New York

18 May 2010

Gross Science: Louis Sorkin and Gene Kaplan at the “Geeking Out” Lecture Series

I consider myself a pseudo-scientist.  I watch a lot of science shows on TV.  Once upon a time I got a ‘˜five’ on my Biology Advanced Placement test.  I even got a scholarship in biology for college.  Alas, I was making more jokes in lab than getting experiments done and

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18 May 2010

NYC Giveaway: Corey Dargel & Craig Wedren’s Chamber Pop Music

While the term chamber music is usually used to describe Mozart, Beethoven and our classical music icons, this genre has been creeping its way back into our modern musical lexicon under the guise of “chamber pop”. I used to think I knew every sub genre of indie music there was

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17 May 2010

Housepartyin’ Up In NYC

I recently co-hosted my first large gathering house party in my adult life in where else, but my fairly small Brooklyn apartment.  For reals, I don’t think I’ve hosted a party of that size since maybe college or so (and even then, it doesn’t even really count, in a way),

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17 May 2010

St. Jerome’s in the Lower East Side

I had a roommate when I first moved to New York who occasionally played records here. One night she came to my room and said, “Hey I’m gonna go DJ at this place called St. Jerome’s tonight. Do you wanna come?” When I answered that I was too poor, she

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16 May 2010

FREE Park Slope’s Annual 5th Ave Street and Music Fair

Man this city is so spoiled. It seems like every weekend brings some new street fair or open air market and my money just finds new and inventive ways to wander off. My only previous experience with street fairs before moving to New York involved old veterans on canes and

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15 May 2010

Cheap Prix Fix: Del Posto

There is a distinct upside to a tanked economy’deals at restaurants.  I love to take advantage of our fiscal misfortune by testing out many of the city’s best prix fix offers. While experiencing a serious deal the other day, I got a taste of how the other half live (or

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15 May 2010

The Veggie Parade, Seriously

And we are up! It’s in the 70’s outside again. Don’t you just love how the weather out here just makes you beg for it? Anyway, San Francisco is having something called Bay to Breakers, which from my understanding is a naked parade, and it appears that New York wants

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14 May 2010

The Counting Room

There sure are a lot of new things popping up all up on the north side of Williamsburg these days. Lodged within a weird DUMBO-area-looking strip-mall block next to a dry cleaning place on North 11th and Berry is just one of these new “things”– a little (actually sort of

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