A FiPS Guide To A Low Key Valentine's Day: For Couples

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For some couples, Valentine's Day means a fancy dinner, ties and dresses, sparkly gifts and sweet treats encased in heart-shaped boxes. For others, there's just one simple goal: to not leave the house. For those of us who'd prefer to share a mild evening with our significant otras free from restaurant crowds (they give me hives), here's your FiPS Guide to a low key V-Day.

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Your FiPS Guide to Valentine's Day: For Singles

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Well, here it is, Park Slope: the day on which Hallmark, restaurant chalkboards, and all your attached friends conspire to kick you right in the genitals (Metaphorically. Usually.). Well, conspire with me to hate Valentine's Day right back in its fat, little Cupid face. And there are plenty of ways for the partner-less to occupy themselves in Park Slope this V-Day season. What to do when you're unattached? Read on:

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A FiPS Guide To Getting Gay Married In Brooklyn

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If you're gay, you probably haven't spent your whole life planning a dream wedding. Until New York passed the marriage equality bill, many of us never really thought that we'd ever have a real wedding. Before gays and lesbians were granted marriage rights,  my "partner" and I figured we'd just go to Connecticut, find a judge and get hitched quickly and painlessly. But even though it'd have been legal, it didn't feel to us that that was going to be the real deal.  We told our friends and family, "Oh, yeah. Not a big deal. We'll go out to a nice meal next time we see you."

Then the law changed, and that date that we'd set for our wedding became a sort of deadline. Suddenly this marriage was going to be a real thing, you know? The pressure was on! We could no longer go out of state. We had to actually invite people. We had to spend money, throw a fun party, and still figure out how to pay for a needed renovation to our bathroom. We had to find venues and vendors who were available on that kind of short notice. And most importantly, we had to figure out what exactly we wanted this wedding to be.

Assuming  that other gays in Brooklyn are planning weddings and are struggling to figure out exactly how to throw a big party for friends and family without breaking the bank, I'm here to help.

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A FiPS Guide To The Ultimate Super bowl Snacks

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Do you have SUPER BOWL FEVER? Are you ready to paint your face blue and/or red, white & blue and yell at the television? Giants! Patriots! Rematch! Skeletor performing at halftime! Get ready! This Sunday, it's SUPER BOWL XLVI baby!

Whether you're spending the game with a bunch of friends & getting drunk on shitty, NFL-endorsed beer, or planning to don your sharpest pair of NY Giants sweatpants & get whiskey blotto under the pale corner living room lamp all by your lonesome, you'll definitely need something to snack on alongside your beverages.

After all, Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest snacking day of the year, so while you're getting your yearly dose of over-the-top football grandiosity, you should be chowing down in style. In honor of the Patriots' impending 11-point win, here are eleven SUPER SNACKS you should probably be cramming into your piehole this Sunday.

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Drop Your Balls in the Slope: A FiPS Guide To New Year's Eve

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The year is almost over, fellow Park Slopers, and that means it's time to look back in pride at all of your accomplishments, kept promises, hard work, and sacrifices -- it's a chance to take stock of how far you've come over the last year. I'm just shitting you. It's time to forget your own and the world's vast shittiness by getting shit-faced in the funnest neighborhood around. Don't stay home watching balls drop like some suburban hausfrau. There's plenty going down in Slope-area establishments, so hit the town like the Baller that you are. The world's ending next year anyway, so live it up. Here's the FIPS run-down of Slope New Year's happenings:

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