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Where to Find the LES and Brooklyn at Art Basel and Miami Art Week
Katie Cercone,will be with Milk and Night at Select Fair. It’s time once again to blast Modest Mouse’s “Florida,” pack your whites and jet south for Miami Art Week. This year, the ever-growing phalanx...
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Jack Ridley III of Drowners Premieres ‘Never Sleep,’ Off His New LP With Threats
(Courtesy of Threats) When I meet Threats frontman Jack Ridley III at his practice space on Rivington, he is drinking a Corona and smoking a hand-rolled cig. It’s a derelict building, decorated with...
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Regulars Remember De Robertis, Closing This Week After 110 Years
(Photos: Frank Mastropolo) Last week John De Robertis broke the sad news that his family’s 110-year-old East Village pasticceria would close on Dec. 5. It might be even sooner — when we called De...
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Inside the Underground Boxing Parties That May Soon Be Outed
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) You know what the first rule of Fight Night is, but fuggit: after attending one of the underground boxing parties known as FNT, we have to say it’s one of the wildest things...
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Eclair Bakery Opens; Simone Martini Bar Shutters
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Orchard Street eclair bakery Les Jardins de la Duchesse debuted in Contra’s former digs. [Bowery Boogie] Devotion Botica del Cafe, a Colombian coffee company/roasting plant, opened...
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Astor Place Lost a Cube But Got This Keith Haring Self-Portrait
More ch-ch-ch-changes on Astor Place, where last week the beloved cube went away for a while. What did we spy on our way into work today but this gleaming Keith Haring sculpture outside of 51 Astor...
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Leave SantaCon to the Amateurs and Bounce to Beasticon
“Tokyo Jesus” by Gaki Devil This year, skip SantaCon and travel into the belly of Beasticon, opening next week at Mark Miller Gallery. “Instead of hollow conviviality and amped-up displays of holiday...
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Inside Espoleta, Where Sue Torres Is Doing Spanish (As In, Spain Spanish) Food
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) If you’ve been bummed about the loss of Forcella’s fried pizza ever since it closed on Bowery, here’s some consolation: this Thursday, owner Giulio Adriani will reboot the place...
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James Franco Is Sliding Down the Strand’s Chimney
(Photo: James Franco’s Facebook) Want to sit in James Franco’s lap? We’re not sure he’ll let you do that (not after that slip-up with the 17-year-old) but he has donned a Santa suit in anticipation of...
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Yippie Building Gym Is Doing Boxing Parties, Selling ‘Jabby Hoffman’ Tees
Overthrow NYC, the gym that took over the Yippie Museum building at 9 Bleecker, is finally up and punching: Joey “The Soho Kid” Goodwin tells us it just hosted its first “Boxing & Booze” class –...
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And Here’s Another Par-tay at a Secret Location
The city’s newest underground boxing series isn’t the only one asking you to hop aboard the party train without knowing where it’s going. #LESbeat just dropped the above trailer for this year’s...
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McCarren Park Unveils Ice Skating RInk; ‘West Bedford’ Tries to Be a Thing
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A young man was arrested near N. 7th Street in Williamsburg last Wednesday for this alleged hat trick: hitting a pizzeria employee in the head with a chair, threatening to rob a...
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Michael C. Hall and the Hedwig Gang Pay Tribute to Soon-to-Be-Rebooted Don...
Don Hill. (Photo: Patrick McMullan) There are more signs of life at the onetime home of Don Hill’s. No, it isn’t being zombified CBGBs-style. Rather, the club’s soon-to-open replacement, The Hills,...
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A Chat With the New Doyenne of the Old Don Hill’s
A recent private party at The Hills. After getting wind of the Hedwig-themed tribute coming to the former Don Hill’s later this week, we got a chance to talk to Alma Ayala, the creative director of the...
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Buy This Photo of Debauched Party Fiends, Help the Homeless
Patrick McMullan, “Walking Zombies on the street after ‘Save the Robot’ party,” July 1985. Black and white print, 28 7/8 x 39 3/4 inches. The Bowery Mission fed thousands of people on Thanksgiving but...
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Check Out Dee Dee Ramone’s Paintings at the Chelsea Hotel
If you missed John Lurie’s recent exhibit of paintings at LPR (sorry, it closed last week; but do check with Lounge Lizard’s new live “radio” show over at Vice), here’s another chance to peep some...
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These Photos From Vivienne Gucwa’s New Book Will Make You Look Forward to Winter
New York Winter, Tompkins Square Park. Back in 2008, Vivienne Gucwa quit the three jobs she’d been working after having been disowned by her parents at the age of 17 and decided to finish getting her...
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Cat Cafe Now Hiring; 911 Landlord Going to Jail
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Police are conducting a missing person search for Brandyn Simmons, this 28-year-old Williamsburg resident last seen Sunday night on 12th Street and 3rd Avenue in the East Village....
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Over 80 Arrested As Protesters of Eric Garner Decision Take to the Streets
(Photo: Christopher Looft) Protests raged across the city last night, after a grand jury declined to indict an NYPD officer in connection with the July death of Eric Garner in police custody. There...
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Arrests in Alleged Kickback Scheme During Bushwick School Renovation
A contractor and two labor brokers have been arrested and indicted for allegedly stiffing workers during a Bushwick school renovation, NY Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today....
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