This video is the gold standard of how to advertise your bar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kaPWlkNLO8 We get a lot of emails about bars and it takes a special advertisement to stand out in our…
Top 10: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, noir drag art edition
1. Celebrate International Women's Month at the Third Annual Oxfam Jam, with lady musicians New Tarot, Amy Leon, and Ellen…
Don’t forget to enter to win a copy of ‘Sunny’s Nights’ – an ode to Sunny’s Bar
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Election giving you stress? There’s now a ‘Trump anxiety’ massage deal in Brooklyn
You feel that tensions in your shoulders whenever you turn on CNN, that crick in your neck when you realize…
‘Girls’ season 5, episode 3: Japanese millennials apparently go to sex clubs
Konichiwa, bitches! Except not bitches, because that has violent, misogynistic overtones, and not konichiwa, because it feels like cultural appropriation. And…
The week in Broketown, 2/29-3/4
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This new PATH station cost $4 billion. Here’s what that money could have bought instead
Many New Yorkers are apoplectic about the new turkey carcass Oculus WTC PATH train that opened yesterday. Design compromises, incredible delays, and cost overruns…
This comedy fest is charging more for straight, white men and (surprise!) people are upset
See if you can guess where this story goes: A bunch of NYC comedians disappointed by what they see as the…
Big summer festivals are the sub-prime mortgages of music
If the groundhogs and the occasionally warm days haven’t been enough of an indication that summer is soon upon us,…
Go see ‘Rhinbecca, NY,’ a new play in Williamsburg where you can meet lots of attractive single people
Last week we told you to go see a play in Bushwick, because it would make you ask yourself why the…