Brooklyn

Getting Things For Free, Vol. 12: Free Pizza for Your Attraction

by Rebecca_Katheri... | Tue, 02/16/2010 - 21:39

Location

Anna Maria Pizza
179 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Getting Things For Free, Vol. 12: Free Pizza for Your Attraction

 

You can’t always expect to get free pizza slices from hot chicks/smooth operators/young bucks. But sometimes, just sometimes, if you’re poor and sad, sympathetic and cold, walking together, enjoying the moonlight, the conversation, the promise of a better tomorrow, you can ask or indirectly ask or politely importune or jokily request or be happily, surprisingly gifted with a beautiful, greasy slab of cheese and dough. Free Pizza: Priceless. Hot Pizza Purchaser: Likewise?

 

Getting Things For Free, Vol. 10: Potato Chips For Your Begging

by Rebecca_Katheri... | Sun, 02/07/2010 - 22:40

Location

Hugs
108 North 6th St
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Getting Things For Free, Vol. 10: Potato Chips For Your Begging

Late night, commiserating with your fellows over drinks and abandoned dreams at a bar with an early 00s barkeep and early 20s lassie. It’s a hard night, a long night, a night with nothing good in store and a long train ride home. Do you leave bereft, hungry and defeated? Do you buy a bag of chips behind the bar and chew them sullenly? Or do you sullenly chew your chips, having gotten them for free? Yes. There’s really no art to it and there’s never a guarantee but if you want free chips on a bad night at a bar, just BEG and sometimes they give them to you.

Getting Things For Free, Vol. 9: Beer and Whiskey For Your Hosting

by Rebecca_Katheri... | Sun, 02/07/2010 - 22:33

Location

Bars With Trivia WorldwideBrooklyn, NY
United States
Getting Things For Free, Vol. 9: Beer and Whiskey For Your Hosting

Host a trivia night at your local bar and you too may be eligible for one, no two shiny glasses of white beer in pint glass and whiskey-and-sour-mix in highball glass to say nothing of the accompanying cherries and refills on drinks and cherries. It’s all in the hosting… and the attitude… and the luck… and the begging.

Getting Things For Free, Vol. 7: Hot Liquor-Rich Cider for Your Performance

by Rebecca_Katheri... | Sun, 01/31/2010 - 21:08

Location

Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer St
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Getting Things For Free, Vol. 7: Hot Liquor-Rich Cider for Your Performance

Did you know that you can get free drinks when you are performing at a venue which sells them? Yes. But did you also know that sometimes you can get hot alcoholic drinks, like apple cider with whiskey and a cinnamon stick? Did you know that it comes in a mug? That it might have cost you something like $6, maybe more? Did you know that other free drinkers (having had performed) can drink beer, rum and cokes and cider, as well? All these free, disparate drinks can yours! All you have to do is perform at a bar with a bartender who honors your commitment to entertainment.

Thriving in Winter Workshop

by WIRE-NYC | Mon, 01/25/2010 - 19:48

Location

Be Hive Thrives
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Thriving in Winter Workshop

Abby and Liz have some answers on how to stay healthy this winter.  They are offering tips with foods, yoga and herb to balance your health during these cold, cold days.  In a workshop they are offering this month, the will share their wisdom on cold and flu prevention, earting in balance with the seasons and with your Ayurvedic constition.  They will show you cheap recipts and how to eat well, fresh and local during the winter months.  Abby will teach you Yoga poses to keep your energy up and blood flowing and Liz will enliven your spirits with great herbal teas and foo

VINYL YOGA @CAMEO Sunday @4pm

by VINYLYOGA | Sat, 01/23/2010 - 17:45

Location

Cameo (back of lovin cup cafe)
93 North 6th Street
New York, NY
United States
VINYL YOGA @CAMEO Sunday @4pm

 

Earthquake Polverized Already Pauperized Haiti

by TheSecularHumorist | Wed, 01/13/2010 - 10:25

Location

Brooklyn, HaitiNY
United States
Earthquake Polverized Already Pauperized Haiti

Talk about being kicked while down.

Around 5pm yesterday (1/12/10) an Earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude devastated an already "crestfallen" community of Port-Au-Prince.

President Obama came to the rescue informing Haiti via talking to other Americans who then told reporters that he will be sending his thoughts and prayers.

Haitian's living in New York (and other less important states) must wait until telecommunication is back up and running in their homeland before they can hear from their loved ones.

Getting Things For Free, Vol. 2: Mystery Shots for Your Time/Femaleness

by Rebecca_Katheri... | Sun, 01/03/2010 - 19:15

Location

Bars Where You Are a Woman Among Men Brooklyn, NY
United States
Getting Things For Free, Vol. 2: Mystery Shots for Your Time/Femaleness

There are many meticulous, highly structured, densely difficult ways to get free drinks, if you’re a girl and you are alone. Smiling and hanging out with your benefactors is not one of them. To get free drinks as a lass among lads, I suggest doing whatever you have to do to make yourself feel young again. I have seen eyes bat, hair tossed—but mostly in movies.

Getting Things For Free, Vol. 1: Chocolate for Your Patronage/Ethnicity

by Rebecca_Katheri... | Sun, 01/03/2010 - 19:06

Location

Amenable Slavic Meat MarketsBrooklyn, NY
United States
Getting Things For Free, Vol. 1: Chocolate for Your Patronage/Ethnicity

 

Shadow of its Former Self

by Rebecca_Katheri... | Sun, 12/27/2009 - 13:13

Location

Public Assembly
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Shadow of its Former Self

 Shivering in the cold compared to its former incarnation (Galapagos—the place, the people, the décor, the attitude (!) moved to Dumbo), Public Assembly is a drab, bloodless, Manhattan-y structure (well, in spirit if not in its ramshackle warehouse space) on one of the cheesiest of Bedford L-proximate streets. It’s like a slightly grimier Meatpacking District over here.
 
However, on the plus side, some shows are free, some crowds are sparse (Good?