New York

09 Aug 2011

New York Living Can Be Annoying

When I envision Boston, I picture every Red Sox fan walking around with a shirt containing this logo.   I love New York. I was born and raised here, currently live here and I might die here next week. (Word of advice: stay on a woman’s good side.) Yet the

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08 Aug 2011

Check out Why Participate?, at Flux Factory This Week

Looking at art and overeating are pretty much two of the finest activities in the land.  Well, you have a chance to do both for FREE this week by visiting Why Participate?, an exhibition at Flux Factory in Long Island City.  A group showing by artists who are concerned with

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07 Aug 2011

Party This Thursday at Cure Thrift!

  Just when you’d decided never to leave the apartment without utter life-or-death necessity again this summer (the city’s a freak show! It’s hot as balls! The line in Duane Reade is anxiety attack-inducingly long and the whole damn town is crawling with tourists who stop at random in the

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06 Aug 2011

Good Meals in a Weird Hood at Mazzat

Did you know Brooklyn has a “Columbia Street Waterfront District”? Nope? Me neither. Kind of right there with Kips Bay in the “Neighborhoods people smile and nod and maybe even think you’re a douche when you bring up” category. Well, it’s located on Columbia Street (see what they did there!?),

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05 Aug 2011

The Original Chinatown Ice Cream Factory

 Almond cookie, avocado, black sesame, coconut, durian, ginger, lychee, red bean, Zen butter, wasabi, egg cream, pumpkin pie…Yes, all these fabulous flavors (and more that you haven’t thought of) can all be found at the original Chinatown Ice Cream Factory! But what’s the catch? Why would you go all the

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04 Aug 2011

Remember the Alamo at the Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure Bike-In Friday

Sometimes an event comes along that’s so awesome that I feel like I’m bastardizing it by doing anything other than writing in all caps with an exclamation point after every word. Tomorrow night’s Wonderdonk Bike-In Movie  featuring Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure is one such an event, but there are so many

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03 Aug 2011

Free Bowling TONIGHT at Village Voice Tweet Up

Tonight, all of the hours you spent learning to bowl by watching The Big Lebowski repeatedly can be put to good use thanks to the next installment of the Village Voice’s “Tweet up” series. From 5-9PM at The Gutter, they’re offering up free bowling AND knocking $5 off pitchers of

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03 Aug 2011

FREE Screening of “E.T” at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum

Remember when the government agents were holding shot-guns instead of walkie-talkies right before E.T. took off with Elliot? If you do then you were old enough to have seen “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” back in the 80’s. (The 80’s, wow that was so long ago.) I love E.T., it’s one of

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