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04 Nov 2009

Take The A Train: Entertainment Express

The New York City subway is a vast, sprawling stage, full of entertainment in its stations, on its platforms and inside its trains. For $2.25, one could literally spend their entire life within the subway system watching the show. Any train will have its share of schizos, scammers and scandal.

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03 Nov 2009

Getting Thrifty with Housing Works

When most people think of thrift stores, images of cheap treasures, old fur coats, and amazing shit from the seventies usually comes to mind. But in reality, most of the thrift stores in New York are a huge ripoff and feature bloated prices on all things “vintage”, and are picked

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03 Nov 2009

Soul Music and FREE Hennessey Tonight

Aw shit!  PST is at it again!  This time they are combining two of my favorite things in the whole wide world: FREE booze and soul music.  I know I say this every time, but PST might just be the best party in all of San Francisco.  They consistently do

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03 Nov 2009

Broke-Ass Financial Coaching: is Splitting 50/50 Fair?

“How do you handle finances in a relationship between two people with totally different incomes?” -Chirabo

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03 Nov 2009

VOTE! And… two other FREE things to do afterwards.

So y’all are gonna get out there and vote today, right? Because let’s face it’ we have no excuse. It’s FREE!! On top of voting, though, there are two events in Brooklyn tonight that look very awesome. The Bushwick Book Club: Darwin Night and Rope Trivia Presents: Presidential Trivia Night.

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02 Nov 2009

Ticket Giveaway: A Heartbeat and a Guitar – Johnny Cash Book Release

While my favorite portrait of Johnny Cash is the painting that hangs behind the bar at Bender’s (you really need to go see it), this cover that Shepard Fairy did for Antonino D’Ambrosio’s new book A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, is pretty

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02 Nov 2009

The World’s Biggest Connect Four Championship

One Christmas in high school, my cousin, who was six at the time, asked me in her sweet little kid voice if I wanted to play Connect Four. I spaced out for a second while were were playing, and the next thing I knew there were black and red checkers

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02 Nov 2009

Sinkers and Mud – Fuzzy Comforts for Night Owls at Bob’s Donuts

Oh, doughnut! Whether you be called sinker or soul cake, come in bar shape or circle, you are a grand staple of cheap eating! Doughnuts are in the upper echelon comfort foods.  It can be cold and unforgiving outside, but for a few minutes you have the sugary embrace of

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