Five Ways to Celebrate Black History Month in NYC

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Black History Month has arrived, and what better way to celebrate than to take advantage of the myriad of events that are happening all over the city.  We’ve picked out a few of our favorites for you to check out, so grab your coat and your hat, and head outside to partake in the celebration. Read more

Best Week Ever: 6 Budget Bars and Events

This is a guest post by Katharine Ricci of  NYC Recession Diary – a daily digest of budget and free events in the NYC area.  You can find Katherine religiously researching every open bar in the city and generally just being fabulous on a budget.  Follow her daily musings on bargains on Twitter at @ricebird. Read more

$5 Fun: Culture Wars Trivia Night at 92nd Y Tribeca

Test your pop culture knowledge today at the 92nd Y Tribeca with Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia With Art21. Grab your friends and create a team to compete in a trivia night of current art, film, music, and online culture. Read more

Monthly Mashup: Budget Blogger Edition

We haven’t busted out a Monthly Mashup in a hot minute, and since we also haven’t been providing much new content on the site as of late (and we sincerely apologize for our slackerness), we’re going to throw up some of our favorite linkage from our favorite budget NYC bloggers.  Be on the lookout in the upcoming weeks for more heapings of original content — we promise.  And maybe a Tweetup too.

16 Strategies for Saving Money When Eating Out - The guys over at Coupon Sherpa have some pretty solid tips on how to save money when you’re eating out.  Most of us have tried these all out at some point, but you may have never done the “secret shopping” bit. I did once, and it was like being a CIA operative — only you don’t get a tranq gun and it’s not as cool.

Brooklyn Massages for Less Than $50 - Our friends over at Brokelyn have dug deep to find the cheapest massages in the BK.  Not surprisingly, they’re mostly those small Asian joints with the awesome signage that offer back and foot rubs, along with some reflexology.  But for some treatments as low as $25 for an hour — who cares?

Buy a Drink, Get a Pizza - The beer/pizza phenomon has been covered quite a few times in NYC, but if you’re a newbie here and you’re not aware of the calorie-inducing sobriety awesomeness that is free pizza with the purchase of a beer, you can read about 89th and Broke’s review of Manhattan’s seemingly favorite:  Crocodile Lounge.

Why You Can’t Stick With a Budget - WiseBread writer, Stacy Johnson, explains why you still suck at creating and sticking with a budget.  And she’s dead on.  She covers some smart ideas about being financially flexible, not depriving yourself, and why goals play an important role in the whole process.

Why You Should Sell Yourself Short - The ladies over at RecessionWire give us the lowdown on how to go about pitching yourself in today’s social media crazed climate.  They tell you how to perfect the 30-second elevator pitch for the Twittersphere — the aptly named Twesume.  (And yes, it makes me wince a little when I say that)

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Free Event Tomorrow at NYC’s Museum of Natural History

Is Avatar’s Pandora just a place made up in James Cameron post-Titanic mind or are there really strange species that lurk around us?  Grab your friends and geek out at the American Museum of Natural History’s Mysteries of the Congo: Exploring the World’s Deepest River. Read more

NYFA Sponsored Swap Meet on Thursday Evening

The New York Foundation for the Arts is a cool organization based in NYC that exists to promote and assist artists in a myriad of ways, including helping them find jobs, workspaces, and other awesome things.  But this Thursday, they’re hosting the holy-grail of starving artist events: a swap meet. Read more

We’re Giving Away Hansel & Gretel Opera Tickets!

It’s holiday giveaway time again, and two lucky readers are going to get two tickets each to the Metropolitan Opera House on December 17th to check out the smorgasbord of the senses that is Hansel & Gretel – The Opera.

The Metropolitan Opera’s annual series of English-language holiday presentations for families continues with Engelbert Humperdinck’s HANSEL AND GRETEL. Haunting, charming, and a little bit wicked, this production is a fanciful vision of the beloved fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Check out some of the awesomeness behind the scenes:

You can find more information on the production here.

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A Dollar And a Dream: Knapp Street Pizza Offers Free Pizza For Life

There are very few things in this world better than “free.” There are very few things in this world better than a good slice of New York City pizza. So what do you think of the possibility of winning free pizza for life? That’s a bit of magic sprinkled generously with awesome. Read more

Takin’ it to the Streets: A Cheap, Cool Way to Re-Discover New York

Lea Michele, Brian D’arcy, Kristin Chenowith, Lin-Manuel Miranda.  If you live in New York you should know at least one of those names. They’re some of the biggest performers on Broadway today and hearing their voices live will not only give your the goosebumps but have you thinking “yes, this is why I live here.” Read more