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Queer Porn Film Festival Brings Porn, Pancakes, and ‘Meaning Beyond Getting Off’
Still from Graphic Depictions. The first-ever NYC Queer Porn Film Festival (QPFF) is coming to the Spectrum in Bushwick this Sunday, hot on the heels of February’s NYC Porn Film Festival, which was...
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Attend Your Own Funeral, Via This ‘Fantasy Burial Workshop’
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Everybody dies. But there’s a high probability you won’t get to experience your own funeral, unless of course you’re imagining it during a Bushwick ayahuasca ceremony. But if you...
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Candle-Lit Altars and Cunnilingus On Display at This All-Female Punk Art...
Jennifer Calandra in front of her altar (Photo: Nicole Disser) On Wednesday night the Living Gallery in Bushwick was abuzz with punk kids and curious passersby who had stepped inside to soak up the...
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Record Store Day Is Almost Here, Here’s How to Spend Your Money on...
(Record Store Day) Everyone knows the quickest way to turn your lame tech-bro pad from drab to authentic cool is to fill it with a bunch of vinyl. Just, please, if you’re going to do that at least take...
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Nirbhaya Takes On Rape: ‘The Gift of This Play Is That It’s Not Fucking...
(Photo: Sinbad Phugra) On its face, Nirbhaya, which had its American premier at the Lynn Redgrave Theater in the East Village last night, is about the 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old student in New...
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Comedian Sue Smith Wants Your Vag to Save the World
Comedian Sue Smith. (Photo: Timothy Bailey) If you haven’t heard of comedian Sue Smith yet, you likely will soon, because Time Out New York named her one of the 10 funniest women in NYC in 2014 and...
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‘We Call It Mutt Food’: Pokito Now Serving Latin-Asian in South Williamsburg
The group of Pratt alums who opened Pokito were tired of the typical Williamsburg look — “it’s all the re-claimed woods, steel, dark, all the Edison filament bulbs,” said Alex Kleinberg — so they...
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19-Year-Old Shot in Williamsburg; Game of Thrones Parties Get Squashed
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Murals have returned to the corner of Bowery and Houston, as you can see in the above photo. Ron English broke in the new wall. [Animal] On Saturday night in Williamburg, a...
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Summer of Blood Director Returns With Winter of Marinara Sauce
Onur Tukel, Trieste Kelly Dunn, and Max Casella in Applesauce. (Photo: Jason Banker) Onur Tukel’s uber neurotic writer-director-actor shtick has earned him comparisons to Woody Allen, and he’s turning...
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Bushwick Residents Take Notice as New Restaurant Opens Next to Quieter L Stop
(Photo: Nicole Disser) Except for the case of a fire, I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed so much active interest in a single building as I did on my visit to Industry 1332. I spent one short evening at...
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Yo Carvel, Where Do You Think You’re Going?
Come and get it, Lower East Siders! We just got word via a press release that Carvel is celebrating the opening of its “newest Lower East Side shoppe” with free ice cream. Exciting, right, Lower East...
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9/11 Artist Puts the East Village Explosion On Canvas
If you look carefully at “St. Marks Place,” the above painting by artist Lola Saenz inspired by the gas explosion on Second Avenue, you can see two faces, one screaming or gaping in astonishment, the...
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420 Good Tidings: HBO Greenlights Six New High Maintenance Episodes
The greatest show not on television is coming to Not TV. If today isn’t proof enough that smokers come from all walks of life, your favorite stoner advocate will soon be delivering yet another short...
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Pearl & Ash Adds a Paris-Inspired Spot, Rebelle, to the Bowery
(Photo: Evan Sung) The guys behind Pearl & Ash are bringing another eatery to the Bowery – right next door at 218 Bowery where R Bar once stood. Though the sign out front hasn’t changed much (it’s...
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Lawsuit Against Landlord Samy Mahfar, Organic Cafe/Spa Replaces Mars Bar
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Saturday on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, an 18-wheeler backed-up into a memorial-in-progress for pedestrians killed in traffic accidents. [Brooklyn Paper] Since the East Village...
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The Polyamorist’s Guide to Tribeca Film Festival
Taylor Schilling in The Overnight. These days, polyamory isn’t just for kooky Bushwick types. Legit Hollywood stars are spicing up their on-screen marriages with ménages. The plot to each of these...
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Stylist for Zola Jesus and Chelsea Wolfe Plans a Multi-Sensory Immersive...
Hensler’s white leather neck piece created for Zola Jesus’ tour, as seen in ‘Futura’ for Bullett Magazine (Photo by Martina Scorcucchi) Jenni Hensler is convinced most people have no idea who she is,...
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21 Post-It Notes That Reveal New Yorkers’ Concerns About Gentrification
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Mammoth Brooklyn Zine Fest to Spotlight 150 Zinesters and Black Lives Matter...
(Poster by Deth P. Son) The fourth annual Brooklyn Zine Fest is happening this weekend (Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26) and we’re getting super excited to check out what more than 150 zine...
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Talks and Readings: Chris Ware, Happy Spinsters, and Hilarious Mormons
Tuesday Meet Chris Ware, the man behind the graphic novel “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth,” which Time called a “haunting and unshakable book” that will change the way you look at your...
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