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Watch: Lasers Shows and Human Disco Balls at the New York Festival of Light
This’ll light up your life: the city’s first ever Festival of Life has come to Dumbo, and we dropped by last night for the opening. Play our video for an idea of what to expect, and then see the...
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Tech-tonic Shifts in the North Brooklyn Blogosphere
(Bushwick Daily) Tis the season for changes in the Brooklyn blogosphere. While one blog looks for new leadership, another is ready to expand upward and outward into a new kind of platform. Jen G....
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Death By Art: A Band Of Artists Takes Over DBA
(Photo: Death By Art) It pains us each time we have to bring up the closing of Death By Audio, but we can at least be comforted by the fact that the venue is truly making each and every last night...
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Body Found in Greenpoint; Shooting in the East Village
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Saturday morning in Greenpoint, a 51-year-old man was found dead in an empty lot on Manhattan Avenue near India Street. Police said his body indicated no signs of trauma. [NY Daily...
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Photos: Everyone Had a Ball at the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
Rebel Rave at Verboten (All photos: Daniel Leinweber/Razberry Photography) While half of Brooklyn packed into Dumbo’s Festival of Light over the weekend, the lasers were beaming over in Williamsburg as...
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Here’s Your Chance to Lean On the Original CBGB Bar
(Photo: Angelo Fabara) Last week we were psyched to discover that YouTube had teamed up with CBGB to import original elements of the club (the cash register, parts of the walls, etc.) into its newly...
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Prepare For Marky Ramone’s Book and Blitzkrieg
(Photo: Tatiana Arbogast) While we’re on the subject of CBGB, here’s a heads up: Marky Ramone, who replaced the late Tommy Ramone as the band’s drummer in 1978 and went on to play with them for 15...
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A ‘Small-Batch Menswear’ Designer Pops Up in Williamsburg
Teghvir Sethi (Photo courtesy of .Bk) For discerning dudes, it sometimes seems like shopping in NYC consists of walking into Odin over and over again and thinking, “Oh, I forgot: I can’t afford any of...
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Wizard Skull Just Stripped My Little Ponies Of Their Last Shred of Dignity
(Photos: Angelica Frey) If you thought Bronies were ruining My Little Pony, wait till you see Wizard Skull’s new show at Cotton Candy Machine. The Brooklyn-based artist took original 16” x 12”...
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Oops, We Photo-bombed Broad City‘s Season Two Trailer
Today Comedy Central dropped the trailer for season two of Broad City. As if that alone wasn’t more exciting than titty chips, it looks like, uh, I’m in it? Because, yeah, that’s me on the stairs of...
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Alex Karpovsky at Russ & Daughters; Grumbles About a Greenpoint Shelter
(Photo: Joel Raskin) Dr. Craig Spencer, the first person in New York City to receive an Ebola diagnosis, has recovered and will likely check out of Bellevue Hospital today. [NY Times] District 1...
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‘High Maintenance’ Just Rolled Out Some New Episodes
I was going to go to work… until I got “High Maintenance.” As if yesterday’s Broad City trailer wasn’t excitement enough, another one of our favorite web-shows-gone-big just dropped three new episodes...
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What Mat Fraser Is About to Do On American Horror Story ‘Has Never Been Done’...
Mat Fraser as Paul the Illustrated Seal, Erika Ervin as Amazon Eve. (Michele K. Short/FX) If you saw American Horror Story’s Halloween episode, you’re familiar with Mat Fraser, whose character said he...
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Watch Idgy Dean Do the ‘Indian Squirrel Dance’ Before Seeing Her at BK Bazaar
Here’s the new video from Idgy Dean, just out today. It was shot in the Brooklyn expat haven of Kingston, New York (during the super moon, no less) but rest assured Dean recorded the track mostly in...
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This Tinder Alternative Will Score You a Date With a ‘Gentleman,’ No...
Sure, Tinder makes hooking up as easy as swiping right, but you still have to, like, message people and – ew – get to know them on some level before you go on that first date. What if, like, you could...
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Watch: Speed Dating With the ‘Looking For a Girlfriend’ Guy
When we last spoke to Dan Perino about his East Village fliering blitz, he told us he still hadn’t found “the one.” So we decided to help him out* by inviting him down to our Bedford + Bowery Bazaar...
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Five Leaves Expands; East Village Gets a $30M Apartment Complex
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A building management company wants to replace the East Village’s recently shuttered Mobil Station with a $30+ million, 10-story, 46-unit apartment complex. [Commercial Observer]...
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Punks, Dunks and Free Beer at the Opening of This Photo Show
Henry Rollins from Black Flag. Before Pete Kuhns became the Village Voice’s sports photographer, he covered Seattle’s punk scene during the ’80s for the biweekly Seattle music newspaper The Rocket. The...
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Sweet News: Petee’s Pie Company Opening On the LES
Sweet potato pie. (Courtesy of )We’re happy to report that one of the vendors at our Bedford + Bowery Bazaar is opening a brick-and-mortar shop: Petee’s Pie Company, a Hester Street Fair fixture, is...
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Canines of New York: Tagging Along With The Dogist, a Pup-arazzo Who Hounds Dogs
J Lo (Photo: The Dogist) On a Greenwich Village street corner, photographer Elias Weiss Friedman was having trouble getting J Lo’s attention. Her eyes darted restlessly and she wouldn’t stand still....
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