Arts and Culture
End Poverty and be Unstandard
The End of Poverty? Documentary Preview Nelson Mandela said, ‘œLike slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.’ Global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land,
Strolling West Chelsea
Most everybody knows that 8th Avenue between 14th Street and the early 30s is a gay mecca, the center of the beating heart of Chelsea filled with all the gay bars, porno magazines and rainbow flags one could wish for. Most people also know that further west lies the Chelsea
FREE Happy Hour Stand-up Today
Watching someone do stand-up can either be really funny or uncomfortably awkward. And in some cases it can be both. While I don’t know anything about the 10 comics performing at tonight’s Monday Happy Hour Comedy I’d wager that you’re gonna get see both funny stuff and total crash and
Broke Ass Band Interview: Girls in Trouble
Living in New York, I’ve seen and heard my fair share of bands. And since the low-fi, garage sound has been dominating the Brooklyn music scene for so long now, it’s always refreshing to hear a classically trained musician who doesn’t shoe gaze through their whole set. Multi-instrumentalist, scholar, teacher,
Samosa Crawl and FREE Chuck Klosterman Reading
Have you ever woken up and thought: “Damn, I really wish I understood what is was like to be a hunter-gatherer, but the closet thing I can do in New York is dumpster diving. Or foraging through a park, but I don’t feel like fighting pigeons and ferrel cats over
Free Admission to the Jewish Contemporary Museum, TODAY!
I’m still wiping the makeup off my face as we speak to hopefully get ready for the Indie Mart and not look like a hot mess. If you’re not into super amazing parties on Sundays that include fantastic bloody marys to edge off of your hungover state, today is another
Broke-Ass Bulletin for the Week of November 7th!
Welcome to the Broke-Ass Bulletin, a post designed to keep you up on cool shit you may have missed in the last week. Since we’ve all finally recovered from Halloween, here is some news to finally wipe off that clown mask once and for all. [No, really, do it. You’re
KingCon: A Brooklyn Comic and Animation Convention
Like Comics? Like Animation? Live in Brooklyn? KingCon is where you need to be this weekend! Today and Sunday, head down to Kings County to the Brooklyn Lyceum, a century-old NYC Public Bath house turned event and performance space, and soak in the creative juices of Brooklyn’s finest. There will