In his last two theatrical documentaries, controversial filmmaker Michael Moore turned an accusing eye toward the health industry (Sicko) and the Bush administration (Fahrenheit 9/11), but he’s back to kick up some more dust with a currently untitled movie that will seek the cause of the financial flustercuck in which the world is suffering. [More...]
According to Slashfilm, the film the film will explore the “disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens of the world” as well as “the biggest robbery in the history of this country – the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions.”
This Saturday, SCORE! — a huge open air free market — will be happening in the Brooklyn Yards. The brain child of MeanRed Productions, FreeNYC, Newmindspace, and RefugeNYC, SCORE! is thrift store junkie’s dreamland. The way it works is simple: You bring a bag of your unwanted junk (books, records, clothing, kitchen appliances, whatever) and in return, you swap it out for other people’s junk that you need or want.
If you’re between the age of 19 and 29, chances are you have found yourself uninsured while transitioning from college to the real world, according to the Commonwealth Fund. Insurance companies are quick to drop college graduates from their family plans as soon as you get your diploma in hand. However, many of these adults have still not been able to get health insurance because of either unemployment or other economic factors.
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While I’ve been lucky enough to stay on my family’s insurance for another year, soon I will be just another uninsured freelancer. There’s always the option of hoping that I don’t get run over by a cab in Times Square, but I’ll be playing it straight and checking out some of the other options out there for people like myself.
Everyone’s pinching extra pennies right now. Whether you’re frugally furnishing your apartment with vintage pieces, stashing for a quick budget staycation or filling up that emergency cash stash, saving a few coins here and there is now a necessity. Following up on our last Daily Ways to Save, here are five more tips to saving some extra coin.
As you may be aware, Congress just passed a credit card reform bill that helps protect consumers, such as you and I, from the big bad credit companies. Although this bill has gotten almost unanimous support from law makers, there have been a few who aren’t happy with the new regulations.
Take Edward Yingling (CEO of the American Bankers Association), for instance, who stated that it would “undermine the availability of credit” by restricting individual institutions’ ability to price credit against risk. Oh. my. god. You mean banks would actually have to only give credit to people who can manage it?? The horror!
With costs rising so severely in contrast to salaries, it’s even more pertinent to find free and low-cost activities so as to not blow your budget each month. Years ago, living in Manhattan on a salary that even a Mickey D’s employee would scoff at, I became pretty adept at entertaining myself for next to nothing. We’ve covered free, recession-proof activities before, and we’re continuing the series with out latest batch of awesome entertainment that costs less than you pay for your morning coffee.
NewYorkology, a website that features good deals on shopping, drinking, dining and sightseeing a la New York City, tipped us off to a really great deal that the NYC Ballet is offering. For the duration of the 2009 Spring season, 50 orchestra level tickets will be sold at the discounted price of $25 (down from $90). Tickets will go on sale every Monday morning at 10 a.m. at the Lincoln Center box office or through Telecharge at 212-721-6500. [Note: Purchasing through Telecharge will cost you an extra processing fee]
‘Memorial Day sales’ is one of the top searches on Yahoo! this week, and with this economy there’s no doubt why shoppers are scouring the ‘net for a good deal this holiday weekend. Personally, I’ve been saving my pennies in hopes of buying a Canon PowerShot. I don’t mind fighting the crowds in order to get this baby at the cheapest price possible. Luckily you don’t need to have flashbacks of the Christmas Elmo insanity and face the trembling masses in person — you can hide safely at home behind your computer.
Furnish Green is a cool green furniture venture located in midtown (1261 Broadway between 31st and 32nd). A furniture showroom by day and partner dance studio by night, they offer vintage furniture at some of the best prices you’ll find in Manhattan. But along with their superior prices, they also have a conscious: 50% of the sale of donated items goes towards the Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre program.
When I first made the foray into the weird, wild, and wacky seemingly otherworldy dimension known as the webbernets back in 1998, the online experience mainly consisted of checking e-mail, posting to USENET and messageboards, and browsing a handful of sites. Taking in video content wasn’t hard to come by, but it certainly didn’t have the ease of access that is available today; there was no YouTube and many of us nerds were still rocking 56K modems.
But nowadays you’d actually have to actively not want to see video in order to not find it–it’s everywhere. YouTube knocked down the door, but Hulu took online video to the next level by allowing entertainment-seekers to legally watch network and cable programming with only a minimal number of commercials. Hulu has evolved so much that we recommend that the free service can be used in lieu of paying for pricey cable, but we recognize that laptop displays (which typically fall be between 10 inches and 17 inches depending on if you have a netbook or desktop replacement) can be a bit on the small size. Therefore, we’ll show you how to export the free Hulu content to a big screen, so you can ditch cable altogether.
