New York

23 May 2010

Your Ultimate Sunday: Fairs, Fests, BBQ and BUST

Normally we like to cover one must-see event and gush about how awesome it is and how your social life would plunge to great depths if you miss it, but there is just way to0 much going on today to just pick one. I hate to sound like a cliche

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22 May 2010

Drugs, Sex, and Holly Rollers

So imagine if Walter from the Big Lewbowski did roll on Shabbos! Just when you thought you had heard of everything, I come across this movie called High Rollers. It’s about Hasidic Jews recruited in the nineties to serve as drug mules for bringing Ecstasy into the US. Now, I

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22 May 2010

After Hours Fantasy

When forced to work late at an office in Time Square sometimes there is nothing better to do than to carry out all the things from which you have been holding back. To do those bold acts, finally, while you privately rue the day you decided to throw your family’s

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21 May 2010

Brunch at Marine’s: Escape From the Strollers

Several weeks ago, I decided I wanted to venture to a brunch place that provided more options for my dirty hippie of a stomach (i.e. they serve tofu scrambles). So my BF and I naively wandered down to Fifth Avenue in Park Slope on a Saturday at 2pm. We opened

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21 May 2010

Don’t Touch Me There! Anniversary Spectacular

Well guys, if your week has been anything like mine, the idea of laughing a lot at something that isn’t the carnival of your own misery is pretty damn appealing on this particular Friday.  Luckily, Pat Stango and Blaine Perry have the perfect Band-Aid for that gaping wound of discontent

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20 May 2010

Benefit Show: Kaylin Lee Clinton + Musicians On Call

I like nothing more than a good cause.  Ask my mama, I came out of the womb preaching ‘œpeace, love, and recycling.’  I like nothing more – except maybe a balmy spring night traipsing around the Lower East Side’ after drinking a few bottles of beer’ while listening to some

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19 May 2010

Shakespeare’s Richard II…on Trapeze

Just when I thought people had run out of new interpretations for Shakespeare, other than setting his plays in high school starring various young starlets and heartthrobs, The Sonnnet Repertory Theatre proves me wrong. Their current production of Richard II involves actors swinging around on the trapeze. It’s like seeing

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19 May 2010

FREE Dinner and Dessert at Bailout Theater

Yep, it sounds too good to be true. But it ain’t. Bailout Theater – which will feature the comedic stylings of Isaac Oliver and friends, a “Deliverance”-esque banjo performance by the talented Alex Mallett, and a verifiable smorgasbord of local delicacies (as well as questionable dishes brought to you by

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