New Yorker

18 Feb 2011

Broke-Ass of the Week: Comedian Alex Grubard

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. Wanna be a Broke-Ass of the Week?  Holler at us here and we’ll send you the questionnaire. Our

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04 Dec 2010

FREE Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival

Hard-core collectors and curious amateurs like myself are flocking this weekend to the second installment of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. Curation is key at this compact show, with organizers Gabriel Fowler (Desert Island), publisher (PictureBox), and scholar (Bill Kartalopoulos) handpicking every exhibitor. As someone who’s personally been to

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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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15 Nov 2010

Caption The Couple

It all started when I was on a weekend getaway with a man friend. We were staying at the apartment of a good friend of his who was engaged and living with his fiancee. Anyway, they had this corkboard in their kitchen area upon which various cards, Save-The-Dates, receipts, photos,

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08 Jan 2010

Wallace Shawn at Friends Meeting House

Did you even know that there was a Quaker Meeting House in Manhattan? Well not only is there one, but the beloved and wonderful Wallace Shawn will be there tonight, reading from his volume of essays called, shockingly Essays. Most of us 80s babies know Wallace Shawn from such cinematic

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