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Here’s Your Chance to Tell the City How to Blow a Milli
(Photo: Jaime Cone) What project would members of your community vote for if given $1 million to make local improvements? Last night a group of about 20 people of all ages tackled the question at...
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This Weekend, Hit a Coffee Expo and Take the Edge Off at a Beer Fest
Coffee and beer — one wakes us and the other sends us to our slumber. Oh, how we’d suffer without these dark elixirs. This weekend the two lifebloods upon which modern civilization hath been built...
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Controversial Crochet Comes Down; Melee On Ludlow Street
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Watch cellphone footage of a violent melee that occurred Saturday night outside Mikey’s Burger on the Lower East Side. [Bowery Boogie] The Night Owl on First Avenue quit the...
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This Week’s Theater: Prohibition-Era Cyndi Lauper, Masculine Bodies, Garden...
From Cyndi Lauper drag cabaret shows to garden romps, here’s this week’s local (and affordable) theater and performance. (photo: Daniel Albanese) WEDNESDAY Cabaret artist Salty Brine continues his...
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Up Now: Artwork the Late Mayor of Williamsburg Kept Close By
Ray Abeyta’s early work is on display at Littlefield throughout the Motorcycle Film Fest (Photo: Nicole Disser) There’s plenty to see and do at the third annual Motorcycle Film Festival, which kicked...
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Another Gym For Avenue A: Blink Fitness Coming to New Condo Building
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Does Avenue A stand for Avenue Abs? While an exhibit coming soon to Howl Arts pays tribute to the glory days of punk and drag at the Pyramid, a gym going in across the street from...
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Schmackary’s Is Latest Manhattanite to Set Up Shop On Bedford Ave
Schmackary’s, a Hell’s Kitchen cookie shop that has enough of a cult following that it’s the subject of a BuzzFeed list, is the latest Manhattan spot to open on (or just off of) Bedford Avenue. The...
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Week in Film: Embrace This Festival Madness and Ye Will Be Rewarded
Is it just me or are there actual butt loads of film festivals taking place all over our dear city. Happening right now in Gowanus is the Motorcycle Film Fest and last week we were graced with a Coney...
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Puppies N’ Pints! Brooklyn Brewery Went to the Dogs Last Night
(Photo: Jaime Cone) No, not all of the 2,000-plus people who committed to attending the first ever Puppies n’ Pints were able to go – sorry guys, Brooklyn Brewery’s just not that big. They had to cap...
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Flooding in LES; Bushwick Residents Fight Eviction Notice
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) A new Vietnamese restaurant called Bo Ca Phe will debut soon at 222 Lafayette Street. [Bowery Boogie] Yesterday a water main ruptured at the corner of Cherry Street and Rutgers...
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Where to Get Your Donald Trump Costume in Williamsburg
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) It’s hard to believe Halloween is less than a month away, but yeah: it’s only a matter of weeks before every dude from Strong Island is prowling the streets in a “Make America...
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The Hunt Brings Stuffed Bears, Miley’s Pig, and Other Oddities to Canal Street
As its name implies, it takes some effort to discover the new storefront of Lower East Side’s enigmatic purveyors with panache, The Hunt. Framed under an electronics store sign belonging to an old...
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This Eid, Have Your Lamb Slaughtered With the Click of a Button
(Photos: Sarah Aziza) “It’s really hard to cut the jugular vein in one stroke.” Thursday morning, I sat in the stairwell of Judson Memorial Church off Washington Square with Imam Khalid Latif, the...
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There’ll Be an Epic, Tie-Dyed Goodbye to Activist Adam Purple
(Photo: Nicole DIsser) While he was showing me around the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space yesterday, Bill Di Paola, founder of the environmental non-profit Time’s Up and this place as well, told me all...
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Did Hipsters Really Kill Williamsburg Burlesque? It’s Back in a Big Way This...
Rosie 151 (Photo: Olena “Photolena” Sullivan) Calamity Chang, once a fixture at the old Galapagos with the Beatles Burlesque show she produced, rarely performs in Brooklyn these days. But she makes an...
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Genuine Liquorette Has a Can-Do Attitude About Airplane Bottles
(Photos: Brian Dunn) Okay, yes, we’ve poked fun at Saxon + Parole for its $8 egg cream but the fact remains that we’ve been huge fans of AvroKO’s in-house cocktails guru, Eben Freeman, ever since he...
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Queer and Trans Punk Fest Aims to ‘Break Down All Those Boxes’
Adult Mom (Photo: Richard Gin) Freak Out! Fest, a queer and trans punk music festival, is making its debut in Bushwick and the Lower East Side this weekend with over 20 bands playing shows at Silent...
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Chinatown and LES Residents Rally Against ‘Building From Hell’
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Around 250 local residents, business owners and members of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & The Lower East Side met at the future site of a controversial luxury tower and...
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Fire at Silent Barn; Crochet-Slinging Buswick Flea Owner Protested
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) No one was injured but significant property damage was incurred during a Friday night fire at Silent Barn. [Gothamist] Yesterday Bushwick Flea founder Rob Abner, who recently...
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Know Wolf Eyes From Lazyeyes Lest You Get Stink Eye
Bands Apart is a new weekly column wherein we outline the sometimes vast differences between bands with not-so-different names. Soak up this super important knowledge and we guarantee you’ll impress...
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