Brooklyn Brainery

We're kicking off a new bar room lecture series all about food, and you're all invited to our very first one on Tuesday, January 31st. Welcome to Masters of Social Gastronomy! That's MSG, of course.

Each month, Sarah Lohman of Four Pounds Flour and Jonathan Soma of the Brooklyn Brainery will take on a curious food topic and break down the history, science, and stories behind it.

This month's topic is STRANGE MEAT! Sarah will recount...

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Two big pieces of news for next month's meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Social Studies. 

What's different?

1) It's on Tuesday, November 8

2) It's at Public Assembly, 70 North 6th Street (best fact: the building used to be a mayonnaise factory.)

What's the same?

Everything else! Still 7pm, still free, still educational/fun, still full of themed drink specials.

This month's topic is the Civil War, and, since everyone in the...

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You're cordially invited to the next meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Social Studies!

When: Monday, October 17, 7pm, free!
Where: Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street

Last month, nearly everyone in Brooklyn packed Pete's Candy Store for the inaugural meeting of SASS (awesome)--this month, you'll definitely want to arrive early to snag a seat and take part in Pete's happy hour. 

And what'll we be covering? Oh just ...

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The first offical meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies will convene on Monday, September 26, at 7pm at Pete’s Candy Store. Be there! 

What's on the docket? 

Byzantium to Bummerville: Over 500 years of history artfully boiled down into a delicious and easily digested, condensed-soup of an overview. Learn the major causes of the Crusades, what went down in Jerusalem, and how these medieval...

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Coworking is a bit of a pet obsession of mine, for really no reason at all. There are lots and lots of neat new spaces popping up all around Brooklyn and the city -- a pretty inclusive list of which you can see here -- but we've been lucky enough to get the know the folks at a couple of them that are equally awesome. If you're in the market for some desk space that's not in your apartment or a coffee shop, we'd...

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