And this is above the waist.
I have two adorable (in my eyes, at least) rats tattooed across my shoulder blades, and I’ve been feeling a certain itch to add something to my menagerie. Maybe, say, a five-inch long alligator with flamingo wings. When you’re budgetarily challenged, though, you tend to put the kind of thought [...]
One skin-flint’s search for a cheap tattoo
Tested: the census test (plus where to take it today in BK)
Photo courtesy of MyTwoCensus.com.
Last week, one helpful reader gave us a heads up that the 2010 census was struggling to hire qualified census takers and provided information on how to sign up for the required exam. This authentically broke writer wasted no time in calling the number provided in that post. The friendly [...]
8 fun and offbeat museums in BK
The City Reliquary. Photo by Eric Bartholomew.
There are many reasons to visit The City Reliquary: 1) It’s a tiny Williamsburg museum crammed full of forgotten and unseen treasures from NYC’s past, and 2) The 370 Metropolitan Ave. attraction could soon become a relic itself. The museum’s president, Dave Herman, has announced that the [...]
It’s Fashion Week in Brooklyn too!
Random fashiony photos courtesy of Peachfrog.
Don’t feel bad if Fashion Week has you pining for your own runway moment—for the next week, you don’t have to leave Brooklyn to get glammy. Starting on Saturday, quirky designer discounter Peachfrog (136 N. 10th St.), is throwing an all day fashion-show-cum-rock-concert in their Williamsburg [...]
How to: a street peddling primer
Safak Aydemir's hand-beaded necklaces.
Stroll down Bedford Avenue on a nice day and the life of a street-vendor can look pretty appealing. So free, so independent, seem those hawkers of books and sellers of handmade mobiles you pass on the sidewalk. You start to wonder what it takes to make a living like this—whether street-vending just [...]
At powerHouse: a year of photography school in a day
So you think you can take pictures? So do tens of millions of other Flickr poolers. Next month, aspiring Man Rays can find out if they have what it takes to make it in the increasingly competitive, decreasingly remunerative photography field at the powerHouse Portfolio Review.
Like a speed-dating version of art school, the review allows [...]
Psychedelic Saturday night special (for $3.50!)
Now that all the compulsory holiday-related festivities are over with, may we suggest some gratuitous partying to help you get back to normal life? It doesn’t get too much more gratuitous than the “loud music and hypnotizing video” of NYC WTF.
On Saturday (Jan. 9) DJs Le Chev (with NYC WTF creators Dark Igloo), [...]
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