Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe

20 Dec 2009

Brooklyn Cookie Takedown

Nothing quite gets me in the holiday spirit then enjoying the baking labors of others, and what better way to sweeten up your Sunday, then the annual Cookie Takedown at Bell House. The Takedown has been testing the culinary prowess of Brooklyn since 2005 and has branched out to chili,

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17 Dec 2009

Broke Ass of the Week – Jasmine Solano

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.

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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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15 Dec 2009

A Taste of Old New York: Scouting NY

One of the things I most love about New York is its sense of history. Every time I visit other cities, my eyes glaze over from the amount of glass and steel structures without a trace of story behind them. Even when I lived in Bushwick, a place that was

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14 Dec 2009

The Weird and Wonderful World of P.S.A’s

Ah the public service announcement, brief snippets of absurdity, bad acting, and finger wagging, that has been entertaining America and myself for decades. Being a child of the eighties, certain shows and commercial jingles will always stay embedded in my brain taking up viable space for much more useful information,

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13 Dec 2009

More Festivus Fun: Holiday Markets and Light-Up Brooklyn

As much as I love Christmas sometimes I find it hard to get into the spirit of things. The idea of holiday shopping can be soul crushing, Rockefeller center is like a cage match between tourists and my sense of personal space, and the only tree that will fit inside

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08 Dec 2009

Four Boozy Bar Crawls

Having attended a state school, I know a thing or two about bar crawls. Granted I never participated in them, but sure enough every weekend, a crowd of matching t-shirts or some obscure theme would be dragging ass all over town all in the name of the almighty bar crawl.

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07 Dec 2009

Why the Ginger Hate?

Being a redhead, I never thought of myself as some disenfranchised minority. Sure the occasional pervy remark here and there, some school yard taunts but never really the victim of any real prejudice.  But there seems to be  too many stories in the news lately about ‘anti-gingerism”.  At first I

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06 Dec 2009

The Bust Holiday Craftacular

The holiday season is now in full swing, and since New York doesn’t have an abundance of malls (heavy sigh of relief), pop-up markets are springing up all over the city. Last week I wrote about the Winter Market at Public Assembly, which will be returning this Sunday as well.

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