THURSDAY: Reading In
If you missed our party last week celebrating the release of Cathy Erway’s book The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove, take advantage of this second chance to see the Brooklyn Based favorite. Erway–also known as the blogger from Not Eating Out in New York–is [...]

We’re all familiar with the inescapable curse of having a catchy song stuck in our heads. The words, “MTA bringing me down, weekend changes riding my heart around” have been coming to mind repeatedly. This refrain is from just one of the melodic satires written and crooned by Menage a Twang, Brooklyn’s unparalleled “country [...]

It happened slowly, a little bit every day. First the wheels, then the plywood footboard. A set of pink handlebars, then paint. After a week, a line of soapbox racecars lined the sidewalk on the corner of 17th and Sixth Avenue in South Slope. It wasn’t your everyday parking lot.
It was the product of Open [...]

WEDNESDAY: Puppy Love
Do you have your eye on a cutie with a collie from the dog park? Speed Dating for Pet Lovers at Unleash: Brooklyn was rescheduled to tonight because of last week’s snow. Meet fellow animal lovers in Greenpoint, and mingle over drinks and snacks. Register here. The event starts at 8:30. $15 donation [...]

We’ve always thought that celebrating Mardi Gras in Brooklyn seemed sacrilegious in some way–even more so than Bastille Day or Chinese New Year’s. Like, if you’re going to do it, do it right and go to New Orleans. This year though, there are so many festivities taking place (even in the snow!) we’ve changed our [...]

Baby, it’s bad out there, so Brooklyn Botanic Garden is reconvening the Linnaean Libation League inside the Steinhardt Conservatory on Saturday, February 27, for refreshing drinks amid the succulents and palm trees.
The theme of the latest LLL cocktail party–Palm Springs, California, circa 1959–gives guests a chance to step back in time for a quick winter [...]

Preparing taxes is always stressful, especially for new, small business owners (like ourselves). Finding a good bookkeeper is a sure way to lessen the blow, and Siobhan Lowe of The Lowe Bureau knows how to alleviate the concerns of firms big and comprised of just one. The Williamsburg-based consultant and bookkeeper began her career as [...]

In case you can’t read the small type, the text above says, “Blocks along which a Hot Bird sign was at some point visible, 9.20.09-9.22.09.” This is Brooklyn life through the eyes of infographic genius, Very Small Array.
Artist and Bed-Stuy resident Dorothy Gambrell is also the pen behind the comic, Cat and Girl. Very Small [...]

WEDNESDAY: Before Harold and Kumar…
This month’s film in the L Magazine/Brooklyn Bowl movie series is 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The classic SoCal-set film and the $2 Brooklyn Lager will warm you up tonight (if you can get there in the snow!).
THURSDAY: The Sleeper Hit this V-Day
In a world of Anti-Valentine’s parties, the [...]

Say you want to learn how to sing in harmony, but instead of paying for music class, you pay your teacher with socks. Which don’t even have to match.
Or maybe you’d like to teach people basic photography skills, and will accept any kind of payment so long as it’s in the form of Legos, sharp [...]