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15 Jul 2010

Indie Mart is This Sunday!

The d.i.y., rock’n’roll circus is back and better than ever this month! July’s Indie Mart at Thee Parkside will be the best yet with tons of the stuff you know and love and more new stuff than ever! That dude Broke-Ass Stuart will there be doing Broke-Ass Crafts so you

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15 Jul 2010

Sweet Ups Bar in Williamsburg: As Sweet as it Used to Be?

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about this bar is: “Whoa man, you’ve changed”.  So the bad news is, it’s not as cozy and secret-y as it once was in say, 2006.  But, really, the whole faux speakeasy thing has really been over for quite a while. 

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15 Jul 2010

Rules for Livin’: Do Not Buy Tupperware or Go to Ikea

I found myself in Ikea the other day, on the hunt for light bulbs and free air conditioning. That place is hellhole ‘“ despite temperatures that nearly qualify it as a blast freezer ‘“ because of its roving clusters of flustered parents with screaming children and its goddamn monopoly on

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15 Jul 2010

FREE We Are Scientists Show in Williamsburg

This Saturday, a very rare and magical thing will happen. Green grass will be seen at McCarren park, wait time at Turkey’s Nest will be less than 5 minutes, and the number of times you think “ZOMG, that’s Zach Galifianakis! Oh… wait, no, it’s not” will be significantly reduced. Siren

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14 Jul 2010

The State Might Owe You Money Called “Unclaimed Property”

This might sound like one of those late-night TV commercials where the guy in the question mark suit just yells at you about how the government owes you money, but it turns out there might actually be some cash floating around out there in the ether that actually belongs to

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14 Jul 2010

Ticket Giveaway for Electro Pop Opera Little Death: Vol. 1

Hey, you know what most operas are lacking? Electro pop and 70s gospel. But not in Matt Marks’ opera The Little Death: Vol. 1 at Incubator Arts Project. The play is about two evangelical christian teenagers trying to make their relationship right with the Lord, through songs with catchy hooks

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14 Jul 2010

Broke-Ass Band Interview: Hypernova

While I like to think of myself as this fly girl who regularly hob knobs with up and coming musicians, I think that sentence right there proves my terminally uncoolness, and the importance of having creative friends. I first heard about Hypernova, as I usually hear about these things, in

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14 Jul 2010

Impress Your Friends by Brewing Your Own Beer!

I recently had some effing delicious homebrew made by some friends, who I now think are some kind of wizards or something because how could beer made at home taste like anything other than butt?  But seriously, this beer was comparable to anything you’d buy at any one of the

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