8 cheap and free summer ideas for kids
Kayaking at Pier 1. Photo by Jonathan Barkey, courtesy of Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy. Filling a kids’ summer with camp is like putting a full-size sheet on a queen-size bed — no matter how you...
View ArticleThis weekend: Saved by the Bell, kite fest, cupcake picnic
FRIDAY 8pm doors: rooftop films screens shorts about how our experiences are shaped by the buildings we inhabit. old american can factory, $10. 9pm: sing-along with common people! belt out your...
View ArticleThis weekend: Burlesque, defense, zine fest, Atlantic Antic!
FRIDAY 8pm: sean lennon’s the ghost of a sabre tooth tiger and julianna barwick play littlefield, $16 9pm (thru 10/2): the ninth annual new york burlesque festival (featuring 100+ performers at six...
View ArticleTell your funniest date story and win $200
Does this look familiar? This post is sponsored by MeetMoi. MeetMoi is the new way to get instant, real life introductions to people you want to date. One week in Broketown: Dave makes out with a...
View Article88 reasons why summer belongs to brokesters
Reason #89: Super Summer Man is here! Flickr photo by Quiet Storm! We tell people all the time that NYC is a great place to live even when you’re broke, and never is that truer than in the summer, when...
View ArticleHow to convince my boyfriend to move to BK from New Orleans?
So your ex-boyfriend is coming to visit you in Brooklyn for a two-week trial period to “see if he could see himself actually living here” and while you believe it’s impossible to for him to really...
View ArticleHave some class, Brooklyn? Get free school supplies at Habana Outpost
This is the weekend for grabbing summer, throwing it on the bed and having one last big sloppy fling before you trudge back off to the real world on Tuesday. Perhaps you’ll spend it touring Brooklyn’s...
View ArticleBrooklyn now officially too crazy for New Orleans
Excuse us, but this is a modest, family town. via Flickr user Marcy014 For all of our celebration of Brooklyn’s nightlife, with its almost non-existent last calls and bars on every corner, it never...
View ArticleWant to sling margaritas all summer? Habana Outpost is hiring this week!
I’ll take 10 margaritas, and keep em coming until fall. Do you hear that, brokesters? Hark, in the distance, but growing stronger every day, is the faint jingle of SUMMER 2K13, barreling its way to...
View ArticleCelebrate Habana Outpost reopening (and Earth Day) this Saturday
There’s more than one way to make a smoothie As the weather becomes naturally more warmer, we look for signs of summer everywhere, like say, the re-opening of Habana Outpost. And oh, what do you know,...
View ArticleJoin the Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt and 15 other weekend ideas
Gp directly to space with the Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt 1. Get together with people at LaunchPad and watch 16mm cartoons. Yeah, cartoons! (Friday) 2. Put a tear in your beer (which is a free Sixpoint...
View ArticleFree Cuba (movies): The Habana Outpost movie schedule is here!
Great place to go back to the future. via Facebook You guys tired of all the free outdoor movies happening this summer? We know, it’s like, “Hey man, let us PAY for our entertainment, you’re making it...
View ArticleVacation with the Griswolds and 10 other weekend ideas
No need for violence, the movie’s free. via Facebook 1. Check out a play at the Irondale Ensemble in which the author claims that everything in life he needs to know he learned from zombies. Hopefully...
View ArticleHere are all the free outdoor summer movie series in Brooklyn
Pop quiz hotshot: where is this movie playing? Holy moly, there sure are a lot of outdoor movies this summer. So many that you might have trouble keeping track of whether you’re supposed to be going to...
View ArticleSay anything and 13 other ways to keep independence weekend going
Has this ever worked for anyone? 1. Out of 25,000 photographs he took between 2005 and 2010, photographer Robert Madruga is displaying only 25 for an exhibit in Gowanus. Try not to think about all the...
View ArticleAn insider’s guide to moving in Brooklyn: Fort Greene
This block could be your life. Photo by Charlie Russell This post is sponsored by Ideal Properties Group. Nobody is better equipped to help you make your messy roommate history than Ideal Properties...
View ArticleNot a test: Habana Outpost giving away free school supplies next week
Oh sure they look happy, but they don’t know what’s coming. via Facebook Have you had the Welcome Back, Kotter song playing in your head for some unknowable reason? Don’t panic, remain calm. That’s...
View ArticleBe declared Down by Law and 11 other ideas for the weekend
Get to this movie on time, because Tom waits for no man 1. Go to a book release/dance party for Rivington Was Ours, a book about the ancient history that was the Lower East Side in 2006. Oh hey, it...
View ArticleAntics on Atlantic and 13 other ways to enjoy the weekend
Spend all day trying to find yourself in the picture, your boss will get it. Photo by Ann Billingsley 1. Which comics will Marc Maron secretly hate in a couple years and why? The only way to find out...
View ArticleDon’t fear the C-eeper: A salute to life on the C train
It doesn’t look like much, but let’s see you look this good in your 40s. via Flickr user Mike Knell With a 4-year reign as the Straphangers’ “Worst Train Service in NYC”, it’s not easy to understand...
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