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James Murphy Is Playing at My Turnstile?
While the Lowline drums up money for a research center and exhibition space that would essentially serve as a prototype of the subterranean park it’s trying to bring to an abandoned trolley terminal...
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Ju-never-no When You’ll Run into Ellen Page and Allison Janney
Allison Janney on St. Mark’s Place for new film, Tallulah. Juno co-stars Ellen Page and Allison Janney were spotted last week filming Tallulah and we stumbled on them again today on St. Marks Place...
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Aziz Ansari to Everyone at His Book Signing: ‘Please Don’t Murder Me’
“Yeah, I just got back from a year working as a bartender in Malawi,” said the windswept blonde to the doe-eyed brunette seated beside him, and behind me, as we awaited the delayed arrival of Aziz...
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What to Eat at Tito King’s Kitchen, Slinging Filipino Food Inside of Jimmy’s...
The East Village already has Jeepney, Maharlika, Krystal’s Cafe 81, and good ol’ Johnny Air Mart, but where Filipino food is concerned, we say pile it on like it’s a tub of halo halo. The latest...
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Blanca Gets Three Stars; Charleston Beating Victim Pronounced Brain Dead
(Photo: Scott Lynch) An experimental filmmaker and former MIT professor has pleaded guilty to robbing a Bowery bank in what he says was an art project that the Queens Museum wants to screen. [NY Post]...
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At Trans Pecos, Revival of an Experimental Music Series For Everybody
Practice music series, Monday nights at Trans Pecos in Ridgewood (Photo: Nicole Disser) Trans Pecos isn’t a new establishment by any definition– the Ridgewood music venue brought to us by DIY veteran...
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Untangling the Cat Hair Pill Enigma
(Photo: CHP) We’re still holding. Cat Hair Pills, that is. After answering a mysterious flyer posted in Bed-Stuy last week and being directed to One Last Shag, where we acquired pills stuffed with cat...
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Michael Alig Is Back in the Limelight With a New Art Show and Documentary
Details have now emerged about the three-tier art crawl honoring Michael Alig that we told you about last month. It remains to be seen whether this veritable Aligpalooza will approach the level of the...
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James Murphy on the Nuts and Bolts of His Musical Subway Turnstiles [Updated]
After Heineken released a video yesterday announcing that it was backing James Murphy’s dream of turning the shrill beeps of Metrocard swipes into a series of pleasant musical tones, we had a few...
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Trixie Little Won Big-Time at Burlesque Hall of Fame; Now She’s Thinking...
(Photo: Neil Kendall) On a Southwest flight to Las Vegas, I sat next to a spunky, petite woman from Baltimore who now lives in Brooklyn. Her small stature belies her strength—I’ve watched her do...
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‘Magicstance’ Will Be in the Air at JJ Peet’s Latest Show
UPLiNK, 2015 (photo: Nori Pao) A roughly hewn slab of marbled granite juts from the wall of Lower East Side gallery On Stellar Rays. Atop the granite sit two circles: one a speckled ceramic lens-like...
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East Villagers Told to Look Out For Man Attacking Asian Women
The commanding officer of the Ninth Precinct called on East Village residents to be on the lookout for a “pattern assault perpetrator” who has attacked four Asian women over the past week in a series...
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Can This App Keep Your Landlord From Freezing You Out of Your Apartment?
Noelle Francois (far right) at a talk at Northside Festival. (Photo Credit: Sam Gillette) Mayor de Blasio announced today that his Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force has made its first arrest, of...
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Cue ‘Fried Chicken’: Sweet Chick Teams With Nas For National Expansion
Turns out, Run the Jewels aren’t the only folks Nas recently teamed up with. The man who once spat the words “fried chicken, fly vixen / give me heart disease but need you in my kitchen” is now a...
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East Village’s $4.4M Rooftop Cottage; ’90s Fest in Williamsburg
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Surveillance video has been released of the man who police believe assaulted a 36-year-old woman on Bushwick’s Starr Street around 12:30 a.m. Friday. [NY1] Dallas BBQ in the East...
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Inside Federal Bar, the Knitting Factory’s Sister Spot Opening For Dinner Friday
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Next time you feel the need to nosh during a Harmonica Lewinskies concert or while watching Hannibal Buress crush it, Knitting Factory’s new next-door sister restaurant will be on...
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Hoping to Rent Kurt Cobain’s Place? ‘Stay Away’
Cobain’s childhood bedroom. (Aberdeen Realty)A couple of months after Vulture noticed Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s old Los Angeles apartment on Airbnb, the listing has been taken down. Sorry,...
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Pioneer Works Opens a Tiny But Well Curated Bookstore
(Photo: Nicole Disser) Pioneer Works’ new bookstore in Red Hook, which had its grand opening on Tuesday night, is a remarkably small shop. Maybe the size of a very bitty studio apartment. “Wait, is...
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This Therapist Advocates ‘Going Down into the Basement’ With Psychedelics
(Photo: Nicole Disser) We recently squeezed our way into Morbid Anatomy‘s sold-out lecture “Psychedelics & Death” presented by Dr. Neal Goldsmith, a New York City-based psychotherapist who...
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Latin Vegan Spot Soft-Opens On St. Marks Place Friday
From left: Danny and Alex Carabano. (Photo: Sam Gillette).The past couple of weeks, Danny and Alex Carabano have stood outside of the restaurant they plan to open at 12 St. Marks Place, selling...
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