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Sheldon Silver Gets an Award; Napoleon Dynamite Restaurant
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Before dawn on Saturday in Williamsburg, a 19-year-old woman was arrested for assault after allegedly permanently disfiguring a man by biting his lip so hard. [Brooklyn Paper]...
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Some Protesters Tried to Fuggin’ Levitate Vice’s Offices into the East River
(Photos: Jaime Cone) What happens when protesters gather around a wrecked guitar, a can of Guinness, and a pile of old issues of Vice chanting incantations in an effort to levitate the magazine’s...
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Niagara’s Jesse Malin On Bar Life: ‘There’s Still Trouble and Decadence and...
Jesse Malin (Photo: Joseph Quever) Jesse Malin talks about the East Village like a wayward old friend, something he’s definitely earned having seen the neighborhood shift and transform since the early...
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Inside the Psychedelic, Orgiastic Rituals of Bushwick’s Wildest Art Collective
Wild Torus (Photo: Nicole Disser) When I first walked in to Torus Porta, it was difficult to understand exactly what was happening. After opening a door at the bottom of a staircase, all I could see...
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Revisit the ’90s Squatter Scene at the Release Party For Kill City
East Village survivors and history buffs should plan to head over to Dumbo on April 2, to celebrate the publication of Ash Thayer’s Kill City: Lower East Side Squatters 1992-2000. The book is a visual...
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Will Citi Bike’s Expansion Improve the Trek to North Brooklyn’s Party Spots?
(Photo: Lindsey Smith) The day is finally upon us. Citi Bike is planning a 53-station expansion into northern Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and the fringes of Bushwick. As it stands, getting around these...
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Spring/Breeeeeak: Cruising One of Our Fave Armory Week Art Fairs
Before “Spring/Break” opened today, some of the James A. Farley Post Office’s rooms hadn’t been used in 20 years. Sofia Majstorovic, who was working an information booth at the fourth edition of the...
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East Village Radio Returns; ‘Bushwick’ Thriller Coming Soon
(Photo: Scott Lynch) NYC faces a winter storm warning until 7 p.m. this evening. [McBrooklyn] Ludlow Street Mexican restaurant Loz Feliz is back in business following a recent police raid. [Bowery...
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Mini Mastication Madness: ‘Broke Mo’Fo’s Brunch’ and Katz’s Pastrami Cupcake
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)Two vital updates from the world of tiny food. First off, at left, ChikaLicious is currently taunting “broke-%ss mo’fo” types, as their sandwich board puts it, by reminding them...
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Pardon My French, But Casimir’s Replacement Is Doing $*%# Bottomless Brunch
(Photo: Courtesy Pardon My French) (Photo: Jaime Cone) (Photo: Courtesy Pardon My French) (Photo: Jaime Cone) (Photo: Jaime Cone) (Photo: Jaime Cone) It’s sad to lose longstanding French favorite...
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Bushwick Inlet Park Advocates Will (Literally) Shed Some Light On the Issue
The Illuminator’s work during Occupy Wall Street. The future of Bushwick Inlet Park looks bright — or at least, it will be on Friday night. North Brooklyn residents will push for the conversion of the...
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Week In Film: Fantastic Hair Flips, Italian Surrealist Erotica, Brooklyn...
Welcome back to another fantastic edition of our weekly cliff-hanger drama known as Reel Psyched. Check out the films we’re super pumped to waste a couple of hours ogling this week. We’ve got a...
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Baby’s All Right Team Opens Elvis Guesthouse in the East Village
After closing their East Village spot Arrow Bar in January, Zachary Mexico and Billy Jones, who also own Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, have quietly relaunched the basement boite as Elvis...
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Take a First Look at Armory Week’s LES-Driven Fair, ‘Art On Paper’
Doug Beube, “Collapse.” Armory Arts Week continues tonight with a VIP preview party for “Art On Paper” at Pier 36. The fair opens to the public tomorrow, Friday, on the Lower East Side waterfront, and...
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Rally For Stronger Rent Control; ‘Philosophy of Street Art’ Conference
(Photo: Michael Tapp) No one was injured when 13 manhole covers burst open around 2:40 a.m. yesterday morning on Greenpoint’s Norman Avenue. [Gothamist] Sushi Wa will replace Whynot Coffee on Orchard...
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Patti Smith, Miley Cyrus, Laurie Anderson, Debbie Harry Shared a Stage For...
It doesn’t get more New York than this: Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Debbie Harry and Miley Cyrus (?!) singing “People Have the Power” at Carnegie Hall along with Philip Glass, Ira Glass, Dev Hynes...
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Does This IV Delivery Service Cure Hangovers? We Gave It a Shot (and Then...
This man is an angel from heaven (Photo: Nicole Disser) You might be surprised to hear that, for a hefty sum by the standards of most mortals, you can actually pay someone (a Registered Nurse someone,...
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Tix For Northside Fetival’s Newly Announced Outdoor Shows Just Went On Sale
Feel that warm thing on your face? That’s called “the sun” and thank God, there’s more of it where that came from because it’ll soon be festival season. By “festival season” we, of course, mean...
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Motorgrrl Peals Out of Williamsburg So Apartment Complex Can Go Up
Image courtesy of Motorgrrl In yet another example of unique Williamsburg institutions being displaced by the standard apartment building de jour, Motorgrrl has officially moved to Greenpoint. The...
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Want to Know What ‘Radical Domesticity’ Means? Go to NYC Feminist Zine Fest
Feminist Zine Fest’s poster. (Poster: Slim Lopez)Tomorrow, feminist zinesters will gather at Barnard College for the third annual New York City Feminist Zine Fest. The day will feature a tour of the...
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