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07.12.07

Blame America! Bastille Day ‘07 Upcoming Events, Film, Under $50, Music, Outdoor (1)

[ July 15, 2007; 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ]
ehh, fuck you, I’m french.

So, if you’re a member of the blame America first crowd, no event could be better suited than Bastille day — a day in 1789 when a bunch of libertines decided to flout the law and release a bunch of known criminals into the streets for the purported good of everyone. […]
07.02.07

The Cheap Date: Celebrate Brooklyn Upcoming Events, Free, Music, Outdoor (0)

[ July 2, 2007; 1:00 pm; July 5, 2007; 7:30 pm; July 6, 2007; 7:30 pm; July 12, 2007; 7:30 pm; July 13, 2007; 7:30 pm; July 14, 2007; 8:00 pm; July 15, 2007; 4:00 pm; July 19, 2007; 7:30 pm; July 20, 2007; 7:30 pm; July 21, 2007; 7:00 pm; July 22, 2007; 5:00 pm; July 26, 2007; 8:00 pm; July 27, 2007; 7:30 pm; July 28, 2007; 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm. August 2, 2007; 8:00 pm; August 3, 2007; 5:30 pm; August 4, 2007; 5:30 pm; August 9, 2007; 5:00 pm; August 10, 2007; 5:30 pm; August 11, 2007; 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]

There are all these wonderful free events during the summer: movies, concerts, subway group participation shows, inventive use of the train platform as a bedroom or lavatory and so on. Knowing about these is serious dating currency; what makes you look smarter than (a) having interests other than drinking and eating, (b) knowing about […]
06.07.07

Off topic: How Donnie Darko Changed Music Commentary, Klosterman Approved, Humor, Music (2)

Though this post has only a tenuous, at best, connection with dating (music on dates; kinky costume sex?) we’ve noticed something lately about music that has us rockin’ it a little more… zoologically.
And it all starts with Donnie Darko.

Grizzly Bear

Bat for Lashes

They Might be Giants

Recliner

Teddybears

Amy Winehouse
05.02.07

WNYC Singles Night - Mating The Music Lovers of the World Upcoming Events, Food, Romantic, Learning, Under $50, New York, Music (0)

[ June 7, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] So again, this singles night thing is really a fluke, but sometimes these events make me wish that I were single. Radio Lab’s Jad Abumrad takes over the Brooklyn Brewery for a night of stories, neurological results (hey I’m just reading the cue card here), and hopefully some romance. I have trouble seeing […]
05.02.07

For The Singles, Quiznight with WNYC’s John Schaefer Upcoming Events, Under $50, Music (0)

[ June 13, 2007; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
This is a dating website. That means that you must have (on some level) a date in order to take advantage of the spectacular ideas here. But there are those of you for whom that is a chore that must also be done by others. Knowing that, there are singles nights held […]
05.02.07

se7enty-se7en drummers = boredom(s) Upcoming Events, Free, Music, Outdoor (2)

[ July 7, 2007; 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] If you haven’t gone out of the city on Saturday, July 7 then we have the event for you. In an effort that would make Def-Lep’s Rick Allen re-flip his Corvette in an attempt to turn back time, Japanese avant-garde (read: weird) band The Boredoms will assemble 77 drums (and drummers) in Brooklyn Bridge Fulton […]