Bevans!

I’m probably the wrong person to be promoting shoes (I have two pair – flip flops and smelly boots), but I’ve checked out Bevans Shoes, and they’re pretty bad ass. She hand paints them all and they’re on sale for $90 – 150.
Bevan is a young New Yorker with talent (shoe painting) and passion (mostly [...]

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Weekend at the Movies

Feast of Love: I strangely like Greg Kinnear. I don’t understand why. There really is no specific quality that I can pinpoint. I guess I like him in the same way that people like vanilla ice cream. Or Bill Pullman. In any case, he stars in this new romantic comedy alongside Morgan Freeman, Radha Mitchell [...]

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Review: Superfine

When I first got to Superfine (126 Front St. in DUMBO), the friends I was meeting weren’t there yet. Peeking through the glass doors I saw a place that looked like how Cosi’s original designers probably wished for it to look – exposed brick, sprawling couches, multi-leveled seating, interesting hanging lamps, attractive well-dressed clientele. Since [...]

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Get Your Electoral Engagement On!

Brooklyn Skeptic loves nothing more than the prospect of young people becoming involved in the electoral process. The 2004 election featured the highest amount of youth participation in over four decades. In my opinion, the best way to keep that trend going is by frequent, active engagement with the candidates. People under 30 should know [...]

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A Peek Inside Brooklyn Skeptic’s Editorial Process…

me: oh, one of my suggestions, in case i forget it before the meeting, is to just tag all of our posts paris hilton and see if it helps

recklesley: i think that’s cheating

me: whatEVER
the system is corrupt

recklesley: it’s ok
we need to be a pillar of ethics

me: arrgh

recklesley: what’s wrong?

me: ethics!

recklesley: haha
i feel the same way

me: [...]

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Sexy Update for Brooklyn Girl Lovers

Last night over dinner I got introduced to the “i heart brooklyn girls at coney island” calendar. This shit is hot. A swimsuit calendar of queer femme girls, each month is a different lady shot on locay at Coney looking fucking fabulous and dressed by a local designer. Each month tells us which neighborhood she’s [...]

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You’re Nobody Until You’re Talked About.

I watched an amazing show last week. An amazing show called “Gossip Girl.” And just so you know, I could not be more serious. It’s my new fave teen dram. This show is pretty much the best thing to sprout from the CW, ever. And I’ve seen a few episodes [...]

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New York Cares Day Update

As I mentioned in a previous post, Team Brooklyn Skeptic is going to revitalize the shit out of a Brooklyn school on New York Cares Day. And after a fine day of painting murals and hop scotch courts, organizing libraries and gardening, we’re going to get down with our bad selves at the after party.
You [...]

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Mets Update for Steroid Users

Steroids have been and will continue to be a dominant story in professional sports for the rest of time. Cheaters will always cheat for as long as they can possibly get away with it. And we will continue to let them, even when the evidence is right before our eyes, as long as they keep [...]

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Brooklyn Update for Illiterate Environmentalists

Plastic Bottles, 2007 by Chris Jordan.

Detail shot.

Detailer shot, actual size of installation photo.
This is a picture of two million plastic bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
DAMN!!
His website has more in this series. Want to see what the amount of money the US government spends in Iraq every hour ($12.5 million) looks [...]

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