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Best Broke-Ass Restaurant in Greenpoint: Pio Pio Riko
If you walk down Manhattan Ave to the corner of Huron St, you’ll find the cheap and vastly popular Mexican restaurant, Papacito’s. It’s a great establishment… outdoor seating… movies in the backyard on summer Sunday nights… margarita pitchers and buckets of tecate… plus some of the best taco’s in Brooklyn.

Brace Yourself for Pumpkin Ales That Are Aut-yum
Fall is one of my favorite times of year, now that I’m not in grade school. The foliage puts a new perspective on my favorite parks, fall vegetables are some of the best to cook with, and I no longer projectile vomit when I see how high my electricity bill

Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams presents: NYC Street Treats Truck Tour (FREE Ice Cream Today & Tomorrow!)
So I’m a little a late about reporting this, but you know the old saying: “better late than never.” Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams has apparently been up and down the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn giving away FREE Ice Cream this whole week. How this managed to fly under

DIY: Make Your Own Rad Candles
Candles have always seemed like a lame craft to me – anything you can teach to the under 10 crowd and involves basically pouring hot wax into a mold just seemed elementary or even matronly. However, that was an entirely unfair judgement, as I have now found a handful of

The Best Ways To Spend Two Dollars
I have $2 in cash right now. That’s it. I have money in my savings, in case shit gets real, but as for budgeted money I can spend, TWO DOLLARS. I was thinking about this today and remembering past days when my number was in the negative. I’d have to

Broke-Ass Band Interview: The Juliets (Playing Pianos NYC This Saturday 9/15)
In preparation for their upcoming show at Pianos (Saturday, 9/15) we talked to The Juliets’ frontman Jeremy Freer (guitar, piano, vocals, songwriter) about the band’s fave venues, the Motor City, and youthful rebellion via classical music. Be sure and catch their show this weekend (Saturday, 9/15) at Pianos and stream their

Cheap Entertainment Options! or Let’s Just Face It: Everything in NYC is Expensive
Something to shoot for … You know, just because you’re stuck paying off your student loans until those silvery white streaks start showing up on your receding hairline (you know, the kind that only look good on John “Silver Fox” Slattery) – doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun too.

This Thursday Literary Death Match @ Le Poisson Rouge
Truly, could there be something more pretentious than a battle of the literary types? Yeah, I can’t think of anything either. So in a way, witnessing one would sort of be like seeing… I don’t know… something that’s equally representative of such a special mindset. I guess it would be