Have a scare-trade Halloween at Brooklyn costume swaps
Park Slope/ Prospect Heights

Have a scare-trade Halloween at Brooklyn costume swaps

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Still searching for that perfect glue-on mustache and calculator-machine-gun-combo to complete your stimulus accountability czar outfit? Maybe you’re just trying to figure […]

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Help us find Brooklyn’s best birthday bars
Outings

Help us find Brooklyn’s best birthday bars

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When it comes to birthdays, is there any brokester tradition more time-honored than inviting your friends to a bar? You don’t have […]

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Join our mailing list, win tickets to an Oktoberfest pig roast!
Food & Drink

Join our mailing list, win tickets to an Oktoberfest pig roast!

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It’s Oktoberfest time, and that means drinks-autumnal and German-style meats are on tap around the city. Sycamore, the Ditmas Park flower shop/bar, […]

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Are cheap olive oils fit for foodies?
Food & Drink

Are cheap olive oils fit for foodies?

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Giulia Melucci, the Brooklyn-based author of I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, hosts a taste test of a half-dozen supermarket olive oils to find out which one is the best.

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Monday eye candy: 10 tasty Gourmet covers
News

Monday eye candy: 10 tasty Gourmet covers

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We’re not the only ones who will dearly miss Gourmet magazine’s glorious covers. Today, Unbeige has a showcase of their top-10 favorites, […]

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No dough for big shows? Try a budget band swap (Part II)
Outings

No dough for big shows? Try a budget band swap (Part II)

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Here’s a common predicament: you’ve exhausted the number of times you can listen to “Africa” by Toto on your Hall and Oates […]

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Michelin’s cheap eats winners: the Brooklyn list
Food & Drink

Michelin’s cheap eats winners: the Brooklyn list

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The white, fluffy tire-man of a food critic has made his picks, and next year, he’ll be saving like the rest of […]

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Dueling verdicts on the Richard Meier building: ‘gorgeous’ vs. ‘totally lame’
Outings

Dueling verdicts on the Richard Meier building: ‘gorgeous’ vs. ‘totally lame’

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The Momasphere-hosted reading by Prospect Park West author Amy Sohn at the Richard Meier building went down last night to mixed real-estate […]

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This weekend and beyond: Mega open house, lez pageant, Teen Wolf screening
Outings

This weekend and beyond: Mega open house, lez pageant, Teen Wolf screening

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FRIDAY 10pm: Electro-hop girl group Suspicious Package perform a free show at Hope Lounge. Plus, get a free beer with burger purchase. […]

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Etsy’s strangest items get their own blog
Shopping

Etsy’s strangest items get their own blog

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Via Thrillist we discovered the cleverly titled Regretsy blog, a catalogue of items like amputated pigeon feet, soap that looks like a corn-doodie, a cuddly plush teddy bear with lady business (um, what for?) and this “birth education” crochet pattern.

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