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As lots of you know, we're on the hunt for a new space for the Brainery. We've got some leads, but we thought we'd open the search as wide as possible by getting all of you lovely folks involved.
So, if you notice for rent signs as you wander around Brooklyn, we want to hear about 'em. Read on for details, and one million thanks in advance for your help.
(This idea is absolutely 100% stolen from New Work City, who employed this tactic to...
At this month's meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies, not only do you get three short, awesome lectures on the history of fun and games, but you get to play games. Victorian Parlor Games, to be exact, with wonderful names like Poor Pussy.
Show up here:
Public Assembly, 70 North 6th Street in Williamsburg,
Tuesday, June 5, 7pm, totally free
RSVP!
What'll we learn:
A Brief History of Universe of Video Game
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If there's one thing Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop and Fix the Pumps neglected to tell me in their deep dark secret-revealing takes on root beer and soda, it's that sarsaparilla is totally a thing in Asia.
I'd thought it was just for olden days cowboys and specialty soda producers, but I was w-r-o-n-g. It shows up all over the place sporting the name sarsi.
While we in the Western hemisphere have condensed all our herb-y, root-y...
When you go to Chinatown, you're morally obligated to buy strange and unfamiliar goods, then decipher (and eat) them back home. It's Chinatown Roulette!
I was on the prowl for Taiwanese sarsaprilla for my root beer class when I was suddenly found myself face-to-face with the drink of my dreams:
Vinegar drinks. Apple vinegar drink. Plum vinegar drink. Beautiful, amazing, vinegary vinegar drinks.
A poorly-kept secret about me is that I...
Monday evening we had a class on suturing, and it was as awesome as it sounds. After learning some history and theory, we dove in and some bananas with some pretty serious wounds. Number #1 fact about suturing? It's hard.
During the class, I was particularly excited to learn that the oldest known suture dates to a mummy from 1100 BC, even though historians believe the practice goes back much further, to at least 3000 BC, and perhaps...
