Macy’s Flower Show – Pretty Shit to Look At
I was walking near Union Square the other night, on the way to a friend’s birthday party, when I passed by Macy’s display window. I noticed that it was once again the time of year for the store’s Flower Show. While this year’s theme is “A Bohemian Garden”, after looking at
Come to my “Fuck the Recession Party”, I’m buying beer!
This is what it sounds like when I write about myself in third person: Broke-Ass Stuart has been called ‘œAn SF Cult Hero’ (SF Bay Guardian), ‘œBest Local Writer’ (SF Weekly) and “The Chief of Cheap” (Time Out New York) but to those familiar with his work, he’s just ‘œthat douchebag
There Will (Probably) Be Blood…and Tote Bags!
For all you folks in the Big Apple: unless you’re a dude with no girlfriend or have been mercifully able to avoid leaving Brooklyn and entering Manhattan in the past several weeks, you know that North America’s very first Topshop is set to open this Thursday in Soho. The ads
Be a Baglady or Man
Sustainable bags of the non-tea variety (be it quaffable leaf or indigestible balls) will be all yours today if you decide to partake in a little DIY thanks to a partnership made in Brooklyn between the 3rd Ward and Bags fr the People. Even if you bought all 6 of
Stripping: “Desparate Measures More Acceptable”
I probably wouldn’t address stripper trends unless it meant drastic price reductions, but I had an interesting encounter tangentially related to recession’s effect on skin shows. Last Sunday I met a friend of a friend. It was 6 pm and she had woken up moments before, still drunk from her
50% off New Glasses + Free Shipping!
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Brine On, You Crazy Diamond!
Two truths are that everybody loves oysters (everyone cool, that is) and that oysters are generally prohibitively expensive. Unless you’re dating the shucker at Aquagrill or Blue Ribbon, oysters are a special occasion splurge or a last ditch attempt to get a date to stop texting and pay attention. Until
Lightning Happy Hour at The Skinny
The weekly Wednesday night party “Rock n’ Roll High” at the Skinny jumps off tonight at 10 pm, but really starts with free vodka from 11:00 – 11:30pm. Music skews fun with every damn blog and event posting referring to Chuck Berry, The Ramones, and anything in between that’ll make
Broke-Ass of the Week – Monica the Intern
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit…probably not.