Arts and Culture

15 Oct 2009

Washington Square Park Redux

“Washington Square Park is in the process of being destroyed and forcibly crammed down the throat of Greenwich Village as a cookie-cutter, picturesque, tourist-photo-background friendly zone.” “Washington Square Park is being renovated and remade into a more safe, wholesome, aesthetically pleasing place to go.” Well, that’s the controversy. Is the

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15 Oct 2009

6 Tracks To Make You More Productive At Work

Sometimes you just need to shut everything out, and just concentrate on work (whether you care about it or not!).  Which is why god (aka Steve Jobs) invented ipods.  But what to listen to?  You can’t simply put it on “shuffle” and see where fate may take you.  No, sir

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14 Oct 2009

HumpDay Videos: George Michael “Freedom 90”

We here at Broke-Ass Stuart remember a kinder, gentler, funkier time 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 interviews with musicians and video

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14 Oct 2009

FREE Zine Panel Discussion at ABC No Rio

It’s hard to find places that are more badass than ABC No Rio. They started out as an illegal art exhibition, and has turned into one of the biggest zine libraries in the country. (They also have a darkroom and silkscreening facilities at very reasonable rates). For the past six

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13 Oct 2009

Try 16 Wines for $5 with Spencer and Daniels

This is pretty much how I imagine all of my readers to look like: 18th century degenerate winos.  Ah…a boy can dream can’t he? Spencer and Daniels Wine Outlet are doing their crazy wine madness event again on Thursday.  There’s gonna be art, music, raffles and of course lots of

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13 Oct 2009

NYC Fuck the Recession Party Wrap-Up

I’m currently on a bus heading back to NY after a few nights in Boston.  Yes, I know, it’s crazy that buses now have Wi-fi but remember when Ashley wrote about it?  Anyways, I’ve been on the road now for like 10 days so I haven’t really had a chance

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13 Oct 2009

FREE Royal Flush Festival and Women Behind the Lens

FREE Royal Flush Festival Opening Night Party on Thursday There once was a little festival known as the Evil City Film Fest.  This little fest grew up, changed its name to the Royal Flush Festival, and added live music, underground art openings, and music videos to its lineup of killer

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11 Oct 2009

Schnitzel Sundays and Open House New York

Ah yes October, home to two of my favorite holidays: Halloween and Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest is like St.Patrick’s Day, it’s all about boozing and celebrating your “heritage” but with way better beer and no lame ass food coloring. I’ve heard many tales of those who have actually attended the real deal

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