Sneak peak: check out the finished product on Sunday!
Here’s another reason to take advantage of tomorrow’s Heart of Brooklyn Free Summer Sunday cultur-palooza with free admission and special programs at six BK institutions including Brooklyn Museum, the Prospect Park Zoo and the carousel: Brokelyn will be there with sweet surprises! Come say hi to Team Brokelyn at our table in Grand Army Plaza next to the (free) Brooklyn Icons mini-golf, from 12-5pm. In addition to games and Brooklyn-themed goodies, we’ve got a big present for you: the debut of our brand-new, super-stylish Brokelyn t-shirts! The designers shirts come from Brooklyn Royalty‘s Bob Bland and sell for only $20.
(In the event of rain, we’ll be in the Brooklyn Public Library)
Brooklyn Museum, photo by Flickr's Emilio Guerra
Today is a rainy mess, sure, but it’s also Art Museum Day, which means free or reduced admission to lots of museums in the city (and across the nation), and waltzing into a museum for free is a pretty nice way to spend a rainy day. It’s the second year the Association of Art Museum Directors has organized the Art Museum Day, and today is also International Museum Day, which this year is focusing on the theme Museum and Memory. Participants in today’s discount include the Brooklyn Museum and MOMA. See a full list below, via WNYC: Read the rest of this entry »
Bushwick Open Studios returns for its fifth year next month. Photo from 2009 by Flickr's Joann Kim
Your warm-weather free music plans may have been paywalled or thrown on the rocks indefinitely, but luckily the chance to view loads of incredible art sans-prix is alive, well, and just building up steam for the spring and summer seasons. Scan through our round-up of coming attractions, get that Dali ‘stache growing, and let your inner arts critic run wild (especially since most of these involve free booze). You can even kick off your warm weather season of arts appreciation tonight with DUMBO’s monthly free gallery walk. Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY
7pm: brooklyn hearts japan: liam mceneaney hosts a night of music/comedy to benefit japan disaster relief. tonight: wyatt cenac, kristen schaal, kurt braunohler, tim harrington, arden myrin, mike doughty (soul coughing), hard nips, the suzan, plus auctions and dj aaron lacrate. bell house, $15. Read the rest of this entry »
Did you know that April is National Poetry Month and Thursday is Poem In Your Pocket Day? The Mayor’s Office and the Brooklyn Museum did, and they have some ways to celebrate your inner laureate. Consider captivating a rapt audience on Twitter with the second annual Poetweet contest: Send your best verse with the tag #poetweet through tomorrow to be considered for publication in Metro on Thursday, aka Poem In Your Pocket Day. You can also score free admission to the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday just by bringing some poems (original or borrowed). The free admission includes entry to the Mummy Chamber, so brush up on your iambic pentameter quick to entertain those bunch of stiffs.
A smart phone helps you find free condoms, serious discounts and even the details on the nearest happy hour. Free apps are super great, right? But as a fellow money conservationist, you probably noticed the quality of many free apps available lately has been way down (here’s looking at you, Talking Tom Cat). They crash, or are a limited “lite” version, or just have horrible graphics. With more than 400,000 apps available from iTunes, the free little gems are easy to overlook. To separate the great apps from the cr-apps (I mean, seriously), Brokelyn waded through the iTunes bargain bin and compiled a list of useful ones you might’ve missed that will help you save money and time in Brooklyn, more so than a free sex positions game, at least. Read the rest of this entry »
Free first Saturdays at the BK Museum: one of the best parties in town.
Culture is part of the reason we love Brooklyn, but it often comes at a premium: steep entrance fees in the city museums. Many places also have those “suggested” fees that make you acutely uncomfortable as you whisper to the cashier you’ll be donating less than the recommended amount. Dan Nguyen, a journalist with ProPublica, has solved some of those problems with his new site I Heart NY Museums. It’s an easily sortable, color-coded database that indexes most of the city’s major cultural centers, listed with normal entrance fees, hours, Yelp ratings — and when you can get in for free. Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY
all day: buy one, get one half off at williamsburg’s shoe market (any style)
5pm: eminent domain victim freddy’s reopens in park slope with an opening night party featuring les sans culottes, brute force and the magpie Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY
8pm (+ 2/4): poets, puppeteers, musicians and other artists join forces for an evening of puppets + poetry at brooklyn arts exchange, including alphabet arts, dolly parton cover band doll parts, and the occupy wall street puppetry guild. $10.
8pm (thru 2/5): multiple playwrights collaborate on one work without knowing what others are doing at piper mckenzie’s dainty cadaver. the brick, $10. Read the rest of this entry »
Sneak peak: check out the finished product on Sunday!
Here’s another reason to take advantage of tomorrow’s Heart of Brooklyn Free Summer Sunday cultur-palooza with free admission and special programs at six BK institutions including Brooklyn Museum, the Prospect Park Zoo and the carousel: Brokelyn will be there with sweet surprises! Come say hi to Team Brokelyn at our table in Grand Army Plaza next to the (free) Brooklyn Icons mini-golf, from 12-5pm. In addition to games and Brooklyn-themed goodies, we’ve got a big present for you: the debut of our brand-new, super-stylish Brokelyn t-shirts! The designers shirts come from Brooklyn Royalty‘s Bob Bland and sell for only $20.
(In the event of rain, we’ll be in the Brooklyn Public Library)
Brooklyn Museum, photo by Flickr's Emilio Guerra
Today is a rainy mess, sure, but it’s also Art Museum Day, which means free or reduced admission to lots of museums in the city (and across the nation), and waltzing into a museum for free is a pretty nice way to spend a rainy day. It’s the second year the Association of Art Museum Directors has organized the Art Museum Day, and today is also International Museum Day, which this year is focusing on the theme Museum and Memory. Participants in today’s discount include the Brooklyn Museum and MOMA. See a full list below, via WNYC: Read the rest of this entry »
Bushwick Open Studios returns for its fifth year next month. Photo from 2009 by Flickr's Joann Kim
Your warm-weather free music plans may have been paywalled or thrown on the rocks indefinitely, but luckily the chance to view loads of incredible art sans-prix is alive, well, and just building up steam for the spring and summer seasons. Scan through our round-up of coming attractions, get that Dali ‘stache growing, and let your inner arts critic run wild (especially since most of these involve free booze). You can even kick off your warm weather season of arts appreciation tonight with DUMBO’s monthly free gallery walk. Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY
7pm: brooklyn hearts japan: liam mceneaney hosts a night of music/comedy to benefit japan disaster relief. tonight: wyatt cenac, kristen schaal, kurt braunohler, tim harrington, arden myrin, mike doughty (soul coughing), hard nips, the suzan, plus auctions and dj aaron lacrate. bell house, $15. Read the rest of this entry »
Did you know that April is National Poetry Month and Thursday is Poem In Your Pocket Day? The Mayor’s Office and the Brooklyn Museum did, and they have some ways to celebrate your inner laureate. Consider captivating a rapt audience on Twitter with the second annual Poetweet contest: Send your best verse with the tag #poetweet through tomorrow to be considered for publication in Metro on Thursday, aka Poem In Your Pocket Day. You can also score free admission to the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday just by bringing some poems (original or borrowed). The free admission includes entry to the Mummy Chamber, so brush up on your iambic pentameter quick to entertain those bunch of stiffs.
A smart phone helps you find free condoms, serious discounts and even the details on the nearest happy hour. Free apps are super great, right? But as a fellow money conservationist, you probably noticed the quality of many free apps available lately has been way down (here’s looking at you, Talking Tom Cat). They crash, or are a limited “lite” version, or just have horrible graphics. With more than 400,000 apps available from iTunes, the free little gems are easy to overlook. To separate the great apps from the cr-apps (I mean, seriously), Brokelyn waded through the iTunes bargain bin and compiled a list of useful ones you might’ve missed that will help you save money and time in Brooklyn, more so than a free sex positions game, at least. Read the rest of this entry »
Free first Saturdays at the BK Museum: one of the best parties in town.
Culture is part of the reason we love Brooklyn, but it often comes at a premium: steep entrance fees in the city museums. Many places also have those “suggested” fees that make you acutely uncomfortable as you whisper to the cashier you’ll be donating less than the recommended amount. Dan Nguyen, a journalist with ProPublica, has solved some of those problems with his new site I Heart NY Museums. It’s an easily sortable, color-coded database that indexes most of the city’s major cultural centers, listed with normal entrance fees, hours, Yelp ratings — and when you can get in for free. Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY
all day: buy one, get one half off at williamsburg’s shoe market (any style)
5pm: eminent domain victim freddy’s reopens in park slope with an opening night party featuring les sans culottes, brute force and the magpie Read the rest of this entry »
