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The Mystery of This Sign Has Been Solved — By Courtney Barnett
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Yesterday we passed this sign, right across from Northern Territory near the Williamsburg-Greenpoint border, and wondered what it was all about. Is this squat building on the...
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Gas Station Fire in Williamsburg; Lovecraftian Cocktails in East Village
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A fire at a Leonard Street gas station in Williamsburg yesterday morning resulted in a collapsed roof. No injuries were reported. [Pix 11] Downstairs at the former Germania Bank...
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Battle of the Bathroom Apps: Can Looie Hold a Candle to Airpnp?
Recently, a slew of apps flooded the market offering users access to private toilets in New York City. Ok, by “slew” we mean two. Still, flush with excitement, we tried both apps to see which one...
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Jorit’s Latest Is a Real Eye-Grabber
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) There’s a new face on the Brooklyn graffiti scene – literally. Jorit Agoch, a street artist known for his hyperrealist paintings depicting the human face, has a new mural in...
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The Future Is Now: Drone and VR Film Fests On the Horizon
Actually, the future is still a few months away. But get ready anyway coz both of these fests are expected to sell out. Almost any fool with a smartphone and a computer can make a movie nowadays, and...
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Will Fredrik Berselius’s New Restaurant Be Awesome? Do We Even Have to Aska?
Aska (Photo: Victor Prado, NYMag.com) It’s not easy to find good Nordic food and, truthfully, most people wouldn’t even know what they’re looking for, but Chef Fredrik Berselius hopes that will change...
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Michael Alig’s Return to Nightlife Gets Off to a Rather Rocky Start
Ernie Glam and Michael Alig on eppy #173 of The Pee-Ew (Photo via YouTube) One need only read the comments on our post-prison interview with Michael Alig to know he has his haters, but the former King...
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Milk & Honey’s Sasha Petraske Has Died; ‘Taxi Graveyard’ in Greenpoint
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Police say a Bushwick man shot and killed his 33-year-old girlfriend in their bed on Saturday morning, then ran into a Knickerbocker Avenue deli, where he was taken into custody....
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We Noah Good Stand-Up Comedy Showcase When We See One
Trevor Noah outside of Bar Matchless. (Photo: Phil Provencio) For the last couple months, the free Monday night show Broken Comedy – in the dark and dingy back room at Bar Matchless in Greenpoint – has...
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The Only Downside to This Camper is It Doesn’t Have a Bathtub
(Photos: Jesse Sposato) Mika Tarkela and Danielle Conant began their journey like so many others before them. When they made the decision to move into a camper together, they agreed to do a trial run...
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At Girls at Night On the Internet, No ‘Old White Dudes Who Are Totally Out of...
(Photo: Nicole Disser) If Girls at Night on the Internet is a pool full of multicolored Jell-O, then the digi-only gallery known as Art Baby, founded by 26-year-old artist and curator Grace Miceli, is...
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9 Words That (Attempt To) Describe AfroPunk
Afropunk Fest 2015 (Photo: Andrew Moerdyk) It’s hard to fit AfroPunk into a box, which is kind of the point. The annual two-day music festival at Barry Commodore Park in Brooklyn is simply a concert,...
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Metrograph Art-House Cinema and Eatery Slated to Open On LES in February
7 Ludlow. (Photo: Angelo Fabara) As if the advent of 4DX wasn’t exciting enough, downtown film-goers are getting a new art-house cinema as well. Alexander Olch, the filmmaker-designer who owns an...
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Boulton & Watt Team Opens Drexler’s, Serving Booze in a Trophy Cup
(Photo courtesy of Drexler’s) While Jesse Malin expands his portfolio by opening Berlin underneath 2A, another East Village proprietor, Darin Rubell, is making moves a couple of blocks away. This...
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Shows: Proof That Phil Collins Still Inspires the Youth, Weird Country, and More
Hate to break it to you but the band to see this week, Royal Headache (Mark E. Smith and Morrissey moved to Australia and had a baby, basically) has sold out two freaking shows, one at Palisades and...
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Lit Reopens September 11; Bernie Sanders Big in Bushwick
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Police closed a Second Avenue convenience store, alleging stolen property and synthetic marijuana being sold on the premises. [EV Grieve] East Village landlord Rafael Toledano is...
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Tap Your Inner ‘Good Ole Boy’ in Bushwick This Weekend
“Boots and buckles, red clay and sand. My point ain’t subtle. I’m a southern man,” are the opening lines to The Cadillac Three’s song “The South,” a country-meets-rock tune you might just catch if you...
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Talks and Readings: Bourbon Guru, Top-Notch Poets, and a Professional...
TUESDAY Robert Goolrick’s most recent novel, The Fall of Princes, finds retired 1980s ad man Rooney writing his memoir after an era of American Psycho-style unrepentant debauchery and greed (but...
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Read This Book Before You Snapchat That Masked Punk Musician
“Placid Girl” “What if on the outside of this picture, where this guy is sitting on a chair with his guitar, there’s a chained up hostage being held outside the frame?” said Brenna Ehrlich, explaining...
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Chef-Driven Cantonese Spot Will Bring Venison Stir-Fry to Avenue B
(Photo courtesy Eastern Consolidated) The co-founder of what might just be “the best Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn” is setting up shop in the East Village. Ben Pope, former executive chef at 2 Duck...
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