Advice

20 Nov 2009

HHC Options: Protect Your Uninsured Ass

I am clumsy as shit. I’ve gotten stitches on three separate occasions, each time in my face. This Halloween, I slipped down some stairs and got a bruise on my ass the size and color of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, after spraining my ankle the previous week. I’m the kind

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0
23 Oct 2009

Before the Bodega: See if Your Food is Still Tasty

New York is a weird city for grocery shopping. Most stores don’t have aisles wide enough to fit two carts, if they fit any carts at all. Most people shop every few days for specific meals, because hauling one bag through the subway is easier than seven. The smaller shopping

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0
07 Oct 2009

NYC Subway: Scrounge Up A Free Ride

If you live in New York City, odds are you rely on MTA on a daily basis. You already know. So I don’t have to tell you how integral the subway system is to our daily lives. And as far as cost goes, yes, we must admit, even after the

Joe Petersen - Classist Columnist 0
02 Oct 2009

Two Wheelin: Advice for Biking in NYC

New York City is full of surprises, and some of them aren’t pleasant. Like on my first trip here when I was fourteen. I spaced out while I was walking on the sidewalk with my school group, and I got hit square in the nipple with a cart loaded up

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0
22 Sep 2009

Broke-Ass Dentist: NYU College of Dentistry

For me, going to the dentist is about as thrilling a prospect as using a soldering iron to remove one’s own ruptured appendix. I use this fairly dramatic example in order to impart to you, dear broke reader, how very much I truly dread the dentist, despite the fact that

Joe Petersen - Classist Columnist 0
03 Sep 2009

Equinox: How The Other Half Gyms

For those of you who don’t know, Equinox is one of the higher-end gym chains in the New York city area.  I belong to Crunch, but after going on a sort of yoga sampler for the past month or so (going to different yoga studios every couple of days), with

Anna G - Caliburg Contributor 0
27 Aug 2009

Long Beach Blanket Bingo!: An LBC Native's Guide to LB, LI

OK, so I’m not technically a Long Beach, CA native, but I did go to school there for 4.5 years, so i think I might have some authoritwahhh, as they say.  Also, this is primarily based on my experience this past weekend. Step 1:  Get someone to drive your ass,

Anna G - Caliburg Contributor 0