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06 Jan 2011

Victory Drinks and Jazz with Search and Restore Tonight

Tonight at Littlefields, the fine folks behind jazz-lover mecca Search and Restore are rewarding you for their hard work (can this happen more often, please?).  To celebrate the success of their Kickstarter campaign raising funds to help them document the NYC new jazz scene in film form, they’ve invited some

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05 Jan 2011

FREE Expert Oddities Show and Tell

So your New Year’s Resolution was to learn more weird dances, like the Grizzly Bear or the Cake Walk, right? If so, the Flux Factory’s Night of Expert Oddities is exactly where you should be tonight. Presenters will have nine minutes to perform a short lecture on a subject they’ve

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05 Jan 2011

Win a FREE Draught Keg of Newcastle Brown Ale!!

When I was in high school we used to call Newcastle “birthday beer”.  This was because when I was 16, I could pretty much only afford the $2.50 it cost to buy a 40 of Mickey’s.  Plus there was always the $5 add on of purchasing Howard the Bum’s pint of

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05 Jan 2011

5 Day Extension On Holiday Bingeing Courtesy of Yelp’s Holiday Hangover

Just when you thought you had survived the gauntlet that is the holiday season, San Francisco’s own arbiters of star-rating and the voice of maddening crowds, Yelp, have decided to include the latter in their annual holiday party. Like restaurants, bars and other service industry businesses, they’re having their shindig

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05 Jan 2011

Cheese-Covered fun at The Levee

I first fell in love with The Levee in the same way I fell in love with watching old re-runs of “Cops”… I couldn’t can’t resist its guaranteed cheap thrills. It doesn’t try too hard,  just delivers a large drink selection for wallets big and small, gives us kids some

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05 Jan 2011

DIY Upgrade: File Cabinets

File cabinets are an unfortunate fact of life: by the time you hit your mid-twenties you’ve accumulated a sizable portion of your life on paper. From transcripts to manuscripts, recipes to medical records, vehicle registrations to credit card statements, that shit can’t just sit in a corner of your closet.

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04 Jan 2011

How to Stay Warm During This Incredibly Cold Winter

Because we are ramping up to the end of the world and all, it’s cold. Yeah, it’s winter. But it’s cold everywhere. NY, SF, even LA. (That covers everywhere, right?). It’s something we can all agree on. Sure, those in states with snow apparently up to their eyebrows will claim

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04 Jan 2011

It’s Time Again for No Pants

January seems to summon everyone’s inner idiot in the the most glorious fashions. From drinking heavily at midnight on 1/1 to the Polar Bear club, everyone is stir crazy and willing to act on frivolous impulse. How else does one explain the yearly tradition of Improv Everywhere’s No Pants Subway

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