This Saturday (March 20) is Obscura Day, and the webs site atlasobscura.com has organized group tours for these BK treasures as well as all the other weird places they cover.
See The Crucible in Park Slope’s shadows
Photo by Daniella Zalcman
Ready your crucifixes: some witches are coming to the Slope. Starting tomorrow, Mar. 4, the Brave New World Repertory Theatre—they of The Tempest on the Coney boardwalk and To Kill a Mockingbird on the porches of Ditmas Park—is launching another site-transforming production. This time, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. And the [...]
The Scarlettiest lips for under $5
Red lips have been the perennial go-to since Cleopatra. Perhaps that’s because anyone with enough nerve can really rock a true red—it gives contrast to the fair and pop to the dark-skinned. In winter, being swaddled in bulky coats and hiding hat hair becomes a statement with a properly-hued pout. Here, reviews of five lipsticks available [...]
Brooklyn tours for non-tourists
See Prospect Park's Lullwater Bridge on the Green Tour
Why sit in traffic on the top deck of a big red tour bus through Times Square when you can take an Afro-Caribbean tour through Bed-Stuy, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill? Borough-natives Stacey Toussaint and Sheila Collins are offering the ethnic tour as one of their
The bedbug cure THEY don’t want you to know about
It’s hard to convey the paranoia we flea-marketing, curb-side-spotting, Craigslisting folk feel about bedbugs—with good reason. Now is prime paranoia time: we’re having too many guests over (at various stages of cleanliness), cranking up our heaters and (if we’re lucky) signing January 1st leases. Not only are the bugs a major itch in the butt, [...]
How to raise $1M for your startup
Alexa Von Tobel, 26, left Harvard b-school early and raised over $1M to launch a web site.
Would you take financial advice from someone who dropped out of Harvard Business School in the middle of a recession to start a web site?
It might not be a bad idea. Alexa Von Tobel is a not-even-30 dynamo who [...]
$25-and-under Brooklyn gift #21: Coney Island print
photo from zibbet.com/Frankenkitty
There are loads of iconic Brooklyn shots on sale around town, but this cotton-candy-colored take on a Coney Island landmark called to us with its dreamy, almost toy-like look. It’s one of the photos Brooklyn’s Mari Lowery is selling under the name Frankenkitty on the new Etsy rival site, Zibbet. As her [...]
Fun dance classes for slim budgets
Recently, we received a note from a reader looking for some “dance classes (specifically ballet and/or hip hop) for beginners out there that are affordable and tons of fun.” Aimee recently quit her gym membership, and wanted a pay-as-you go place to shake it. We came up with a good number of choices that cost [...]
Have yourself a Dumpster Thanksgiving!
A TJ's Dumpster haul (bag included).
Thanksgiving’s upon us, and we can practically taste the stale-bread stuffing and just-expired eggnog. You too can learn how to turn refuse into a festive holiday meal by joining the Freegans of NYC tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov. 25), for their guided tour of borough’s most fruitful bins. You’ll collect [...]
A cartoon gizmo for budget obsessives
What is more frustrating than sitting in front of a table full of bills, trying to figure out how to save on day-to-day operations? It’s sticky, it’s ugly—it’s no fun. Thank you, simplesteps.org for doing all the dirty work (and @SmarterCities for turning us onto it). Their addictive Household Savings Calculator [...]
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