http://www.googamooga.com/tickets/ did you get tix??

JetBlue is having one of those one-day sales. The highlight: $39 flights to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. Almost as cheap as a bus to Philly and much more aristocratic. Anyone been there recently? Anyone’s relatives have a backyard we can camp in?

Go see Brokelyn editor Tim Donnelly's new cougar crush.

TONIGHT 3/14
• Rock like a mutha at Mom & Pop Comedy Karaoke
• Be literary at Franklin Park

TUESDAY 3/15
• Learn to grow without dirt
• Be humored by Janeane Garofalo and Kristin Schaal
• Learn to tell an amazing story
• Find out how to price the stuff you make (more…)

Is a $1,600 2BR in Ditmas Park cheap if the kitchen is in a different zip code?

The New York Times had a feature recently on a young art therapist who never pays more than $625 a month in rent. To keep her pledge, she’s moved from Carroll Gardens to Williamsburg, to Bushwick, to Bed-Stuy, where she lives in a sweet-looking room with high ceilings and a garden view. Which brings us to today’s brokepinion poll: What do you consider cheap rent in Brooklyn, and what do you expect to get for that? Let’s go by bedroom. Are you willing to sleep in your roommate’s closet because anything over $150 a month highway robbery? Or anything under $1,000 a month a bargain because you HAVE to have rooftop access? Keep in mind what you get for that rent: outdoor space, neighborhood, subway access, etc. And if you’re a brokester who somehow figured out how to buy a place, what do you pay per month in mortgage and maintenance combined?

Tonight (5/10):
• Get funked up in Brooklyn Bridge Park
• Be funny at a comedy night in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, or  one in Dumbo
• Show your wits at free trivia night

Friday (5/11):
• Have a fab Friday afternoon at BAM’s DanceAfrica party
• Par-tay to a deejay beat w/no cover and free drinks
• Party like a blackened catfish in Red Hook, all weekend

Saturday (5/12):
• Bring your rooftop farming mojo to the Brooklyn Food Conference
• Get your Fred Perry for up to 70 percent off
• Eat mad BBQ and learn how to put LEDs into textiles (?) with 3rd Ward
• Immerse yourself in Red Hook

Sunday (5/13):
• Visit famous mothers at Green-wood
• Take your mom out for brunch, dammit
• Tour Flatbush’s Gardens

You spent all your money on THAT? Pic via Reddit

How much money did you start today with? How much will you have by the time this ewwy gooey lurve fest is over? If you’re an average New Yorker, you’ll have dropped $146.30 on Valentine’s Day this year, according to a study from the National Retail Federation. That includes the $22.71 you’ll be spending on candy and $38.65 on flowers, with the rest, we assume, going to your White Castle dinner date and that big 99 cent lube shopping trip. Seems like too much money to be dropping on a fake holiday that’s made up by blah blah corporations blah blah Hallmark, especially when you consider what else that money could buy. Team Brokelyn has some recommendations on better ways to spend today: (more…)

Because everyone (even el Bloombito) rallied to support Planned Parenthood in the wake of the Susan G. Komentroversy this week, we wanted to highlight some of our favorite women’s health guides, lest you NYC would ever leave you stranded alone in a cold, heartless world if you had a health emergency. First, check our no-insurance health care guide and the list of free STD testing services available in BK (don’t forget about that free condom finder app too). We also have a roundup and price check of abortion providers in Brooklyn, and a rundown of the whys and hows of using money saving menstrual cups. And switching to a bit of a lighter side from health to beauty, a cautionary tale of what really goes on at a $10 bikini wax (ouch!).

We know you guys have strong feelings about supermarket coffee, wifi bars and eyebrow waxings. Now you can put those opinions to work for fun and prizes. Brokelyn is partnering with Zagat and Google New York to offer three ace reviewers spa packages to Tres Belle Petite Medi-Spa in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. And we’re not talking just a lash tint here: the prizes are worth $500, $1000 and $1,500 in goods and services.

How do you get your zen on? Vote in Zagat’s New York City Shopping Survey by rating and reviewing the retail and gourmet food shops you’ve visited in the past year. By completing the survey, you’ll also be eligible to receive a free copy of the New York City Shopping Survey or New York City Food Lover’s Guide when they are published later this year. To enter: (more…)

Like us, you’ve probably been sitting at home and nodding along to episodes of Portlandia because so much of it applies to Brooklyn too, doesn’t it?  Overly precious artisans, aggressive bikers, culturally one-upping slackerati and, of course, an exaggerated sense of being a special society unto itself.  On Friday, Carrie and Fred were in town for the Portlandia road show comes to the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and of course it had been sold out for weeks. In lieu of seeing the stars up close, please enjoy our tribute to the show, with Team Brokelyn’s first-ever video project: Brokelandia! (more…)

Pepper spray is the new coal

Wishing you a very merry Christmas, happy Hanukah, efficient Festivus, tidy Yaksmas or whatever else you’re doing to enjoy your winter downtime right now, from all of us here in Brokelyn. Cartoon by Dean Haspiel, illustrator for HBO’s Bored to Death.