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Now on Brokelyn: apartment rentals!

Now, there’s never an excuse to leave the Brokelyndotcom. You can find stuff to do in our new Brooklyn events listings, score a cute new purse in our classifieds, and find someplace to live in our Brooklyn apartment rental listings, which launch today.... »

Grab a basket and carton of wine: in search of Brooklyn’s best picnic spots

Before we link to this L Magazine post on the best picnic spots in Brooklyn, let’s take a moment to appreciate websites that give you a “view as single page” or “full text” options instead of forcing you to click through seven different parts of a slow... »

What’s up tonight? Poem in Your Pocket Day edition

• Vinegar Hill: Party with Poets at powerHouse Arena • Gowanus: Record a podcast with The Voice of the Gowanus, others • Downtown: Find out if Brooklyn is really sustainable with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce • Park Slope: Explore your unconscious m... »

Here’s every kind of craft class you might want to take in Brooklyn

Whether you want to start your own Etsy shop or just make a Mother’s Day gift, Brooklyn is loaded with places to learn sewing, knitting, jewelry making, weaving, woodwork, and more. »

Lunchtime linkage

Saving Williamsburg’s cultural legacy, with jagged edges [NYO] Don’t forget to look up tomorrow [Gothamist] New York actually loves the arts [Hyper Allergic] Big brother is tweeting [Village Voice] The war on brunch is real [BK Paper] Pay what you like... »

What’s up tonight? Nor’easter Monday edition

• DUMBO: War, what is it good for? The debate continues at Powerhouse Arena • Cobble Hill: Take in a boozey one-act play double feature at 61 Local • Williamsburg: Get down to street fight funk and Kung Fu(sion) at Brooklyn Bowl • Gowanus: Everyone in ... »

Item! Which 90s-era Def Jam artist is filming a video in Fort Greene tonight?

The Local today turns us on to this Craigslist casting call seeking extras to be in a “concert crowd” for a “former 90s Def Jam artist who is releasing a new solo album,” in a video “produced by an Emmy award winning filmmaker.” Sounds enticing! Or may... »

Open thread: What happened at your worst job interview? [via Girls]

In last night’s episode of Girls, aside from laughably blowing the locations of Weather Up and Washington Commons (both bars are in Prospect Heights, not Cobble Hill), Lena Dunham’s character Hannah blows a job interview in spectacular fashion. She mak... »

Friday lunchtime linkage

Prospect Park ballers, clean up your damn condoms [Litter Mob] This Fort Greene bike shop also sells beer [NYTimes] And then someone made a Groupon for rich people [BetaBeat] Guess Marisa Tomei’s favorite Brooklyn pizza joint! (Hint: not Lucali)[Browns... »

What’s up this weekend? Fryday edition

Tonight • Wiliamsburg: Immerse your self in the “intoxicating smell of sugar and eye-catching color” of airborne cereal flakes at the Umami Food and Art Festival • Williamsburg: Catch guitarist Koran Agan at Brooklyn Winery • Greenpoint: Rock out at Ba... »

Tonight: Strong-arm the ladies and win bragging rights, possibly a vibrator

This sounds preposterously fun. Tonight there’s a ladies arm wrestling tourney in Williamsburg, but it doesn’t sound terribly  intimidating because there’s “glitz and gore, burlesque and accordions, pin-ups and throw-downs and enough foul-playin’, bad-... »

The new avant-garde: Free experimental comedy at BAM

When you hear the word “experimental,” you probably recall the time you watched Godspeed You! Black Emperor loop projections throughout their entire set or the time you let psychologists film you for money. What you probably don’t think of is comedy. B... »

Give the government all your money, then get free stuff

Paying your taxes is not equivalent to just throwing your money in the trash, according to a new study, because paying the gub’mint gives you a “warm glow” utility that makes “you feel good about helping others” or some such socialist claptrap.  Perhap... »

Girls: So what did you think?

OMG did you watch? Will you watch today once it shows up online? Did you recognize the India Street, Greenpoint neighborhood where Lena Dunham’s character lives, or the one near St. John’s in Prospect Heights where her awkward sex friend lives? Did you... »

Weekend to-do list: Bed-Stuy bar crawl, BK Blackout, vegan pop up

You may not have won the mega millions, but we do win the weather lottery this weekend with predicted temperatures between 70-80 degrees for both Saturday and Sunday. Here our some of our picks for the best free and cheap events this weekend, culled fr... »

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