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• A month (20 school days) of school lunches SOLVED

  18-10-2017 22:58
  This cafeteria in PS 11 in Queens is a bright, beautiful lunch spot for kids. If only packing lunch was just as delightful. Photo: @nycscagram
   
  Why is packing lunch such a chore for so many parents?
  Whether you pack one because you don’t want your child to eat the school lunch every day, or because there is no other option, it eats up precious time, and not just in the mornings.
  “Parents will be shocked to learn this, but the average parent spends nearly 700+ hours a year buyin
  
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• "Dude, Where's My Kale?"

  18-10-2017 22:14 via bkmag.com
  
  Illustrations by Maddy Price. Follow her at @coolfriendlyman or visit www.maddyprice.com.
  Many American cities were having a tough time in the late 20th century. The days of a working-class urban center were a fading memory, and virtually the entire country struggled to cope with the change. The 1919 Census of Manufactures showed that the garment industry alone employed over 250,000 New Yorkers in more than 11,000 factories—and that was just counting the businesses in Manhattan. By 1944, t
  
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• A Bavarian bender in Brooklyn

  18-10-2017 21:18
  Sooooo, your plans to steal off to Munich to do Oktoberfest the way it’s supposed to be done never materialized this year, huh? No worries, some enterprising Brooklynites are bringing an authentic Bavarian Oktoberfest festival tent experience to our very own borough this week, as part of the three-day-long First Annual Brooklyn Oktoberfest at Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse. The event kicks off on Friday night with a 7-11pm session that will be include the traditional long German tables and
  
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• A Beer Run and Soup Fest for your Saturday

  18-10-2017 21:15
  Oh man, we are in that glorious sweet spot of Northeast weather where you can actually contemplate going for a run outside without losing half your body weight in sweat but also can spend several hours day drinking outside sans being encased in a head-to-toe parka. Take advantage of this tiny window we get every fall and head to Randall’s Island on Saturday for The Brew Hop 5K, which has the indisputable tagline “Because running is better with beer at the finish line.” Get your
  
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• Gowanus Open Studios weekend is here at last

  18-10-2017 21:10
  Spencer Merolla®
  Crispy apples, crunchy leaves, and hot cider may ring in autumn for some people, but for us Gowanus Open Studios weekend, Oct. 21-22, is always the precursor for an excellent fall season, especially when paired with a slice of pie from Four & Twenty Blackbirds after all is said and done.
  Now in its 21st year, GOS is a scavenger hunt-type weekend in which over 350 local artists open their doors for visitors and art lovers. It’s a behind-the-curtains look into some o
  
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• Toyin Ojih Odutola’s “To Wander Determined” opens at the Whitney

  18-10-2017 21:02
  A detail of Toyin Ojih Odutola’s (b. 1985), Pregnant, 2017. Charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper, 74 1/2 x 42 in. ©Toyin Ojih Odutola.  Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
  If you’re still buzzing over the fact that former President Barack Obama picked the iconic, cooler-than-any-of-us-can-ever-dream-of-being portraitist Kehinde Wiley to paint his official photo for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, then you’ll probably take an
  
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• Taste your way through Chianti

  18-10-2017 20:57
  If you’ve also been hesitant to switch on over to red wine because you’re that reluctant to let summer go, this Chianti tasting at the Museum of Food and Drink might totally do the trick. Led by Italian Wine educator Jeff Porter, the evening will be part history lesson and part tasting, and no, a screening of The Godfather (or Silence of the Lambs) will not follow the event. Starting at 7pm, you’ll taste six different examples with Jeff Porter, Italian wine educa
  
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• Cider Week rules

  18-10-2017 20:38
  It’s a controversial opinion, but I’m kind of meh on the apple-picking craze that seems to sweep the city around this time of year. I love getting out of the city in the fall as much as the next girl, but I find that a day spent in one of those overpriced, over-commodified apple-picking farms crawling with people is always vaguely disappointing, plus I always end up with a jar of apple butter that I’ll never eat. I’m exaggerating, but honestly the notion of having someone
  
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• Hitchcocktober calls

  18-10-2017 20:30
  Halloween is my favorite holiday, and while my appetite for consuming vast quantities of candy and braving the streets of the West Village during the Halloween parade may be dwindling as the years go by, I still love the opportunity to get properly freaked out by a masterfully-directed creepy movie. All month long, City Cinemas Village East has been screening a different Alfred Hitchcock classic on Thursday nights, and this week’s edition of Hitchcocktober involves Rebecca, the direct
  
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• A haunting screening of ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ this Halloween at Kings Theatre

  18-10-2017 15:19
  This Halloween, Kings Theatre will return to its black-and-white days as a 1920s movie palace with a haunting screening of the first true horror film ever made, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari.
  To reimagine the experience of visiting a movie palace in the silent film era, Kings invited Catskill Jazz Factory to fill the 88-year-old theater with live music. Musicians will perform throughout the lobby, on stage, even in one of its hidden rooms.
  Catskill Jazz Factory first screened D
  
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