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15 Mar 2010

Broke-Ass Craving: Chicken Fingers at Stoned Crow

Amidst the stress of paying NYC rent, trying to afford the train, cable, the phone bill and assorted other expenditures it’s nice to be able to satisfy a food craving for only a couple of dollars.  We’ve covered pizza, tacos, burgers, falafel and booze on this site but I wanted

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11 Mar 2010

Movie Review from the Past: Weekend at Bernie’s

Recently, my boyfriend and I decided to rent a movie to watch while we drank beers.  After perusing ‘œGet Reel’ video down the street for what felt like hours, I picked up the slim, plastic case that housed ‘œWeekend at Bernie’s’. I know you’ve all seen it before but you know

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10 Mar 2010

Humpday Videos: Tribute to Biggie

We here at Broke-Ass Stuart remember a kinder, gentler, funkier time when there was an entire network devoted to playing awesome new music videos. Men named Pinfield and women named Idalis would introduce block after block of original music videos from various genres interspersed with interviews with musicians and video

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08 Mar 2010

Sampling: How to Get Through the Day for FREE

1. Food First things first: you need to eat and you need to not spend money doing it.  First of all, find out if there are any farmer’s markets at all that are near you.  Nearly every single one has samples of tomatoes, cheese, sometimes even the awesome free-range chicken

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05 Mar 2010

Free Pains of Being Pure at Heart Show Tonight

Most free shows at free parties kinda really suck, but tonight’s party sponsored by The Museum of Art and Design and the Fountain Art Fair actually seems kind of awesome.  Public access to the art begins today with performances from ADULT, Depreciation Guild and members of Pains of Being Pure at Heart.

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04 Mar 2010

5 Famous People Who Need to Disappear, Now

Nothing to me is grosser than TMZ, US Weekly or InTouch.  Not because I care about the privacy of supposed celebrities, but because every time you buy a copy of a tabloid or tune in to some TV show about celebrity gossip, you are feeding the beast.  Do we really

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03 Mar 2010

Humpday Video: Pantha du Prince “Stick to My Side”

We here at Broke-Ass Stuart remember a kinder, gentler, funkier time when there was an entire network devoted to playing awesome new music videos. Men named Pinfield and women named Idalis would introduce block after block of original music videos from various genres interspersed with interviews with musicians and video

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01 Mar 2010

Psychic Rena. For Real.

I probably would never have ever gone of my own volition, even though I’m not particularly opposed to the idea of psychics I am utterly opposed to getting ripped off and wasting money (generally) so I was more than a little skeptical.  My friend Kelly insisted though, because she had

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