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23 Mar 2009

Get Your Neuroscience!

Today I’m going to reveal a little inner dorkling, but don’t worry, I’ll temper it with some theatrical overcompensation, Tarantino style. After university, I walked away from a neuro-imaging internship with Harvard to go teach tennis  in Switzerland. I’ve been sidetracked ever since, but still love all things neuro, including

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22 Mar 2009

Pint Exchange – Give Blood, Get Beer

Like organizations that use anime-eyed children in fundraising campaigns, Brooklyn brewer Kelso is using something we have a powerful weakness for – free beer –  to leverage positive impact. For the rest of this month they are offering a ‘œPint for Pint’ program whereby you can present an official declaration

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21 Mar 2009

Out of Bizznass Vintage Sale!

Thanks Mr. Madoff!  Now that people can’t really justify those timeless animal prints or crinolines and cat-eyes from the 50’s, we can reap the benefits at  a huge sale at Amarcord Vintage, a company “dedicated to the upscale European vintage clothing and accessories from the 1940’s to 1980’s”.  It opened

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20 Mar 2009

Mac On Sunday with the Greenpoint Mac Off

The 1st ever Great Greenpoint Mac-Off is about mac & cheese is not hipster speed dating, which means you should leave the space suit at home because no one likes a fart in a space suit. 4 bars will be dishing out free samples  alongside drink specials. The leisure crawl

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19 Mar 2009

How to go to a FREE Taping of the Daily Show

There are tons of shows looking to fill up their studio audiences. 30 Rock has no seating, so after a lengthy debate with myself I chose The Daily Show over The View. John Stewart’s eye rolls live beat a seat next to a Bible Belter in a seasonally-theme sweatshirt. Sorry

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18 Mar 2009

Will Cross-dress for Free Dinner

Wearing a skirt as man can get you a few things depending where you are ‘“ some supplemental income in the Bowery, a bagpipe in Scotland, a punch in the face in Detroit. Last night it got us a free 3 course dinner and 2 drinks at the schmancy Park

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17 Mar 2009

We Be Bartending Wednesday at Habibi

An ideal guest bartender is one with previous experience, charisma, and a rolodex of big spenders and social butterflies who are ‘œthe life of the party’. My college nickname was Tallie McShitty, but thanks to desperate bar owners, the prohibitive criterion have evaporated and I’ll be behind the bar with

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