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23 Nov 2011

See “The Beatles: Hidden Gallery” at Carnegie Hall for FREE!

You can make your way to Carnegie Hall, and you don’t even have to have any talent (or pay to see the talent) to get in! For the next four Saturdays, the 30 recently-discovered photos of the “Fab Four” will be on display in Zankel Hall at Carnegie. The exhibit,

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21 Nov 2011

Dance It Out at Toca Tuesdays at Sutra

I’m always looking for ways to work out some energy by hitting the dance floor without paying the price of my first-born child for a drink, and sometimes just dancing around my living room is not enough. So, when I feel the need to get down to some old school

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16 Nov 2011

Broke-Ass Band Interview: The Postelles

The Postelles are a band so diversely talented that they can release a Ramones cover on the same EP as a Joe Jones cover and make you unabashedly swing your hips to both. Lead singer Dan Balk, guitarist David Dargahi, bassist John Speyer, and percussionist Billy Cadden met during high school

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14 Nov 2011

FREE Reading by Miranda July at BookCourt on Tuesday

Hear the sometimes polarizing, but always daring performance artist/filmmaker/writer, Miranda July, read from her new book,  It Chooses You, on Tuesday at Bookcourt in Brooklyn. It Chooses You was born while July procrastinated on writing her latest feature film, The Future, by reading the PennySaver classifieds booklet. Chock full of

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09 Nov 2011

Customize Your Lunch at Woorijip

In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I’m often wary of hot food bars – there’s all the people, the open air food, the fact that everything looks great but there’s a 90% chance it doesn’t taste that way – let’s face it, the buffet is always a

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07 Nov 2011

Broke-Ass Band Interview: Carter Tanton, Show Tuesday at Cameo Gallery

Carter Tanton, formerly known as Tulsa, has been generating quite a bit of critical buzz lately – Rolling Stone dubbed his “indie-seraphim voice… not of this world” and Nylon Mag declared his upcoming album, Freeclouds, an “indie gem.” You’ll be able to get Freeclouds – which feels like the aural

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02 Nov 2011

Prepare Yourself for a Party at Jack’s World 99 Cent Store!

If you ever need a dozen eggs, thirteen rolls of party streams, a mop, and some paper reinforcers, then you can head over to Jack’s World 99cent Store for some one-stop broke-ass shopping. Jack’s World, on 32nd between 6th & 7th Ave’s, can be overlooked because of its midtown location.

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