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How 6 Practitioners of the Dark Arts View Halloween
Molly Burkett (Photo: Catland website) With so many wild parties going on tonight, it’s easy to forget that Halloween originates from the ancient festival of Samhain, celebrated by the Celts 2,000...
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Morbid Anatomy’s Day of the Dead Revelers Showed Us Their Tats
For this ghoulish installment of Why That Tat, we crashed an early Day of the Dead party at the Morbid Anatomy Museum. Laetitia This is a pair conjoined skeleton siamese twins, each holding snakes....
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Cloak & Dagger Moves to East 9th, Will Relaunch Its Own Line
Ten days ago designer Brookelynn Starnes closed Cloak & Dagger’s store in Brooklyn and two days ago, she closed its original East Village location so that she could relocate both of them to a...
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East Village Gets a Homegrown Haitian-West African Restaurant
The East Village, that bastion of ethnic eats, didn’t have a West African or Haitian option until Le Marecage brought both of them at once. Unlike so many of the marketing-minded spots opening around...
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Spooky, Kooky Photos From the Village Halloween Parade
Cue up Lou Reed’s “Halloween Parade” and click through our photos of the 41st annual installment, which rolled up Sixth Avenue last night with Whoopi Goldberg as grand marshall. Then tell us who wore...
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Shooting in Bushwick, Stabbing in East Village; Barney Rosset Mural Up For Grabs
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Wednesday night in Bushwick, these two 20-something gunmen fired inside a Woodbine Street lobby, according to police. A 31-year-old man who was shot in the chest is in stable...
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10 Hours of Walking in NYC: The ‘Are You Jewish?’ Version
Last week’s video of a woman walking the streets of NYC for 10 hours proved what Lena Dunham already knew: everyone in NYC is subject to catcalls. And it immediately became fodder for parodies. Here’s...
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Photos: This Wild New Weekly at the Museum of Sex Won Halloween
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Watch Danielia Cotton Show You What Sweet Dreams Are Made Of
On Thursday, Brooklyn singer/songwriter Danielia Cotton celebrates the release of The Real Book, featuring 12 cover songs ranging from Simon & Garfunkel to Radiohead. One of the new album’s...
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Otto’s Tacos, ChikaLicious Expanding to West Village This Month
Fish taco. (Photo courtesy of Otto’s Tacos) Two takeout spots born in the East Village are heading west this month — the first, ChikaLicious, will open on Bedford Street this week. As noted back in...
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Get to Know Walt Whitman’s Drinking Buddies Next Week
Whitman at Pfaff’s. A couple of weeks ago we told you what we’d learned from one of two new books about Walt Whitman and the crew of eccentrics who spent time at Pfaff’s, the beer cellar that may well...
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Buy Furry Coozies, Sparkler Incense and Bodega Bags at This Art-Object Store
Bogota-born artist Maria L. Candanoza makes prints, books, zines, and objects — and now she’s selling art in all of those forms at her new shop, Object_ify 139. The Lower East Side “art object store”...
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Police Say This Cat Has Been Burgling East Village Apartments
Police are looking for this guy in connection with 10 burglaries in the East Village. His alleged m.o.? Climbing through windows and swiping electronic items. The burglaries — spanning mid-July to...
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100 of the City’s Finest Fries Are Going On Dip-splay
The pop-up space at Bowery and Kenmare has seen some quirky concepts of late: a cat cafe, a Friends cafe, and a Cafe Bustelo cafe. Its latest incarnation won’t offer coffee, but rather french fries —...
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De Blasio Vows ‘No Bad Schools,’ Taps Williamsburg and LES Schools For Reform
The city will spend $150 million to transform nearly 100 schools as part of a new “No Bad Schools” program, Mayor de Blasio announced today. Among the 94 schools tapped to become Community Schools,...
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Starbucks Opens Off Bedford Ave; ‘Babes of Bushwick’ Calendar
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Starbucks opened its second Williamsburg outpost yesterday, at 154 N.7th Street. [DNA Info] The far-from-completed Allen Street Hotel seeks new bidders for a forthcoming auction....
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Video: Tour Downtown’s Newest Makers Market
The pop-up pioneers at Made in the Lower East Side kicked off their month-long Out to See festival over the weekend. On a chilly Sunday afternoon, we stopped by South Street Seaport to schmooze with...
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Rapper Freddie Gibbs Shot at Outside of Rough Trade
freddiegibbs/Instagram Rapper Freddie Gibbs was the target of a shooting after he performed at Rough Trade in Williamsburg last night, the Post reports. The rapper told the paper that around 1:13 a.m....
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Let There Be a Festival of Light
New York will finally join the ranks of cities such as London, Montreal, Sydney and Berlin this week as it kicks off a three-day Festival of Light. At 7 p.m. on Thursday, the Manhattan Bridge will...
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Hunt For Hermes and Help the Homeless Tonight at Rockwood
(Photo: Communion Music) Tonight, kick off the season of giving by getting some pretty cool stuff. L.E.S. Amis, in conjunction with Communion Music, is hosting a pop-up thrift store in order to support...
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