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[Photo: Instagram/Northern Spy Food Co.] The people at Superfly Presents pulled the plug on day three of The Great GoogaMooga food and music festival at around noon today because of bad weather. In a statement, Superfly explains that the group and the Parks Department made the decision "in the interest of safety and prevention of damage to the park grounds." Many of the chefs and restaurateurs that were participating in the fest voiced their thoughts about this on Twitter, and some of the city's big writers and critics also commented on the news this afternoon. Find a roundup of the top 15 tweets below, as well as information from Superfly co-founder Jonathan Mayers about how the company plans to work with the vendors to make up for day three. This afternoon, Eater asked Superfly co-founder Jonathan Mayer if the company is going to offer any reimbursement to the restaurants that prepared food and set up shop today. His response: Well, right now, we're closing down operations, but we'll be working with the restaurants, sitting down with them, and working through the issues. We have a good track record of being fair with vendors, and artists. Our whole intention behind doing this festival was to celebrate these restaurants and local business...We want to support and be a good partner with these restaurants. We want to do the right thing. We're still finalizing things and assessing operations.So, no word yet on whether the vendors will actually get any financial help to cover the food and labor costs from today. But if you are one of the unlucky vendors who set up shop today only to find out that the event was cancelled, expect a call from someone at Superfly soon. Christophe Hille of Northern Spy Food Company tells EV Grieve that his restaurant lost around $10,000 this weekend. UPDATE: Superfly also passes on this statement: "GoogaMooga is all about supporting local businesses and our intention is to do right by each vendor. In the coming days, we will be sitting down with all our partners to find financial solutions." Here's how the news of the cancellation played out on Twitter: Mile End, right before the gates were supposed to open: Superfly announcing the cancellation and the refund policy: One festival goer points out that Superfly sent out an announcement about ticket availability this morning: From Allison Robicelli: Chef Andrew Carmellini: One of the members of De La Soul sends a message to fans: Northern Spy Food Co.: Bloomberg's Ryan Sutton: Mr. Sutton offers more thoughts on GoogaMooga on his blog, The Bad Deal: "Maybe we don't really need GoogaMooga's particular brand of an NYC food festival because maybe it's just bringing together NYC restaurants we can already visit any day of the week, except here, they're outside...Maybe restaurants will realize this could all be harmful to their brands and harmful long established customer relationships?" The people from Pig and Khao respond to Sutton's question: From the Pork Slope crew: Blogger/Author Emily Gould: The people behind Pizza Moto send word that City Harvest might pick up some of the extra food. Heritage Radio Network: The people from Luke's Lobster are trying to make the most out of the situation: Team Seersucker: · All Coverage of The Great GoogaMooga [~ENY~]

Here's a very thin silver lining for anyone who was rained out from day three of The Great GoogaMooga: all unused drink tickets will be refunded. If you want your money back, all you have to do is send an envelope with any unused beer and wine pavilion tickets and a copy of the receipt for your Sunday ticket to Superfly's GoogaMooga offices, to the attention of Ticket Reimbursements, by June 17. That address and the return policy can be found here. [Brokelyn] [Photo]

An NYPD Lieutenant and his subordinates in the Brooklyn North Narcotics squad have cost New York City taxpayers more than $1.5 million in settled lawsuits. According to a lengthy Daily News investigation, 37-year-old Lt. Daniel Sbarra was promoted and given a pay raise in 2011 despite a litany of complaints leveled against him alleging that he and his officers used excessive force, racial slurs, and illegal searches. Sbarra, who is apparently a Pearl Jam fan, has had 30 CCRB complaints filed against him—91% of the NYPD's 35,000 uniformed officers have fewer than five, only 54 have more than 21. [ more › ]

"This is it children, this is it!" you yell at your four grandkids, pointing to the display on the Google Wall of your micro apartment in New-New-Double East Queens. "We once read articles like these about how the rich were pushing us out of the city and what did we do? We did nothing but gawp at the shiny glass of their luxury towers!" But it's no use. Your progenitors don't care about some story that was in The New Koch Times so very long ago. They're busy cramming Smile Goop™ into their orifices, oblivious that the borough that could have been theirs to thrive in is now a giant, gilded bidet for Russian ore speculators. [ more › ]

This week, micro penis owners all over Brooklyn were given a jolt when Kings County Bar announced their first annual Smallest Penis in Brooklyn pageant—the ultimate wet t-shirt contest for infinitesimal penises. We asked bar manager Aimee Arciuolo about what inspired them to start such a tradition, and it turned out to be based in some very personal experiences: "The discussion came about after I had an exceptionally fun and amazing romp with a man who was less than endowed—it was actually shockingly tiny, like the size of an acorn," she told us. [ more › ]

I’m not worried.  We’ve been here before.  All part of the plan.  Long con style.  Because you’re never really in trouble until you lose on home ice anyways.  But with that being said the Rangers just got their dicks kicked in on national television.  Completely dominated once Boston decided to stop giving up goals right after scoring.  They were outworked all over the ice and Hank looked human.  Simple as that.  New York hasn’t been this embarrassed on a Sunday afternoon since the Jets season ended.  Just ugly stuff. Still, Rangers in 7.

A workshop focused on the art of the suicide note and epitaph is part of a monthlong series of performances, installations and lectures called the School of Death.

When will we, as a people, learn that it's a poor decision to move between the subway cars? The Daily News reports that another unfortunate straphanger tumbled between the cars Saturday night, this one while riding the G train near the 15th Street-Prospect Park station. [ more › ]

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Many small restaurants and food companies stand to lose thousands of dollars in revenue. The third and final day of the Great GoogaMooga food and music festival was cancelled earlier this afternoon at at approximately 12:30, with event organizers citing general public safety concerns and potential damage to Prospect Park. While organizer Superfly Presents was quick to issue a statement pledging to refund all Sunday VIP ticket purchases in full, the announcement reportedly came after about a hundred or so of the enlisted food vendors had already set up for the day, and hundreds more festival-goers had converged on the site. You may remember that last's year inaugural GoogaMooga was also something of a disaster, with infernal waits and other unpleasantries that sank all kinds of spirits. And while the food-heavy festival is reportedly expanding Chicago this August, it apparently still hasn't worked out a basic contingency plan for bad weather. Worst of all is that reports from Prospect Park yesterday indicated that a number of the logistical kinks had been worked out, which makes it sadder that a storm system was enough to come along and ruin the prospect of all kinds of barbecued lamb ribs, ice cream cones, pork belly tacos, and Oysters Bolognese. Early reports indicate some participants will lose thousands of dollars in revenue because of this. EV Grieve reports that Northern Spy Food Co. owner Christopher Hille's damage is around $10,000. Allison Robicelli, another vendor, hears more of the same from other vendors. Many restaurants that created custom menus for the event don't even have storage space for the the mostly perishable food — which for the most part cannot be donated to food banks — while other businesses, like Luke's Lobster, are offering enticing discounts today in an effort to recoup the loss of being sent home from the cancelled event. Below is the full list of restaurants, chefs, and shops who were scheduled to appear today. The official call is to go out and patronize these places asap. For any vendors who were scheduled to sling cemitas or duck hash or whatever else today and are now slashing prices to reduce those two or three thousand portions you may have leftover, email us at newyork@grubstreet.com and we'll append it to the full list below. Back Forty Baked BaconLand Baohaus Beecher’s Handmade Cheese The Big Banana Big Gay Ice Cream Blue Marble Ice Cream Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken Brindle Room Brooklyn Soda Works Burger Joint Calexico Caracas Rockaway Char No. 4 Colicchio & Sons Craftbar Crawfish Monica Crif Dogs DBGB Kitchen and Bar Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Dirty Bird To Go Do or Dine Dough DuMont Burger & Shakes Eataly Fatty Cue Free Bread Gwynnett St. Hill Country Barbeque Market James Jeepney Jeffrey's Grocery Joe Joe’s Pub Joseph Leonard Juice Press Kasadela La Newyorkina Landhaus Liddabit Sweets Little Muenster The Lobster Place Luke’s Lobster: $2 off lobster rolls in all its New York stores today. M. Wells Maison Premiere Max Brenner Chocolate Bar Melt Bakery Mile End Mille-Feuille Bakery Cafe Miss Lily's Momofuku Milk Bar Mother-in-Law Kimchi Motorino Nom Wah Tea Parlor Northern Spy Food Co.* Num Pang Sandwich Shop Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors People’s Pops Pig & Khao PizzaMoto Pok Pok Phat Thai Porchetta Pork Slope Prospect Red Hook El Olomega Pupusas Red Hook Lobster Pound* Rippers Roberta's Pizza Robicelli’s Rosemary's Enoteca and Trattoria Salvation Taco Saxelby Cheesemongers Seersucker SlantShack Jerky South Brooklyn Pizza Sun In Bloom The Meat Hook The Meatball Shop* Third Rail Coffee Tia Pol Toro Umami Burger Vinegar Hill House Willow Road Wooly’s Ice Earlier: Here’s What Everyone Will Be Serving at the Great GoogaMooga Read more posts by Hugh MerwinFiled Under: rained out, baohaus, big gay ice cream, cal