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Broke-Ass of the Week – Jesse Thorn from The Sound of Young America
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.
FREE: Gold Diggers of 1933 in Bryant Park
The Bryant Park Film Festival is great for chilling outside, enjoying great weather and checking people out. It’s not so great, however, if you’re actually really interested in hearing the films dialogue. Fortunately this week’s selection should be long on visual impact so even if the noise of the city
Love!: Radioactive Style
Do you want to experience the weirdness of Burning Man, but want none of the mud, questionable sex, or, any actual burning “man”? If you answered yes, then, get your hippie hipster ass to The Bklyn Yard for The Love Canal party on, duh, the Gowanus Canal, for what seems
FREE: Paper Magazine Music Festival at South Street Seaport
It takes a certain kind of person to voluntarily travel down to the South Street Seaport. It’s largely an historic site by now so most people down there are either school kids on a field trip, luckless NYU sophomores doomed to a year at the Water Street dorms, professional balloon-animal
FREE: Femi Kuti at Prospect Park
When I first learned of this event the listing said “Free Femi Kuti!” and I became immediately alarmed that Femi Kuti had, for some reason, been recently incarcerated and needed my help. Thankfully (for him, mostly) that won’t be necessary as the alarm was caused by a lack of grammatical
FREE: Yoga for the Unemployed at Integral Yoga
Being broke can be rough but being unemployed in this city is one of the most stressful and defeating experience a New Yorker can face. There’s a constant needling sense of failure, desperation and fear. Every minute you spend not looking for a job is a guilt-filled one and losing
FREE: Dancing and Brooklyn Summer Ale
There’s nothing particularly monumental about today’s event except that with the recent weather it’s hard to remind yourself that summer just started and that you should be out enjoying it when everyday is grey, muggy and rainy. BUT…JDub Records and NYPress are offering you the chance to dance tonight, to