East Village

01 Sep 2010

$5 Pizza Margherita at Totale Pizza

If you’re trying to get the most square inches of pizza per dollar possible, Totino’s Party Pizzas are probably your best bet. But if you’re looking for pizza made with real cheese (and doesn’t taste like cardboard), you should head down to St. Marks Place. Totale Pizza just opened up,

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20 Aug 2010

Tonight: Let Don't Touch Me There Touch your Funny Bone

Meet Pat Stango and Blaine Perry. Veritable YouTube celebrities, you may recognize them from such hits as “Pat Stango: Hidden Camera Guy” and  “The ‘Being a Jerk’ Method.” But they do more. They are also members of Don’t Touch Me There, a New York City-based sketch comedy troupe described by one

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11 Aug 2010

Happy Hours Until 10PM Are the Happiest of All

Like most people working in NYC, happy hour remains a mythical wonder mostly enjoyed by summer interns and college students. The rest of us *might* slide into the last 5 minutes of a special, panting with drops of sweat blurring our vision or what the discounted beers are, but will

Jill S. 0
31 Jul 2010

Hooray for Ray's Candy Store

Okay, guys, ready? One, Two, Three… “COLLECTIVE SIGH OF RELIEF.” So, you know how people who have lived here long enough to still call Hi-Fi the bar Brownies and remember when Tompkins Square Park was a shanty town (although it still kind of is… one homeless man once presented me

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21 Jul 2010

Bargain Buys at East Village Cheese

Friends are fun. Having friends over to your house is fun. Buying snacks for your always-hungry friends when they come over, however, is not so fun. I usually forget about the latter in a frenzy of excitement over the former (“I get to wear slippers while being social! Score!”), so

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09 Jun 2010

Yoga to the People: Pay-What-You-Can Yoga in the East Village

A few years ago – at a gym to which I was indebted for two years but only went once a week, if that (complete waste of money, but it paid for itself with the BJs I got in the steam room. Holla!) – I took advantage of a yoga

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10 May 2010

Flawless Margaritas at Hecho en Dumbo

The very first I was ever really drunk-drunk, I was sixteen and in Monte Carlo for one day. I had a margarita at a shitty tourist sidewalk cafe and thought it was the best thing I’d ever tasted. In reality it probably tasted terrible, but getting drunk for the first

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