Arts and Culture

09 Jul 2010

Pay What You Can to See Tommy Wiseau’s Cult Classic The Room

Few films have affected me as deeply as 2003’s The Room, starring, written and directed by the now cult icon Tommy Wiseau.  This movie really gets at serious, universal issues, such as breast cancer, infidelity, betrayal, and (SPOILER ALERT!) suicide in the most hilarious manner possible, which can be described only as

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09 Jul 2010

Bear in Heaven and Zola Jesus Play Seaport Music Festival

The Seaport Music Festival has brought attuned New Yorkers an impressive array of artists these past few weeks. The series opened up a fortnight ago with the jaunty sounds of the Apples in Stereo before transitioning during its second week to the lo-fi wonders that are Beach Fossils and Woven Bones. Week number

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08 Jul 2010

Mythbustin’ NYC with Anna G.

Everyone, including native New Yorkers, looooooooove giving advice to people about living in New York.  Half the time, you’ll hear the same things over and over and over again.  But which of these oft-repeated pieces of advice or factoids are actually true? 1) Traffic! ONLY IN NEW YORK!  AMIRITE?!? If

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08 Jul 2010

FREE Screening of the Wizard of Oz

So, it seems that summer is the time for FREE movies here in New York and on Brokeassstuart.com.  In the same vein, I am offering up yet another complementary film.  Now, this one may seem like it is for kids (it may even say that) but I assure you this

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07 Jul 2010

$3 Stargazing at the Robert Ferguson Observatory in Sonoma

Summer can mean a lot of different things to a lot of people: there’s the requisite picnicking, summer music festivals, trips to secluded swimming holes, etc etc. But if there’s one outdoorsy excursion we tend to overlook in our pursuit of places to drink beer outside, it’s finding a nice,

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07 Jul 2010

FREE Film Screening and Show at the Sculpture Garden

When it gets scorching, dripping and sweaty hot in New York, it’s easy to start day dreaming about opening every fire hydrant on the street or building a raft and spending the rest of the summer floating down the Hudson. Then you think about how much you’d sweat while constructing

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07 Jul 2010

FREE Wine, Beer and Food at Dickerman Prints Tonight

I just got back last night at 1:30am from being on at my GF’s family’s farm in upstate NY.  So I’m still a little tired, bug bitten, and slightly jet lagged.  But it was an awesome trip!  I got to eat a garbage plate, fuck with big time illegal fireworks,

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07 Jul 2010

Teens and ‘dults Don’t Mix: Movies and TV From My Tween Years

As an impressionable young person growing up in the suburbs with a younger sister and two totally squaresville parents, figuring out what adolescence was supposed to look required that I look elsewhere for guidance. My best friend had two older sisters, the eldest of whom used to babysit for me.

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