How to build the perfect summer picnic basket on any budget
With last minute picnic plans in the works for the holiday weekend, and summer fast approaching, it's high time to start honing…
Category: Guides
The 2016 ultimate guide to Governors Island, which reopens for this summer this Saturday!
While the weather is having a hard time coming around to it, the opening of Governors Island (spelled without the 's)…
The cat’s out of the mag: 10 indie Brooklyn literary magazines, and how to submit your work to them
You wake up. You go to work. You come back, or you shack up in a late night café. You…
KJ, keep playing that song: A seven-day journey through Brooklyn’s karaoke bars
I sing a lot of karaoke. It’s not something I’m proud of, and also, it’s something I’m extremely proud of.…
I’m with her now, I guess: How Bernie fans can learn to love Hillary Clinton
Well Bernie Bros and Girls, I’m as sorry as anyone to say that the guy is just about finished. I know,…
Dumbo on a dime: a brokester’s guide to hosting tourists for a day in Brooklyn
The start of summer comes with an influx of pests: mosquitos, pantsplainers, street harassers... and of course tourists, some of…
6 spirit animal guides to help you get through a New York subway commute
The subway can turn even the most tranquil soul into a raging beast. MTA ridership is clocking in at nearly…
Standup for yourself: The ultimate guide to surviving comedy show hecklers
We’ve all seen the hyperbolically labeled YouTube videos that claim comedian destroys, shuts down, eviscerates and defenestrates heckler. Okay, well,…
Stay Lassie: 5 ways to hang out with dogs in Brooklyn (if you can’t actually own one)
I want a dog. Bad. I’m suffering from retriever fever; I’m not sound without a hound; I’d be merrier with…
It’s LIT: The 10 hottest free reading series in Brooklyn
As we journey ever deeper into the world of digital publication, audiobooks ringing in our ears and e-readers clutched to our breasts, it seems…