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Meet Your Maker: Judgement Day at Union Pool
The band’s name is Judgement Day. String Metal is their sound. Be prepared. This guitarless, percussive, high-energy violin, cello, and drums trio is, as our very own Stuart says, ‘œon some other shit!’ Judgement Day is in a realm of their own. Brothers Anton and Lewis Patzner combine their innovative

FREE Food and Music for a Good Cause at the Riptide
Jeff over at The Riptide has been doing some pretty awesome events lately that involve you eating and dancing for FREE. Remember this one and this one? Yeah, dude is not fucking around. This time for Wet Wednesday a professional chef ,who is one of the Riptide regulars, will be

Broke-Ass Porn: Children’s Books
I am well aware of the disturbing title of this post, but you know what?, consistency is a bitch. And Broke-Ass Porn is all about weird and stimulating visual material, that is always free, and not necessarily dirty. So now that’s out of the way, back to the kids! I’ve
Diamond in the Rough: Jersey City via Design*Sponge
I have mentioned Design*Sponge before on this site but I want to draw your attention today to the “City Guides” where intrepid explorers with impeccable taste in everything from bars, shopping and food give the lowdown on what’s hot in their city. Recently D*S posted a City Guide to Jersey

A Bit of Blood and Bargains at New May Wah
Trader Joe’s bags you at the snacks. Safeway is but a necessary evil – gouging you at every turn. The store on the corner’s often a misguided venture, usually heavily influenced by extreme hunger or heavy influence. Where does one turn? Well if one lives in the nosebleeds of the
Legitimately Attractive Teen Idols
I don’t know exactly exactly at what point the Western world decided that THIS counts as an attractive teen idol, but baaaack in myyyy daaaay, (pre-Hanson, most definitely), the celebrities my friends and I had crushes on probably had at least 1-2 pubes. Look, I know by definition that teen

FREE Hugh Raffles Reads about Bugs
The first time I went to the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian, I spent about thirty seconds looking at the Hope Diamond. Then I went and spent at least a half an hour staring at bugs in glass tanks. Don’t get me wrong, I love shiny things. But I