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Jazz Age Lawn Party Take Two
Per usual, I’m going to be out of town for the throwback Jazz Age Lawn theme party this Saturday. I miss it every year and it’s starting to feel like I’ll never get to sip cold glasses of St.Germaine and do the Charleston on Governor’s Island. If you missed the

Rare Vampire Films at YBCA
If you were into vampires long before the new, sparkly, abstinent breed came along, then you’ve surely been yearning for a taste of the dingier, old-school blood suckers. This Saturday and Sunday, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be screening Carl Theodore Dreyer’s, 1932 classic, ‘œVampyr’ to satiate all

5 FREE(ish) Things I Enjoyed This Week
Because I am truly a broke ass, I go through my week trying to fill my unemployed hours as inexpensively as possible. And I know I’m far from being the only one with monetary limitations, so here are five FREE (if you work it the right way and pretty close

City Winery Wants to Get you Drunk and Show you a Nice Time
Unless I accidentally sit in the wrong seat, it is unusual for me to walk into a bar and find three glasses of nice wine waiting for me on my table. Especially at a swanky spot, complete with prerequisite swanky spot twinkly lights. But this happened to me at City

INSIDER INFO: Prix Fixe Menus at Andalu!
My best friend came into town for his birthday and decided a group of us would treat him to dinner at the very tasty but not-so-cheap Andalu. Naturally, I had a mini heart attack and considered severing all ties just so I wouldn’t risk facing the embarrassment of getting my

Actually Useful Items I Have Purchased in Chinatown
The generic Chinatown shops of most major cities are generally avoided by locals because they tend to only sell pieces of junk for tourists to buy or things that you have no idea what they do. If you can get past the first line of knockoff Hannah Montanah backpacks though,

Free Ping Pong in Bryant Park
There are quite a number of ping pong aficionados, I’m sure , who would agree with the conviction that ping pong in its customary form constitutes a sport of the clearly indoor sort. The air, the lighting, the soft echoes of grunt strikes – its all altered in the outdoor sphere. The folks over