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12 May 2010

Meet Author/Cartoonist Daniel Clowes on Thursday Night!

So you saw Ghost World when you were 15, dyed your hair black and cut it in an unflattering, butchy bob like Thora Birch.  Then you watched Art School Confidential a couple years ago while you were, in fact, enrolled in art school and laughed sardonically at the oh-so-true irony

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12 May 2010

Celebrate Your NYC Birthday with a Shit-ton of Freebies

Twenty-nine years ago today, an angel descended from the heavens to bestow upon this earth a boy of unequivocal wit, humor and conceit. You should’ve seen him. Big, bright eyes. Rosy cheeks flush with innocence. A smooth, pinchable ass. And while those first two characteristics have evaded that boy in

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12 May 2010

Humpday Video: Beyonce “Why Don’t You Love Me?”

We here at Broke-Ass Stuart remembe when there was an entire network devoted to playing awesome new music videos. Men named Pinfield and women named Idalis would introduce block after block of original music videos from various genres interspersed with super fucking edgy interviews with musicians and video directors, which

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11 May 2010

Bean-Out @ Gravel & Gold: 5 Courses for $20

Five course meals, especially those featuring locally-sourced and organic ingredients, are not something us broke-asses get to experience very often. They can cost upwards of black-market-kidney prices and usually take place in venues that frown upon our thrift store duds. But not this one! On Sunday, Mark Andrew Gravel of

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11 May 2010

Giant Squid – Masters of the Ocean

This is the story I was born to tell. The story of the Giant Squid. When I first learned of the existence of this mammoth animal, I was mesmerized, enraptured; a fan for life. I quickly became an authority on all things giant squid. Few could school me on the

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11 May 2010

BKLYN Yard: Your Ultimate Outdoor Drinking Destination

There’s a lot of things about New York summers I look forward to. The return of free barbecue, outdoor movies, late night bike rides, and mostly importantly, the Yard, BKYLN Yard that is. The name pretty much sums up this Gowanus dance-fest watering hole. While no one can really brag

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11 May 2010

FREE Appetizers and Wild Art at Project One

Remember Domonique Echeverria?  She’s a former Broke-Ass of the Week and a self described, “Liza Minelli loving, gypsy glam rocker tranny trapped inside of a real woman’s body”.  Ah ha!…now you remember!  It’s pretty safe to say that anyone who identifies as such can be counted on to curate a

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11 May 2010

Broke-Ass Financial Coaching: Pros and Cons of Debt Consolidation

While being young, broke and beautiful is all well and good, some people’s finances are more jacked than others.  That’s why we’ve invited Betsy Crouch (aka Coach $izzle) to come onboard and dole out some much needed advice.  She is a professional financial coach after all.  If you’ve got a question

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