The first mix tapes I made involved little to no thinking. My sisters and I would throw together tapes for car trips right after my parents got their first CD player. Our pickins’ were limited to whatever my dad had ordered from the Colombia House CD club, so they involved

I first heard about The Dodos back when I was living in Brooklyn and working on my NYC book.  I was hanging out with Mateo, one of my oldest friends in the world, and he was telling me about how his good buddy from college was in a band in

[warning: non-Smiths/Morrissey fans may find this article slightly nonsensical] Tonight at the Black Rabbit in Greenpoint, Dave Hill hosts “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”— a night of speed-dating to the soundtrack of The Smiths/Morrissey. Don’t stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before, as this is a returning

Starting the first day of college, we were all broke.  When friends came over to study at our modest abodes and were, as college students perpetually find themselves, hungry, we each asked ourselves, ‘œWhy share what little I have?’  However some of us chose to share and some of us

We here at Broke-Ass Stuart remember a kinder, gentler, funkier time when there was an entire network devoted to playing awesome new music videos. Men named Pinfield and women named Idalis would introduce block after block of original music videos from various genres interspersed with interviews with musicians and video

Jeff Hunt from the excellent Muni Diaries just dropped me a line about their fantastic sounding event this week.  On Friday, Muni Diaries is gonna be having its second live event Muni Diaries Live! Under the Influence at The Make Out Room.  If it’s anything like the first event, there’s gonna be

I love Amy Poehler, and I love The State, and I love all the people from The State and I love sketch comedy (when it’s good) but I kinda can’t get behind improv a lot of the time.  The kind of improv where everyone is in multi-colored T shirts and

I get a lot of questions about money and relationships from clients. Should I ask so and so for a personal loan? Blahbidy blah roommate is weird about splitting bills what should I do? My boyfriend wants to get a motorcycle and he has really bad credit, should I co-sign for him, or get the bike in my name? My friend so and so and I don’t talk anymore because of an argument with money, how do I prevent that from happening again?