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15 Jun 2010

FREE Cachaca Drinks and Cheap Eats at Pisco Latin Lounge

I love it when people send me tips about FREE stuff.  It certainly makes my life easier; I don’t have to troll the internet for an hour or two in the morning looking for some kind of magical surprise to write about.  This tip came in recently and it sounds

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15 Jun 2010

Cage Heat: Nicholas Cage Night at IFC Theater

I blame my Mother and her exposing me the movie Moonstruck. That’s where the love of the “Cagemaster”, as  I will now be calling him, began. Although that movie is cheesier than a 7 layer lasagna in Little Italy, he’s definitely not your typical romantic leading man. Known equally for

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15 Jun 2010

FREE Concert with Drake, Hanson, and Ninjasonik at the Seaport Tonight

What do Drake, Hanson and Ninjasonik have in common? If you guessed a song called ‘œSomebody’s Gonna Get Pregnant,’ well, you’re only sort of wrong. But the three acts are appearing together at the Seaport tonight at 6pm as part of the Sounds like Paper Summer Concert Series. For FREE.

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14 Jun 2010

Booze Popsicles, FREE Vodka and Your Chance to DJ at The Foundation

You ever been to a bar where you want to take away everyone else’s jukebox privileges? Or where you contemplate taking control of the DJ’s macbook when they’re not looking? If yes, you need to go to The Foundation tomorrow night. Everyone in the bar can step up and take

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14 Jun 2010

Ticket Giveaway: Danzig at the Regency Ballroom!!

I’m a big Danzig fan.  While his shit with The Misfits is legendary, my favorite part of his career is his first few solo albums, the ones produced by Rick Rubin.  Tracks like “Under Her Black Wings”, “Long Way Back to Hell”, and “Soul on Fire” make me wanna body

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14 Jun 2010

Meat to Go – Boccalone’s Famous Salumi Cone

My fondness for pork is pretty common knowledge amongst anyone who knows me. That said, I really have to admire Chris Cosentino and Mark Pastore’s mission to make porcine delights (‘œtasty, salted pig parts’ to be exact) more accessible to the people. Which is why, if you happen to be

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14 Jun 2010

GreenMarkets: Eating Well on the Cheap in NYC

I like food. Nay, I love food. I went to a job interview at Café 2 in the Museum of Modern Art once where the interviewer told me that my face “lit up” when I started talking about chorizo. That is not a joke. Unfortunately I’ve also got $40 to

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13 Jun 2010

Open Letter to the Ladies Who Work at Yamo

Dear Ridiculously Hard-working Ladies Who Work At Yamo, First, thank you for your super-cheap, amazing Burmese food.  I don’t have tons of disposable income, but because everything on your menu is under $6, I too can enjoy eating out like the rest of the world. Second, will you please be

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