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02 Feb 2010

Broke-Ass Financial Coaching: How to Stop Getting Ripped Off

If you have ever shook your head when you saw someone buy something from a company that oppresses or takes advantage of them, you need to look at yourself in the mirror first. How much is your bank charging you for your checking account? ATM fees? Credit card interest? How much interest are you paying on that loan? In total, not the monthly payment.

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02 Feb 2010

First Week of the Month = So Many FREE Activities!

Here’s a brief rundown of the crazy amount of FREE stuff that the first week of the month offers (with links to the details).  After the first week of February, you’ll be back to your broke-ass ways, eating ramen and feeling uncultured, so make the most of these days! First

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01 Feb 2010

NYC Giveaway: Experimental Theater Tickets!

Your first theater experience in NYC probably involved something by Rogers and Hammerstein about two people falling in love after using song as dialogue. The Debate Society doesn’t make that kind of theater. Their latest show, You’re Welcome is a collection of five plays about creation and failure told through

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01 Feb 2010

Broke Ass Band Interview: Free Energy

Free Energy is one of those bands that makes even the most jaded New Yorker get up and shake something. Their fresh take on 70’s rock is bringing dude-rock to the dance floor. After their former Minneapolis band , Hockey Night, broke up; singer Paul Sprangers and guitarist Scott Wells

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01 Feb 2010

Dear Anna G, I Love C*ck (Or Do I?)

Well, well, well.  Look what the cat dragged into my inbox.  Someone actually wants my advice!  Let’s take a gander: Dear Anna, I don’t know what to do, I’ve been hooking up with his guy off and on for over a year and I want to be boo-ed up for

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01 Feb 2010

Whiz Burgers

Whiz Burgers is the type of joint that when you randomly see it one day while riding your bicycle, you say to yourself, “Holy shit!  How have I never seen this place before?”  At least that’s what happened to me.  This spot is something out of a Beach Boys song

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31 Jan 2010

Rad TV Dads

As I was daydreaming the other day about my undying (and platonic) love for my favorite tall, geeky, sensitive TV Dad, I got to thinking about the awesome/rad Dads that have been a part of my television upbringing. Don’t get me wrong, my real life dad is the best, but

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31 Jan 2010

A UCB Benefit and the New and “Improved” Dominos

It seems like there’s a Haiti benefit every other day, and that’s ok, it’s a bandwagon I’ll readily jump-on. And while most of us can’t afford to dish out the big bucks for high profile events, we can, however, contribute a little and laugh our asses off in the process.

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