A lawn-art show, garden gnomes not included
In an homage to yard flamingos everywhere, a Ditmas Park basement-turned-art-haven is launching "The Lawn Show"---an afternoon-long Brooklyn version of…
Author: Anna Jacobson
Get an alternative use from your everyday stuff
What self-respecting Brokelynite hasn't---at some point---gone for conditioner instead of shaving cream, or for baby powder in a deodorant-less pinch?…
How much can I make doing hair?
The new Beyoncé Cosmetology Center at Phoenix House—offering recovering addicts seven months of cosmetology training—sounds like so much fun it's almost…
Saturday: Field trip to Dead Horse Bay, other odd must-sees
This Saturday (March 20) is Obscura Day, and the webs site atlasobscura.com has organized group tours for these BK treasures…
See The Crucible in Park Slope’s shadows
Ready your crucifixes: some witches are coming to the Slope. Starting tomorrow, Mar. 4, the Brave New World Repertory Theatre---they…
The Scarlettiest lips for under $5
Red lips have been the perennial go-to since Cleopatra. Perhaps that's because anyone with enough nerve can really rock a…
Brooklyn tours for non-tourists
Why sit in traffic on the top deck of a big red tour bus through Times Square when you can…
The bedbug cure THEY don’t want you to know about
It's hard to convey the paranoia we flea-marketing, curb-side-spotting, Craigslisting folk feel about bedbugs---with good reason. Now is prime paranoia…
How to raise $1M for your startup
Would you take financial advice from someone who dropped out of Harvard Business School in the middle of a recession…
$25-and-under Brooklyn gift #21: Coney Island print
There are loads of iconic Brooklyn shots on sale around town, but this cotton-candy-colored take on a Coney Island landmark…