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A Vintage Clothier Opens an Izakaya With ‘Special Addictive Fried Chicken’
Yudai Kanayama’s clothing shop, Champon Vintage at Williamsburg’s Artist & Fleas, is named after a type of ramen — so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the FIT graduate has opened a restaurant. When...
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A Pair of ‘Cool Style Facilitators’ Are Selling ‘I’m Rad’ Shirts For Kids
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A Look at the Williamsburgy Art at Williamsburg’s New Starbucks Reserve
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) We’re coming to you live from Williamsburg’s brand spanking new Starbucks Reserve. If you ask us, the place bears an uncanny resemblance to Blue Bottle, what with the various...
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Tuome Snags Two Stars; Bushwick’s Schoolhouse Rockers
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A thief in a blue surgical mask swiped $3K in money orders from a Greenpoint bodega on October 27, according to police. And just after 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning, a woman entering...
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A New Sanctuary For ‘Divine Feminine Yoga’ in Williamsburg
(Courtesy Devi Yoga Studio) Williamsburg’s newest yoga studio wants to bring out the goddess in you. When Devi Yoga Studio opens Nov. 11, it’ll offer “divine feminine yoga” classes, among others....
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Ponder ‘White People Having Brunch’ at the Williamsburg Independent Film...
First Julian Casablancas told GQ that he left New York because of he was sick of “white people having brunch,” then the Times opined that “bunch is for jerks,” and finally Grub Street insisted it was...
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Lois Is a Little Bit Wine Bar, a Little Bit Kegger
(Photo: courtesy of Nora O’Malley) Back in September, we discovered that there would be a new wine bar on Avenue C. Now we’ve tapped the owners for details. We say “tapped” because at Lois (named after...
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L Riders Are Defacing and Defaming Lena Dunham (Again)
(Photo: Jada Yuan via Twitter) Thought right-wing bloggers were the only ones slagging on Lena Dunham? Doodles on her subway ads say otherwise. “Writers like this make empty a reality,” wrote an...
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Rough Trade Shooting Victim IDed; Bushwick Beating Victim Leaves Hospital
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The man shot alongside rapper Freddie Gibbs Monday night outside Rough Trade was his tour djay, DJ Izzo, who suffered an injured leg. [Brooklyn Vegan] Early Saturday evening in...
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An Artsy Dot-Com Joins Livestream On 3rd Ward’s Old Block
(Wright Harvey shows off work by Joe Hollier.) The once dark and desolate area around the former 3rd Ward building is brightening up. Months after Livestream Public moved into 195 Morgan Avenue in May,...
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Eating the Worm: It’s Not Just For Tequila Lovers Anymore
A dinner guest eats a handful of freeze-dried meal worms. (Photos: Alex Brokaw) Insect-eating enthusiasts were out in full force on Tuesday night for a five-course “bug banquet” held at the The Black...
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This Year, Order Your Tree Online and Pick It Up at This ‘Pop-Up Farm’
(Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Pine)With the Rockefeller Center tree officially on its way to the Big Apple, it’s time to order your Christmas tree online. Yep, online. Brooklyn Pine, a new “tree pop-up...
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Ridgewood Successfully Trolled By New York Times
A mural at Trans Pecos in Ridgewood Oops, the Times did it again: nearly three years after it first noted that Ridgewood, Queens was “attracting a different type of émigré: artists priced out of...
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Chris Stein of Blondie: ‘Miley Cyrus at Her Craziest is Not Really Dangerous’
All images by Chris Stein from the book “Negative: Me, Blondie and The Advent of Punk,” and the exhibition of the same name at Somerset House in London, November 5 to January 25. Few people personify...
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Japanese Music Fest Comes to Town; Comic Arts Brooklyn Returns
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Police seek leads in their search for Williamsburg Charter High School student Asia Reese, 13, who was last seen leaving her Bushwick Houses apartment early Monday evening. [The...
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‘John’s of 12th Street’ Portrays Restaurant Life Sans Gordon Ramsay Hissy Fits
Last month during a taping of Knight Fight at The Gorbals, chef Ilan Hall faced off against Northern Spy Food Co.’s Pete Lipson. In the dining room above the Urban Outfitters store, feverish foodies...
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Now Showing: Squatters, Urban Farmers, and Kids With Machine Guns
Halloween hangover? We’ve got a cure for you– one horror film serves as your hair of the dog, and one kidsploitation flick will loosen you up before a few buckets of cold water bring you back to...
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BrooklynXchange Ain’t Happening, But BK Vendors Galore in Union Square
Despite going to the trouble of making a super Brooklyn-y promo video, the market that had hoped to bring Brooklyn makers to Soho during the holiday season has decided to delay its launch....
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CBGB’s Walls, Cash Register, and Phone Booth Revived For New YouTube Space
(Photos: Angelo Fabara) When YouTube opened one of its public production facilities in Los Angeles, the head of the project cited CBGBs as the sort of community hub they were trying to create. “We like...
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Electronic Music Takes Over The Burg, Chimes Will ‘Throw Up In Your Mouth’
Hey we’re back! And unless our senses betray us it seems we’ve survived Halloween. Time to scrub off all that costume blood and make way for the real stuff. It will surely be pouring out of your ears...
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