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18 Jan 2013

Greenpoint’s Secret Fish Market: ACME Smoked Fish Corp.

Most Greenpoint inhabitants might have no idea where Gem Street is. Small wonder given that it’s the shortest street in the Greenpoint/Williamsburg area. Still, even if you don’t know its precise location, you can always follow your proboscis. The tell-tale fishy odor should lead you right to the front loading

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17 Jan 2013

Dispatches from the Road: An Insider’s Guide to Doing Adelaide, Australia on the Cheap

The rest of Australia can’t understand Adelaide.

We’re just too weird.

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17 Jan 2013

Czech out Cafe Prauge’s Block Party Tonight!

    Today seems like one of those Thirsty Thursdays. You know, when you’re already looking forward to happy hour before you’ve even had your first cup of coffee. Well – tonight you are in luck! Head over to Cafe Prague in the Financial District after work for the second

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17 Jan 2013

Social Studies Goes On Tour!

Have you heard this yet? Always good to hear new music from a great San Francisco band, and a rare treat to see it accompanied by equally great animation (done by Murder Doll House). Social Studies has been described as having an “arch take on modernist pop.” I prefer lead

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16 Jan 2013

Punderdome 3000: Just Do It!

One’s experience with the Punderdome can be likened to an initial viewing of the movie Inception, in that you’re never really sure what exactly it is that you’re watching. Are you certain that you’re in a time-warped dream within a dream within a dream? Or are you just a pseudo-intellectual

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16 Jan 2013

Cheap Dates: The Five-Finger Date

You’re smart, sexy, and sophisticated. And cheap. Anyone would be thrilled to date you, which is why you don’t need to empty your pockets for someone else – in fact  leave those hands in those pockets because you’re going to take yourself out on a five-finger date. Whoever said that

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16 Jan 2013

FREE Chances with Wolves Dance Party TONIGHT @ ISA

Do you listen to East Village Radio? Me neither, but we both should. Because every Monday night Justin Cox and Kenan Juska drop the deepest jams you’ve ever heard. They also enjoy wolf howls. And that’s something we can all get into. They call their journey into the mysterious corners

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15 Jan 2013

Rickybobby’s Lower Haight Soul Food

                      Whichever way you say it, either with an outlandish French accent or with an exaggerated southern drawl, the phrase “Rickybobby” will heretofore be music to my ears, being now associated with great comfort food. It’s rare that I get

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