Arts and Culture

02 Jan 2010

FREE Life Drawing plus Burlesque

Dr. Sketchy’s is celebrating the New Year with burlesque queen Madame Rosebud in a tribute to the novel, Disco Bloodbath.  AND if you show up dressed in an Angel costume, you get in for FREE! Now what is Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School you might be wondering?  This a life drawing

Danielle Levanas - Bargain Soul Huntress 0
01 Jan 2010

Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year's Day Swim

Happy New Year! It’s New Years Day.  If you’re not hungover on your couch in your sweatpants or similar clothing item than I don’t really want to know you.  There are New Year’s Day brunches to eat and movies to see and weed to smoke so get on with that. 

BAS Writers 0
31 Dec 2009

Happy New Year NYC! Fireworks and Fatty Food

If you’re anywhere near as broke as I am, you’re gonna want to  head over to Brooklyn’s biggest (and cheapest!) party tonight at Grand Army Plaza. Sponsored by Borough President Marty Markowitz, there will be fireworks at midnight, and Free hot beverages starting at 11 p.m., when you can also

BAS Writers 0
30 Dec 2009

Goodbye Blue Monday = FREE Shows

One of the many, many, many things visible when looking at the stage in Goodbye Blue Monday is a large painted sign reading FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. It could easily be a random find in an ocean of random finds. But at this cafe/bar/venue/junkstore in Bushwick it feels more like a

Joe Petersen - Classist Columnist 0
29 Dec 2009

Broke-Ass Guide to Working Out

Like everyone else, I pretty much ate my weight in carbs this past holiday weekend, so naturally I’m looking to drop my phantom baby weight in the new year. But you know what, gym membership inflation is right up there with college tuition and I don’t have an extra $60

Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe 0
27 Dec 2009

Christmas Re-Gifting and Gettin' Freaky

The gifts are unwrapped, the eggnog upchuck stain cleaned up, and all that snow has turned into sludge, it’s time to face the cold reality that Christmas is over. It was fun while it lasted and now you are the proud owner of 12 new pairs of argyle socks, a

Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe 0
25 Dec 2009

Out of NYC, and Confused

Merry Christmas, or whatever you celebrate, brokeass readers! I spend every Christmas making one of my semi-annual pilgrimages back to my home country. That being Portland, Oregon. It’s always a bit of a shock coming back west after being in New York for six months. The big differences don’t freak

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0