Advice

14 Jun 2010

Flying the Not-So Friendly Skies: Airplane Etiquette

I don’t know anyone who enjoys flying. Let me be more specific, I don’t know anyone who enjoys flying COACH. Sure it’s a hell of a lot more convenient then traditional transportation, but it’s been a long time since people flew in their Sunday best and flight attendants actually served

Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe 0
14 Jun 2010

GreenMarkets: Eating Well on the Cheap in NYC

I like food. Nay, I love food. I went to a job interview at Café 2 in the Museum of Modern Art once where the interviewer told me that my face “lit up” when I started talking about chorizo. That is not a joke. Unfortunately I’ve also got $40 to

Polina Yamshchikov - Flirt Poor 0
10 Jun 2010

Free Event With Lots of Vinyl

My first record was a 45.  It was a hand me down from my older sister and it played the theme song to ‘œFlash Gordon.’  If you have ever listened to this song, you will remember that there is a break in the music when some of the ‘˜story’ is

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
05 Jun 2010

New York Beaches on a Budget

Now that Memorial Day has come and gone the summer season is officially in full swing.  With the warmer season comes the major desire to escape the city every chance I get.  My favorite summer activities always involve the beach.  A beach day can be hard to achieve for us

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
04 Jun 2010

Planning a Cashflow Positive Vaction

Sure, we talk about travel a lot around here because there’s nothing more frustrating than grinding through your job and being stuck in one place. It’s easy to get excited by a cheap fare out of town or out of the country, but it’s just as easy to forget that

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0
02 Jun 2010

Maximize Your Harvest with Bedford Stuyvesant Community Garden

So your first attempt at growing plants went well, and your pot of marigolds is growing so big you’re considering naming it “Audrey II.” But what are you going to do with your botanical pet in the winter? Or maybe you tried sprinkling pumpkin seeds in your tiny plot that

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0
31 May 2010

Gettin’ Back in the Game

Returning to the single-person scene after a years-long relationship is not unlike being an old gay man, strapping on his rollerskates at The Roxy for very first time and struggling to move forward and stay standing while hot-pants clad studs in tank tops with whistles around their necks fly by.

BAS Writers 0
28 May 2010

Great Advancements in Portable Beverage Technology

I talk about coffee pretty often, and that’s probably because I drink coffee way too often. It’s not uncommon for me to feel torn between my desire to spend as few dollars as possible and my desire to have an nice cup that doesn’t taste like the beans were roasted

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0