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The Best Deal in The Marina: The Brazen Head’s Maker’s Mark Mondays
Brazen Head’s classic interior I’ll take the risk of repeating an oft-held position by opining that most of the time The Marina District richly deserves its crappy reputation. Its main streets (Union, Chestnut, Fillmore) of a Friday or Saturday night are overrun

Cupkates: Key Lime Pie for Peasants…
I don’t normally like cupcakes. At best, I think they’re a great mobilizer of sugar into the system of greedy 5th graders during holiday parties with classmade, construction paper, chain link streamers. Well, that’s the only time I made and consumed cupcakes. Then, when the cupcake craze swept over America

Practical Jokes: Two Wrongs Totally Make A Right
I love my cats. I’m sure many of you can relate. They just… get me. I’m actually a huge animal lover in general. However, given my current circumstances, they are stuck in Washington with my Mom while I am down here kicking ass and living the broke-ass dream.

BA of the Week: Pravisti Shrestha
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

A Workingman’s Thoughts on Unemployment
I am a workingman. My alarm goes off at 7:30 am. I’m ready to start work by 9am. At 11am, I hit the gym for an hour then eat lunch. Afterwards it’s back to work until 6pm. I am a workingman. Sometimes I have deadlines and my keyboard rattles rhythmically

Community Outreach For Independent Creatives
I’m a writer. I love my typewriter, I dig dive bars, and most days I run on coffee and dreams. Everyday I meet people who say something like, “Man, I just wish I could quit my job and just do my art/writing/photography/etc.” I was lucky enough to do it a

House of Vans: Dum Dum Girls, Widowspeak, DJ Fingers on the Pulse & FREE Booze Saturday Night
Vans is once again back in Brooklyn, throwing their annual House of Vans parties for the summer. On Saturday, July 21st there will be another live concert taking place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. You can expect some FREE Classic merchandise customized by Christian Joy and some FREE beer, compliments of Heineken.