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14 Nov 2010

Stiff Drinks and FREE Shuffleboard at The Whiskey Brooklyn

The Whiskey Brooklyn, which just opened this past August, is modeled after its two brother bars, The Whiskey Tavern in Chinatown and Whiskey Town in the East Village. Not surprisingly, they offer a wide selection of Scotch, Bourbon, and whiskey divided by provenance, including (for relaxing times) Japan’s own Suntory

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13 Nov 2010

Brooklyn Pie Bake-Off Benefit

Another day, another food-themed charity event. What do Brooklynites love more than eating local comfort food?, showing off how well they can make said food. There’s a cook-off for every foodstuff, but I have a feeling no one can deny the pie. Get your pie fix in a low-key comforting environment. Before

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13 Nov 2010

Broke-Ass Porn: Real Estate Magazines

Once a week we present Broke-Ass Porn. It’s visually stimulating material for the financially impaired. If this shit doesn’t get you going, you’re not as broke as you thought.

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13 Nov 2010

FREE Yoga Fest

Yoga is my chosen form of exercise. I enjoy it immensely (once I drag my lazy ass out of the house and to the studio) and appreciate that for sixty to ninety minutes, I am encouraged not to think, just do. The only problem? Yoga classes are pricey. This makes

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13 Nov 2010

Dancing in the Dark at No Lights, No Lycra

Fess up. Maybe you had a good day, maybe you had a bad day, maybe you just had a really good sandwich, but you know you’ve done your own version of Tom Cruise’s epic Risky Business underwear dance at one point in life. And it felt good. So good that you

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12 Nov 2010

Specialty’s WarmCookie Radar

Being an adult means that I no longer come home from school, tired and books in tow, to a warm plate of cookies baked by my loving mother cooling on the stove top. There is no one to pour me a glass of milk, pet my head, and tell me

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12 Nov 2010

Unemployed Fantasies: or, Why You Don’t Actually Need a Job

Yeah, we know ‘“ unemployment sucks. It’s always sucked: Bereft of cash and inundated with spare time, the life of the unemployed can be said to resemble an almost Biblical purgatory. But what if that’s not the case? What if, in an effort to maintain our sanity, we put a

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12 Nov 2010

Celebrate 5 Years of The Homestead

The Homestead is one of my favorite bars in the City.  Sure part of that is because it’s only a few blocks from my house, but the other part is that it’s just a kick-ass bar.  I was there last night getting some drinks with a buddy when I saw

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