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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: 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

FREE: Get WET at The 2009 INKubator Summer Series
WET Productions was founded in 1999 by Sasha Eden and Victoria Pettibone. WET is dedicated to developing new material for the theater, film and TV written by women, producing premiere theatrical productions written by female playwrights, producing live events that promote celebrated female artists; and the creation & production of

FREE: Chuck Klosterman Reading at Union Square Barnes and Noble
If you’re like me no past-time is dearer to your heart than breaking down and analyzing pop culture minutiae from days of yore. One day Anna G. and I were reminiscing about the TV show The Hogan Family, (which nobody should remember in the first place). Up for discussion was

FREE: Kelso Beer Tasting at Bowery Whole Foods
Once upon a time, not long ago , a group of avaricious sales directors over at Colt 45 heard tell of a place called Williamsburg. After snatching a skinny-jean-ed young man from the L train platform they forced him to reveal his secrets about the land beyond The River. Delightedly

FREE: Juice and Wellness Retreat.
So I found out that there’s a free screening of the hilarious, awesome Grandma’s Boy tonight in NYC. My plan was to enlighten each and everyone one of you with the time and location but guess what? The site that I learned about it from CHARGES MONEY to give you