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The 10 best cheap things to do this week, rage against love edition

1. Hear a new perspective on a very useful skill at Best Friends Forever: The Science of Cooperation, a talk…

Oriana Leckert

This week in anti-Trump activism in NYC: Know your rights (and party for them too)

If Trump's electoral win and the Patriots' somehow Super Bowl victory can teach us anything, it's that sometimes the bad guys…

Gaby Del Valle

The week in Broketown, 1/30-2/3

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Tim Donnelly

Swing dance your singleness away at Greenpointer’s Valentine’s market next Sunday

The world is a cold, dark, place with months till summer but that's not stopping our friends at Greenpointers from…

Brokelyn staff

As workers went on strike, the rest of America wonders: ‘What the hell is a bodega?’

As you know, thousands of Yemeni bodega workers across the city yesterday fed their cats, turned off their coffee pots,…

Tim Donnelly

‘Bodega cats grab BACK!’ Scenes from yesterday’s bodega strike protest at Borough Hall

We're just 14 days into the Donald Trump presidency and we've reached the point that bodega owners — and, presumably, their…

Tim Donnelly

Beloved Smith Street bodega at center of mafia investigation now has its own T-shirt line

Carroll Gardens' 72-year-old Smith and Union Market now officially has its very own T-shirt line.

Hannah Frishberg

The 20 best cheap things to do this weekend, bloody striptease edition

[Ed note: Reminder, we now have a separate roundup for activism-focused events, which we encourage you to check out here.…

Oriana Leckert

1,000 Yemeni bodegas across NYC are striking tomorrow to protest Trump’s Muslim ban

Stock up on BECs, toilet paper and Goya products while you can because Yemeni bodega workers across the city are going…

Tim Donnelly

Grand Army Plaza is becoming center of Brooklyn’s Resist Trump, ‘WTF Chuck?’ movement

Yesterday was Tuesday, so naturally Park Slopers and farther afield Brooklynites came together to resist Trump under the organization of…

Hannah Frishberg