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Arrest in Williamsburg Murder Case; Cause of Pier Collapse Found
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Four teenagers were arrested in connection with the Williamsburg murder of 33-year-old Tyrone Woods on April 27. [Brooklyn Paper] Around 12:30 p.m. yesterday, a 48-year-old man was...
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Comedian Mehran Khaghani Extracts the Venom From Hate Mail in a New Monthly Show
Over the millennia much attention has been paid to the concept of love (a second hand emotion? a stink?), while hate tends to sit, brooding in the corner. Apparently, the line between the two is thin....
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Sasheer Zamata and Ben Warheit Channel Reality and Surreality For Their Web...
Instead of espresso, how about a shot of comedy? If you have to go to a panel discussion around 10 a.m., let it be one in which Brooklyn’s own Sasheer Zamata, of Saturday Night Live, and Ben Warheit,...
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A Hard-Hat Tour of the William Vale Hotel, Williamsburg’s New ‘PanAm Building’
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Last night at Luna’s first New York City gig in 10 years — an outdoor show at Northside Festival, off of McCarren Park — one of the guys pointed to a concrete tower rising near the...
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Sale of Noho ‘Peace Pentagon’ Could Be Imminent; $10M Bid Is In
(Photo: Cushman & Wakefield) For several months now, bidders have been seeking to acquire the ailing “Peace Pentagon,” a longtime haven for the War Resisters League and other leftist non-profits in...
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Inside Michael Psilakis’s Sparkly New Williamsburg Music Venue, The Hall at MP
Taps at the bar at MP Taverna’s The Hall in Williamsburg (Photo: Nicole Disser) Well, we can’t say we didn’t see this one coming. Having just opened MP Taverna on Driggs and North 10th Streets (pretty...
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Williamsburg Gets The Vale, a Cafe-Boutique-Gallery With Back Garden
If you’re looking to round out a lazy Saturday at the Brooklyn Flea, grab a morning coffee on the way to the L Train, or snag some unique pieces to invigorate your summer wardrobe, The Vale Collective...
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Hit This Gallery Show to Find Out What Muralist Owen Dippie Has Up His Sleeve
Owen Dippie’s 2013 mural of Nelson Mandela. You saw Owen Dippie’s Jay-Z x Basquiat mural during Bushwick Open Studios, now see what he’ll be throwing up next by hitting the opening of his solo show...
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Will This Bushwicker’s Sharing App, Kite, Become ‘Instagram For News’?
Trond Werner Hansen. (Photo: Sam Gillette) Sure, Facebook is launching Instant Articles, and Apple News is also on the way — but a Bushwick resident is hoping the app he just launched at Northside...
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Feeling Down? Pop Into This Igloo For Some Virtual Therapy
(Photo: Rob Scher) The doctor is in (a plastic igloo opposite McCarren Park). As if feeding, entertaining and educating weren’t enough, earlier today Northside Festival added “solving existential...
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The Story of EV Grieve, a ‘Greta Garbo For the East Village’
The man behind EV Grieve is finally out and about in the East Village. “Hello, my name is John Elsasser,” he posted last night, “and I have been running this website for the past eight years or so.”...
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Head Trauma at Charleston; Winning Wiener at Smallest Penis Pageant
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Around 1:30 a.m. yesterday, a 32-year-old man was taken to Bellevue Hospital after suffering a severe head trauma inside The Charleston in Williamsburg. [Gothamist] Police seek...
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8 Things Portrait of a Park Will Teach You About the West 4th Courts
Still from Portrait of a Park (Simeon Soffer) If your movie-going schedule is already jam-packed with all those other film fests (LES, Rooftop, and Nitehawk, just to name a few) you probably haven’t...
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Our Quest For Pills ‘Made From the Finest Hair of Organic, Free-Range Cats’
(Photo: Nicole Disser) We love weird flyers. And while we’re sure we’re not alone in our appreciation for this very old-school, pre-internet means of reaching out to the masses, we’re betting that...
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What You Missed at LES DayLife, Starting With the ‘Best Balls in Manhattan’
(All photos: Sam Gillette) This weekend was packed with parades and festivals, but some sought a more relaxed vibe at LES DayLife’s Lower EAT Side yesterday afternoon. On Orchard Street between...
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Made You Look at This Video of Nas With Run the Jewels (Plus: Michael Cera!)
Run The Jewels brought Queens to Williamsburg via Nas last night, closing out Northside Festival on an Illmatic note. At 50 Kent, Nas performed “Made You Look” off his 2002 album God’s Son, joining...
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5 Things You Might Want to Know About the Rise of the Machines
Panel from left: Dennis Mortensen, James Hughes, Matthew Zeiler, Pascal Kaufman & Josh Guttman It’s 2015 and Marty McFly’s hoverboard is nowhere in sight. With each passing year, as more Hollywood...
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Shows: Horror Show Hip-Hop and Dead Moon Rises Again
(Photo: Slackgaze) Northside’s over, and we trust that you made like either a baby or an old person and wore earplugs to every damn one of those million or so shows to protect your ear hairs, mockery...
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Chloe Sevigny’s Place For Sale; Solar Trash Cans For North BK
(Photo: Scott Lynch) An empty three-story residential building on Bushwick Avenue lost its top floor in a three-alarm fire early this morning. No injuries were reported. [NY Daily News] Greenpoint and...
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Heems On Rachel Dolezal, Getting Political, and How Hip-Hop Is Like an...
Heems. (Photo Credit: Shivani Gupta).We caught Himanshu Suri (known by his stage name, Heems) after his performance this weekend at Northside Festival. The rapper and visual artist from Queens,...
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