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Kid Congo’s Still Got the Power, the Pink Monkey Birds are Flying Our Way
Kid Congo Powers (Photo: Martina Fornace) If we had to pick one emoticon to describe Kid Congo Powers’ attitude about his own three decades-long career, we’d go with the shruggy guy (i.e.¯\_(ツ)_/¯)....
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Watch Ziggy Stardust Make a Cameo at North Brooklyn’s First Pride Festival
While the Stonewall Inn celebrates its building’s new landmark status, North Brooklyn’s LGBTQ community has also achieved a milestone: the area’s first Pride festival occurred Saturday on North 11th...
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Apatow and Wife Lock Down Williamsburg, as Girls and How to Be Single Shoot
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) It’s a very Judd Apatow day in Williamsburg. While How to Be Single, starring his wife Leslie Mann, shoots on Broadway, the show he produces, Girls, is shooting on Grand Street....
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Battle Brewing at Rheingold Site; Rent Laws Set For Renewal
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Gov. Cuomo announced that he and leaders of the state legislature have worked out the “framework” of an agreement that would renew current rent laws but increase to $2,700 the rent...
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Week in Shows: Doctors in Experimental Sound and Weird Punk from Middle Earth
It’s official now, right? We’ve entered the season of sweat. We’re all gonna smell like crap from here until depression, and shows are the perfect bacteria-breeding, lust-filled eco-chambers for...
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Bill Baker’s Brings Bacon Puffs and Cheddar-Grit Fritters to Williamsburg
Construction shot. (Bill Baker’s Flickr) Hot on the heels of James Murphy’s wine bar, The Four Horsemen, Williamsburg’s Grand Street strip is getting another “libation-friendly seasonal American menu”...
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This Playwright Imagined Iggy Pop as Dionysus in a New Version of The Bacchae
(Photo: Meta-Phys Ed.) Something caught our eye among the experimental, unusual, and low-budget plays that comprise the Ice Factory Festival, a spotlight of “the most exciting downtown companies” that...
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Evie’s, a Filipino Favorite, Makes a Slight Return to First Avenue
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Turns out the East Village, already a destination for Filipino food, just got not one but two new Pinoy options. In addition to Tito King’s Kitchen, a bygone neighborhood...
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This Tiny LES Cafe Doubles as a Launchpad to the Rockaways
Inside the Adventure Cafe with owner Kyle Davidson (right). (Photo Credit: Sam Gillette). With its takeout window on Delancey Street, Adventure Café seems like a “hole in the wall” in the most literal...
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Lizzie Velasquez Fights a Rare Disease With a Winning Attitude
The director of ‘A Brave Heart’ (left) and Lizzie Velasquez (middle) at LES Film Fest. (Photo Credit: Sam Gillette). There was a flood of tears and a surge of inspiration at the New York premiere of A...
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Pedestrian Killed in Williamsburg; St. Marks Buildings Sold For Big Bucks
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The Greenpoint resident who was hit by a motorcyclist while crossing Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg on June 11 died five days later. He was 27 years old. [Gothamist] Hudson...
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Drinking and Dining Outdoors? Here’s the Ultimate Sidewalk Cafe Map
Here it is, folks. If you’re looking to plunk down on the avenue and get a buzz on while your fellow denizens scurry to and fro as if there’s more to life than slurping oysters in God’s great...
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Careful, Don’t Trip When You Run to IFC Center to See The Holy Mountain
The flame-throwing guitar in Mad Max: Fury Road was cool and all, but it wasn’t cinema’s first weaponized six-string. That distinction may well belong to the one in The Holy Mountain. If you don’t...
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Black Flamingo Is Where You’ll Be Dancing (and Eating Your Veggies?) This Summer
Lights in the basement lounge. Williamsburg just got a new dance destination, far from the maddening crowds that line up at Output, Verboten, Kinfolk and Good Room. Black Flamingo isn’t another boxy...
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Seinfeld Mania: Hang in Jerry’s Apartment, Get Harangued By the Soup Nazi
Larry “The Soup Nazi” Thomas (Photo: Rob Scher) All of those years spent perfecting your Kramer entrance are about to finally pay off. You can now manically slide your way into an exact replica of...
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Week in Film: High Priestess of Soul, Bicycle Film Fest and More
If you’re paying attention to anything right now beyond your piña colada, first of all, stop, but second of all we’re guessing you’re also sensing there’s a shakeup coming our way real soon....
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Starbucks Is Giving Away Coffee, But You Might Spit It Out After Reading This
Hayuk’s work at Coney Art Walls. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) Heads up, indiscriminate freeloaders: tomorrow, instead of dutifully lapping up the dregs of the coffee in your break room, you can score...
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Tenants Demand Rent Break as Albany Lawmakers Reach a Deal
Eva Brown: “The Bible says you got to love one another and you got to help those who are under.” (Photo Credit: Sam Gillette). “All you landlords, you can’t hide. We can see your greedy side,” and “All...
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Major Looting at Bushwick Sneaker Shop; Gigi Hadid Scopes Out LES Apt
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A car overturned in a crash early Wednesday evening on McGuinness Avenue in Greenpoint. No one sustained serious injuries. [Gothamist] Police say 10 thieves entered a sneaker store...
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Morbid Anatomy Is Celebrating Its First Year Inside Its Very Own Temple of Weird
(Photo via Morbid Anatomy) The Morbid Anatomy Museum is one of those institutions that makes Brooklyn, well, Brooklyn. Where else can you catch a lecture about psychedelics, get your hands dirty...
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