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NYC hotels celebrate return of Mad Men with old fashioned drink deals

AMC Mad Men Season 5 Cast Photo

Monday menus — NYC hotels, where Don Draper, Roger Sterling and some of the other cast of the award-winning Mad Men drank, ate or slept — alone or not — are celebrating the return of the blockbuster AMC series for its fifth season with deals on [...]

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NYC on the Cheap iTunes/iPad/iTouch app

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The app version of NYC on the Cheap has just been updated and re-released on the iTunes Store.  The new 1.3 version contains more NYC cheap eats, more listings about NYC history, neighborhoods and how to get around, and more links to the Twitter and Facebook pages of the restaurants, museums [...]

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Oscar night parties with beer and brats

Who will win the coveted Academy Award for best picture, best actor, best actress, and best several dozen other categories?  And won’t you have more fun watching the 84th Academy Awards telecast on Sunday watching it on big screens, in a bar with German beer, brats, and your BFFs.  Seriously, the two Loreley Restaurants [...]

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NYC on the Cheap iTunes/iPad/iTouch app

iPhone/iPad/iTouch app

The app version of NYC on the Cheap has just been updated and released on the iTunes Store.  The new 1.3 version contains more NYC cheap eats, more listings about NYC history, neighborhoods and how to get around, and more links to the Twitter and Facebook pages of the restaurants, museums [...]

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After work salsa, soul dancing every Friday 6PM

Put on your dancing shoes and end the work week with a special after work dance party offering salsa in one space, soul in the other, and you can go back and forth for one price, just $10.  Harlem After Work Salsa & Soul Party will be every Friday, from February 24th to March [...]

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Mardi Gras party in Manhattan with Red Hot Louisiana Band

Who says the Big Easy has the best Mardi Gras parties?  The Big Apple knows how to celebrate, New Orleans style, with red hot sounds from C. J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band.  Listen to — and dance to — up-tempo, toe-tapping Cajun and Zydeco tunes at a special Mardi Gras event [...]

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Salsa dancing on the cheap: Friday after work dance party in Harlem

Put on your dancing shoes for a pre-Valentine’s Day salsa dance, at the Leather Lounge in Harlem.  This is an after-work party, starting a 6 PM, with Deejays playing Old School Salsa — great old-fashioned Mambo, cha cha and Merengue music.  That means no hip-hop, no techno, at a sound level that won’t give [...]

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Dancing under the stars at the Hayden Planetarium

You don’t need to buy an airline ticket to the Caribbean to be dancing under the stars, because you can do it here in NYC, at the Rose Center for Science and Earth, which includes the Hayden Planetarium.  The evening of music and dance — and stars — is called One Step Beyond.  Dance [...]

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Off Broadway Week: BOGO tickets for hit shows through Feb. 12

BOGO on Off Broadway.  It’s the annual Off Broadway Week, which builds on the success of the annual Broadway Week BOGO ticket deal.  Buy two-for-one tickets to top Off-Broadway shows now, for performances through February 4, 2012.  Hit shows are as low as $26.50 each with the purchase of two tickets.  The list perennial [...]

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NYC on the Cheap iTunes/iPad/iTouch app

iPhone/iPad/iTouch app

Launched last year as NYC Free and Frugal, the app version of NYC on the Cheap has been renamed NYC on the Cheap.

Download it now from the iTunes store, and get hundreds of places for cheap eats, stores where you’ll never pay retail, museums that are always free, and lots [...]

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Off Broadway Week: BOGO tickets for hit shows Jan. 30 to Feb. 12

BOGO on Off Broadway.  It’s the annual Off Broadway Week, which builds on the success of the annual Broadway Week BOGO ticket deal.  Buy two-for-one tickets to top Off-Broadway shows now, for performances between January 17 and  February 4, 2012.  Hit shows are as low as $26.50 each with the purchase of two tickets.  [...]

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Friday the 13th Undead zombie fest in Brooklyn tonight

 Ghoulish make-up and vintage clothing are the rule tonight at the Friday the 13th Undead 1989 Winter Formal, celebrating the cult movie classic and zombies.  It’s really an excuse for grown-ups to have one extra night of Halloween partying, dancing to 80s music from a live band, The Engagements.   The zombie fun begins [...]

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