This month Society for the Advancement of Social Studies teams up with Urban Oyster Tours to bring you the history of booze!

Some of Urban Oyster's best tour guides enlighten us with a lecture on each of beer, wine, and whiskey. Plus the chance to win tickets to Urban Oyster’s new spring waterfront tour!

All the details:

Tuesday, March 5^th
Public Assembly, 70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn
Doors at 7pm
Free, RSVP...

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Next Friday, March 8, join John Reinhardy, Brainery teacher and neighbor, for the opening of his photo exhibition for the opening of A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Berlin, Possessing and Processing Trauma. You can also participate in a silent aucition to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Get all the details and RSVP on Facebook. 

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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!

Over the weekend I was poking around New York Supermarket, looking for roasted peanuts. While that didn't work out, I did find an incredible alternative: Bamboo Charcoal Peanuts.

I've dealt with enough foreign-language packaging to know a mistranslation when I see one. What...

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Check out these photos from last week's print making class! Students carved images into linoleum blocks, rolled paint on them, and printed on paper and cards. 

If you want to make your own, we have a couple sessions coming up on March 7th! 

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2013 UPDATE: We ended up not doing coworking after all. Sorry, folks!

We'll be offering coworking by the day on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at our new space in Prospect Heights (190 Underhill Ave) for a couple weeks before monthly memberships roll out in March. All you need to do is pick your days and sign up.  

Whether you're penning the next Great American Novel or coding a nouveau Instagram, working around other folks...

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