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Because You’ve Always Wanted to Combine Yoga With Tightrope Walking
Sure, you do yoga, but with the holidays upon us it’s going to take more than a few warrior poses to make you feel centered again after you’ve gorged on turkey and candy canes. So it’s time to up the...
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Rough Trade NYC Will Recreate Donald Glover’s Bedroom When It Opens Monday
The warehouse space. Iconic British record store Rough Trade’s first foray across the sea, into a sprawling warehouse space on North 9th and Wythe, is three days from its opening, and resembles a sort...
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We’d Say These Cat Paintings Are Cute, But That’s Just Scratching the Surface
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This Week, Celebrate Nelson Mandela or Get Suckered By Kim Jong Il
For years, Kathleen Hanna was the patron saint of the take-no-shit, “fuck you, I’m a woman and I can play guitar better than you can” attitude known as Riot Grrrl. Armed with nothing but a mic, she...
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Lou Reed Was Honored By Kyp Malone, Arto Lindsay and Many Others Last Night
Kyp Malone (Photos: Pete Voelker) Arto Lindsay Ivan Julian Donald Cummings Lenny Kaye The Bottom Dollars Kevin Salem Matt Hitt of Drowners Shannon Funchess Phantom Family Halo Kembra Pfahler Justin...
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A Boardwalk Empire Star Showed Up at This Amazing Time Warp to the...
Frank Spano worked his way down a line of guests, welcoming the men in fedoras and women in flapper dresses to his hidden nightclub. He was tall, wore a grey suit and spoke with old-fashioned...
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Your First Look Into Rough Trade NYC, Now Open in Williamsburg
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This New Store Is Selling the Gummi Bear Chandelier Of Your Dreams
Jellio (Photos: Christopher DiScipio) Jellio (Photos: Christopher DiScipio) Jellio (Photos: Christopher DiScipio) Jellio (Photos: Christopher DiScipio) Jellio (Photos: Christopher DiScipio) Jellio...
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Rustico Is Now Serving Crepes and Cortados
Rustico (Photos: Daniel Maurer) Rustico (Photos: Daniel Maurer) Rustico (Photos: Daniel Maurer) Rustico (Photos: Daniel Maurer) Rustico (Photos: Daniel Maurer) photo(223) Rustico, the...
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I Live Above Fette Sau, and the Bacon Waft Haunts Me So
(Photo: Elliot Black/NY Mag) I live above a barbecue restaurant in Williamsburg called Fette Sau. It offers meats that have been sugared, smoked, and roasted until they are soft and sweet, like candy....
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Finally, a Workout Video You Can Watch While Pounding Free Beer
Williamsburg has a Santa Claus, and its name is Rubber Tracks. Not only does Converse’s Williamsburg recording studio exist just to offer free sessions to up-and-coming bands on a year-round basis,...
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Beware the Bald, Mustachioed Man Who Offers You His Wedding Ring
The perp as rendered by his victim. As you can probably tell from the fact that you’re reading words I’ve put on a page, I’m a writer. And if you know something about the state of writers in general,...
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Watch Diners Barehand Some Pig Heart For a Good Cause
What better way to raise money for the victims of the typhoon that struck the Philippines earlier this month than by hosting a six-course Filipino dinner party? None, argues Yana Gilbuena, who was...
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A Glöggfest and a Donut Soiree Are Coming to City Reliquary
City Reliquary, the NYC-obsessed cabinet of wonders at the corner Metropolitan and Havemayer, isn’t usually a foodie destination — but it’ll celebrate two of life’s sweetest indulgences next week. Dec....
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This French-Born NYC Tour Guide Will Serenade You With Gypsy Jazz Tonight
(Photo: Sherry Hsieh) One look at Alex Gabriel McKanze and it’s obvious he’s a musician: the tall, lanky 22-year-old has shoulder-length brown hair and a tattoo of the solar system on his right arm....
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Watch NYC-NOLA’s Hurray for the Riff Raff Play a Ditty at NYC-NOLA’s d.b.a.
Unlike the countless many who come to New York in pursuit of a music career, Bronx native Alynda Lee Segarra left the city, at 17, for New Orleans. Hurray for the Riff Raff is now such a fixture there...
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Here’s a Drone Strike On a Power Plant That We Can All Get Behind
“Double Alaska” opens with Ben Seretan standing alone in an abandoned steam-power plant. The guitarist tunes his instrument, steps on a pedal, and a warm drone sounds out. The screen shifts to a...
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Joey Pepperoni Has a Mexican Alterego, and His Name Is Joey Guacamole
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Not content with being the second least atrocious $1 slice spot in the East Village, Joey Pepperoni has gotten into the taco game and is now operating a taco stand within a pizza...
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This Thanksgiving, Bring Them Some Reptile Wine
With T-minus 24 hours till Thanksgiving dinner, you’re wondering WTF to bring the folks who were nice enough to have you over. Two words: cobra wine. You’ll find it at Obscura Antiques & Oddities....
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Sorry Morrissey, The Bowery Mission Served 540 Turkeys to 7,000 People
(Photo: Mary Reinholz) Mayor Bloomberg came by after the 8 a.m. meal and police commissioner Ray Kelly showed up a few hours later. But for the homeless and working poor people lined up outside the...
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