations on the busy roadway after nearly two decades. Comments (21)

Williamsburg: Two new bus routes will ferry commuters around the bustling but transit-starved neighborhood of Williamsburg under a new Metropolitan Transportation Authority plan. Comment