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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

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

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!
It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

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

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

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.

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.

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.