Self Care
How To Win A Facebook Fight
By Rachel Fogletto If you google reasons not to argue online, you’ll come across many cartoons, memes, and quotes about arguing with idiots. For instance, Mark Twain once said, “Do not argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” Or maybe he didn’t because a
5 Places You Can Go To Escape The City This Fall
By Jonas Barnes Fall in NYC means flash flood warnings, overflowing subways and the smell of trash being thick with moisture in the air. It also means pumpkin everything and cool festivals throughout the city all the time. There is definitely some awesome shit to go along with the nastiness.
How To Stop Drinking….Temporarily
By Rachel Fogletto There are hundreds of articles out there for folks who are trying to stop drinking forever. But many of us fall into another category. What do you do when you’re a functional drinker who has all of a sudden had to stop consuming booze due to abrupt
When You Have to Live With An Ex After You Breakup
By Jonas Barnes Here’s a little back story about your author and how I settled upon this metropolitan garbage heap known as New York City. See, some years ago, I met a woman and we fell in love in Portland, OR and had a great relationship and decided that our
New Dating Trends We Hate
By Rachel Fogletto Every time you turn around there seems to be a new and terrifying dating trend that poses a brand new risk to the modern single person’s psyche. The real bad news is that none of this is actually new at all, and people have been treating each
The soothing sounds of water fountains – a guide to choosing the best fountain sound for your home
By Aaron Abel If you are like most people, you probably think that water fountains are all the same. You put them in a place and they start trickling water and produce a sound that’s the same as every other fountain ever heard. That’s quite wrong, but people continue to
How to Protest Safely and Responsibly
We need to intelligently prepare ourselves by knowing our rights and restrictions as counter-protesters. The behavior of others is not under your control, but these tips will help you be as safe as you can be at a volatile protest
Save Bushwick City Farm!
By Tiana Miller Anyone who has been to Bushwick in the past few years, particularly near the intersection of Myrtle and Broadway, needs no reminder of how rapidly the area is gentrifying. With an upshot of high rise luxury condos pricing out many longtime home and business owners one wonders