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9 Pop Culture Homages at Fringe Festival, From Lena Dunham to Patrick Bateman
Baby Hubris (photo: babyhubris.com) Next week thousands of theater patrons will once again descend on Lower Manhattan for the 19th annual NYC Fringe Festival. “Fringe theater” usually denotes plays...
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St. Mark’s Bookshop Says It ‘Needs Help to Survive’
St Marks Bookshop 136 E. 3rd St Interested in owning a piece of the new St. Mark’s Bookshop? Now might just be your chance. In another call-for-help email sent out earlier today, owner Bob Contant made...
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Difficult People Premiere Spares Nobody, Including David Byrne
You’ll recall that Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner’s show Difficult People filmed on East 11th Street in January and at San Marzano in February. Now the first two episodes are up on Hulu, and they’re...
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LES Gets Another Cat Cafe; Two New EV Pizzerias
(Photo: Bryan Hiott) In the wake of Tuesday’s wall collapse on Bowery, Andrew Edlin Gallery has postponed the first event at its new Lower East Side location. [Art News] The advocate group Friends of...
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Crazy For Scorsese? He’s Shooting His HBO Show, Vinyl, Tomorrow
(Photo: Jenya Green) On Friday a tipster sent us this photo from the set of Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming HBO show, now titled Vinyl. As you can see, Marty meticulously recreated the legendary Max’s...
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‘Straight Outta Compton’ and Into a Pop-Up On Bowery
Straight Outta Compton Pop-Up Shop (Photo: Rob Scher) Obey your thirst, for great marketing gimmicks. Last night on the corner of Spring and Bowery, a hubbub gathered around a green-hued convenience...
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Clayton Patterson Fights ‘Homogenization, Destruction of Anything Independent...
“Outside In” at Howl! Happening (Photo: Nicole Disser) Last year, Clayton Patterson announced that he and Elsa Rensaa, his partner and collaborator of more than 40 years, were moving from the Lower...
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Nirvanamania: Rarities Leaked, More Coming, Plus a Montage of Heck Q&A
Back in May, when Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck was screening at IFC Center before its HBO release, director Brett Morgen revealed to Bedford + Bowery that an album of previously unreleased Cobain...
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LoMan Fest Paints the Town With Homers, Hulks, and Ai Wei Weis
Avocad’oh Homer by Hanksy (Photo: Rob Scher) Can you smell it in the air? Maybe it’s best you don’t, noxious spray paint fumes and all. LoMan Arts fest hath begun and with it a whole new array of...
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Davey’s Ice Cream Opens in Williamsburg Friday With Free Scoops
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Davey’s Ice Cream is celebrating the opening of its second location, on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, with free scoops Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Grab a cone of Whopcorn, a...
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Woman Pays Off Would-Be Rapist; Fake Cops Steal $4K
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Saturday night in Greenpoint, a 24-year-old woman thwarted a man who was threatening to rape her by offering him $20 to leave her alone. [ABC 7] A man who was left hanging from his...
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NYC Sophomores Jack + Eliza On Their Freshman Album, Out Today
(Photo: Jacqueline Harriet) Listen to Jack + Eliza and you might imagine yourself picnicking in the park with a nice glass of champers. Their plush melodies, perky vocals and youthful lyrics make you...
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Leo Fitzpatrick Has a Cokey Cameo in The Mend, Out This Month
With the recent 20th anniversary of Kids, we’ve been talking about Lower East Side fixture Leo Fitzpatrick quite a bit lately. Just one more thing: you’re going to want to catch his coke-snorting...
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Here’s What You Missed at the Twee-rific Wes Anderson Art Show
Margot’s mascara-laden stare hit me from every angle of the Joseph Gross Gallery last night. Maybe it’s because we’re in New York – home of the Tenenbaums – that Gwyneth Paltrow’s doe-eyed enfant...
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Jump On Free Advance Screenings of Fort Tilden and Alex Ross Perry’s New One
Funny we were just talking about Alex Ross Perry. Videology just announced that it’s doing a free midnight screening of his new one, which won’t be in theaters until August 26. Queen of Earth, his...
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Relive the Wild Days of Tompkins Square Park at These Two Revivals
New York isn’t all ice cream scoops and Wes Anderson art. These two upcoming events promise to take you back to the East Village’s edgier days of yore. You don’t have to walk across a sea of crack...
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‘I Love You Bedford’ Showcases Local Designing Women
Inside I Love You Bedford Ave. (Photo Credit: Sam Gillette) Before you buy a Whopcorn ice cream cone at the new Davey’s Ice Cream in Williamsburg and have it melt onto your shirt, stop a few blocks...
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The Sucklord Mashes Up Dath Vader and The Godfather to Suckadelic Effect
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Williamsburg Cop Arrested For Sex Abuse; LES Charity Sued
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Williamsburg police officer Sergeant Joel Doseau was arrested Wednesday morning at his apartment for assorted sex-abuse crimes, including instigating a relationship with a...
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17-Year-Old Brings ‘Classy Gelato Joint’ to LES
While Williamsburg got an outpost of Davey’s Ice Cream last week, the Lower East Side got a self-described “classy gelato joint.” Polpo Gelato has popped up in LESspace, the Allen Street nook that...
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