To celebrate their ground-breaking, literary songwriting dare-devilry of 2009, Bushwick Book Club is having a night of musical highlights from the whole year – tonight.  Go and hear songs about Breakfast of Champions, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Flatland, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Watchmen, James

Unleash your crazy naughty side and celebrate the trickster spirit of Guede in a special Haitian dance class with phenomenal teacher Julio Jean. Show up dressed in white, purple or black to enhance the experience.

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.

Remember the first time you heard about Australia being populated by British convicts?  I was convinced I was being lied to.  But no, the all-male British penal colony of New South Wales existed, and somewhere along the line they decided to start sending female convicts there too.  Guess the ladies

The End of Poverty? Documentary Preview Nelson Mandela said, ‘œLike slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.’ Global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land,

Like Comics?  Like Animation?  Live in Brooklyn?  KingCon is where you need to be this weekend!   Today and Sunday, head down to Kings County to the Brooklyn Lyceum, a century-old NYC Public Bath house turned event and performance space, and soak in the creative juices of Brooklyn’s finest.  There will

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. Wanna be a Broke-Ass of the Week?  Holler at us here and we’ll send you the questionnaire. Erica may not be the brokest