New York

24 Jul 2011

Dig Out Your Short Shorts, High Line Rink is Coming!

   The other day, “West Coast Boys” was looping in my head and then BAM I heard it on the radio. That same day, my friend and I were talking about how badly we wanted to go roller skating and then WOOSH into my inbox comes the announcement that an

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22 Jul 2011

The Best Food Cart on Quesadilla Avenue

When you get off the L or M train at Myrtle / Wycoff there are taquerias all over, so many in fact that the street has been coined “Quesadilla Avenue”. But the best, the very best in my opinion, is the food cart right outside of the train station. There

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21 Jul 2011

Hey Hey It’s The Monkees FREE Show Tonight at Coney Island

I feel a little shaky as I’m writing this. For some of you, OBVIOUSLY you will take the subway to the very last stop in Brooklyn, shove a Nathan’s down your hole and then stretch out with hundreds of NYC’s most devoted middle aged fans to hear “Last Train to

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20 Jul 2011

Idle Hands: Bourbon, Beer and Rock Are Better in a Basement

A rock and roll speakeasy seems as much like an oxymoron as an affordable bourbon bar, but apparently both exist in a  hideaway under the trampled sidewalks of Alphabet City. Idle Hands was first brought to my attention not because of its over 150 different bourbons (!), or intense selection

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19 Jul 2011

Tonight: FREE Tacos From Google Places

Right now, you’re probably spacing out during lunch, thinking about how you don’t want to be wearing pants or that you don’t know what the hell to do with Google+. Instead, you should start thinking about a Google service that’s much easier to understand: Free tacos. Google Places is celebrating

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18 Jul 2011

The Slavery of Public Transportation

Who knew the A Train made stops at Care-A-Lot There I was on my day off about to place my hard earned money for the week into my savings account when a sense of gloom came over me. It’s the same feeling most New Yorkers get every month, every week

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18 Jul 2011

Feed Your Inner Teenage Outcast, This Wednesday at McCarren Park

  Weird girls rejoice!  If you were ever a high school outcast, liked to dye your hair crazy colors, or read comic books, chances are you’ve seen and love the movie Ghost World (or– if you’re super hardcore– read the graphic novel which it’s based upon).  Well, whip out that

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16 Jul 2011

Mekong, Meal Savior

Another day, another “Shit, my friends want to go out to eat because apparently that’s what people like to do in this damn city! Oh god, they want to go to the West Village! Whyyyyyy!” situation in which I feverishly hunt for dining options that have that have that special

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