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.... »
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... »
• 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... »
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. »
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... »
• 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 ... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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-... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
