You’ve been there before: unable to work at home, you pop in to the local coffee shop to soak up the wifi and get yourself focused with a cup of joe. The next thing you know, you’re on your third cup, you’ve got the shakes and somehow still aren’t done working. You’ve got to take the edge off somehow, but still don’t want to go home. What’s a girl to do? Fortunately for you, Brooklyn is home to bars that offer wifi AND open early enough to get you back in balance. Happy hour, here you come! (more…)
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Liquidation no-deals: shoppers beware
The next time the words ‘going out of business’ start giving you a mega-sale arrhythmia, stop for a second and take a breath. Then maybe skip the trip altogether. We just stumbled upon this ABC News story on store liquidation “sales” with even higher prices than the stores had before. The Dec. ’08 exposé (some caveats are timeless) featured now-closed Linens ‘n Things and Circuit City stores at the ends of their lives, under the ownership of liquidation companies there to get rid of all the merch. But the liquidators are profit-seekers too—they come in, charge what they want and still call the thing a blow-out. (more…)
How not to act at a concert
We’re not that blog that calls out random people for public lashing. Except today. Here is a photo of a Coney Island concertgoer who insisted upon blocking the view of dozens of people last night through most of Pat Benatar’s set, by alternately talking on her phone and texting with her back to the stage. She was politely asked to STFD or move off to the side and refused. Why? “Because I’m looking for my friends.” So you get to block the stage that you’re not paying attention to while all of these nice people, some of them clearly arthritic and possibly enjoying their last concert ever, have to look at you instead of Pat Benatar? These folks from the Bensonhurst Bridge Club who lugged their foldup chairs on the subway and showed up early to get a good spot? There’s a popular word for someone who behaves like this, which we’re too polite to use here. We’ll text it to you!
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