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Billy Leroy Wants YOU to Come to the Return of His Famed Oddities Tent
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) That menacing man in the British safari hat is Sir William Leroy. If you don’t know the “Wizard of Odd” as one of the stars of Travel Channel’s Baggage Battles, then you...
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Korilla Opens Friday, Bringing Mars Bar and CBGB Along With It
(Photo: Ilyse Liffreing) Who wants some tiger balls? Korilla BBQ is planning to open its first brick-and-mortar location this Friday in the East Village. Remember how everyone loved the tacos at...
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Glasslands Is Closing; Radio Bushwick Mysteriously Shutters
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Three men were arrested after allegedly punching and robbing a 33-year-old man in McCarren Park last Monday night, just before 1 a.m. And a 16-year-old boy was attacked while...
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Exploding in Sound: An Indie Label That’s Blowing Up, You Hear?
Even with our handy-dandy guide to CMJ, it’s hard to know where to head this week — but one thing’s for sure: we’ll be at Silent Barn on Saturday to celebrate the third anniversary of Exploding in...
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This New ‘Man Shop’ Is Serving Up Shots of Whiskey to All Who Enter
(Photo: Ilyse Liffreing) Last month we learned that The Lodge, an online men’s accessories store, was bringing its tobacco-scented “man candles” to the East Village. Last week, the self-described “Man...
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A Chill LES Restaurant Is Popping Up in a Bushwick Bar
Much in the same way we’re bringing our favorite North Brooklyn restaurants to the Lower East Side for our B+B Bazaar this Saturday, a Bushwick bar is importing a Lower East Side chef into its kitchen....
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At These Two Parties, Buy an Artsy T-Shirt or Make Your Own
Everyone loves T-Shirts, so instead of lining up for the latest Supreme drop or overpaying for a musty smelling vintage concert tee, Bushwick Print Lab is giving you two chances to buy hand-screened...
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Roomrunner, Heliotropes, Washer and Celestial Shore Exploded into Sound
Celestial Shore (Photos: Lindsey-Paige McCloy) Exploding in Sound Records can put on a show. Around Brooklyn, the perfunctory “thank you, Dan Goldin,” has evolved into a mantra of sorts, like the...
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Kennedy’s Will Reopen in Breezy Point On the Anniversary of Sandy
(Courtesy of Kennedy’s) Just a week before the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, a beloved Breezy Point restaurant that was hit hard by the storm has announced its comeback. Kennedy’s sent out word to...
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Edgar Allan Poe Party at Analogue; Two Doggie Halloween Parades
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Following the death of a 3-year-old girl at her Bushwick apartment this weekend, the neighborhood’s 83 Precinct Domestic Violence Unit will host an outreach event today at 1 p.m....
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Climb Aboard a Nightmare Cruise Ship and Ride a Sea of Laughter
(Photo: Frigid New York @Horse Trade) Stop worrying about ebola and just be glad you aren’t on a cruise ship teaming with food-poisoned zombies. That’s the setting of a quirky, uproarious tale now...
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Salt + Charcoal Has Fired Up the Robata in Williamsburg
(Photos courtesy Salt + Charcoal) Salt + Charcoal, the Williamsburg robata restaurant we’ve been looking forward to since August, soft-opened this week on the corner of Bedford and Grand. Their liquor...
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Guess Who’ll Be Looking For a Girlfriend at the B+B Bazaar On Saturday
You’ve seen him on flyers around town — now come see Dan Perino in person! He’ll be Looking for a Girlfriend this Saturday. In Dan’s words, this is not a joke. Starting at noon, the legendary lamppost...
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Double Dose of Dario, Kathy Acker’s Sex Tape, and More
Here’s a buncha films we’re psyched to see this week and beyond. We won’t go completely spooky on you until next week, so enjoy our handful of non-Halloween picks in the bunch while you still can. But...
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Confirmed: Ebola Victim Took L Train, Bowled at The Gutter
New York City’s first Ebola patient bowled at The Gutter the day before he came down with symptoms, city officials confirmed tonight. Health commissioner Mary Travis Bassett said the 33-year-old...
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Driver Fined For Striking Cyclist; Bushwick Gets More Live Music
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Renovations at 102 Norfolk Street—site of an apartment building and The Back Room bar—have allegedly exposed locals to toxic levels of lead dust. [Gothamist] Jose Henriquez, a...
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Pat Kiernan Just Invited the Mayor to The Gutter
We’re a little bowled over by this. Everyone’s favorite adorkable news anchor, NY1′s Pat Kiernan, just invited the governor and mayor to his next bowling night at The Gutter, the bowling alley where...
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A Bushwick-East Village Cyber Dating Movie Premieres IRL
Back in March, we caught The Heart Machine at South by Southwest. Since then, the psychological thriller about a cyber relationship between a Bushwick boy (played by John Gallagher, Jr., aka Jim from...
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The Korean Spot In the Old Dok Suni Space Shall Open Soon
Brian Kim and Tae Kyung Ku in June (Photo: Nicole Disser) Way back at the start of the summer East Village staple and Quentin Tarantino’s favorite restaurant, Dok Suni, closed its doors. Back in June,...
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See Nirvana And Other Long Deads Play On Halloween
(Photo: Mr. Brownstone Facebook) Halloween approacheth y’all, and now that Ebola has hit NYC it’s time to nix that costume you knew was a terrible idea in the first place, which leaves you little time...
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