Your rent may be high, but if you know where to look writing resources are totally free (or very, very cheap).

Brooklyn’s Robert E. Lee memorial to be taken down, Afropunk noise complaint gets Fort Greene man online threats, Gowanus community pig roasts.

Free solar eclipse glasses?! Thanks to Warby Parker, it is still possible to get affordable solar eclipse glasses in NYC.

What do you give to the culty grocery collective that has everything? A free app.

Might as well learn the realities of this human condition from illustrated animals at a tender young age.

Go for the yoga, namaste for the beer at these beer yoga classes in Brooklyn.

You’ll be missed, Franny’s. These Tinder dates, less so.

Graduates of Rat Academy share their wisdom, Republican Brooklynite wants to end 5-cent container deposits, Sahadi’s Syrian snack sourcing.

Over the weekend, a group of white supremacists gathered for a racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Stand up against their racism this week.

Watch circus performers under a bridge, boogie to an evening of Balkan bands, listen to lots of lovely literature, and more ways to have a swell week.