This post is sponsored by Jennifer Schonborn.

Jennifer Schonborn is a holistic nutrition counselor who helps people make lasting changes to their diet & lifestyle.

A reminder that you can still enter to win a free consultation and two free counseling sessions with Brooklyn-based certified nutritionist Jennifer Schonborn. With her guidance, you can finally start on a path of healthy eating and happier living.

Jennifer takes a personal holistic approach to improving your diet. In your first one-on-one session, which anyone can do for free, she determines what your overall food and health issues are and establishes goals with you.

With your sights set on an target, Jennifer offers suggestions that will gradually eliminate your bad eating habits and introduce good ones. As you adopt these steps, Jennifer introduces more until eventually you find yourself atop what once seemed like an insurmountable mountain. With discrete changes in your life guided by Jennifer, you’ll be happier and healthier than you have ever been before.

Get ready to improve your body by entering our contest for a free consultation and two free counseling sessions worth $250. First submit your email below. Then, as usual, earn extra entries by following, liking, retweeting, and referring friends. Hurry — beach season is right around the corner!

It’s time to go

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Any city-dweller will tell you that finding that right apartment is the toughest thing in the world. You’ve sublet-hopped through Craigslist or lived with friends of friends of friends and finally found that perfect apartment with the passable roommate. Then a month passes and the bloom is off the rose. Warning signs start popping up and you’ve realized you’ve made a big mistake. To help you recognize them, we’ve categorized the top 10 best (or worst) reasons you need to move now.

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You’re watching “Breaking Bad” and your roommate says, “Ah, this brings back memories.”

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You’ll lose your deposit if your roommate implements his zombie defense system.
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This post is sponsored by Zaarly.

Zaarly is your online marketplace for local food, services and handmade goods.

Drinkers of Mombucha, the kombucha-style tea brewed in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, will have more to feel good about than their healthy beverage choices this month and next. Through May 31, all Mombucha “storefront” sales on Zaarly.com will go directly to fundraising efforts for the AIDS Lifecycle Ride to End AIDS. Mombucha creator and master brewer Rich Awn will join friend and Lifecycle team leader Tim Lee for the 545-mile ride, which will go from San Francisco to Los Angeles this summer.

Awn said the fundraising effort was influenced by a Facebook post by Lee and, indirectly, an uncle’s active role in the LGBTQ community. “My whole family is ultra liberal,” he said. “I want to give back to the gay and lesbian community, be active in that community.”

For Awn, starting his Mombucha business wasn’t quite such an arduous feat. In 2005 at age 20, he began brewing a recipe appropriated from his mother.

“I’ve always been a tinkerer, a doer,” Awn said. “Then I started using different infusions and teas.” To prepare for the race, in addition to a training regimen of 20 or more miles of bike riding a day, Awn created a special passion-fruit-infused Mombucha tea titled “Team Wino,” the name of his and Lee’s riding team. “You can drink it while you’re riding and it’s an awesome boost,” he said. Awn hopes to arrive at the race with a contribution of $10,000—an amount that depends on Mombucha sales, and a contribution from Zaarly, which will match up to $5,000.

Rich Awn, founder of Mombucha

“Before, I was donating half of the proceeds because I couldn’t figure out how to sustain business,” said Awn, who started offering the deal at a Zaarly Bazaar event in Brooklyn earlier this month. “Now I can be one of their top fundraisers. It’s been satisfying creatively and physically.” To try Mombucha while supporting the fight against AIDS, visit the brand’s Zaarly storefront. Or, meet Rich Awn and other Zaarly storefront owners at the local Zaarly Bazaar on Sunday, April 28 at The Space, 50 N.3rd St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, from 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

This post is sponsored by Modern Spaces.

If you are looking to Buy, Rent or Sell stop by our offices in Williamsburg, LIC or Astoria.

It’s always a party in Williamsburg

It’s a Saturday or Sunday, and you wake up magically devoid of a hangover, having done all your laundry, grocery shopping, and other boring adult things for the week. (Ok, so the beginning of this article is hypothetical. But the rest isn’t!) Suddenly instilled with a desire to discover the best that Williamsburg has to offer, you decide to make a day – and night – of it.

Everyone will have their own opinion, some of them snarky, on what is worth doing if you only have twelve paltry hours to soak up the cultural deliciousness that is Williamsburg. However, I firmly believe everything below is a knock-out, guaranteed fantastic time. Unless you don’t like fun. In which case, I can’t help you. (more…)

Calling all couples and those looking for love – November 30 through December 9 Queens Theatre is bringing to NYC a show that doesn’t hide behind the fluffy, mushy romance of what the world hopes marriage to be. You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up! is a new comedy based on the dysfunctional marriage of the writers, Annabelle Gurwitch (Dinner and a Movie, Fired!) and Jeff Kahn (Ben Stiller Show, Forty Year Old Virgin), who expose the raw and untold truth of ‘til death do us part.’ this hilarious new comedy is sure to strike both laughter and terror into the hearts of any couple by offering a hilarious glimpse into a relationship that seems doomed by opposing personalities from the start. Gurwitch and Kahn’s delightfully crazy lifestyle manages to keep their relationship intact, up-ending every idea you ever had about living ‘happily ever after’.

“So funny because it’s so accurate. Kahn and Gurwitch illuminate the insanity of marriage.  They make you want to embrace your spouse for the same reason you want to strangle them.” -Ben Stiller

This week and next enter our contest to score a pair of free tickets to see the show with your loved one (or not-so-loved one) for the performance date of your choice! Submit your email or enter through Facebook to win! Get extra points by liking us on Facebook or following us on Twitter! Didn’t win? That’s okay too- at Queens Theatre, you are all winners- use code CONTEST and get 20%* off your tickets to the show! Tickets start at just $25!

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This post is sponsored by Modern Spaces.

If you are looking to Buy, Rent or Sell stop by our offices in Williamsburg, LIC or Astoria.

Gantry Plaza State Park on the LIC waterfront.

Welcome to the third installment of LIC for Brooklynites. So far we’ve brought you neighborhood recommendations for places to eat - great restaurants and bars serving everything from comfort food, to Vietnamese pho, to classic cocktails; things to do - visit museums, take classes, and even go kayaking for free; and now we’re turning our sights on where to live in this beautiful area. While LIC is a ‘neighborhood,’ it’s actually comprised of a bunch of smaller neighborhoods, including Hunters Point, Queens Plaza, Court Square, and Dutch Kills.  (more…)

Calling all couples and those looking for love – November 30 through December 9 Queens Theatre is bringing to NYC a show that doesn’t hide behind the fluffy, mushy romance of what the world hopes marriage to be. You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up! is a new comedy based on the dysfunctional marriage of the writers, Annabelle Gurwitch (Dinner and a Movie, Fired!) and Jeff Kahn (Ben Stiller Show, Forty Year Old Virgin), who expose the raw and untold truth of ‘til death do us part.’ this hilarious new comedy is sure to strike both laughter and terror into the hearts of any couple by offering a hilarious glimpse into a relationship that seems doomed by opposing personalities from the start. Gurwitch and Kahn’s delightfully crazy lifestyle manages to keep their relationship intact, up-ending every idea you ever had about living ‘happily ever after’.

“So funny because it’s so accurate. Kahn and Gurwitch illuminate the insanity of marriage.  They make you want to embrace your spouse for the same reason you want to strangle them.” -Ben Stiller

This week and next enter our contest to score a pair of free tickets to see the show with your loved one (or not-so-loved one) for the performance date of your choice! Submit your email or enter through Facebook to win! Get extra points by liking us on Facebook or following us on Twitter! Didn’t win? That’s okay too- at Queens Theatre, you are all winners- use code CONTEST and get 20%* off your tickets to the show! Tickets start at just $25!

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*Offer valid on full price seats. Not valid on $25 seats. May not be combined with any other offer. Blackout dates may apply. Not Valid on previously purchased tickets.

Dirty bird

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Clarkson Potter is the dedicated lifestyle group within Random House, Inc.

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3rd Ward is a multidisciplinary workspace & education center in Brooklyn, NY. Work. Learn. Make

It’s Cyber Monday and the pants-free virtual mall has deals on much more than just giant flat screen TVs and iProducts. Here’s a special offer from local DIY incubator, artistic co-working utopia and alterna-learning hub 3rd Ward. Today only, you can be a muse for your loved ones to get creative and learn something new this holiday season with a special promo-code for 25 percent off all 3rd Ward offerings site-wide.

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Fingerlickin’

This post is sponsored by Clarkson Potter.

Clarkson Potter is the dedicated lifestyle group within Random House, Inc.

All that Christian Grey-inspired babymaking got you and your lover hungry? Don’t worry — FL Fowler has some sexy food ideas for you with a new cookbook called Fifty Shades of Chicken.

Fifty Shades of Chicken is a double entendre-filled cookbook with recipes like “Mustard-Spanked Chicken” and “Dripping Thighs.”  Billed as “food porn you can actually use” — as if there’s unusable food porn —the book goes on sale Nov. 13 for $19.99.

From November 8 – 22, there’s a HUGE book giveaway. Just log in with your Facebook account or email address below to enter to win one of 25 copies of the book. The grand prize is a signed copy of Fifty Shades of Chicken along with two feathery toys from Babeland–a Starburst Tickler and a Pleasure Feather. Extra chances to win are available if you follow @50shadeschicken on Twitter and share the video above with #foodporn.

You can also follow Babeland to keep up with the store’s ongoing giveaways. Check out @therecipeclub to stay abreast of cookbook news and see pictures of delicious-looking food that you are not eating.

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