Red Hook
A Remaining Two Weeks to Get Your Kicks at Moonshine
I’ve had so many good memories at this bar throughout the years, and even though I knew the place was looking to sell I never thought it would actually happen.
The Folk Revival Takes Brooklyn for the Third Time
Are you tired of electronica, metal, hip-hop, free jazz, bebop, noise music, classic rock, indie-rock, and everything else that mankind has created after the end of prohibition? Are you so tired of society, technology and the future that you don’t have a cell phone? Do you write on a typewriter,
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
Tee hee…Meatballs. For Cheap! At Ikea!
Considering the name of this blog, I’m taking a stab in the dark and assuming you’re no stranger to the model rooms and big blue bags that accompany a trip to Ikea. In fact, considering your roommates an ass hole and jumped on your bed, breaking the frame, you probably
Getting Your Crap Home from the Red Hook Ikea
The only problem with furnishing your entire apartment with stuff from the Ikea – apart from the fact that when you move and take apart your furniture you will definitely lose 30% of the screws and bolts necessary to put these items back together, and will need to go back
Just Another Roadside Attraction
For someone who doesn’t own a car and who’s points on their license renders them barely insurable, I actually love driving. More specifically, I love road trips. I’ve never done the drive across America pilgrimage, but sometimes it doesn’t take more than a 20 mile radius to find weird shit
One Helluva Sandwich at Defonte’s
Being a native of Philadelphia, I like to think I know a thing or two about giant Italian sandwiches. Whether you call them hoagies, subs or grinders, a heaping sandwich by any other name would taste just as delicious. Being a general food-enthusiast (I hate the word foodie), I thought
Broke-Ass of the Week – Jonathan Gregorio from Funsherpa
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. Jonathan is the dude over at
Broke-Ass of the Week – Lonely Planet’s US Travel Editor Robert Reid
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.