This is the 26th in our series on the venues featured in the second Brooklyn Beer Book. This week we’re going down south to show off the hidden, small charms of Quarter Bar.
Photo via Yelp
Quarter Bar
676 5th Avenue, South Slope
What it is: A small neighborhood bar nestled between the [...]
Bar of the Week: It’s Quarter Bar!
Coffee training class to help get that post-post-grad job
Crop to Cup instructor Conor Welch. Photo by Lauren Cannon.
The broke and sporadically employed are all too aware of the age old employer Catch-22 slogan: “Only the experienced need apply.” Pray tell, how is a neophyte supposed to gain experience without first getting a job? Even at basic entry level work at a restaurant [...]
Virtual help for real-world job stress
Virtual assistants are way more useful than virtual reality
You, overworked and underpaid, dream incessantly of a clone to handle your annoying online tasks and past-due assignments. Silly mortal: Don’t you know this dream is already possible in (virtual) reality? Virtual assistants are real people who assist in your online endeavors for a fraction of what it [...]
Cheap ways to brush up on office skills
You gotta start somewhere
Whether you’re a future banker or book publisher, your career ladder is bound to start with an assistant-level position. That’s the go-to Gal or Guy Friday who’s responsible for making the boss look good, among other things.
With more people vying for scarce entry-level jobs, how do you edge out [...]
Closing sale: half-off fabric at Baltic Bazaar
Certain do-gooders of businesses out there should just get a pass when it comes to the harsh realities of economics. Baltic Bazaar Thrift, long-time Brooklyn home to cheap fabric and jobs for the mentally-ill, is closing its doors at the end of the month in the face of high rent. As [...]
Cost-cutting with your natural hair
Pam Grier
As a Southern black woman in Brooklyn, I’ve noticed that far more black women around here wear their hair natural than where I’m from (most black women chemically straighten their hair). I’ve gone natural most of my life, so I know too well how expensive getting un-relaxed hair done can be: upward [...]
New RAFFLE OF THE CENTURY prize: $50 at Guvnor’s Vintage Thrift
Opening night in March.
Granted, you hear the word ‘thrift,’ and ‘luxury item’ isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But what if you forget those ratty t-shirts and stained corduroys, and think Vintage? Vintage as in fashion time-machine catered to the innate style of the pin-up fashionista on a budget. That is Park [...]
