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11 Sep 2009

Cha-Ya: A Euphoric Experience

Being vegetarian in this city is expensive. Don’t get me wrong, I’m definitely not complaining. But if I want to go out for a nice meal, something I want to tell a friend about the next day, I’m pretty much fucked with the prospect of actually going out and I

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11 Sep 2009

New York Gypsy Festival

“ When you speak about “gypsy music” you are drawing from a diaspora of countries and ethnicities where centuries-old history goes hand in hand with new innovations.” – Serdar Ilhan and Mehmet Dede NY Gypsy Festival Producers My freshman year of college I was complaining to a friend about how

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11 Sep 2009

FREE Covers by Beck and Friends!

The first time I saw Beck, he finished the set by thrashing around on a bed with leopard print sheets that lowered from the ceiling. Then he and some people wore hazmat suits and covered the stage with caution tape. Another time, my sister, my friend, and I screamed like

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10 Sep 2009

Top 10 Blogs for When it’s Time to Escape

I’m sure that I’m not alone in being someone who regularly fires up the ol’ laptop in order to get some work done and then finds herself two hours later having an intense G-chat conversation about the likelihood of a 2012 apocalypse, while simultaneously reading Jezebel and looking at clothes

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10 Sep 2009

Comedy Clash and Happy Hour Show with theSet NYC

The cats over at theSet NYC have emailed me a few times and it seems like what they are doing is pretty cool.  Basically they do modern day variety shows highlighting some of NYC’s great up and coming talent. Their next event is tomorrow, 9/11 and it’s gonna be a

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10 Sep 2009

Sliding Scale Bodies in Motion: CounterPULSE Benefit and “Total Facts Known” Opens

Growing up, I was a complete theatre nerd, which was a terrible cross of pain for everyone around me, especially when I actually took to the stage. Luckily, the bug’s bite has lessened in its potency but I still love going to shows, which is irritating because they can be

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10 Sep 2009

Try To Hold a Light To Me, I’m A Lady: Dating Tracks For the Ladiez

I’d like to now give a shout out to Kristen Holden, who, on my last music post, called me out for not having enough women on my list.  She was absolutely right.  To make up for my grave error, here are not six, not ten, but FIFTEEN tracks about dating

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09 Sep 2009

More Seats Added for the 5th Annual BAS Pub Crawl

Jesus Christ.  Just look at that fucker.  It’s monstrous. So, a funny thing happened. The 5th Annual BAS Pub Crawl sold out so quickly that I started thinking that it would be a good idea to get a second bus (a short bus if you will) to accommodate some extra

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