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03 Dec 2013

The New Generation of Board Games Makes it Cool to be a Dork

Board games have undergone a renaissance in the last decade or so. These aren’t the haphazard games of chance you grew up with or that boring time warp you always got sucked into at Grandma’s house. The new generation of board games focuses on light strategy and a social experience.

Nate Cox- Low-Budget Literati 0
12 Sep 2012

Cheap Entertainment Options! or Let’s Just Face It: Everything in NYC is Expensive

Something to shoot for … You know, just because you’re stuck paying off your student loans until those silvery white streaks start showing up on your receding hairline (you know, the kind that only look good on John “Silver Fox” Slattery) – doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun too.

Patricia Scull - Patty the Pauper 0
08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

BAS Editorial Team 0
12 Dec 2011

Share Your Story at The Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works on Tuesday

If your idea of a fun night is standing on stage while people judge you, then head to The Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works on Tuesday night. StorySLAM is like a poetry slam without all the verses, just plain old funny, tragic, ironic human stories. Here’s how it works: Anyone

Tiara Francis - NY Know-it-all 0
25 Sep 2010

Exquisite Corpse Makes You Unbored To Death

Have your cheap nights-in gotten a little stale? Perhaps you have resigned yourself to playing half-hearted games of Scrabble, secretly (or not so secretly) seething that your tiles are always so goddamn awful, or flipping through the channels terrifying yourselves with Discovery channel fare, such as “The Terrible Thing That

Jessica Longo - Two-Bit Reporter 0