This week, neighborbeeblog is the featured site for Cool In Your Code.com’s “Around The Blog” section!

Cool in Your Code.com is the online destination for Cool In Your Code, an “infotainment” show that airs 3 nights a week on NYC TV (Channel 25). This Emmy-award winner breaks down what’s cool, new, undiscovered, and different throughout New York City’s 200+ zip codes. The website features content from the show, contests, games, and links to NYC-focused blogs. And for those who live on the other side of the pond, there’s a London edition as well, published in conjunction with the Times Online. Do yourself a favor and check it out!

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Apologies for the absence of Buzz yesterday, but we were so distracted by the (disappointing) Gossip Girl finale that we forgot. Oops. At any rate, it’s raining and gross, but if you feel the need to venture out into the inclement weather, try the events below:

Music: Compete in “A to Z Emcee” @ Vox Pop

Dating: 8 Minute Dating @ Dewey’s Flatiron

Food: Grand Sichuan is having a free tasting of their new menu today, tomorrow, and Thursday @ 7 pm.

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Happy weekend! There’s only one more weekend before the summer season officially starts, so enjoy the rest of spring at these events.

May 16- Dargerism After Dark Party @ American Folk Art Museum

May 17 - Pinkster Celebration @ Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in East Flatbush

May 17- Paul Holmes @ Supreme Trading

May 18 - 49th Annual Park Slope Civic Council House Tour starts @ Berkeley Carroll School

May 18- Gong Show @ Arlene’s Grocery

Through May 18 – “Slam Show 11” dance/acrobatics performances by Streb’s Action Factory in Williamsbur

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It’s Friday! Yay!

Experimental bike lanes! (Streetsblog )

Even cops don’t like traffic cops! (Daily News )

New MetroCard bonuses explained! (2nd Ave. Sagas )

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If you were to be a freegan for only one week, this would be it. After you hit up all of tonight’s gallery openings for their free booze, continue on to the fine establishments below for some more free nourishment. That is, if you can call fast food nourishment.

Free Southern Style Chicken Biscuit or Southern Style Chicken Sandwich at McDonald’s

Free small (16 oz.) Iced Coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts on May 15th (10am-10pm)

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This week on The Swarm, neighborbeeblog plays host to Rob The Bouncer, author of Clublife (both the blog and the book). Tired of life in East Central Queens, Rob tells us about his dreams to move– not across the bridge, but across the borough… to Brooklyn.

I’ve spent most of my life thus far in the borough of Queens, home to countless little troll-men, a subject I’ll touch on momentarily. Queens, to me, has never been, nor will it ever be, “The New Brooklyn.” I can’t think of it in those terms because the part of Queens in which I was raised bears no resemblance to the yuppified, clog-wearing, McSweeney’s-worshipping, hipster-squatting parts of Brooklyn - unless you think, for example, that 50 Cent and/or the Kalua Cabaret fall under the categories of “hip” and “trendy.”

The little troll-men that haunt the dreams of my anti-antediluvian Queens wear floral-print polyester sweatshirts, straight-brimmed New Era hats cocked to the side - sticker on for authenticity - and that tricky little chin strap beard that all the women swoon over. I see them everywhere I go.

This is probably why I’ve been thinking of moving to Brooklyn lately. I pretty much woke up one morning and said to myself, “Self? You’ve published a book and you’ve been doing fairly well for yourself lately on multiple fronts, so maybe it’s time you get away from the little troll-men of Queens and try to live around some more intelligent and happening people.”

So where does a guy like me - a tourist, for all intents and purposes, when it comes to the city’s “intellectual” life - think to look when he wants to live and work amongst people he believes will make him feel a little more relevant?

Why, Park Slope, of course!

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Happy hump day! It’s nice outside. Go out and play.

Books: Emily Giffin (Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof) book signing @ Columbus Circle Borders, 7pm.

Comedy: Themepark Superstar: A story of a summer at Hershey Park @ UCB Theater, 7 pm

Music: Brazilian balle funkers Bonde Do Role @ Club Europa, 8 pm

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Haagen Dazs has a sweet deal that is particularly close to our buzzing little hearts today: free Vanilla Honey Bee Ice Cream! Add some great singers and a good use for YouTube, and you’ve got yourself a Tuesday.

Food: Free Vanilla Honey Bee Ice Cream @ participating Haagen Dazs shops, 4-8 pm

Music: Songstress Allison Veltz @ Rockwood Music Hall

Art: Artists Using You Tube @ The Kitchen, 7 pm

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As Anthony mentioned in his last post, neighborbee hired artist Hani Shihada to draw the neighborbee logo on 115th and Broadway in the Columbia University/Morningside Heights neighborhood.

The neighborbee marketing team took some photos and video of the event, which we’ve edited together to show you how the whole thing unfolded. Enjoy the video below, and stop by and see the art if you’re in the neighborhood!

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If watching Gossip Girl and The Hills isn’t your thing, there are plenty of other things to do tonight. Below are neighborbee blog’s picks for today:

Events: William Shatner interviewed @ 92nd Street Y, 7:30 pm

Music/ Comedy: Andy Fite - Jazz Comic Philosopher @ Freddy’s Backroom, 9 pm

Fun & Games: Williamsburg Spelling Bee @ Pete’s Candy Store, 7:30 pm

Fun & Games: Monday Night Bingo with Murray Hill @ Bowery Poetry, 7 pm

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