These movies won’t suck… your blood.

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Like scary movies? Then you’ll want to read this. We’re giving five lucky email subscribers tickets to Yelp’s Passport To Downtown Brooklyn Horror and Suspense night this Thursday! These tickets will get you and a friend access to The Dark Side screening, featuring indie horror shorts plus the World Premiere of 5 SENSES OF FEAR from Chiller TV. And Tony Timpone, the legendary Editor Emeritus of Fangoria Magazine, is moderating the Q&A session with the filmmakers after the screening. (more…)

Steve Bonano

Last time we were publicizing a blood drive, it was in relation to the attacks in Boston, but you’ve got a chance to do some good in your own backyard now. 9/11 first responder, Navy vet, 30-year NYPD officer and head of Barclays Center security Steve Bonano is battling blood cancer, possibly related to his work at Ground Zero, and needs a bone marrow transfusion. So today and tomorrow, you can sign up to be a bone marrow donor at 345 Jay Street, right outside the Jay-Street MetroTech subway stop. (more…)

Nice place to watch a movie

We know what you’re thinking (we can read minds): “Enough with the free summer events already. We want to go out and spend money!” Well, sorry, because a whole new program of free summer events has landed, this time in Downtown Brooklyn’s Summer@MetroTech, and just like every other free summer programming, it looks great. (more…)

What treasures await educated bargain hunters? via Flickr user emily geoff

I LOVE to shop, but this habit of mine comes with some unfortunate side effects.

In the past, I’ve hit up an outlet spot like DSW, thinking I’m getting a deal on some pair of Aldo boots or something that still comes out to like, 100 freaking dollars, and then 6 months later the zipper breaks and the heel pops off. Or there’s the time I spent $60 on some dress at Topshop, since that’s apparently the going rate nowadays for something that cost $2 to make, only to have the seam inexplicably unravel and leave me half-naked in line at some Duane Reade NOT within walking distance from my house.

F that.

I don’t know about you guys, but these betrayals, which always occur after I justify a higher-than-normal purchase price, are what caused me to look into other cheaper outlets to do all my shopping. And let me tell you, Brooklyn’s very own Fulton Mall is the place to Get. Shit. Done. The amount of times I’ve spent more than $30 on a single item are zero, and I’m still rocking things bought from years past. Here’s a little guide to help you save in your wallet and amp up your wardrobe, minus the morning after guilt. (more…)

Metroid actually does bring up issues of gender identity and assumption

Remember when you were a kid and had already given up on your dream of sports stardom because you were uncoordinated and kinda goofy? It’s fine, we gave up pretty early too. Then you figured you’d do the next most fun-looking thing out there, which was design video games. Except that didn’t pan out either because colleges didn’t really take games too seriously. Sorry about that. Especially since now the next generation of damn kids actually will get the opportunity to major in video games, and at NYU of all places. And they’ll get to do all their learning in Brooklyn. God kids have it good now. (more…)

Afterparty on Smith St., y’all! (via MTV’s instagram)

If you’ve been sitting in front of what’s left of your Google Reader waiting for some kind of life-changing news that’ll break through today’s faux-winter gloom, HERE IT IS, INTERNET: the MTV Video Music Awards are coming to Brooklyn this summer! (more…)

You fancy, huh? via Brownstoner

Oh, hello, affordable housing. Though rent in Brooklyn’s getting more and more expensive (and we’re still waiting on Mayor Bloomberg to come through with those promised tiny apartments), there’s still hope for the broke; Brownstoner says a new apartment complex under construction in Downtown Brooklyn will be offering 63 one-and-two bedroom units for households that make $20,640 to $42,950 a year, and they’re currently accepting applications! (more…)

Get in our bellies. Via Facebook.

The Alamo Drafthouse knows that we’re totally subject to its merciless will, languishing in the streets of Brooklyn waiting for their New York installments to arrive. To give us a glimpse of what’s in store, yesterday they released their menu online, still with little to no word as to when they’re actually opening. (more…)

If we could only choose one, to be honest, we’d be pick Handsome Joe to show up. via The Atlantic Wire

Last week we told you about the Brooklyn Young Republican Club having their winter social. We are nothing if not fair and balanced, so for those of you who lean left, here you are: the Brooklyn Young Democrats are having their 2013 Winter Party tomorrow. The party is open to non-members, and presumably will be quite a scene: Bloomberg is on his way out, Obama is staying put and the Republican party looks like it’s imploding. (more…)

Williamsburg has been hogging Brooklyn’s share of serious movie houses going up lately with its additions of Nitehawk and indieScreen, but the grandaddy of boozin’ at the movies, Alamo Drafthouse, is set to make cinephiles outside Williamsburg happy, with their planned opening at the Fulton Mall. The Austin-based movie house isn’t set to open until 2015, which should be just in time for the next regrettable, alcohol-necessitating Star Wars movie to come out. (more…)