Get on your bike and ride. Photo by Dimitry Gudkov

1. It’s Greenpoint Gallery Night, so check out all the art they’ve been making up there. Or just wait until you see it on Girls (Friday)

2. In order to prove that Bushwick does in fact, rock, Brooklyn Fireproof invites you to their concert series, Bushwick Rock City (Friday)

3. Nerds + party = AWESOME, or at least that’s what the promo materials for Attack of the Party Nerds claim. But a bunch of nerds probably wrote them (Friday)

4. Punk rock karaoke will allow you to live out your dream of being Johnny Thunders, but without the crippling heroin addiction. But really, where’s the fun in that? (Friday) (more…)

Yahoo updates mail interface, people use Hotmail? [Tech Crunch]
Bushwick ladies: hold on to your handbags! [Greenpointers]
Ahahahahaa, Lena Dunham wages legal war with Gawker [Fishbowl]
Fewer honey buns:NYC kids are getting thinner [Gothamist]
2012′s most retweeted tweets. Say that ten times fast. [Buzzfeed]
TSA surplus store sells confiscated Shake Weight [Consumerist]
Tour the Domino Sugar Factor before it becomes dies [Free Williamsburg]
Unfunny radio DJs donate $500k to grieving family [Gothamist]
Robots, acting, and origami–the best winter classes  [Park Slope Stoop]
Gowanus sludge guy gets huge fines, thank god [ANIMAL]
Ten ways to “sandy proof” your apartment [Brick Underground]
Yoga to the People loses Bikram yoga war [Village Voice]

Via Toothpaste for Dinner.

The Freelancers Union has been making huge moves lately to help you get and stay healthy, probably because everyone knows the freelancers’ life is based on a diet of caffeine, 11pm dinners and near-fatal quantities of screen glare. It’s already getting ready to open the country’s first medical center just for freelancers in downtown Brooklyn Nov. 5; now it’s adding free yoga and wellness programs just for independent workers too.

Two free yoga sessions will be held in McCarren and Prospect parks in the next two weeks; plus, the union will host a free workshop on “balancing your business and your health” featuring the head of the freelancers union and the doctor  who will be running the new medical center. Because look at you, all pale in that computer glow. Get healthy! (more…)

Ready for my early afternoon foot massage! Image via Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

Do you do drink blueprint cleanses instead of picklebacks and and consider flaxseed bars a sometimes food? (Too much agave!) Consider applying for a job that comes with benefits not seen this side of Anna Wintour’s desk: fresh flowers, staff concierge, yoga retreats and more. (more…)

Dekalb Market, awaiting your oms and ahs.

The best part about summer in Brooklyn is scouting out free outdoor activities that will be fun without being crowded and filthy. (We’re looking at you, McCarren Pool. We’re making your search easier because this Sunday (July 29) Pop Up Yoga hosts a FREE yoga event at Dekalb Market. The day will feature two FREE classes accompanied by live music (the new trend in yoga culture) and FREE yoga mat giveaway to the first 10 students of each class, sponsored by VitaCoco. Have we said FREE enough times yet for you to be interested? (more…)

Area Yoga, Carroll Gardens location

Our friends over at A Child Grows in Brooklyn report that Area Yoga is expanding into Brooklyn Heights this weekend with a special deal: bring a friend for free. Class cards are $11 for individual classes, and $85 for 10 classes. Weekend offerings include power yoga, basic and open. See A Child Grows for schedule and other details.

Canoes in Prospect Park. Flickr photo by Megnyc.

Visit every bowling alley in Brooklyn, compete in the Punderdome, hit every spot on our Brooklyn brunch list– these are the Brooklyn things I resolve to do this year. Also: find a viable alternative to the Park Slope Food Coop, go to one workshop at Etsy labs and one weird meetup. I will bike that path along the Belt Parkway, wherever it starts. I will kayak on the Gowanus Canal. Maybe. I will canoe at Prospect Park. I will do as much free yoga as I can get to. This is the year I finally set foot inside the River Café, if only for a drink, get my butt to Roberta’s, eat a Peter Pan red velvet donut and go to Bed-Stuy to try doubles, a Trinidadian spicy chickpea sandwich of sorts. This summer I will trek out to Rockaway Taco and that truck in Sunset Park. I’m going to judge for myself whether Montreal bagel from Mile End deserve the hype. even if the Brokavore wasn’t impressed. I am going to volunteer in Brooklyn.

What are your Brooklyn resolutions for 2012?

Downward-facing adorable brat [Plum District]
When you’re hungry for coffee and deadlines [Brooklyn Based]
Jewpon, Jdeal, OyWhataDeal, ChristianDeals, Muslim-Deals now things [RNS]
Employed person lives like unemployed person [LearnVest]
We have nothing to fear but fear of bedbugs itself [Daily Intel]
Absolute terror [Gothamist]
Subways to become insufferable Tuesday [amNY]
Miracle whipsters bringing artisinal mayo to BK [Village Voice]

Gyms, they try so hard to get you in the door, what with their discounts and freebies and entreaties to karma. But what about for the rest of us who just plain don’t like the gym, those who think that running and working out means making your way through the elements, not plodding on an infinity wheel in air conditioning while watching your membership dollars used to broadcast Nate Berkus‘s bland face? The city is a bastion of free fitness opportunities, and Well+Good’s new inaugural free Summer Wellness Guide lays it all out for you: 20-pages of yoga, outdoor fitness classes, bootcamps, canoeing, many of which don’t cost a thing! Plus: skin care tips and healthy restaurants with outdoor dining and there’s even a mashup-heavy running playlist to get you started! (more…)

Sometimes it seems like there’s yoga for every stripe of Brooklynite: free city sponsored yoga in Williamsburg, a handful of pay-what-you-wish yoga around the borough and even some online workouts for the stay-at-home-yogi. But how about a deal for a particularly stressed out folk who could benefit from a good downward facing dog? Plaza Wellness in Prospect Heights is offering unlimited $5 yoga classes all month to NYC school teachers. Just show your United Federation of Teachers card or other proof of employment to take advantage.  (more…)