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You should choo-choo-choose to go to this!
If all the rest of these ideas for taking your sweetie out/finding someone to at least Band Aid over your shattered heart for V-Day have failed you, we’ve got one more big chance: our friends at the skint are presenting this Sunday’s special Tell Your Friends (With Benefits) Valentine’s Day show at the Bell House, and we have a pair of tickets to give away! The show is hosted by Liam McEneaney, and features Wyatt Cenac of The Daily Show, Hari Kondabolu (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central Presents) and Ashok Kondabolu (of Das Racist), Jessi Klein (Best week Ever, Saturday Night Live) and Victor Varnado (writer for Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien), with musical guests Bridget & The Squares. Plus, the first 100 people get a free Robicelli’s cupcake! 
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The river puns dry at the Punderdome 3000.
You there, bothering your coworkers and friends with your ceaseless tide of groan-inducing puns: did you know there is a support group for people like you and me? It’s called Punderdome 3000 and it’s returning this Monday at Southpaw in Park Slope. The ‘dome is a night of sheer concentrated silliness, the kind for which you would normally be roundly booed and ejected from your dinner table. You get a topic (say “Will Smith”) and then 90 seconds to come up with a pun, or many puns (“They connected Will Smith to the crime because he left behind fresh prints“), and then deliver them to the audience, which picks the winner. You’d be competing against well-versed punsters, including several from the Brokelyn stables. It’s normally $5 to watch or compete, but we’ve got 10 tickets to give away, and naturally, since Brokelyn is a pun on its own, they’ll go to the best punsters. Make sure to wear your big shoes, because winning this thing is no small feat. Read on!
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Are you Krrbing yet?
Krrb is a fun, new and, dare we say, addictive new online venue for buying, selling and swapping stuff with your neighbors, and they’re kicking off the holidays with a 12 Days of Gifting Give Away.
Krrb, a sponsor of ours, is an all-in-one garage sale, flea market and local classifieds where second-handers, crafters, collectors, artists, designers, artisanal food-makers and buyers can connect.
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In the kitchen at The Farm on Adderley, Brokelyn readers' favorite brunch spot.
The votes are in and the people have spoken! You voted The Farm on Adderley as the best brunch spot in BK, narrowly edging out Miriam, Buttermilk Channel and other worthy contenders. The Farm is known for fresh ingredients, local purveyors and tiny pickles in their Bloody Marys, as one ecstatic commenter noted in ALL CAPS. Now, Google New York wants to give you a chance to win brunch for four at this Ditmas Park fave. Here’s how:
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Don't let your great designs stag-nate!
Do you design the best jewelry ever? Are you fed up with your Etsy or Big Cartel not getting the online attention it deserves? Most importantly, are you making zero dollars?
We may have just the contest for you – one that will score you $500 and a vendor contract at UncommonGoods. UncommonGoods is hunting down the next great jewelry designer, and they’re currently accepting submissions “for unique pieces and fresh designs” until midnight Aug. 31.
All designs will be shared with a community voting app, for prime democracy/getting your friends to vote for you. Then, a panel of expert judges (Brooklyn artist Kiel Mead, style and beauty specialist Jenn Falik, and the UncommonGoods jewelry & accessories buyer Erin Fergusson) will choose the winning design from the top five vote-getting finalists. Good luck and may the most creative and cash-strapped win!
Follow Caroline: @shadood.
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A touch of Flavorpaper goes a long way. Photo via Brooklyn Based
Maybe you’re staring at your wall watching the water stains your landlord refuses to fix and wondering if you can Dumpster dive enough cans of similar looking paint to cover it all up. Fancier fixes for your home decor problem — like, actually covering the wall with an attractive, matching pattern — probably fall down the priority list below making sure your rent gets paid. Here’s your chance to win a free installation of the same wallpaper that adorns Lenny Kravitz’s home and Steve Madden stores: Our friends at Brooklyn Based are teaming with The Sweeten to giveaway about $1,000 worth of paper and installation from boutique Brooklyn shop Flavor Paper. Contest ends Aug. 2, so find out how to enter here and you could have a whole new room before you know it.
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Let's take you out to the ball game
Look for ways to do good in Brooklyn and you’ll feel like you’re at Smorgasburg with five bucks in-hand: So much choice, such meager resources. But what if someone came to you and said “Here, take these food tickets, have a ball. And, oh yeah, you’ll also be helping out 35,000 needy Brooklyn folks”? That’s sort of what we’re offering here: Brokelyn’s teaming up with CAMBA, one of BK’s largest nonprofits, to give away two pairs of Cyclones fun packs (including tickets, a Cyclones cap, hot dog, chips and drink) for a CAMBA benefit/Brooklyn Cyclones game July 28. It’ll be a night to raise funds and awareness for CAMBA’s programs and services around Brooklyn —and this organization’s benevolent tentacles reach all over the place.
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The scene at 2010's Summer Soiree, via Vogue.com
Prospect Park keeps you fatted with a buffet of all-you-can-eat free summer goodness, from concerts to plays to all sorts of frisbee-rific, grill-enabled (and soon wifi-enabled) open spaces. Usually, you have to be an elite type New Yorker (read: Bloomberg) who can fork over donations — and an $85 entrance fee — to attend the Galactic Star Groove Summer Soiree on July 21, an annual love fest at the Audubon Center and Boat House flush with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, electric boat rides and more. But this year, thanks to our new friends at Google, you can go too! We have five pairs of tickets to giveaway to what will surely be the swankiest party you’ll attend in the park all year that doesn’t involve hiding your Sixpoint cans from Park patrol. Read on:
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How fabulous is Kate Payne, author of the Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking, a blog and now a book? Yesterday the thoroughly modern housemistress invited us to the Brooklyn Flea in Williamsburg (gorgeous, btw), handed us $25 and told us to buy the grooviest home item we could find. The only catch: four other bloggers would be doing the same, and our merch would be judged against theirs in an online contest on Kate’s blog. The purchases have been logged and photographed, Kate’s blog post is up, and it’s a tight race. These other gals found some good stuff. But we’re in this here Broketucky Derby to win it, people. We’re not going to ask for your vote. We’re going to BEG for it. For the love of G-d, PLEASE pick number 3. Vote in the comments. Thank you.
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cheer up, pup. You're internet famous!
Endless car alarms, screeching sirens, sidewalks covered in dog waste and the terrifying pack of just-released-from-school teenagers on the subway: these are among the more unpleasant aspects of living in New York City. But what is one to do? Blog about it, naturally. Brooklynite Jenny McCoy has taken up the cause of documenting dogs excusing themselves on sidewalks, and the owners who watch it happen, on her Tumblr, Dogs Shitting on Sidewalks. And now McCoy — whose unrelated day job is tweeting for @MTVnews — wants your help to document the doodie: any photo submitted to the site before April 30 will be entered to win $50 in cash. Send submission to jennylmccoy@gmail.com with cross streets and borough, but watch where you step.
