Jill S.

22 Sep 2010

Fall Downtown Festival: Stop Saying You Can’t Afford Arts Stuff

What do you get when you cross a cheapskate, over 30 arts events, and the dollar amount of the late fees you’ve racked up from renting “MacGruber”? The Fall Downtown Festival, of course! Eleven arts organizations that make up the Lower Manhattan Arts League are joining up to give you

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18 Sep 2010

Help Yourself and Others: Clothes Recycling at the Saturday Greenmarkets

Football is back. Pumpkin beer is on shelves. People are less shiny and uncomfortable-looking. This can only mean that fall is here! Let’s fill our closets with cozy sweaters to celebrate. If you’re like me, seasonal closet cleaning doesn’t have much to do with actually being organized or providing enough

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

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16 Sep 2010

Feast of San Gennaro Kicks Off Tonight!

Are you ready for some cannolliiiiiiii!?!?! (Please read in the style of “Are you ready for some fooooootballll?!”). I sure hope so because today is the opening day of the 84th annual Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy, the Italian festival that celebrates the patron saint of Naples and

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15 Sep 2010

Cheap Jazz: Hot Five at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola

I mostly go to the Time Warner Center because it’s fancy. Not fancy in a “Oh gawd I wish I knew how to match my clothes” but more fancy than most public spaces in NYC in that it’s extremely clean, there are often free hors d’oeuvres thanks to samples at

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11 Sep 2010

Get Cultured with Free Tenement Talks

Some of us are here because we can stay up until the same hour our parents get up for work, some of us are here for Momofuku Compost Cookies, and some of us are here because we are nerdy. (Ed: In this story, and most of my life, I mean

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09 Sep 2010

Ain’t no party like a Guerrilla Ice Cream Party

Guerrilla Ice Cream!? More like Brilliantuerrilla Ice Cream! OK, that didn’t really work but you get what I mean. It all started in June, when a gentle rustle on the interwebz let flavor fiends know about Guerrilla’s crazy, altruistic concoctions (flavors are inspired by political movements around the world and

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08 Sep 2010

Economy Candy. (Enough Said.)

When my family comes to visit, there’s nothing my little brothers enjoy more than asking why we have to walk so much (specifically, “Why can’t we take a subway to the subway?”), followed by consistently ordering refills of Root Beer at restaurants that do not offer free refills, thereby creating

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04 Sep 2010

ZOMG The Meatball Shop ZOMG

Anytime a friend asks me if I want to meet up for dinner, I instantly start racking my brain trying to find a place that’s cheap, but not so cheap that it’s obvious that I only suggested it because of its obvious cheap factor. This excludes places with counter service,

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