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Get Blintzed at B&H Dairy’s Reopening Party
Owner Fawzy Abdelwahed with a customer on Friday. (Photo: Jaime Cone). If you aren’t among the many kasha cravers who’ve flocked to B&H Dairy since its reopening Friday, here’s a fun chance to do...
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Forget About Getting into David Chang’s New One, Ruth Krishna’s
Whelp, that was fast. Less than half an hour after an e-mail went out this morning announcing that tables were available at Ruth Krishna’s Tandoori Steakhouse, David Chang’s pop-up with chef Akhtar...
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Rockaway Finally Gets Its Fro-Yo Parlor
(Photo: Coastal Frozen Yogurt’s Facebook) There’s no lack of frozen goodness in Rockaway (e.g. La Newyorkina, Ample Hills, Citysticks and Conchos) but everyone knows fro-yo is the mark of a...
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Community Board Blocks The Cock, Chance for a Bigger Cock Now in Hands of...
The State Liquor Authority Committee at Community Board 3 convened yesterday evening (Photo: Nicole Disser) Members of Community Board 3 tried to block The Cock from moving to the former Lit Lounge...
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Talks and Readings: Slice Harvester, Literary Recipes, and Virginity Tales
TUESDAY If you’ve ever wished there was a way to mix the quiet solitude of writing with the blood-thristy spectacle of an MMA throw-down, (and who hasn’t?) don’t miss the first ever Prose Bowl. The...
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Hanna and Her Sisters: Listen to New Bikini Kill, Then Go See These ’90s...
Today Bikini Kill released a track from the forthcoming reissue of its demo album Revolution Girl Style Now. “Playground,” one of three songs left off the original demo, was recorded in early 1991 at...
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Attack Outside of Williamsburg Strip Club; Zum Schneider Turns 15
(Photo: Scott Lynch) After suffering a beating at the hands of multiple attackers, the homeless man found unconscious in Bushwick’s Hope Ball Field on Monday morning is not expected to survive. [NY...
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Meet the Subway Buskers Who Set Off a Viral Hootenanny
Coyote & Crow resting before a performance. (Photo Credit: Sam Gillette) One of the few fun things to come out of the subway last winter was that viral video in which a little girl inspired a...
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Tourist Tally: 1 in 3 People On Bedford Avenue Are Not From Around Here
Noora and Nuutti Tiovoneni, from Finland (Jaime Cone) With hotels, Airbnbs, and gifty boutiques popping up all over Williamsburg to serve an influx of out-of-towners, one has to wonder: how many people...
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Shows: a Fest For Grade-A Grating Noise and a Change-Up at Nothing Changes
Our only utterance of advice for this week: pack em in, kids. If you’re as unsettled about the end of summer as we are, consider taking some of that aggression out at any number of these shows...
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Joe’s Pizza Now Doling Out Lou Reed-Worthy Slices in Williamsburg
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) While we’re talking about tourists flocking to Bedford Avenue, we should probably note that the Williamsburg outpost of Joe’s Pizza has opened at 216 Bedford Avenue, on the...
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Drone Performance With ‘Sexy Undertones’ at First Person View
“All the drones were dead and gone by the end,” my friend laughed, filling me in on the last hour of opening night at First Person View, the Knockdown Center’s drone-centric art exhibition. The show...
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It’s a Miracle! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Begins Filming Season 2
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Last month, Tina Fey and the cast of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt said the new season would start production August 17 and, like clockwork, the crew was set up outside of 164 Eagle...
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Anti-Trump Busboy Grew Up in Bushwick; Williamsburg Gets a New Concert Venue
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Ricardo Aca, the Mexican immigrant now working as a busboy in the Trump Soho hotel who posted a much-seen video criticizing the presidential candidate, spent his teen years in...
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Hardcore Tattooist Inks Deal For His Own Place in the East Village
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Tattoo artist Baz is bringing 16 years of experience to his new shop, Clash City Tattoo, opening today in the East Village. He had hoped to open last weekend, on the anniversary of...
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How Ten Thousand Saints Revived ’80s Punk in a ‘Very Sterile East Village’
Last week saw the release of Ten Thousand Saints, which we’ve been looking forward to ever since the film reenacted the Tompkins Square Park riot last year. The adaptation of Eleanor Henderson’s novel...
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These Web Series Creators Are Willing to ‘Publicly Humiliate’ Themselves in a...
Lauren Dortch-Crozier and Sarah Mack Despite reaching their Kickstarter goal with one week left to go, actors Sarah Mack and Lauren Dortch-Crozier have a great deal for you. In exchange for continuing...
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Week in Film: OG Midnight Pulp and a Number of Noir Nights Coming Your Way
We’re a lucky, lucky bunch to live in a city where we’re at the wellspring of new film and the source of cinematic reconsideration, where grind-house becomes art-house and a dum-dum boy can be made...
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Quality Mending Co. Now Selling Denim and Genesis P-Orridge Ephemera in W’burg
Quality Mending Co. (Photo: Rob Scher) “Buying. That’s my addiction,” admitted Oliver Harkness, the Irish-born owner of Quality Mending Co. speaking with us over the phone. Walking into Harkness’...
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Portlandia Comes to Williamsburg as Bunk Sandwiches Replaces Max
(Photo courtesy of Bunk Sandwiches) In its first venture outside Portland, Oregon, Bunk Sandwiches is bringing its “kids food for adults”–and “best breakfast sandwich ever”–to Williamsburg. The causal...
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