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Greenpoint’s Secret Fish Market: ACME Smoked Fish Corp.
Most Greenpoint inhabitants might have no idea where Gem Street is. Small wonder given that it’s the shortest street in the Greenpoint/Williamsburg area. Still, even if you don’t know its precise location, you can always follow your proboscis. The tell-tale fishy odor should lead you right to the front loading

Dispatches from the Road: An Insider’s Guide to Doing Adelaide, Australia on the Cheap
The rest of Australia can’t understand Adelaide.
We’re just too weird.

Punderdome 3000: Just Do It!
One’s experience with the Punderdome can be likened to an initial viewing of the movie Inception, in that you’re never really sure what exactly it is that you’re watching. Are you certain that you’re in a time-warped dream within a dream within a dream? Or are you just a pseudo-intellectual

Cheap Dates: The Five-Finger Date
You’re smart, sexy, and sophisticated. And cheap. Anyone would be thrilled to date you, which is why you don’t need to empty your pockets for someone else – in fact leave those hands in those pockets because you’re going to take yourself out on a five-finger date. Whoever said that

FREE Chances with Wolves Dance Party TONIGHT @ ISA
Do you listen to East Village Radio? Me neither, but we both should. Because every Monday night Justin Cox and Kenan Juska drop the deepest jams you’ve ever heard. They also enjoy wolf howls. And that’s something we can all get into. They call their journey into the mysterious corners

Broke-Ass Meals of the Week
January isn’t even half over and I have already somehow managed to break all of the New Year’s Resolutions I knew I wouldn’t keep. Why are New Year’s Resolutions so important? Well, once you break one, and they lead to more ill behavior that will snowball into an even worse

Broke-Ass of the Week – Jocelyn Blore
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not. Wanna be a Broke-Ass of the Week? Holler at us here and we’ll send you the questionnaire. Jocelyn Blore, seen

Moon Casale’s Album Release at Greenpoint Reformed Church
Moon Casale’s sound has a deep, reverential quality to it. That’s probably why he’s having his album release in Greenpoint’s Reformed Church. We’re not sure it’s the Christian god he’s after, but when his guitar hums its lonely notes, you’ll know he’s communing with something all right. A longtime member