Brooklyn

29 Jun 2011

FREE Ice Cream and Body Chocolate at Babeland Today

Have you eaten an ice cream cone lately and thought, “I wish there was someone in a vulva costume here.” Today, Babeland is granting your wish. They’re already the nicest, most well-stocked store in the city for all your sex toy and lube needs, and they’re doubling their awesomeness by

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27 Jun 2011

Help Sick Children with FREE Pizza at Carmine’s II

When Carmine’s II opened, they built every ninja turtle’s dream: a pizza garden. While it’s not quite as magical as pizza growing on trees,  eating Carmine’s already bangin’ pizza in a vine-covered garden is a close second. Tonight, they’re fufiling every Broke-ass ninja turtle or wanna be ninja turtle’s dream 

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24 Jun 2011

Poor Man’s King Feast

My friend Matt showed me this restaurant a few years ago, back when I was really broke. That means, basically, living in a crawl space, surviving off food stamps and having little to no spending money. But the poor still need a few quality pastimes. For example: going to the

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16 Jun 2011

Northside Open Studios this Weekend

If you haven’t heard of the Northside Music & Arts Festival already, or don’t ever go to Brooklyn (really?!) then you may have noticed plenty o’advertising for this massive weekend event. Along with tons of bands playing venues all over town (see full line-up HERE), local artists will also be

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11 Jun 2011

Free Bowling Happy Hour at Brooklyn Bowl This Summer

The Bowl is bursting with other fun too, which I specifically enjoy in the form of their very delicious large margaritas and their “Rock and Roll Fries” made with Gravy, Cajun Spice, Provolone and Cheddar, as well as other fine offerings from the famous Blue Ribbon Restaurants. DJ Questlove brings

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10 Jun 2011

The Folk Revival Takes Brooklyn for the Third Time

Are you tired of electronica, metal, hip-hop, free jazz, bebop, noise music, classic rock, indie-rock, and everything else that mankind has created after the end of prohibition? Are you so tired of society, technology and the future that you don’t have a cell phone? Do you write on a typewriter,

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07 Jun 2011

Free Oldest-School from EPMD Today for FREE

Ah, summer. Specifically, ah, summer concerts. You’ve long recognized that to stage outdoors for money requires you to go in the red on security, so you just raised your hands and said “fuck it, everybody’s invited.” And bless you for it. Now these summer shows get to be venues for

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07 Jun 2011

Broke and Bored Activities: Reading NYC Signs

If you’re anything like my roommate and I, you derive pleasure from nonsensically mocking olds reading signs and/or just the existence of the particularly hilarious signs and graffitti tags abound in NYC. That’s right– reading signs.  It sounds way too simple to make any sense. But, the thing is you

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