QUIZ: Which independent Brooklyn bookstore are you?
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QUIZ: Which independent Brooklyn bookstore are you?

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Hardcopy books are becoming as obsolete as photo calendars these days, but our love for them is still rock steady. Nothing compares to opening a fresh new […]

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Avoid work, invoke Ilana and Abby-isms with the Broad City season 2 soundboard
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Avoid work, invoke Ilana and Abby-isms with the Broad City season 2 soundboard

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It’s Tuesday, which means with any luck you’re procrastinating all your obligations until later in the work week. Well, kids, have we […]

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Lena Dunham (impersonator) auditions for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
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Lena Dunham (impersonator) auditions for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

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Brooklyn Heights resident and famous naked person Lena Dunham has been really, really busy lately. She’s got her television show, a book […]

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Brooklyn crime map is a wonderful time wasting device
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Brooklyn crime map is a wonderful time wasting device

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If you’re one of the people who have been saying that you’re eagerly awaiting a new crime spree to hit Brooklyn, if […]

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‘I saw you…there!’ Pinpoint your missed connection with Craigslist’s map feature
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‘I saw you…there!’ Pinpoint your missed connection with Craigslist’s map feature

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Ah, the Craigslist missed connection. Excellent time waster, last bastion of the socially awkward and the delusional. For as long as we’ve […]

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How to have the perfect ‘Girls’ viewing party
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How to have the perfect ‘Girls’ viewing party

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Cosmopolitan recently threw together a few recipes to have, in their words, “the ultimate Girls viewing party.” That’s all well and good we […]

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Gaze into the future of your job, if you dare
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Gaze into the future of your job, if you dare

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Have you checked out the Future-Jobs-O-Matic over at Marketplace yet? No, it doesn’t generate future jobs like we thought (bummer, Obama). It’s […]

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Comic books, the Craigslist of the 70s
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Comic books, the Craigslist of the 70s

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What did people do before Craigslist, when you had to wander the dark streets looking at “for rent” signs or actually had […]

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Oscar noms you can rent on Netflix
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Oscar noms you can rent on Netflix

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With the Oscar nominations announced this morning, and just over a month until the big show itself, that leaves little time to […]

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Scenes from a Connect Four slaughter-fest
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Scenes from a Connect Four slaughter-fest

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The World Series is at 3-2. Brett Favre just beat his old teammates on their home turf. And last night, 18 people saw victory over a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid. The “game” we now refer to as Connect Four is centuries old, when Captain Hook used to play it so often with his fellow mates it was coined “Captain’s Mistress.” Well, last night was surely an affair to remember.

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