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Can’t Get Enough Lena Dunham? Boy, Do We Have the Play For You
Left to right: Tessa Skara (Apologetic Lena), Haley Traub (Perfect Lena), Stephanie Hsu (Urban Lena), Sam Corbin (Self-Depicted Lena), Jaime Wright (Naked Lena) She’s won a Golden Globe. She’s sold a...
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100 Bottles of Beer On the Wall (Literally!) at Bushwick’s New Growler Den
100 bottles of beer on the wall. (Photo: Lauren Carol Smith) Mmm, beer. (Photo: Lauren Carol Smith) The Pegas growler filling machine carbonates the beer so that it'll last in your fridge longer....
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Hi-Collar Opens Tomorrow With the Blingiest Bathroom Ever
hi-collar-8 hi-collar-7 hi-collar-4Pour-over coffee, anyone? hi-collarHi Collar's bathroom door. (Photo: Natalie Rinn) hi-collar-5 Bon Yagi isn’t Osaka’s latest Bon Jovi cover band. He’s the “mayor of...
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At Rooftop Supper Club, a Sunset Hang With Mr. ‘Cook to Bang’
Rooftop Supper Club summer kickoff (Photo: Anna Silman) Rooftop Supper Club summer kickoff (Photo: Anna Silman) Rooftop Supper Club summer kickoff (Photo: Anna Silman) Rooftop Supper Club summer...
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We Go To Raves and Instagram Them So You Don’t Have To
Sunrise over the USS Titanic at #BangOnNYC Yoga 2.0 #BangOnNYC Rave hands! #BangOnNYC A rave grows in Bushwick #BangOnNYC Already craving more Bedford + Bowery in your life? We thought so. Follow all...
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Help This Man Realize His Trippy Dream Of Staging ‘Wizard Of Oz’ in Bushwick
Somewhere over in Bushwick the L train rides; artists and Hasids, poets and dreamers, ride their bikes. So goes a dreamy, surreal version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” that may some day appear in...
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Reel Psyched: Our Northside and L.E.S* Film Festival Picks
Introducing “Reel Psyched,” wherein we tell you what we’re really excited to see in the theaters this week. With the Lower East Side Film Festival in full swing in Manhattan and the Northside...
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Lil’ Nugs: Dressler Closes, Ludlow Lot Sells For $5.7M
Every day at 4:20 p.m. we stuff your pipe with Lil’ Nugs, our late afternoon link dump. Sorry we’re late today — launch and all! A Williamsburg/East Village writer-producer team uses the Bedford +...
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The Village Voice Is Leaving the Village… and Occupying Wall Street
Will 80 Maiden Lane soon look like this? (Photo: Phillip Pantuso) In a move fittingly symbolic for a paper whose corporate overlords flew in to lay off some of its most venerated, tenured writers, the...
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Welcome to Bushwick, Welcome to the Johnsons!
(Photo: Brando Skyhorse) Max Fish isn’t the only Lower East Side bar that’s Brooklyn bound. Welcome to the Johnsons is opening a sister spot in Bushwick. Unlike the Rivington Street den of depravity,...
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Check Out This Blood-Spattered ‘Game of Thrones’ Birthday Cake
Photo: Sweet and Shiny Cafe Elaine Li of Bushwick’s Sweet & Shiny Cafe made an awesome “Game of Thrones”-themed “nameday” cake last week for one lucky Northman. What better way to cope with (read:...
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Step Right Up! Coney Island’s Sealo the Sealboy Will Be Reborn in Bushwick...
Scary Ben and Darlinda Just Darlinda (Photo courtesy of Bushwick Burlesque) Tassel-twirling burlesque veteran Darlinda Just Darlinda and her partner-in-circus Scary Ben have a love affair with Coney...
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Lil’ Nugs: Ethiopian Speakeasies and NYU Hamptons
Every day at 4:20 p.m. we stuff your pipe with Lil’ Nugs, our late afternoon link dump. Yesterday morning, the Bedford Avenue L train platform looked like McCarren Park during Northside: crowded with...
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Artist-Musicians (and a Former Pro Runningback) Open AP Coffee
AP Coffee (Photo: Scott Lynch) AP Coffee (Photo: Natasha Young) AP Coffee (Photo: Natasha Young) AP Coffee (Photo: Natasha Young) AP Coffee (Photo: Natasha Young) Yesterday, Wes Mapes and his business...
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No Joke, The Newsstand at Metropolitan Now Sells Pickle Chips, Zines, and Vinyl
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Car Jumps Curb and Plows Through Bodega Flower Stand, Injuring Eight
The car spun to a stop. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) Screen Shot 2013 06 16 at 5.21.57 PM Screen Shot 2013 06 19 at 10.31.03 AM1 A telephone booth. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) More debris. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)...
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Police: Brooklyn Bargoers Are Getting Attacked and Robbed On Their Way Home
Posted at Pearl’s (Photo: Lauren Carol Smith) If you’re in the habit of walking home alone while checking your Facebook feed with just one eye open, it might be time to wise up: police in Williamsburg...
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Secret Project Robot Opens a Happyfun Hideaway
Happyfun Hideaway (Photo: Lauren Carol Smith) Happyfun Hideaway (Photo: Lauren Carol Smith) Happyfun Hideaway (Photo: Lauren Carol Smith) Happyfun Hideaway (Photo: Lauren Carol Smith) Happyfun...
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Buttermilk Bros: Competition Is Very Friendly at These New Ice Cream Parlors
Mohan Kumar and David Yoo (Photo: Erica Martin) When David Yoo, a student at Parsons, and Mohan Kumar, a realtor and DJ, met at a party in the East Village in 2005, they had no idea that one of them...
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Think Cronuts Are a Big Deal? Look at This Ice-Cream-Sundae Toast Castle
Behold: honey toast. (Photo: Anna Silman) Parting of the honey toast. (Photo: Anna Silman) The breaking of the bread. (Photo: Anna Silman) The autopsy shot. (Photo: Anna Silman) Just look at those...
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