New Music Friday: Parquet Courts made it through mental instability to perfect garage pop
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New Music Friday: Parquet Courts made it through mental instability to perfect garage pop

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Parquet Courts are so cool, they have two names. Or rather, two spellings of the same name, one of which, I realized […]

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Dropping my phone into a toilet was a great reality check, you should try it once
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Dropping my phone into a toilet was a great reality check, you should try it once

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On Tuesday, I was at Littlefield bar. Don’t ask me what I was doing there, because the answer definitely isn’t “competing in […]

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Top 20: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this weekend, Folk Fest edition
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Top 20: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this weekend, Folk Fest edition

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1. Get your twang on at the eighth annual Brooklyn Folk Festival, with 30 bands over three days, plus workshops, square and swing […]

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‘Hamilton:’ You don’t need to be in the room where it happens (because it’s for old, rich white people)
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‘Hamilton:’ You don’t need to be in the room where it happens (because it’s for old, rich white people)

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$96,000. $96,000. If you won the lottery, would you invest in protest, and never lose focus, ’til the city takes notice? Or […]

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If you can’t succeed in small business, then maybe you’re not smarter than a fifth grader, after all
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If you can’t succeed in small business, then maybe you’re not smarter than a fifth grader, after all

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For the past week or two, I’ve been seeing stories about young kids getting what they want. I don’t mean in a bait-y, […]

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The 2016 Brooklyn Bridge Park free summer movie schedule is here!
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The 2016 Brooklyn Bridge Park free summer movie schedule is here!

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You’d think summer might never come, what with this unfortunate springtime chill and day after day of rainy skies. But hey, you […]

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‘Broad City’ season 3, episode 8: The ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ crossover you didn’t know you needed
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‘Broad City’ season 3, episode 8: The ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ crossover you didn’t know you needed

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Ohmygod, ohmygod. Can you even? I cannot. Okay fine, I can! Tonight’s episode of Broad City was epic, incredible and important: relationships […]

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Mara Wilson on why she returned to acting to appear in the ‘Broad City’ ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ homage
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Mara Wilson on why she returned to acting to appear in the ‘Broad City’ ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ homage

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This season, Broad City has been doing what a lot of us would probably do with our own TV shows: paying homage […]

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Brooklyn finally has an artisanal matzo company — and it’s got nothing to do with Passover
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Brooklyn finally has an artisanal matzo company — and it’s got nothing to do with Passover

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Are you Jewish? If so, try to explain matzo to someone who isn’t. It’s like this flat cracker. That doesn’t have flavor. It’s […]

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Nature and nurture: The Brokelyn guide to getting more trees in your life ASAP
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Nature and nurture: The Brokelyn guide to getting more trees in your life ASAP

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New York is famous for blueballing you with the promise of a spring makeout session before realizing whoops it has to get […]

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