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Meet Rat, and His Four Pet Rats
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Weird things happen when you go above 14th Street. We did just that as we followed last night’s protests and, near Times Square, encountered Tom Sierra and his four pet rats,...
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A Jazz-Fest Chat With Brian Newman, Who Got Matching Trumpet Tattoos With...
The man sitting next to me at the Black Penny in the French Quarter is very tall, pencil thin, in a black T-shirt and trousers with a skull-and-cross-bones belt buckle. He leans into his Vieux Carre...
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Week in Film: Cambodian Rock Rebels and Afrofuturism Now
Things are looking pretty bleak on Earth right now. We can’t say we’re surprised, but we’re certainly not happy about it. Let’s hope you’re either doing something about it or saying something about it...
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Motorino’s Mathieu Palombino Brings Back La Gamelle, This Time On the Bowery
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Following the closure of Prima last summer, Mathieu Palombino of beloved Williamsburg-East Village pizzeria Motorino is bringing classic French cuisine to the Bowery with La...
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TV Shows Gone Wild: Bob’s Burgers Burlesque and Full House the Musical
With Game of Thrones crossed off the list, what fine bit of television will the burlesque world lambast next? That would be Bob’s Burgers, which’ll get skewered on Saturday during the opening weekend...
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May Means Four Festivals Celebrating the East Village and Lower East Side
Sure, May is when weekend warriors flood the East Village and LES in search of al fresco booze, but it’s also a time for locals to celebrate what really makes their neighborhoods great, via these...
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Colin Quinn Returns to Over the Eight; Junk Closes in Williamsburg
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Controversial landlord Samy Mafar unloaded 210 Rivington Street for $12.5 million. [Bowery Boogie] The five-story East Village residential building at 249 E. 2nd Street is on the...
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Kurt Cobain Album Coming This Summer, Reveals Montage of Heck Director
An unseen image of Kurt Cobain at home featured in the film “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” (© The End of Music, LLC/ Courtesy HBO) When we asked Brett Morgen whether there were any still-unreleased...
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Find Out Just How Bacteria-Infested Houston Street Is During This Weekend of...
Remember that scientist whose lab found 637 known species of bacteria in NYC’s subways? Well, that guy, geneticist Chris Mason, will be strolling around the Lower East Side Sunday spouting what will...
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Rift Among Socialists Over Former Presidential Hopeful’s ‘Potentially Racist’...
David McReynolds (Photo: Mary Reinholz) East Village pacifist David McReynolds has been arrested at least 15 times in pursuit of his varied causes, once for organizing and leading a 1967 sit-in during...
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Our Trip to the Bushwick Queer Porn Film Festival
Live porn shoot. (Photo: Gustavo Ponce) “These are gluten-free, vegan pancakes,” Jacqueline Mary called out as she brought out a new stack of flapjacks, against the backdrop of a transexual man...
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Musical Saw Festival Is Going Be Amazing Any Way You Slice It
Saws aren’t just for Texas chainsaw massacres — they can also be put to use by musicians, as the New York City Musical Saw Festival will show. Now in its eleventh edition, the event, presented by...
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Artist Turns MTA’s Forsaken Pit Into Neighborhood Bright Spot
(Photo: Andrew Diemer) Having been around for over 100 years, the subway system in New York is replete with ghost stations, abandoned platforms, and tunnels to nowhere. There’s so much of it that the...
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Peep a Skater’s Photos of Afghanis Grinding For the First Time
For most kids across the world, pursuing a career in skateboarding can begin in and end in Southern California, but for Creation Skateboards pro Kenny Reed, that’s just a few pins on his world map....
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Photos: May Day March Calls For Workers Rights and End to Police Brutality
An estimated 1,000 protesters rallied in Union Square Friday afternoon for a May Day rally for worker and immigrant rights. People gathered in support of issues from raising the minimum wage to fair...
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East Village Explosion Victims Eligible For Loans; Greenpoint Gets Chocolatier
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Businesses and homeowners impacted by the March 26 East Village explosion are eligible for low-interest loans, Governor Cuomo said. [NY1] State Senator Dean Skelos is expected to...
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Watch: John Lydon Hits Strand in Chef’s Whites, Announces New PiL Album and Tour
After tearing through St. Vitus on Tuesday, John Lydon settled into one of the Strand’s big leather chairs to rap about his new memoir, Anger Is an Energy, with Buzzfeed Books editor Isaac Fitzgerald....
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Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields Did Songs From A-Z: His Setlist and Comments
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Stephin Merritt, last seen getting the Katie Lazarus treatment at Joe’s Pub, kicked off a rare solo tour in Philadelphia on Saturday. Since the Magnetic Fields frontman and...
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Jim Gaffigan Hits Katz’s With Adam Goldberg, Offers a Taste of Gaffigan Show
Jim Gaffigan, last seen being pious on the streets of Nolita, filmed on the Lower East Side with Adam Goldberg this morning, as you can see from the below Instagram video. It’s not the first time the...
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What Twitter Is Saying About Los Angeles Luring New Yorkers
Los Angeles is the new Brooklyn, according to a provocative Sunday Styles piece that described ever fed-up New Yorkers packing their bags to head West. Quoting a transplant who said L.A. is like a...
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