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07 Feb 2011

Barter for Smarts at Trade School

I’m sure you woke up several mornings in college and thought, “Man, I wish I could pay for this in bushels of corn or jars of marbles.” And then when you graduated, you’re probably dissapointed every month when Sallie Mae refuses your offer of a dozen homemade cupcakes instead of

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07 Feb 2011

Magazine Lies: Dude Fashion Opinions

Have you ever read one of these features in women’s magazines that keep being recycled (I mean besides all of them)– these “fashion guys like” things where they get four or five guys to either review or list what sort of accessories and types of outfits they like on women?

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04 Feb 2011

B.A.D. Burger is Freaking G.O.O.D.

Waffles are delicious at most hours of the day, the exception being any hour after midnight on a day you’re going under anesthesia. Until recently, Kellogg’s Diner was the only place in Williamsburg you could get a fatty Belgian waffle at all hours of the night. Sure, the jokes about

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03 Feb 2011

FREE Movie Screening at Angelika

So, have you heard of this movie called Home? It’s a documentary from French photojournalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand who, with his crew, flew around in a helicopter taking aerial pictures of different regions in over fifty countries for eighteen months. Why, you ask? To very tangibly show the biological inter-dependency (there’s

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31 Jan 2011

Worst Makeup for Making Out

D’ya ever notice the irony of sometimes when you paint yourself all up to go on a date that once you actually start “getting on with it”, so to speak, that it just winds up smearing all over your face and then you look in the mirror and you’ve morphed

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30 Jan 2011

For the Noobs: 5 NYC Events To Say “No” To

When you first move to New York, you obviously want to get a lay of the land, meet some new people, and not be a wet blanket, generally. But, like, sometimes you just have to say no. Sometimes you really should be saving money and not pretending that being slowly

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29 Jan 2011

Barbes: Paris in Park Slope

Before diving in ramble first about why you should check out live music club Barbes in Brooklyn, I want you to know there is an “accent grave” (as the Baguette-loving say) over the “e” in the name of the bar. I have tried for longer than I should admit to

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28 Jan 2011

FREE Winter Weekdays at Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

Right now, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens is everything you need from an outdoor adventure. The snow covering its ground hasn’t been covered in asphalt dust or pissed on by your neighbor’s dog. It’s home to willow trees, cedars, cherry trees, pine trees, etc caked with fluffy white flakes that have

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