Living on the Cheap

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NYC holiday weekend free events for Saturday, May 28th

Free, frugal, and cheap  fun are the orders for the day in NYC this first full day of the Memorial Day weekend.  Here’s a round-up of events and activities to enjoy NYC on the Cheap today –

NYC Fleet Week 2011 continues — click here for the full weekend schedule

9 a.m. – 6 [...]

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NYC weekend planner for street fairs and festivals

There are so many street fairs and festivals in NYC this weekend that there is no way you can participate in all of them.  Tough choices, but choose we must.  Here’s the list of what to do and where to go this weekend –

Events both Saturday and Sunday –

The New York Public [...]

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NYC Fashion Alert: Exhibit on Zero-Waste Clothing

Creating a Zero-Waste Garment is the newest exhibit at Parsons, the fashion design school now part of the New School.  The exhibit is centered around a design course, during which fashion students learn how to create clothes with minimal waste and maximum recycling.  The exhibit opens Tuesday, February 8, 2011 and runs through Wednesday, [...]

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Zachary’s Smile Closing Doors with Huge Sale

There are no smiles for fans of Zachary’s Smile, the eclectic vintage clothing and accessories shop in Noho.  The popular store shuts its doors forever in a few days, but until then, everything is on super sale.  Spend $25 on already reduced merchandise, and you can take home everything you can stuff in a [...]

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36 Free Writing Classes This Week

The Gotham Writers Workshop is offering 36 FREE introductory writing classes this week in Manhattan.  If you want to learn about comedy writing, children’s book writing, article writing, fiction or memoir writing, this is your chance to get a basic lesson, for free.  The classes are Tuesday and Wednesday, January 11 and 12, in [...]

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Halloween Costumes Half Off at Ricky’s

Kid’s costumes are half-off at Ricky’s, plus discounts on Halloween costume items for grown-ups.  There are Ricky’s stores all over New York City, but the largest selections are at the Ricky’s Costume Superstores.  The location at 375 Broadway (between Franklin and White) is year-round, plus check out the selection at 486 Sixth Ave at [...]

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Pulitzer Prize Winners Free Lecture on Oppression of Women Around the Globe

New York Times reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have specialized in reporting about the oppression of women around the world.  They won a Pulitzer Price for journalism for their work, and they are giving a free lecture on the subject Monday, November first, at Cooper Union. Kristoff and WuDunn, who are the [...]

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NYC Free and Frugal iPhone iPad iTouch app

NYC Free and Frugal $1.99 app from iTunes store

It may be the best $1.99 bargain on the planet.  NYC Free and Frugal is the newest app for the iPhone, iPad and iTouch, just pubished and avialable for download on the iTunes store.

NYC Free and Frugal information on more than 100 cheap [...]

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NYC Theater Discounts for Off-Broadway Shows

Tickets for Off-Broadway shows are up to half-price from Theater Mania.  Here’s what’s on sale now:

Microcrisis is just $18 per ticket, instead of $25, thorugh October 3rd, at the HERE theater in The Village.  This is a funny and disturbing look at what happens to the world economy when Wall Street bankers mis-use [...]

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NYU Art Gallery Displays Works from Former East Germany

The Grey Art Gallery, part of NYU, is featuring an exhibit of posters and other artwork from the former East Germany.  The artwork is from the period 1967 to 1990, when the Berlin Wall fell and East Germany and West Germany re-united once again.  These so-called Künstlerplakate works functioned both as advertisements for cultural events [...]

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Free Writing Workshops Sept. 21 and 22

Improve your writing with two days of free writing courses from Gotham Writers’ Workshop.  These are free samples of the courses they offer for money, so it’s a great chance to test drive courses on songwriting, memoir writing, humor writing, fiction writing, screen writing, or the more general creative writing.  The free writing workshops [...]

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Free Writing Classes at Barnes & Noble

We are all writers, whether it’s an email, a note to your child’s teacher, or the weekly memo to the boss.  And we all can be better writers, especially if we want to write the great American novel, screenplay, or even become a standup comedian.  Gotham Writers’ Workshop and Barnes & Noble are sponsoring [...]

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