An Edgy Mother's Day, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- A Mercado is coming to Red Hook  The Word on Columbia Street 

- A Brooklyn teacher's 1996 Honda was stolen three years ago, but was returned to her the other day -- with a new V-8 engine, leather seats, manual transmission, tinted windows and oversize tires. Christwire

- Yousef Al-Khattab, the man behind a radical Islamic web site, started out as a Jew in Brooklyn.  Brooklyn Ink

- How do wild weeds get all the way to an urban rooftop eight stories high? NY Times

- Stephen Hawking: If aliens visit Earth, we're in deep trouble. NY Magazine

- NY State is inviting programmers, hackers and other computer geeks to enter the Security Treasure Hunt Challenge. Brokelyn

- An edgy Mother's Day in Park Slope.  OTBKB