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Hot Photos: Local Documentarians Talk Arson and Swingers Clubs
“Last Wall” by Meryl Meisler. A couple of photographers who’ve been featured in these pages (both of whom happen to have had shows at Bizarre Bar’s Black Box gallery in Bushwick) will be making...
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10 Holiday Markets That Might Just Make You Look Forward to Winter
(Photo: Shira Levine) The holidays seem to come earlier and earlier every year (yesterday, a reader sent us this photo of decorations going up on the Lower East Side) but that’s just fine with us. Tis...
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Facebook Throws a Housewarming; ‘Fairy School’ in Greenpoint
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Last night Facebook feted its new three-floor, 185K-square-foot office space at 770 Broadway near E.9th Street. [Wall Street Journal] In Noho, a 38K-square-foot property at 623...
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Coney Island’s Lola Star Is Popping Up On Bedford Avenue
After skating into Park Slope with a pop-up version of her Coney Island roller rink, one of Coney’s most beloved vendors is popping up in the heart of Williamburg. Lola Star’s Wonderland Holiday Gift...
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Look For Neil LaBute and Adam Brody Getting Incestuous in Williamsburg
Last week we learned that Adam Brody would star in what’s being called Neil LaBute’s “incest drama.” Now you can look for the O.C. actor and the ever provocative director of Your Friends &...
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Now Showing: Tea And Crumpets Horror, Patti Smith Finds God, OG East Village
Oh boy! There’s a lot of film stuffs happening this week. Here’s our list of what’s worth seeing. DOC NYC New York City’s annual documentary fest starts today and there are a dizzying number of films...
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‘The Ultimate Stoner Cupcake’ Is About to Hit Williamsburg
(Photo: Billy Lyons) We know someone who won’t be excited about the latest place to open in “The Big Cupcake,” but like it or not, Sweethaus (not to be confused with the recently opened Honey House) is...
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Look Out, Witches of Bushwick: The East Village Is Getting Metaphysical
Halloween is over, but a store that sells “raven stuff” will open in the East Village in just a couple of weeks. “I don’t think of it as witchcraft,” says Rakesh Samani of his selection of candles and...
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Arr You Ready For Another Nautical Bar?
(Photos courtesy of The Folly) Funny we were just talking about The Brooklyneer. Turns out, the team that opened the Houston Street restaurant in 2009 with the intention of featuring Brooklyn purveyors...
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Big Mario, Lil Mario On East 14th
Here’s something random we noticed on East 14th Street, between Second and Third: just a few doors down from the huge Mario outside of Vivi Bubble Tea, there’s a tiny Mario in the window of IQ Decor....
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East Village Radio Returns; Cat Cafe Redux
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Paris Hilton paid $5.25 million for a two-bedroom apartment she’ll share with her seven dogs at 738 Broadway near Astor Place. [NY Post] One month from tomorrow, NYC will get its...
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Look Back and Laugh: Filmmaker Recalls the ‘Salad Days’ of DC Hardcore
Salad Days premieres tomorrow at DOC NYC , and as we mentioned in this week’s Reel Psyched, it’s definitely on our short list of must see-films. Given our devotion to all things East Village and Lower...
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Utopia, Indeed: Pop-Ups, Sample Sales and PBR-Fueled Shopping
Carleen’s “Utopia” sweatshirt. ($180) As if all the holiday markets weren’t enough, these pop-ups and sample sales are still more reason to fill yr shopping bag with locally made chicness. Carleen...
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Hit These Town Halls to Speak Up About Affordable Housing Downtown
Don’t be that guy at the end of the bar muttering the word “gentrification” over and over again — do something about the anxiety-inducing state of housing and development (or at least learn more about...
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This New Home-Design Store May Spare You a Trip to Ikea
The store’s window and gift wrapping was created by Damien Correll. With nesting season officially upon us (triple ugh), the opening of a new home design store in Greenpoint couldn’t be better timed....
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Sick Shows: Psychedelic Brunch, Sax-Backed Punk, And CMJ Ebola Casualties
(Photo: Palisades) Hey you! There are a bunch of shows worth checking out all over town this weekend and beyond. Things are getting down to the wire at Death By Audio, so definitely make your way over...
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Watch ‘Marwencol’ With Mark Hogancamp, at an Exhibit of His Work
(Photos of Hogancamp's prints by Daniel Maurer) (Photos of Hogancamp's prints by Daniel Maurer) (Photos of Hogancamp's prints by Daniel Maurer) (Photos of Hogancamp's prints by Daniel Maurer) (Photos...
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This Chicago Improv Institution Is Opening a Theater in Williamsburg
(Photo: Facebook) The Annoyance Theatre, a Chicago institution that’s helped school everyone from Stephen Colbert to Amy Sedaris in the art of improv, is coming to Williamsburg. We doubt anyone will be...
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Richard Hell, Kim Gordon, Pharmakon Are Bringing Schizo-Culture Back
Everything that’s avant garde is new again! First the Nova Convention made a kind of comeback at the William S. Borroughs 100, and now yet more of NYC’s counterculture icons are recreating the 1975...
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‘Death of Williamsburg’ Party; Air Raid Sirens Explained
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Due to an upcoming apartment conversion, 100-plus students at Bushwick United Early Learning must find a new school by December 20. [NY Daily News] Karaoke Boho‘s future seems...
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