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- Paid $800 Interest On $2,000 Purchase And Ruined Friend’s Credit Score
- Loaned $5,000 To Friends To Make Music Demo; They Spent It On Guitars.
- Didn’t Buy House for $18,000. Now It’s Worth $160,000.
- Lost $1200 In A Card Game
- After Paying $39,000 To Debt Consolidation Company, She’s Left With $45,000 Debt.
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Shut Up!
Until now, we’ve given a pass to Dick Cavett, the former talk-show host, whose latter years have amounted to a creepy nostalgia tour–a regular New York Times column that endlessly reminds us of the icons and walking cliches he’s interviewed, … Continue reading
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The Frying Pan
Variously described as “a frat party on steroids on a boat,” or swarming with “People I Hated in College,” or polluted with “wall-to-wall ex-frat boys,” The Frying Pan is actually a historic lightship, originally built in 1929, formerly at the … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City
Tagged frat boys, mussels, pier 66, riverwalk, The frying pan
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Secret Square
We love secret restaurants like Crif Dogs and the (reportedly) ultra-violent Backroom, but they are in Squaresville, Manhattan. Which is why we love Benchmark, a Park Slope boîte, tricky to find, unless you keep an eye out for the Second … Continue reading
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Shut up
What we like best about Ricardo Hernandez are his fabric collages and sketches; they give us night terrors. What we like least about Ricardo Hernandez is what he says about his art: “In my work,” he said, during our recent … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Events, The City
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