New York

17 Jan 2011

Post-weekend Detox With $1 Jamba Juice

Sometimes, on the weekends, your body can become a repository for whiskey, cigarettes, and Tombstone frozen pizzas, WHICH, good lord, I recently discovered contain a total of 80 grams of fat per pizza, if you get the pepperoni one. I am not necessarily opposed to consuming that much fat in

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15 Jan 2011

Underground Rebel Bingo Club Tonight

I’m always weary off things dubbed an “overseas sensation”, usually it involves Puppetry of the Penis, DragonBall Z, or other culturally confusing phenomenon. But throw “secret” on front of an event and I’m all in. Bingo has undergone a number of transformations over the years. What’s usually associated with church

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15 Jan 2011

Keep it classy at BAM Cafe

Sometimes, you want to feel fancy. You need a break from warm PBRs and using a paper towel to touch the bathroom doorknob from time to time, and that’s perfectly OK. Sometimes you gotta treat yourself like the classy guy/gal on the town you tell people you’ll someday be, and

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14 Jan 2011

Sick of the Snow? Turn it into Ice Cream!

NYC’s wintery weather is reminding me a lot of Ithaca where I went to school. Except our snow will melt sometime before April and my nosehairs don’t freeze upon leaving my apartment. Because its life is so much shorter, I very rarely hate the snow in NYC. Sure, I curse

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14 Jan 2011

Exercise Your Imagination at this Year’s Air Sex World Championships

Of all the extremely compelling things about the east coast regionals of this year’s Air Sex World Championships, few are more humorous than the subtle irony in the event occurring on the same date as the first Nerd Nite of the year. The two events may not be mutually exclusive in terms of their fanbases, but

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13 Jan 2011

FREE Enjoy the Lap of Luxury at Hotel Sunday Movie Nights

Since blizzard number two hit the city, New Yorkers have kicked into hibernation mode which usually includes more than your average amount of movie nights. Escape cabin fever and enjoy free screenings of under the radar films in a more pleasing environment than your shabby futon. Both the hipster hostel

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13 Jan 2011

Gruff Rhys and Eleanor Friedberger Tonight at Rockwood Music Hall

In case your morning began with this shudder-inducing  video of a rat crawling on a sleeping man in the subway like mine did, you better do something awesome tonight to justify living here to yourself once again. Fortunately, Super Furry Animals frontman/awesome documentary maker Gruff Rhys (pronounced Griff Rees) and

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12 Jan 2011

FREE Arrested Development TV Party

In New York, there is an outlet for you to be any type of nerd you want to be. Case and point: The Bell House‘s TV Parties. Extreme fandom is no longer just for Sci Fi shows, their party on Thursday night is celebrating the first season of Arrested Development,

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