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Top 20: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this weekend, Folk Fest edition

1. Get your twang on at the eighth annual Brooklyn Folk Festival, with 30 bands over three days, plus workshops, square…

Oriana Leckert

‘Hamilton:’ You don’t need to be in the room where it happens (because it’s for old, rich white people)

$96,000. $96,000. If you won the lottery, would you invest in protest, and never lose focus, 'til the city takes…

Sam Kite

If you can’t succeed in small business, then maybe you’re not smarter than a fifth grader, after all

For the past week or two, I've been seeing stories about young kids getting what they want. I don't mean in…

Sam Corbin

The 2016 Brooklyn Bridge Park free summer movie schedule is here!

You'd think summer might never come, what with this unfortunate springtime chill and day after day of rainy skies. But…

Sam Corbin

‘Broad City’ season 3, episode 8: The ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ crossover you didn’t know you needed

Ohmygod, ohmygod. Can you even? I cannot. Okay fine, I can! Tonight’s episode of Broad City was epic, incredible and…

Meghan Stephens

Mara Wilson on why she returned to acting to appear in the ‘Broad City’ ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ homage

This season, Broad City has been doing what a lot of us would probably do with our own TV shows:…

Tim Donnelly

Brooklyn finally has an artisanal matzo company — and it’s got nothing to do with Passover

Are you Jewish? If so, try to explain matzo to someone who isn't. It's like this flat cracker. That doesn't have…

Sam Corbin

Nature and nurture: The Brokelyn guide to getting more trees in your life ASAP

New York is famous for blueballing you with the promise of a spring makeout session before realizing whoops it has…

Tim Donnelly

Weekly lifehack: It’s ridiculously easy to get for an extension on filing or paying your taxes

Hello and welcome back to weekly(ish) lifehacks, a recurring series where we share a simple tip on how to make your…

Tim Donnelly

Here’s how to (maybe) get tickets to the Bernie/Hillary debate in Brooklyn

After much back and forth, the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns finally agreed to a debate in our fair borough…

Tim Donnelly