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The Trouble With Rich Friends

Dickens might have described my younger self as …

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Donate Your Old Shoes At Athletha’s in the UWS

Athletha is best known as a woman's haven for clothes made specifically for workouts. The California-based fitness brand prides itself in designing feminine activewear for

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Getting Stood Up at a Taco Truck

In honor of the upcoming Valentine’s Day, let’s talk about love. The happiness, the longing gazes, the tender moments shared. And sometimes: the

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Celebrating Two Years in New York City: A Look Back at the Time I Got Punched on the Subway

Not to get all promote-y or anything, but in Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply in New York City (read it!), he compares NYC

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FREE ‘Dragonslayer: The Movie’ Release Party Tonight at Public Assembly

To pretty much everyone’s horror, it snowed in NYC last Saturday.  Snow.  In October.  Too soon.  Can’t handle it.  Every time the weather gets shitty around

The Great Beach Debate- East Coast vs West Coast

The Great Beach Debate: East Coast vs West Coast

Having recently traveled to Hermosa Beach in California, and consecutively attempted to hit up all of New York beaches, I feel like each has something to

Cheap/Awesome Hostel at Point Reyes

While traveling during my semester abroad in college, I was totally amazed by and mildly obsessed with hostels.  The cheap, Broke-Ass friendly lodgings were always awesome

Paramount Theatre Tours – World’s Best Haunted House

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="230" caption="Photo by Philip Greenspun, via Paramount Theatre website"][/caption] If you've never been to the Paramount Theatre, read Christy's recent post that

Berkeley’s Beehive Market Every Saturday

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="227" caption="Bringing back the beehive"][/caption] The newest addition to Berkeley's already abundant series of farmers markets is the Beehive Market, a market with seemingly

The Great Beach Debate, Part 2: An East Coaster on West Coast Beaches

So, you've seen what Laura S., an East Coast native, had to say about East Coast beaches, but I'd like to offer my perspective, a