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Tompkins Park Sleepover Protest; Drug Bust in Greenpoint
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Greenpoint gallery 106 Green will host a fundraiser on August 9 to help pay for the medical bills of recently attacked artist Bryan Osburn. [Greenpointers] Police charged four men...
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Scorsese’s ‘Rock and Roll’ Rolls into the East Village Today
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Crazy for Scorsese? Good news: It’s Martymania in East Village today. After turning Williamsburg’s Rough Trade into an old-school Sam Goody earlier this month, Martin Sorcese’s...
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Rose McGowan Was Just 16 When She Did Those Racy Scenes in Doom Generation
First the stars of Kids revealed that they weren’t nearly as sexually experienced as their characters made them seem, and now our illusions about another hallmark of transgressive teen cinema, Gregg...
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Citi Bike Will Add 50+ Stations in North Brooklyn Starting Next Month
Citi Bike’s expansion will begin next month, with over 50 stations being added in North Brooklyn by the end of the year, the bike share program’s operator announced today. The doubling of the current...
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The Wayland Opens a Natty Neighborhood Spot, Good Night Sonny, in the Old...
(Photo: Jaime Cone) With the launch of Good Night Sonny, Robert Ceraso and Jason Mendenhall, the chef/bartender team behind Alphabet City’s cocktail bar/live music venue The Wayland, are finally...
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5 Live Comedy Shows That Riff On Themes, From Lust to Hate
Sure, comics are notorious navel-gazers, but the fun themes at these recurring shows encourage them to dig for more than just belly button lint. The How I Learned Series July 29, 8 pm at Union Hall: $6...
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Harry Potter and Ferris Bueller Come Alive For These Adults-Only Tributes
Whether you’re a child of the ’80s or the aughts, your film heroes will come to life at these tributes to Ferris Bueller and Harry Potter. Get ready to don your wizard hat, mullet, or both. PotterCon...
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Here’s What They Rocked at Today’s Scorsese Shoot
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Meet the Composer Who Recycled Wind into Organ Music
In a delightful corner of the internet, William Shatner sits perched atop a scenic mount. As the YouTube clip plays, Shatner, backed by a catchy 16-bit funk score, poses the following profound...
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Todd Solondz and Danny DeVito in the EV; Church of Nativity Holds Last Mass
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A 34-year-old woman was declared dead around 4:30 p.m Thursday at the Bushwick Hotel on Bushwick Avenue. [News 12 Brooklyn] Jonquel Jones, 27, was sentenced Friday to 16 years in...
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And the Headliner For Out in the Streets Fest Is…
We’re not quite ready to say the city’s festival season is wrapping up, but we’re not gonna hold back from advising that you get your shit in beer-gear as soon as humanly possible and start really...
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Anarchy-Lovin’ Film Fest to Occupy Local Community Gardens
It’s no secret the East Village has gone through immense changes over the last few decades, but some institutions from the pre-$20 cocktail days have stuck around. The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space,...
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Peep the Lineups For Rockaway’s Outdoor Film Fests, One Curated by Greta Gerwig
(Photo courtesy of Rockaway Civic Association) Not only has Greta Gerwig unleashed a new clip from her forthcoming movie with Noah Baumbach, Mistress America (out Aug. 14), but she just unveiled the...
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Go Watch an Orchestra and Circus Perform Together in a Bushwick Warehouse
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. This Friday night in a Bushwick warehouse, almost 1,000 people are gathering to watch a performance of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, a 19th century...
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At New East Williamsburg Bar, The Topaz, Sip a Cocktail Named for a Death Yarn
The reflection says it all (Photo: Nicole Disser) I was in the grips of a full-on Sunday hangover, on a caffeine-addled regret-stroll through East Williamsburg, when I locked eyes with a bar I’d never...
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Trash and Vaudeville Leaves St. Marks; Williamsburg Gets a Ralph Lauren
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Trash and Vaudeville plans to relocate from its 40-year-old digs on St. Marks Place to E. 7th Street this fall. [EV Grieve] According to surveillance footage, two men looted a...
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Police Brutality Protest Spills into Streets of Williamsburg
Protesters affiliated with Black Lives Matter and NYC Shut It Down briefly took over Williamsburg’s busiest intersection last night and marched through the neighborhood while police threatened to...
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Some Gut-Pleasin’ Reasons to See Films in Tompkins
Photo: Daniel Maurer As if those Rockaway film fests weren’t exciting enough, the good news for al-fresco cinephiles keeps coming. Films in Tompkins sends word that it’s hosting its first ever “food...
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Watch Alex Karpovsky Slip into a Gown For ‘Actor Seeking Role’
Why settle for catching glimpses of Alex Karpovsky on the set of Girls when you can see him in a genu-whine short film? “Actor Seeking Role” kicked off the Rooftop Films Summer Series not long ago,...
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Talks and Readings: Letterman Writer, Iranian Women, and the Quest For 78s
Time again for Word Up, our weekly roundup of talks and readings. TUESDAY Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of...
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