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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.

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
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
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

An Open Letter to Horror Movies
During this time of year, the studio’s always push the latest slew of half-assed horror movies. And what most of these films have in common are unknown actors, graphic torture, 3D, and Eli Roth. After seeing the trailer for the upcoming film, “House of the Devil”, I found myself actually

Education Alliance
More than one writer on this site has remarked on the “Back To School” feeling that fall in NYC always evokes. I’ve been out of school for a while– excepting for a short lived and financially ruinous dalliance with graduate school–and since then, wool skirts, stockings and blazers have been
Strange But True: Bad Pickup Ideas That Actually Worked
It’s a crazy world out there, and to paraphrase Cartman clowning on Ferris Bueller, many people think life goes pretty fast, and if you don’t stop and look around once in a while and do whatever you want all the time, you could miss it. So, it’s to you people