Starting tomorrow, the Housing Works Thrift Shops kick off a five-day “garage sale,” with up to 75 percent off clothing and housewares in all nine locations—including the the BK outpost cozily stationed in Brooklyn Heights on Montague Street. As always, proceeds go to fight HIV and homelessness.
Housing Works Thrift Shop, 122 Montague Street [...]
Quick blip: Housing Works sale starts tomorrow
Earn $4.41 per syllable in political haiku contest
(Image intended as generic representation of Haiku, not as Japanese-language content.)
Who says poetry doesn’t pay? Most poets, probably.
But some lucky wordsmith is going to get a $75 Visa gift card (more than twice the record amount ever paid for a poem) by winning a contest for the best political haiku on the governmentality blog. [...]
Slash costs with a hori hori knife & other really simple tips
According to Real Simple Magazine, even your potatoes are ripping you off. Buying a few loose spuds for your Bubbie’s latkes will cost you twice the price of a bulk bag (plus, the more latkes the better.) A fun money-saving feature on the mag’s web site also tells you say no to non-grocery items [...]
Win $100 for being a starving artist
Photo by CheeseNPickles
What do you get when you cross an artist and a recession? The answer could be $100 if you throw in this Artists and the Economic Recession Survey (username: ART922). The artist-support non-profit Fractured Atlas and the national artist-welfare initiative LINC are teaming up to find out how [...]
New site connects creatives with crowdsourced seed money
If you’re still licking stamps on artists’ grant applications, there’s a new web site that may be worth your time. Kickstarter, a new site based in Brooklyn, is a “funding platform” for artists, inventors, journalists, musicians and other creatives who can post a video to attract $5-and-up pledges. Current cup-shakers include singer April Smith (left), whose slickly [...]
Best carpool and ride-share sites
You’re headed to see Grandma in Buffalo and you don’t feel like ponying up for jetBlue, Amtrak or even Greyhound (tsk tsk). How about virtual hitch-hiking? More people are ride-sharing these days with the help of sites designed to connect travelers—both long-distance road-trippers and daily commuters—with willing drivers.
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Fit for free, one BK gym at a time
Some of us have adopted a sit-and-fret fitness regimen. If this hasn’t quite worked out for your body mass index, we’ve compiled a list for the ultimate ‘fit’ freeloader: all the free trial passes available at Brooklyn gyms. If you went to every one, you could have 26 straight days of workouts—almost worth it, if [...]
Another rooftop film, free and with beer (and a movie lover’s bookmark-worthy blog)
Today may be Spike Lee Day, but we’re still on the hunt for a showing of Do the Right Thing tonight for those who missed it at Cafe Habana on Sunday. (Anyone?) We did, however, stumble upon a cool blog to bookmark so you never have to miss a free or cheap screening [...]
Brokelyn-approved event: mad free music… everywhere!
Last year's fest, photo by Richard Louissaint.
Is that live opera in Fort Greene Park? Yep, and it’s part of the Make Music New York fest on Sunday, a genius idea: 875 concerts across all five boroughs, by pretty much anyone who wants to join in, from high-school bands to jazz piano legend Randy [...]
Brokelyn-approved events: Mermaid Parade, free BBQ, local designers’ yard sale
Mermaid Parade photo by QXZ.
In addition to a 40-mile walk to New Jersey and a father’s day event at Babeland, where dads get a free goody bag by bringing their “little bundles of joy” (13 is definitely too old), here’s what’s on tap:
Mermaid Parade: If you’re feeling tearful about the [...]
