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This Is Why We Can’t Have Ice Things
(Photo: Angelo Fabara) The Chinatown snowman has been tagged — and we don’t mean on Facebook. (Though, strangely enough, the creature does have a Facebook page.) A tipster who lives nearby sent us the...
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Smorgasburg Returns to Williamsburg in April; Retail Complex Replacing Spike...
(Photo: bahramforoughi) Police say a man with a knife robbed Spring Street beauty shop Molton Brown of $350 last night around 7:30 p.m. [NY Daily News] A rendering was released of the three-story...
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Funny Business: Amy Shumer, Billy Eichner Taking Over the East Village Today
Two comedy shows are taking this yucky weather and adding still more yucks. As in… laughs! Ok, fine, that was weak. What we’re trying to say is that Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner’s new show,...
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This New Luxury Meeting Pad Will Cure Your Case of the Mondays
(Photo: Courtesy of MEET on Chrystie) Let’s face it, office meetings are the soul-sucking worst: they’re a dull grey-hued stream of stale pastries, pretending to pay attention and vague lower back...
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Consensus: 16th Annual Mr. Lower East Side Pageant Was Totally Nuts
Claude Debris, winner of the Mr. Lower East Side pageant (Photo: Annual Mr. Lower East Side Pageant, Facebook) Unfortunately we couldn’t make it out to the Mr. Lower East Side Pageant last night in...
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4 Bookish Events to Choose From This Fine Evening
Author Amanda Filipacchi brainstorming with herself while writing Love Creeps in 2003 (and doing trick photography when not writing) For those who’ve ever felt like an ugly ducking (aka humans),...
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Kim Gordon On Avoiding the Audience, and 9 More Musings Form Her BAM Talk
(Photo courtesy of BAM) Last night at BAM, Kim Gordon didn’t go into Thurston Moore, Lana Del Rey, Sonic Youth’s breakup or any of the other lurid headlines that preceded today’s release of her memoir,...
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Suspect Identified in Fatal Shooting of Aspiring East Village Rapper
(Photo: NYPD) Police believe Shaquille Fuller, shown at left, is the man who killed Shemrod Isaac, an aspiring rapper, in broad daylight yesterday afternoon in the East Village. Isaac was shot three...
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Semilla Gets Two Stars; Freaks and Geeks Bingo at Ideology
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Landlord Aron “Al” Stark, brother of murdered Williamsburg landlord Menachem Stark, was busted by a judge last month for allegedly collecting and keeping taxpayer-generated money...
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There’s a Knife-Wielding Boutique Bandit On the Loose in the East Village and...
The man who robbed an East Village boutique last month may have also held up several other stylish stores in the area. Last month, the police put out word that, on the afternoon of Jan. 23, a...
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Vegan Clothier Says Her Dog Was Lost After Dog-sitter Lost His Mind
(Courtesy of Morgan Bogle)East Village tweeters are in an uproar today as they band together to search for Sugar, the four-year-old Pitbull mix that went missing under bizarre circumstances earlier...
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Sheldon Silver Pleads Not Guilty; US Attorney Accused of Creating a ‘Firestorm’
Silver back in the good ol’ days. (Photo: Mary Reinholz) Lower East Side assemblyman Sheldon Silver pled not guilty to federal corruption charges during his arraignment yesterday, proclaiming after the...
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Kim Gordon Talks Lana Del Rey, Sonic Youth Reunion, and Her Dream ‘Louie’ Gig
Gordon (left) with Schappell.Kim Gordon managed to avoid talk of the whole Lana Del Rey fiasco when she appeared at BAM earlier this week, but during a talk at Strand last night, moderator Elissa...
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As Community Boards Get Skewered On Film, Reform Is On the Agenda
(Ray loses it on Girls.) Could the stereotypically grumpy face of Community Boards be changing? Sixteen-year-old Leila Eliot recently joined Manhattan Community Board 3, and last night at a meeting of...
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Alphabet City Fire Sends Man to Hospital in Critical Condition
An apartment fire in Alphabet City this afternoon left a man in critical condition. The blaze broke out shortly before 3 p.m. in a two-story garden apartment at 710 East 13th Street. It was under...
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Umami Williamsburger Opens Next Month; Meet the LES ‘Party Killers’
(Photo: Scott Lynch) LA-based Umami Burger, which was supposed to land in Williamsburg back in 2013, will open its 3K-square-foot space on N. 4th Street next month. [Grub Street Otto's Tacos on Second...
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Watch Kim Gordon’s Entire Appearance at the Strand
Kim Gordon week continues here on Bedford + Bowery. Yesterday we shared some choice quotes from her appearance at the Strand, including her comment about the whole Lana Del Rey hoopla and her thoughts...
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New Round of Tenement Talks: Richard Price, Andrew Kuo and More
The Tenement Museum just unveiled the schedule for the upcoming season of Tenement Talks, its excellent series of readings, lectures, and panel discussions. We’re especially excited about Richard...
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Ryan Raftery Plays Anna Wintour ‘From the Waist Up’ in a One-Man Musical
Ryan Raftery is the Most Powerful Woman in Fashion (Photo: Eva Sakellarides) He’s She. He’s Anna. Ryan Raftery’s pop-inspired one-man musical is a sassy, highly exaggerated take on the revered ice...
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L Train Suspended After Man Jumps to His Death
(Photo: Jaime Cone) A man was struck and killed by an oncoming L train this afternoon after jumping into its path. Around 12:45 p.m., Devon Sherard was on her way to work in Brooklyn when her train...
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