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Say anything and 13 other ways to keep independence weekend going
Has this ever worked for anyone? 1. Out of 25,000 photographs he took between 2005 and 2010, photographer Robert Madruga is displaying only 25 for an exhibit in Gowanus. Try not to think about all the...
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Good times expand: Mellow Pages moves to a larger space
More room for books. Photo by Dave Colon Mellow Pages, Bushwick’s DIY library that could, has not had a shortage of media attention, whether from the Times giving it their blessing or weird Kanye...
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Go on a big adventure and 16 other free ways to spend the week
Rebel. Loner. 1. East River Park goes black and white with a free showing of The Artist (Monday) 2. Mellow Pages welcomes poet Matt Cook, who has a collection of poems about how he doesn’t need to...
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Bushwick is New York City’s newest ‘literary mecca’
Book nerrrrrrds at Mellow Pages, via FB. If you only read Vogue magazine, you’d think Bushwick is a nightmarish hellscape, where packs of feral beards roam the streets preying on unsuspecting tourists....
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Brokesters, assemble! And 17 other free things to do this week
Not a sight you want to wake up to 1. Learn how to market the goods you make in your living room, so as to avoid editors deleting your pitch emails and consumers not buying them (Monday) 2. It’s Word‘s...
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Build a little birdhouse in your soul and 18 other weekend ideas
This is John and that’s John and they’ve got a secret to tell: they might be giants. via Facebook 1. FAB Friday at Putnam Triangle Plaza has something for everyone: kids games, a dance party, a beloved...
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Hip lit: Our picks for the best of the Brooklyn Book Festival
2012′s Book Festival Market. Photo courtesy of the Brooklyn Book Festival Folks, we’ve got good news and bad news. Good: today is the start of the Brooklyn Book Festival. Bad: this is Marty Markowitz’s...
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Combine yoga, dating and drinking and 20 other free events this week
See, you’re already halfway to where you want any date to end up anyway! via Facebook 1. The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies wants to give you a lesson in fear (Monday) 2. Head to Union...
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Tonight, get under the covers to raise cash for Mellow Pages
More books, less condos. Think about all the great things that books and libraries have done for you in your life. Been there when no one else was. provided free, mind-expanding entertainment (provided...
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Enjoy the (Loft)opera and 17 other ways to spend the weekend
No one can tell you that you ain’t cultured after you’ve been to the opera. Photo via LoftOpera, by Athena Azevedo 1. You’d think a “cheese speakeasy” is something that happens when vegans take over...
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Score some Free Cable and 16 other free things to do this week
Our pal Sue Smith getting fit to deliver some ha-ha’s to you. Photo by Sarah Gainer 1. Celebrate the holiday with an edge of (funny) doom at standup show an Apocalypse Wow Christmas (Monday) 2. Mondays...
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25 gifts under $25, No. 8: A one-year Mellow Pages membership!
How many books do you want for Christmas? The obvious answer is “all of them,” because you’re a huge nerd (who isn’t these days?) who’s collecting them like so many Pokemon. The problem with that, of...
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Don’t go shopping, win these gift prizes at tonight’s No Office Holiday Party...
Too broke for presents? The #NoOffice raffle is here to help. 2012 party photo by Sarah Bibi Gainer. Let’s say you listened to sound, compassionate advice and didn’t get up at 6am on Black Friday to...
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ExxonMobil is allegedly offering Mellow Pages a huge sponsorship
The kind of young, hip automobile owners the ExxonMobil corporation is maybe trying to buy off A little while back, we held a storytelling night to help out the folks at Mellow Pages, Brooklyn’s only...
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Exclusive: Inside the Mellow Pages/Exxon Mobil stunt
When rebranding goes wrong. Photo by David Colon The Brooklyn and internet literary scene was recently suckered (including Brokelyn) by a strange prank by a small member-supported library operating out...
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Start your own Mellow Pages with these 1000 free books in Midwood
You’ve always wanted a library We know, we know: we said not to trust librarians or libraries after the bitter truth about #mellowghazi came out. But maybe you can be a different kind of librarian, a...
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