Shopping, Style and Beauty

30 Aug 2009

Farmer’s Market Etiquette 101

I’d be hard pressed to find someone in New York City to argue negatively about the idea of eating more locally grown produce or locally made foods.  Let’s face it, green fever has been sweeping this city for the past decade, and along with it has emerged a thriving ‘œgreen

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30 Aug 2009

5 Best Broke-Ass Bookstores

Find the City’s best selection of cheap classics—you know, all the books written before even your great-grandmother was gobbling on Moby Dick—and newer books too. For cheap.

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29 Aug 2009

Grab Your Sack and Let’s Swap: Clothing

My friend recently told me about a time that she was working at a bar in Portland in the early 90’s. Courtney Love was on tour and came in after her show only to be seen using toilet water to shoot up and blowing chunks all over herself. Later that

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29 Aug 2009

MJ Day, Party with Tables, and The Really Really FREE Market

MICHAEL JACKSON DAY Well the coroner’s report is out, words like ‘œhomicide’ and “acute benzodiazepine effect’ have been thrown around on TMZ and Extra, and the family is looking for justice.  But for one day ‘“ today ‘“ Brooklyn has decided to forget all the media frenzy and tabloid stories

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27 Aug 2009

Harvesting Style!!!

Every August the backbreakingly heavy September issues hit the stands.  This year there is a slightly more hubbub surrounding the idea of The September Issue, due to the fact that a movie, inventively titled The September Issue, which deals, not surprisingly,  with the making of Vogue’s September Issue will hit

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25 Aug 2009

FREE Book Exchange in NYC!!

Nobody really likes the AM New York Guys. They’re pushy, in your face and most of the papers end up all over the floor of every subway station in the city. But as a regular commuter, I like to have something to read that doesn’t involve sensational rags, blowing all

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21 Aug 2009

FREE Fun-Filled Weekend: SF Zine Fest and Rock Make Festival

On Saturday begins the 8th annual San Francisco Zine Fest, a FREE two-day conference for independent and underground publishing.  Exhibitors come from all over the West Coast for showcases, workshops, and events.  It’ll mostly focus on zines, but a wide range of DIY will be represented as well ‘” all

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20 Aug 2009

Tickle Me Surprised!!

Let’s take a quick trip back in time’back to the year 1994.  Shit was pretty awesome back then, as I don’t really need to tell you:  Clinton was in office,  Global Warming was just alarmist hippie bullshit,  Nelson Mandela was South Africa’s first Black President, Bill Bellamy presided over the

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