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All aboard the Night Train, with your conductor, Wyatt Cenac
Happily enough, this is not a Pizza Hut ad. Photo via Seth Olenick While we miss Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal’s Hot Tub Comedy, gone because because LA kidnapped Schaal(boo), their enchanting...
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Get running to volunteer at the NYC Marathon this Sunday
Be a banana passer outer and other volunteer gigs at the Marathon. Photo by Katie Killary. Controversy is swirling around the city over the Mayor’s decision to proceed with the ING NYC Marathon as...
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Grab a $10 phreshcut to benefit Sandy
Shears for Fears: Katrina Casino giving a phresh cut at September’s event. Photo by Vanessa Friedman Yes yes y’all, it’s back! After a Sandy-related postponement, Brooklyn’s best amateur barbers are...
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Call us Ishmael: Moby Dick Marathon is Friday
The Moby Dick Marathon begins this Friday. Finally, a race for those of us who’d rather do homework than play dodgeball. This Friday marks the first Moby Dick Marathon, a three-day reading of the...
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The Rolling Jubilee: a bailout lottery for the people
Photo via Strike Debt on Facebook. If you have a job that does not allow you to be a slave to your Twitter feed, you may not yet be familiar with Strike Debt or the Rolling Jubilee. In which case,...
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Music Industry Secrets revealed! At the Knitting Factory!
Soundtrack this injury and you can start your road to the Grammys. via HitFix “My roommate” was watching Teen Mom the other day and there was one song that played on loop throughout the episode and I...
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Get phresh for $10 at BK’s queer pop-up barber shop
Hair Force One is really excited about your new haircut. Photo via Ronika McClain. You know how sometimes you want a cool, trendy, maybe asymmetrical haircut, but you feel like that your East Village...
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The Brooklyn Nightlife Awards: a party for your parties
Kind of a drag: Merrie Cherry will be your hostess for the evening. Via Next Magazine. The Brooklyn scene has officially gotten so big that it now needs nightlife to celebrate its nightlife. And what...
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Love Brooklyn, impress Fabolous, win basketball tickets
It’s true: Fabolous really loves Brooklyn. via Brooklyn Nets. The Nets want you to know that they’re in Brooklyn. They really, really want you to know just how Brooklyn they are, and so this Sunday,...
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Become an art student for a day at the Pratt Free School
By the end of your day there, you too will be able to make something this nice Did you secretly want to go to art school in the city, but somehow ended up at a small liberal arts college in some...
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Cut, Collaborate, and Zine-in’: 24-Hour Zine challenge starts Saturday
BYOTypewriter. Photo via Flickr user by Safe Amplification Site Society. You may have heard of the 48-Hour Film Project; but have you heard of a 24-hour ‘zine challenge? To celebrate International...
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First-ever Brooklyn Comedy Festival laughs with us, not at us
Sure you could bike there, we suppose. via Facebook Was anyone else aware the Brooklyn didn’t yet have its own comedy festival until just this year? I know, it’s crazy, right? It seems like you can get...
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Start the weekend with a blast of Brokelyn
Don’t let winter get you down. Subscribe to our weekly e-mail! As the summer wanes and the days shorten, fight the urge to curl up in your cave and hibernate. Here’s an alternative to your couch: the...
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Tonight, go see, I mean listen to, Naked Girls Reading
These girls look like brainiacs, naked must be the new glasses. via terijade.wordpress.com Geez, these days, girls just can’t seem to keep their clothes on while reading in public. There’s no real...
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Greenpointers announces vendors for annual Spring Market
A shot from Greenpointers 2013 Spring Market Get excited: this is the time of year when we all collectively slough off months of social dormancy and reacquaint ourselves with humanity by attending a...
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Freelancers unite tonight to fight for better pay
Getting paid should not cause the same stress as paying bills. Via Facebook Tonight from 6-8pm New York City based freelancers will join together to launch the #FreelanceIsntFree Campaign at the...
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Semper fido: there’s a dog training workshop specifically for rescues
Re-vamp your rescue. Via wikimedia Of course we love rescue dogs with their loving gratitude, missing fur patches, mysterious scars and little bits clipped from their ears. They’re not only cheaper and...
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Drink free beer while you bid on dog art at this BARC fundraiser
Photo via The Takedown. Perhaps you just moved into a new apartment, and your walls are looking pretty blank. Or say, you always wished for a puppy, but all you ever got were bed bugs. You know what...
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Do the right thing: Spike Lee’s annual MJ block party comes to Bed-Stuy on...
Photo via @officialspikelee For the second year in a row, Spike Lee’s sixth annual Brooklyn loves Michael Jackson block party will be held on the same block in Bed-Stuy where Do the Right Thing was...
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‘My place here is as a visitor:’ These panelists tried to redefine ‘Native...
A native Brooklynite (far left), a native Hawaiian (middle), and a Native American tribe member. Photo by Hannah Frishberg / Brokelyn “There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York...
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