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palladium109.jpgClothes
Everyone’s discounting heavily now or beginning this weekend, like RedLipstick, Cloth, Bird, Zoe, the new APC Surplus and Oak, where these $185 Palladium boots are now $109.

Condos
$185,000 one-bedrooms and other affordable apartments are available at 420 Classon Ave., the Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy border, if you meet the income thresholds. Apply by Jan. 18. Details on Brownstoner, which also has an interesting thread on what the middle class can afford now in Brooklyn.

Mexi
$5 burritos and $3 yummy fish tacos at Endless Summer, the new taco truck parked on N. 7th at Bedford (via Grub Street). Hours are Wed. to Thurs., 6 p.m.-2 a.m.; Fri. 6 p.m.-4 a.m.; Sat., 1 p.m.-4 a.m.; Sun., noon-6 p.m. indeterminite. We tried to go Sunday–to no avail. If anyone has the real scoop, email us.

lotusyoga2.jpgMind/Body
Fort Greene’s Lucky Lotus Yoga is offering free beginner’s classes Saturdays through Jan. 26, 2-3:30 pm
The YMCA is waiving its $150 membership fee through Feb. 4. Find your local branch here.

Music
oakh.jpgThe best, free indoor concert of winter happens this Saturday, Jan. 12 at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden. Over 16 musicians and bands, including Laura Cantrell, Chocolate Genius, Lenny Kaye, Stevie Jackson of Belle and Sebastian, and Brooklyn’s psych-country quintet Oakley Hall (pictured) will perform songs from Bob Dylan’s Royal Albert Hall concert in 1966, just after he’d gone electric and started touring with what would soon become The Band. Doors 8 pm. Arrive early!

Not free, but selling out quickly are tix for the experimental metal group Neurosis at Fort Greene’s Masonic Temple, Jan 24 and 25. Mastodon opens. Tix available here.

And if haven’t yet seen our great 2007 music roundups, there are quite a few free downloads here and here; the rest you can hear on imeem (quick and painless registration required).

Not discounted, or in BK, but not forgotten
bizborn3.jpgPLG playwright Young Jean Lee is remounting her subversive evangelical service Church at the Public, with a new cast and bigger choir. $15 tix here.

The Business of Being Born, produced by Ricki Lake, about the problems of modern-day childbirth, opens tonight at the IFC. Midwives will pack the house. (Photo by Paula Nella)
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