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TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe Rocks Stage and Screen at SXSW
Tunde Adebimpe is having a very busy SXSW. Not only did his band, TV on the Radio, do an Austin City Limits taping and a couple of live shows in Austin (we caught their all-too-short set at NPR...
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No Need to Fly South and Get in Line to See These Great Flicks This Week
So yeah maybe you’ve noticed SXSW is happening right now. Though we sure hope you’re not down there because that means you could potentially be missing all of these amazing films screening in New York...
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51-Year-Old Attacked at Home; March Against Gentrification
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A 51-year-old woman was choked and sexually assaulted Wednesday night in her Lower East Side apartment building. She was treated for bruising at Bellevue Hospital; the suspect,...
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Oh Hey, It’s Greenpoint Gallery Night Tonight
Twelve of Greenpoint’s best art spaces will open their doors to show off their latest projects and exhibitions tonight. Scott Chasse (Calico Brooklyn) and Lia Post (Fowler Arts Collective) created...
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Mumblecore Maestro Andrew Bujalski Tries to Make a Fitness Rom-Com and Gets...
Never has the tension between boot camps and bohemia been so evident as in Andrew Bujalski’s new film, Results, which screened at SXSW this week. Bujalski, an Austin-based godfather of mumblecore, was...
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After an ‘Anti-Reverb’ Phase, TAOTSS and Haybaby Come Around to the ‘Brooklyn...
(Courtesy of Haybaby) In tracking down the band The Adventures of the Silver Spaceman (TAOTSS), whom I’d seen play at a Papercut Press event and who were playing at SXSW, I was confused by the ephemera...
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Questlove Knows He’s a Workaholic, But He Still Agreed to Score Zoe Kravitz’s...
(Photo: Monty Leman) Questlove — seriously — needs no introduction, not any more. In what was probably for him a typical weekend, he bounced down to SXSW and appeared on a food panel with Austin’s...
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Go Ahead, Tell the City What Its $335M Waterfront Protection Should Look Like
(Photo: Jaime Cone) About a year ago, we shared eight renderings that showed what a substantially more flood-proof Lower East Side waterfront might look like. If you have strong opinions about which of...
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Tribeca Film Festival: Our Picks For Reels Worth Peeping
We’re about a month out from the arrival of the behemoth Tribeca Film Festival and if you give a hoot, it’s time to start planning. If people call you Cash Money Bank Slips, then note that festival...
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Week In Music: Naked Gong Slaves, Booty Shakes, And Modular Synth Equinox
As Madonna once wisely said, “Music makes the people come together.” And that, dear readers, is exactly what we need at this moment. This rotten snowstorm is trying its best to hold us back and tear...
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How Harmony Korine Ended Up Playing a Pimp Alongside Al Pacino in Manglehorn
After years of being adored mostly by a very niche audience that enjoys quoting the line “peanut butter motherfucker,” Harmony Korine finally hit it big with Spring Breakers. He’s now well known...
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Andy Warhol Museum a No-Go; Smokey the LES Lamb
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Yesterday morning around 3:30 a.m., one person was injured when a car-for-hire in Bushwick jumped the curb. [CBS NY] A Lower East Side outpost of the Andy Warhol Museum is...
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This New LES Art Bar Is Celebrating ‘Punks, Losers, Screw-ups and Goofballs’
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We Stalked All the NYC Bands at SXSW (Okay, Not All of Them)
MS MR (Photo: Bradley Spinelli) Last week I spent four days in Austin chasing some of the up-and-coming artists who identified “New York” and “Brooklyn” as their hometown. Or did you think one goes to...
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What the Artists Wore to Greenpoint Gallery Night
At Greenpoint Gallery Night on Friday, the eye candy wasn’t just on the walls. We did some gallery hopping and asked some artists what they were wearing. (Photos: Rick Perez) Jason Rohlf, Dusk Editions...
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NYU’s Downtown Collection Adds Kembra Pfahler to Its Massive Punk Archive
(Photo: Facebook, Kembra Pfahler) If you’re feeling a little sapped of Kembra Pfahler these days tell your beating heart shut up and be still. While we’ve been sitting around waiting to see Kembra’s...
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A New Pop-Up Restaurant Brings NOLA to the North
Muffuletta (Photos courtesy of Karl Wilder) Chef Karl Wilder, the man whose biscuits you’ve eaten at all hours, has just set up at Durden on Second Avenue with his latest venture: Nawlins. Noticing a...
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Brooklyn Nightlife Awards; ‘Legacy of the Witch’ Party
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Bushwick Flea founder Rob Abner says his forthcoming market is causing several vendors to abandon the competing Brooklyn Flea. [Brooklyn Paper] Peek inside Williamsberry, a 63-unit...
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Billy Rohan’s Public Art Project Is About to Up the Game of LES Roll-Down Gates
(Courtesy 100 Gates) While on sabbatical from the NYC winter in Puerto Rico and working on his latest “Illumignarly” video, NYC skateboarder and Samurai founder Billy Rohan received word that his 100...
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Yes, Gentrification (and Polyamory) Came Up at TEDxBushwick
Like the people of Bushwick themselves, the speakers at the first ever TEDxBushwick on Saturday were a diverse bunch, ranging from Emmy nominated TV news reporter Debra Alfarone, who shared her...
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