See also: stalking Taylor Swift. Via The Onion.
A lot of us will be in an airport this holiday season: sitting through long layovers, awaiting never-ending delays or just picking up lost family members. If you’re not lucky enough to be addicted to Words with Friends, you might have more trouble passing the time. Unfortunately, [...]
A cheat sheet for surviving airport layovers
Bar of the Week: It’s The Bell House!
This is the fifteenth in our series on the venues featured in the second Brooklyn Beer Book. This week we return to an old favorite from Beer Book 1: The Bell House, home to some of Brooklyn’s most exciting music, comedy and everything-in-between events.
Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal, two regular faces at [...]
Bar of the Week: Rocky Sullivan’s!
This is the tenth in our series on the venues featured in the second Brooklyn Beer Book. This week we’re showcasing Rocky Sullivan’s, a Red Hook respite with a top-notch pedigree for Irish pub lovers.
ROCKY SULLIVAN’S
www.rockysullivans.com
34 Van Dyke St at Dwight St, Red Hook
What it is: Authentically Irish, this pub serves [...]
Bar of the Week: Clinton Hill’s Hot Bird
This is the second entry in our series on venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book 2. Today we feature one of our new entries: Hot Bird, a new addition to the Clinton Hill bar scene and the site of Brokelyn’s Pre-gift/Re-gift holiday party. See the whole list here at the Brokelyn [...]
$25 and under gift No. 8: a BK Brainery education
Scents & Sensibility was popular back in May and June
Eclectic is the word for the skills one can pick up at Brooklyn Brainery. The Gowanus center of learning is dedicated to all things brainy, from beekeeping to holiday upcycling to world dumplings. The Brainery was started by a couple of people who were sick [...]
Go the distance on a working holiday visa
Back in June, my best friend Laurel and I were talking with a visiting friend about our many goals for 2011. Among them: to move out of the country, one way or another. Our friend, an experienced globe-trotter from France, told us about something that seemed like our ticket out: Working Holiday [...]
Coupon apps for nabbing deals on the go
Scoutmob
Despite the obvious irony of paying half a month’s rent for a phone when you’re pushing broke, most of us these days can’t walk a block without our iPhone or Android telling us the way. But for the cash-strapped, having a smart phone can actually be… smart. You may know about targeted [...]
Free online workouts for the winter warrior
The inner & outer benefits of backbends, on Yoga Today
Summer has long departed and with it went all the free outdoor workout opportunities, from Zumba in the park to Pilates under the bridge. Winter has far fewer options, which is why it’s tempting to stay inside hoarding cookies [...]
Free Yoga, Zumba, Nia at McCarren Park, Saturday
This… is Nia
Human@Ease, the Greenpoint fitness and wellness center that puts your mind and body… at ease, is offering a last chance to bend and stretch outside before the cold completely takes over. This Saturday, Oct. 23, at McCarren Park, Human@Ease is holding its free Community Class Day. Head over to [...]
Get a free extra month of BAM Cinema Club through October
You can be in BAM's social network
We’re big fans of BAM, and the Fort Greene institution’s been pretty good to us too. And now, for the next 10 days or so, they’re running a deal to win over more loyal fans. As part of a membership drive, until Oct. [...]
