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24 Oct 2009

Punked-Up Barbies and Stripped-Down Kens

I remember the first Barbie I decapitated.  It was much more difficult to re-capitate her than I expected, but the whole experience made me feel delightfully bad.  My sister and I gave our Barbies jagged haircuts, tattoos, and designed outfits for them out of Spider-Man Band-Aids.  I’m sure we weren’t

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03 Sep 2009

Equinox: How The Other Half Gyms

For those of you who don’t know, Equinox is one of the higher-end gym chains in the New York city area.  I belong to Crunch, but after going on a sort of yoga sampler for the past month or so (going to different yoga studios every couple of days), with

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

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23 Aug 2009

The Pleasures of Jade Walking and Soundwalk Audio Tours

One of the joys of living in a large city is that most of the time you don’t have to own a car.  Sure I’m not eligible for the Cash for Clunkers deal, but I also don’t have to pay attention to gas prices while the rest of the country

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13 Aug 2009

New York, I Love You

I had planned to write about something else entirely today, until I read Stuart’s post.  I recently moved to Boston from NYC and if I talked about how much that emotion that change brought– how much I love New York and I how I know I’ll be back because I

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12 Aug 2009

The Difference Between San Francisco and New York

This piece is the intro Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply in New York City I’m sitting now in my Bushwick apartment coming to terms with the realization that my time here in this strange and brutal city is quickly coming to an end.  I maintain that, no matter how much

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11 Aug 2009

Broke-Ass of the Week: Mike Force

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.

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09 Apr 2009

Have a Job Interview? Get FREE Dry Cleaning

As NPR reports here, a dry cleaning shop on the Upper East Side is offering free dry cleaning services to anyone jobless with an upcoming job interview.  The unemployed can hardly praise bars in the same manner, since their attractive drink specials do little to help one be more marketable.

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06 Jan 2009

NYC release party photos….finally!!

Sorry about the lag time, but shit happens (and by “shit” I mean the holidays).  Click here and see if you can find your beautiful face or what you missed by not being there.  There’s always next time.

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