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Surface Support, the Show for Artists Who are Smashing the Screen
“Runaway Interludes / 20 Channel Jamboree vol. 8 (Market Static)” 2015, work by Jessie Stead on view at “Surface Support,” Signal Gallery (Photo: Nicole Disser) A new group exhibition at Signal Gallery...
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Video: Busking for Benjamins With “Gypsy Jazz”
“One day we were playing a really sad song, and when I finished a girl came over and hugged me,” says Jordi Nus as he adjusts his violin. His cheeks turn a deeper shade of pink and he grins. It’s...
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Harmon Leon’s Bodyslamming for Jesus and Infiltrating Porn, for You
What’s it like to be a clothed extra at a porn shoot? How about a member of the most hated church in America? A carney? O.J. Simpson’s hired sidekick on a reality TV show? Harmon Leon’s gone...
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LES Gains a Gallery and Loses a Pizzeria; Full Moon Fest Redux
(Photo: Benjamin Curry) This weekend, 100-plus Bushwick residents lobbied at Cathedral of Joy Church of God for affordable housing on the development underway at the former Rheingold Brewery....
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An Island of Misfit Books Gets Washed Away
The scale of Andrew Beccone’s office is intimate, and he sits right in the middle of it, with dozens of books in teetering piles everywhere. They’re all peculiar, outdated, obscure and worthless...
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See What Happens When 111 Artists Find Each Other Through Facebook
GOING BIG (photo: Rob Scher) Occasionally, the bottomless procrastination pit of Facebook serves a greater purpose than stalking exes. Sometimes the social network affords a community of strangers the...
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After a Potluck in the Park, Catch Some Edgy Shorts at Nitehawk
Still from Sam Cooke’s Every Good Boy Does Fine, 2015 (Image Courtesy of THE FUTURE IS WHATEVER) One thing’s for sure, you never know what the present will bring at “THE FUTURE IS WHATEVER,” a...
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Hundreds of Harry Potterheads Explored Their ‘Weird Addiction’ at PotterCon
A witch tries on the Sorting Hat at PotterCon. (Photo Credit: Sam Gillette) “At what address do the Dursleys live when Harry is delivered at their doorstep?” demanded one of the guys from last year’s...
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Thurston Moore Wants to Scribble On Your Records
Not only do Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth have shows in town this week, but today Other Music sweetened the deal by announcing that Thurston and his current bandmates Steve Shelley...
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Wylie Dufresne Will Close Alder; Kevin Smith Presents Mallrats
(Photo: Bryan Hiott) A 25-year-old woman says she was raped by a male employee at the Broome Street bar Happy Ending one week ago. [Gothamist] At summer’s end, chef Wylie Dufrense will close his...
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Video: Potterheads Wait For Hours to Get Into PotterCon 2015
Yesterday we brought you photos and a full report from PotterCon, which drew hundreds of Potterheads to Bell House on Saturday. Still wondering whether you should’ve picked up a scepter and lined up...
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Forever Young: Exhibit Makes Sure Latino Radicals Aren’t Erased from LES History
On July 25, 1969, a group of young activists officially announced the formation of the New York chapter of the Young Lords in Tompkins Square Park. In the following years, they fought for the rights...
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Mad For Mac DeMarco? He’s Apparating at Baby’s All Right Tonight
Tonight’s act at Baby’s All Right is mysteriously listed as “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” but don’t expect PotterCon redux. That image of Alfred E. Neuman as the Boy the Who Lived is...
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Greece Yourself Up and Dive into the Mediterranean at These Two Arts Festivals
Live Sand Art (Photo: Between the Seas Festival Facebook page) With Greece going through a bit of a rough patch, now seems as good a time as any to remember the days before it all went a bit...
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Looking to Trade Weed Secrets? It’s High Time You Join This Meetup
(Photo: Jaime Cone) On Thursday, the evening before New York State made it legal for five organizations to grow and sell medical marijuana, a group of high-minded individuals filed into a spacious...
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Three Bowery Buildings Vacated After Wall Collapses On Workers
Outside 210 Bowery. (Photo Credit: Daniel Maurer) A brick wall collapsed onto two workers this morning as they renovated a building at Bowery and Rivington. The workers were digging for concrete...
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Puppet Slam Benefits Explosion Victims; B&H Close to Reopening
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A five-year-old boy became trapped under the minivan that hit him yesterday morning on Rivington Street before he was freed and taken to Bellevue Hospital. [DNA Info] Watch video...
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Harmony Korine Doesn’t Much Like Coming Back to NYC These Days
Harmony Korine at BAM’s 20th anniversary screening of Kids (Photo: Godlis) Chloe Sevigny recently said that walking through her old neighborhood, the East Village, made her want to cry, and Leo...
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Kevin Smith Talked Mallrats 2 at a 20th Anniversary Screening of the Original
(Photo Credit: Daniel Maurer) So many people showed up to the lot at 50 Kent last night for the 20th anniversary screening of Mallrats that it took over an hour of standing in line to snag a beer. The...
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And Now Donald Trump Is Literally a Clown
Ivan Orama’s Instagram With the Republican debates coming up, Ivan Orama, the Lower East Side artist who turned Kanye West and Andy Warhol into Ronald McDonalds (only Wizard Skull has defiled Ronald...
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