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30 Oct 2010

Is Sugar Sweet Sunshine NYC’s Best Cupcake?

There are a lot of things I don’t miss about living on the Lower East Side, #1 being watching ex-frat boys puke outside of Fat Baby on Saturday nights. Or maybe it’s paying penthouse prices for an ex-tenement apartment… or seeing some kind of dead animal in the street at

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30 Oct 2010

FREE Ghost Walk Tour of the Palace Hotel

I have always loved having the bejesus scared out of me. When I was little I used to read the book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark over and over which seemed to concern my Grandpa, who called me a ‘œghoul.’ I remember being a little offended by that,

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30 Oct 2010

BangOnNYC! Haunted Warehouse Party

I was thinking I could do a whole round-up of cheap Halloween events going on this weekend but then became quickly overwhelmed by the number of all the festivities going down. Most of these epic parties cost a little somethin somethin to get it, but then again, will your friend’s

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29 Oct 2010

Get Your Shvitz on at Coney Island Banya

Normally, I hate sweating. So I was surprised that I love shvitzing. It turns out, sweating is great when you’re mostly naked in a sauna that smells like sandalwood and oak and there’s a bucket of cold water to dump on your head. It’s not like a gross summer sweat

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29 Oct 2010

Renounce Halloween and See Some Theater Instead!

Halloween’s always been kind of an “eh” holiday for me.  Maybe it’s because I live in San Francisco, where almost every weekend gives you an excuse to dress up in some ridiculous ensemble and get wasted at 10am (read:  B2B, Pride Weekend, WORLD SERIES) or maybe I’m just not very

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29 Oct 2010

Party like Mad (Men) at Sheep Station Sunday

I’ve never seen Mad Men, but from what I understand it’s a television show that showcases a time period during which sexism was rampant and rich white men wore expensive suits while smoking excessively and guzzling Jack Daniel’s. Which sort of makes it sound a bit like 2010. But Mad Men

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28 Oct 2010

Join a FREE Citywide Game of Tag with Journey to the End of the Night

Usually when I’m on a “journey to the end of the night” it means I’m trying not to fall asleep on the bar after someone thought another round of Fernet shots would be a good idea. But this Saturday’s Halloween edition of Journey to the End of the Night is

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