Brokelyn's Aulistar Mark and Tim Donnelly model their Freeshirts. You can too!
Maybe you’ve been to one of our nutso raffle parties or swaps. Maybe you’ve bought a Brokelyn Beer Book and met the crew at one of our BeerUps. So what are the kids at your favorite budget-living blog cooking up next? Here’s what, straight from the Brokelyntific labs: the ridiculously stylish Brokelyn Freeshirt: a t-shirt that gets you so many freebies and discounts when you wear it that it’s practically free. In fact, it might even pay for your pants.
February's Underground Rebel Bingo Club at the Bell House. Via NickyDigital
Ok, listen up: Since you are such an awesome Brokelyn reader, we’re going to let you in on a little secret going down in a secret location in Gowanus that will be a ruckus-y good time. Clear your plans for May 21; you might want to cancel anything on Sunday too, for good measure. There’s an event going down, starting at 9pm: the Underground Rebel Bingo Club. It’s a reinvention of the classic grandma game, a night of pure greatness where you can joyously hold that bingo marker while dancing, drinking and winning fun stuff. How do you feel about getting a discount? Or maybe winning a pair of tickets?! Brokelyn is here for you! Contest ends at 8pm 5/19!
Thank you for your interest, but unfortunately, Brokelyn Beer Book 2 has sold out. If you’d like to be on the waiting list should any copies become available, please submit your name and email address to beerbook@brokelyn.com.
Mondays are rough enough, even without the news that New York is saying adios to toxic booze juice Four Loko. But cheer up because we’ve got the good news you’ve been waiting for (and one that’s a lot better than drinking alcoholic battery acid): The second Brokelyn Beer Book is nearly here! You nominated some of the best beer bars in the borough and Team Brokelyn has been hitting the streets hard over the past two weeks signing them up. We’ve nearly filled the entire 30-bar roster so keep your eyes peeled on Brokelyn, because they’ll sell out quickly. So whose beers can you look forward to enjoying with your Beer Book 2.0?
How do we know Brooklyn loves beer? It’s not from digging through your trash, collecting cans (which… we’ll tell you about soon). It’s because when we unveiled the Brokelyn Beer Book back in February, the colorful coupon packets for 25 beers at 25 Brooklyn bars (for $25) sold out in a matter of hours. For those who swooped-in early, it’s been six months of beers on the book. For those who missed out, it’s been one long wait for this moment: the announcement of the second Brokelyn Beer Book! This time, as we prepare this next awesome deal for you, we’re doing it a little differently. We’re bowing to the democratizing power of beer, ignorant of economic and editorial status, and asking: What bars do you want?
Think of stuff you can rent, and three things probably come to mind: apartments, movies (but these days, why even pay?) and cars (traditionally or Zipped). That’s about it for the usual suspects. We can pretty much guarantee a “DIY Seafood Boil Kit” wasn’t within a nautical mile of coming to mind. But you know where we’re going here: The boil kit, of course, is rentable too—for $20 a day. And you and your crawfish dinner will be hooking up on Snapgoods (Own less. Do more.), a brand new Brooklyn-based rental site for whatever you might need… for however long you need it.
Brokelyn special offers Park Slope/ Prospect Heights
Momasphere, a mama-power group that works to “round out motherhood” through communal events and fundraisers, is throwing Luna Fest this Sunday, May 23. The benefit film-fest will be a chance to watch movies all by women, for women, about women and nibble treats and grab gifties from a bunch of sponsors at the Brooklyn Art Exchange in Park Slope. The best part? The festival is showing Brokelyn (and you) some love, with a 50 percent discount if you buy a ticket online before the show.
What do Don Cheadle, Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes and YOU have in common? If you’re our core demographic, maybe not tons. But tomorrow night, you can all be in the same place.
Brokelyn has two tickets to give away to the premiere of the new film Brooklyn’s Finest and our giveaway includes invites to the after-party with the stars of the film, at a glam hotel they asked us not to mention here because it’s a PRIVATE event.
The movie stars all of the above and was directed by Antoine Fuqua, who won an Oscar for Training Day. It tells the interweaving stories of three cops in Brownsville, where parts of it were filmed. Rumor has it (according to the NY Post) that rival gangs even called a truce during the shoot, while the film’s crew and actors received some real-world guidance and advice from neighborhood residents.
The premier is tomorrow night, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Manhattan (Brooklyn’s finest neighbor). Ditch the jeans and flannel kids, because if you’re rubbing elbows with Willy Mays Hayes you had better be making your friends at Brokelyn proud.
Want in? E-mail us at cops@brokelyn.com by tonight at 11:59, and we’ll pick a random winner at midnight. You have to be a Brokelyn e-mail subscriber to be eligible. Not an e-mail subscriber yet? What are you waiting for? That’s how you don’t miss cool stuff like this. Subscribe here.
Due to an unexpected stampede, we are completely sold out of Beer Books. To put your name on a waiting list so we can let you know if any more become available, please send an email to beerbook@brokelyn.com.
