When I first moved to New York City, I used my keen powers of observation to determine that there was a lot going on around me. Initially, in order to track down these things that I intuited were happening, I might visit the website of some music venue, study the New Yorker listings or (I blush at the thought now) go to the Time Out New York website and try to sort through like 1.3×10^25 events they list new every day (and those are just the editors\u2019 choices). Over time, and possibly through employment at an event-centic company, I used my also keen powers of discovery and research to unearth some of the resources that the true New Yorker\u2014the hipster, the bro, the socialite and the grotesque unsightly mutant hybrid of the three\u2014uses to stuff the holes of his or her free time.<\/p>\n
And today my friends I share that knowledge with you, that you might be spared a few minutes of trying to decipher what exactly the hell is going on on the Village Voice website. Let\u2019s party:<\/p>\n
1. The Skint<\/strong> 2. New York Social Diary<\/strong> 3. Facebook.com<\/strong> 2. Gary\u2019s Guide<\/strong> 5. No Nonsense NYC<\/strong> 6. Free Williamsburg<\/strong> Well that about does it. If you feel strongly about other resources that have been looked over in this post, by all means add to the list in the comments. And a bonus resource!: you can always check the Featured Events section of our own site<\/a>, where you\u2019ll find the absolute most superlatively excellent events happening in the entire US of A right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I first moved to New York City, I used my keen powers of observation to determine that there was a lot going on around me. Initially, in order to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Skint<\/a>\u2014maintained in the true spirit of today\u2019s employment market by two young, underemployed friends who started a blog\u2014has the philosophy that \u201cyou don\u2019t need to be rich to enjoy the best of the city.\u201d In that spirit The Skint is heavily focussed on free and inexpensive activities, namely in the realms of film screenings, classical music, bar\/pub events, performance art and other financially accessible concerts, classes and ongoing exhibits.<\/p>\n
\nIf The Skint thinks you don\u2019t have to be rich to enjoy New York, the New York Social Diary<\/a> maintains just the opposite: if drinks are less than $18 or tables less than $3000 or the drama anything less than telenovela-caliber, the evening is a bust. \u201cYour link to [high] society,\u201d NYSD provides a nicely curated list of charity balls, gallery receptions, fashion-y events and fur coat maintenance seminars.<\/p>\n
\nOkay so don\u2019t close this tab yet\u2014stay with me on this one. I recently navigated over to the Events section of my Facebook and found that incorrigible Zuckerberg had crammed my calendar full of \u201csuggested\u201d events. But lo\u2014as I perused more of these suggestions I found they were things I could actually be interested in checking out, and were furthermore based on the events I had been invited to in the past. Fair enough Se\u00f1or Z, you may stay CEO.<\/p>\n
\nAimed at the technology and startup communities, Gary\u2019s Guide<\/a>\u2018s forte is what might be called the educational gathering\u2014a big trend in tech culture where people who don\u2019t really have the tenth of the first idea about starting their own business gather to try to learn how to do exactly that. The good thing about the educational tech gathering is that there\u2019s usually some serious free drinks and food involved, so if you\u2019re homeless and even partially groomed you\u2019ll be able to thrive off these things.<\/p>\n
\nNo nonsense is a lot like The Skint\u2014small, community oriented and Brooklyn heavy\u2014but with more of an emphasis on the 9pm-4am range of events than the 7-10pm ones. So No Nonsense is a great resource for dance parties, silly bar nights and similar shenanigans. But No Nonsense also has other dimensions; their weekly newsletter, already notoriously long and unnavigable, will once a month list ongoing events and educational and volunteer opportunities. No nonsense gets a ton of submissions for their list, and the owners do a knock-up job of sorting through them and being the matchless \u201cdiscriminating resource for independent art, weird events, strange happenings, unique parties, and senseless culture in new york city.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThis last one is kind of a \u201cfurther reading\u201d sort of resource. Free Williamsburg has compiled an even larger list<\/a> of websites and publications that list all manner of events in NYC, though with a strong focus on live music. F Dub also has a handy Editor\u2019s Choice section<\/a>, where a few particularly choice shows for the week can be perused.<\/p>\n