Pour one out to the Founding Fathers. For a solid four years of my life, when I grew up I wanted to be a Historical Reenactor at Plymouth Plantation. My parents humored this until it clearly wasn't a phase, then I got kindly ushered to the Sciences, with a pit stop in Broadway Theater and a brief stint as President. The kind folk they are, they … [Read more...]

Rub-a-dub-dub, hundreds of Adult Strangers in a Tub. A self proclaimed East Village Lurkness Monster, I've passed the peculiar Russian & Turkish Baths hundreds of times on my walk down 10th Street to and from Tompkins Square Bagel, and while curious, I rationalize spending my money on fancy mashed avocados instead, as my imagination has me … [Read more...]

Up next, a Lazy River through the Gowanus Canal. Future New York City headline: A shortage of Hep C and Tetanus vaccines cripples the city as massive numbers of 20-somethings contract E.Coli and develop Alex-Mack-like super powers. Just another thing to blame our children's mutations on, in addition to Monster Energy consumption and residual Easy … [Read more...]

When your phone battery is 1%. iPhones do strange things to people. The measures we take to get any sort of juice in our phones...leave them at busy bars with random bartenders, army crawl like infants to scout out outlets in public spaces, carry around what is basically a small modem in a purse for an extra, short lived 25% bump. Essentially this … [Read more...]

But please don't swim there. This past year, Gowanus won the prestigious Curbed Cup Neighborhood of the year and with Brooklyn developing faster than norovirus outbreaks at Chipotle, it's time you get acquainted with the hottest hood in the borough. Punderdome 3000 Punderdome is a wild and crazy monthly pun competition hosted by a … [Read more...]