Arts and Culture

15 Aug 2009

Ticket Giveaway – Let’s Dance: A Rocktail Party

Finally, you have a reason to shave your hair into a mullet and lace up your glittery boots. And no, I’m not talking about grocery shopping or going to grandma’s funeral. This is YOUR time to shine, grandma has officially checked out. Now that she’s out of the picture, time

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15 Aug 2009

Not for the Feint of Heart Performance Art

I am awed by many things in New York ‘“ the women in spike heels lugging their lives on their shoulders who still manage to look captivating, the indefatigability of the squirrels in Washington Square Park come fall, and the strangely comforting bellow of the subway evangelical preachers.  But, one

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14 Aug 2009

Indian Summer Rainbow Tour – $599 Unlimited Flights with Jet Blue

Recent word on the wires tells us that, in an effort to boost the late summer sales slump, streamlined air carrier, Jet Blue is offering a $599 fly-wherever-you-AND-all-you-want pass for a month.  Bargain? Kinda? If you are unemployed/on holiday, have some money saved and fly more than five times during

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14 Aug 2009

Overboard Party at South Street Seaport

It’s scary to think about, but summer is kind of, sort of coming to an end. I know it won’t officially end until Labor Day, but one can’t help but feel the coolness in the air, that smell of fall and the fact that so many summer event series are

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13 Aug 2009

Six Hour Happy Hour = Fun with ASSME

Unemployed? Broke?  I have just the thing for you!  Blog’N’Drink: An ASSME Day Party. What is ASSME you ask? Their credo states, ‘œASSME, the American Society of Shitcanned Media Elites, is a collective of experienced writers and editors, designers, illustrators and random others, unmoored by the untimely death of print,

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13 Aug 2009

New York, I Love You

I had planned to write about something else entirely today, until I read Stuart’s post.  I recently moved to Boston from NYC and if I talked about how much that emotion that change brought– how much I love New York and I how I know I’ll be back because I

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13 Aug 2009

Hula on Down the Road – Hit and Run Hula this Saturday

Rare is the day that this city feels tropical, but there exists a fair-sized contingent that hails from the beautiful Hawai’ian isles to the west that, with their beautiful culture, warms us frigid mainlanders and imagine that we live in a kinder warmer place. Saturday, August 15, Patrick Makuakane and

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12 Aug 2009

The Difference Between San Francisco and New York

This piece is the intro Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply in New York City I’m sitting now in my Bushwick apartment coming to terms with the realization that my time here in this strange and brutal city is quickly coming to an end.  I maintain that, no matter how much

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