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Who Was Able to Wake This Sleeping Artist With a Kiss?
The sleeping artist. (Photo Credit: Matt Sparks) A young man with rich brown hair, soft lips and a blindfold reposes on a mattress. It will only take one quick movement of your wrist to sign the...
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Elizabeth Street Garden Under Threat; Work Stopped at Ace Hotel Bowery
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A 42-year-old man is in critical condition after being assaulted outside Bushwick’s La Fogata restaurant yesterday morning around 4 a.m. Police are looking for the suspect and...
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Watch This Giant Donald Trump Piñata Get Bashed to Bits
Stare into the void y’all (Photo: Nicole Disser) A flock of Trump groupies gathered on the eastern side of McCarren Park yesterday, but there was nary a “Thank You Lord Jesus” sign to be found. Instead...
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Penelope Gazin Draws Monstrous Broads and Alien Goddesses as If She Were...
Penelope Gazin in front of her work (Photo: Nicole Disser) We’re guessing the world would look a whole lot different if bad ass women like Penelope Gazin had been well-represented in animation and...
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Like Champers and Oysters? The McCarren Hotel’s Rooftop Is Your New Xanadu
After a brief turn as Sheltering Sky, the McCarren Hotel & Pool’s rooftop bar is now Xanadu. The year-round roof deck has been reimagined by Joe Carroll (Fette Sau, St. Anselm) and Francesco...
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The Yin Yangs Premiere ’21st Century,’ from Their New Tape Taste
Official Yin Yangs band photo (Photo via the Yin Yangs) It’s been a big summer for the Yin Yangs, the Brooklyn garage-psych-punk outfit you’ve most likely seen at any number of DIY venues around town....
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We Dodged the Selfie Sticks Inside of Soho’s Adult Ball Pit
Pearlfishers hard at work (Photo: Rob Scher) When I heard that an adult ball pit was opening in Soho, I jumped at the opportunity to cover it. And I wasn’t alone in my enthusiasm: 4,200 others booked...
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Elisabeth Moss, Star of Queen of Earth, Found the Mad Men Exhibit ‘Super Weird’
Brooklyn filmmaker Alex Ross Perry and Elisabeth Moss, star of his new film Queen of Earth, may be the first duo to do back-to-back q&as at MoMA and MoMI. They were at the Museum of Modern Art on...
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Birdy’s Bar Comes to Bushwick; Jason Schwartzman at Apple Store
(Photo: Scott Lynch) In the East Village, Caracas Arepa Bar reopened following an 18-day closure prompted by a gas leak. [EV Grieve] According to this photo, Prosperity Dumpling on Eldridge Street uses...
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Here’s Trump as a Dump
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) With Donald Trump getting lambasted in the form of Ronald McDonald and then a piñata, you knew it was only a matter of time before the Lower East Side’s consummate pop-culture...
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7 Wacky Things to Do at Waku Waku, a Cavalcade of Japanese Pop Culture
Always dreamt of traveling to Japan but couldn’t face the 14-hour flight? If so, you’ll be glad to know that this weekend your biggest obstacle to experiencing all the cultural wonders of that far...
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‘Drag Kings are Really Coming Back,’ and Here’s Where You’ll Find Them
Reggi Regina performs at BEEF (Photo: Nicole Disser) BEEF may not be the first all-drag king showcase ever, but the new monthly showcase brought to you by the Brooklyn-based drag collective Switch n’...
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Week in Film: Dada Brunch, Florida in Celluloid Form, and More
Have we got an interesting crew for you this week! Our lineup is a regular emotional rollercoaster, from feel-horrible humanitarian films about sex slaves and child soldiers all the way to feel-sick,...
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Fire Chars Beloved East Village Rooftop Cottage
A blaze broke out this afternoon at an idyllic East Village penthouse that was called the “ultimate NYC home” after it recently hit the market at $4.4 million. The fire broke out around 3:40 p.m.,...
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Williamsburg’s $6.5M Pad; East Village Birdman Flies the Coop
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Late Monday afternoon, a 22-year-old man was stabbed in the arm by a safety-scissors-weilding stranger on the Lower East Side. [DNA Info] A 5K-square-foot Williamsburg penthouse is...
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Owner of Bossa Nova Civic Club Opening ‘Elevated Diner’ in Bushwick
(Photo via John Barclay’s Facebook) If all goes as planned this fall, John Barclay, owner of Bushwick dance destination Bossa Nova Civic Club, will be serving up over-easy eggs and bloody marys across...
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Williamsburg’s Sleek New Hotel Gets Glassed Up (Plus: The Rooms!)
If you were anywhere in the general proximity of the William Vale these last few days you may have noticed the futuristic giant is getting glassed in. The rapidly rising hotel has just one last growth...
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Dagger, The Queer Lesbian Party Where Straight Dudes Pay to Play
(Photos: Maggie Craig) Even the most jaded of after-hours ravers probably haven’t seen this pricing scheme before: for women, entry to Dagger is $5 at the door before midnight and $10 after; meanwhile...
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Three Food Fests That Are a Really Big Dill
Vegan Shop-Up You don’t have to be a vegan to enjoy the ethical delicacies offered at the Vegan Shop-Up; with more than a dozen food vendors serving every animal-free product you could imagine (and...
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NYU Medical Center at Essex Crossing; Citi Bike Ride to Cali
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Essex Crossing developers leased 40K square feet to NYU‘s Langone Medical Center. [Bowery Boogie] On First Avenue, the six-story mixed-use building home to No Relation Vintage is...
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