We all have at least one friend who just makes us feel bad about ourselves. They work a full-time job, coach a team of disadvantaged youngsters, host a pottery session at a senior citizen’s home and rebuild houses while on vacation in Haiti. This do-goodery usually makes us generally-lazy but well-meaning selves feel like crap. [...]
[CANCELED] Get gypped! Find new old music at Tabor fest
Returning performer The Kreptatka Bar Band. Photo by NightLife Baby
UPDATE 8:10 p.m.: Anna reports the organizers have CANCELED the festival due to “circumstances beyond our control.” We’ll post more information as it becomes available. -Ed.
Back before “Bohemian” was code-word for “hippie”, it was a misapplied code word for “gypsy.” This weekend’s Gypsy [...]
A look at this year’s Shop Brooklyn deals
Marty says: Eat! Shop! It's good for you!
Marty’s back at it again, sponsoring the third annual Shop Brooklyn and doing his damnedest to drum up some business for our local mom and pops (and one uncle) from now through Aug. 22.
More than 225 locations are participating, and some deals are… well, [...]
Free STD tests for the morning after
Getting laid is one of the few forms of entertainment that — even when the summer concerts end — won’t hit you with ticket prices or drink minimums (although sometimes that helps). But because you somehow missed the thousands of free condoms around the city, and health class succeeded in scaring the crap [...]
Play bingo with Kenneth, help kids read
Jack McBrayer (right)
Normally, we’d balk at a $25 buy-in for bingo night. But once we started reading about 826NYC’s “Dueling Bingos” night, we found ourselves reaching for our wallets. You may find yourself across the table from—and trash-talked-to by—actors and comedians like 30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer, The Daily Show’s John Oliver, This American Life’s [...]
Swap your way to a well-stocked pantry
Photo by Jo Ann Santangelo
From clothing to skill-sets, our broke minds have always seen swapping as a way to get something we really need for… our less-than-marketable possessions. If homemade food’s involved, though, a swap can include some pretty sweet stuff all around. Brooklyn urban farmer Meg Paska and baking/canning enthusiast Kate [...]
How far will you go to save a swipe?
Photo courtesy of Outside Jane
The subway’s a great way to travel—for a day at the Rockaways, an occasional night out, that elusive paying job in the city—so many things. But, let’s face it: The $2.25 adds up. Quick. And now, new rules are looking to make it almost impossible to borrow your [...]
Get Fido a free fix… and have some fun yourself
Photo by Andrew Bardwell
If you’ve been neglecting some basic four-legged-friend maintenance, Saturday is your chance to make good. The ASPCA is hosting a block party and a day of free animal care in front of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. There will be neutering and spaying [...]
A cutesy day-trip to the CT shore
Photo by Steve Govoni
We’d climbed nearby mountains, lit upstate cabin-fireplaces—we were ready for our next summer getaway from boom-boxes and sweaty subways. This time, we day-tripped it to Rowayton, Connecticut, a little town on the Long Island Sound, an easy hour from the city on MetroNorth. What is [...]
Bar of the Day: The Charleston
Photo by Ultraclay!
This is the latest in our series on the venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book. The Charleston in Williamsburg is a Brokester’s dream: a pizza comes with every beer.
THE CHARLESTON
174 Bedford Ave. between N. 7th and N. 8th Sts., Williamsburg, 718-782-8717
What it is: About as rough and tumble as a [...]
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