What’s your sign? (Cringe.) Haven’t I seen you here before? (Wince.) If icebreakers like that leave you cold, try Nerve’s refreshingly human approach. It’s an offshoot of nerve.com, a lifestyle site geared toward creative, web-savvy city-dwellers (a.k.a. you), and it forgoes the algorithms and pseudoscience common to most dating sites and lets you talk to each other like humans instead.
Beware the one-upping friend. You plan a trip to the Bahamas; she flew the Concorde to Paris. But your days of being one-upped are numbered. Enter The Story Studio. Workshops train students to transform a life experience from ho-hum to hel-lo. Learn to charm a crowd through exercises in story structuring, or conquer your public speaking phobia once and for all.
There are many ways to dye. Learn the best from the designer behind our favorite swirly, multicolored dresses and pants. The Brooklynite hosts a four-week course that will take your tie-dyeing from hippie to hip.
Fresh catch: New lobster roll dog biscuits made in the West Village are sure to make your best friend’s tail wag.
Host a puppy over the weekend and return it on Monday, thanks to a new site that connects vacationing pet owners with willing sitters. It’s like a completely humane Rent-a-Pup in reverse.
A helping hand for the 99 percent.
