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Television Played Rough Trade; A Man Grew an Amazing Cat Mustache
Mornin’, all. Here’s what happened Over the Weekend. (Photo: Scott Lynch) On the heels of the trailer, here’s the Girls Season 3 poster. Looks like “Happily whatever after” is the new “Almost kind of...
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[Updated] Another Knockout Incident? A Man Was Clocked On Bedford Avenue Last...
A man was punched in the head as he walked along Bedford Avenue last night, according to the NYPD. But was he a victim of the dread Knockout Game? A police rep tells B+B it’s unclear what led a black...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime For These Cooper Union Students?
The Cooper Union students who’ve been fighting the advent of tuition — at one point camping out in president Jamshed Bharucha’s office and getting pizza deliveries by balloon — have been going hard...
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Victim Says Knockout Punchers Laughed During What’s Being Called a ‘Hateful...
The NYPD isn’t saying whether an assault on Bedford Avenue last night is part of a disturbing pattern, but Council Member Stephen Levin and power-broker rabbi David Niederman are making it clear they...
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These Celebrities Will Hang Out With You If You Just Help Stop NYU
Photo: @jennababin, WNYC) Picture yourself spice shopping with Padma Lakshmi and joking about how NYU’s Greenwich Village expansion plan is like a dose of cayenne to the eyes. Picture yourself getting...
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And The St. Mark’s Bookshop Is Having a Star-Studded Auction As Well
Courtesy St. Mark’s Bookshop If you don’t score those signed editions of Art Spiegelman and Junot Diaz at the anti-NYU-expansion auction, don’t worry — their John Hancocks will also be on offer during...
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Dinner Boat Floats in Greenpoint; Lou Reed Mural in Williamsburg
Photo: Scott Lynch) Bushwick neighborhood groups are circulating a petition calling on the developer of the Rheingold Brewery complex to include affordable housing units that are in keeping with the...
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Next Time You’re Craving Borscht, Look For This Three-Eyed Bear
(Photo: Nikita Richardson) Normally we’d be freaked out by a giant bear watching over our shoulder while we eat, but for Bushwick’s cozy and ambitious new Russian cafe, we’ll make an exception. “Nobody...
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Wolf Down Some Popcorn — and Meet an Actual Wolf — at These Fun Screenings
This weekend at indieScreen, the second annual Philip K. Dick Film Festival pays homage to the sci-fi master whose work led to Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, The Adjustment Bureau and...
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Here’s Who’ll Be Reppin’ Brooklyn and LES at Miami Art Week
In case you couldn’t tell from all the status updates about packing for 75 degree weather, it’s time again for Miami Art Week, when all the galleries that have been popping up in North Brooklyn and the...
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An E-Cig Ban Looms, But Vape Shop Owners are Breathing Easy
A sign lists carcinogens at Henley Vaporium. (Courtesy of Henley) With a public hearing scheduled tomorrow and vote expected later this month, the City Council’s Health Committee is proposing a ban on...
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Less Chain Stores in EV, More in BK; a Williamsburg Shipping-Container House
Check out the above video for time-lapse footage of the Rough Trade store‘s opening. [NY Times] And on the other side of the retail spectrum, the city saw the smallest year-to-year increase in chain...
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Watch 4 Off-Beat, Stroke-of-Genius Films From the Age of Porno Chic
(Courtesy Anthology Film Archives) We love you, Anthology Film Archives, but that doesn’t mean we want to see your old porn. Ok, maybe. On Friday, the East Village theater launches a steamy new series...
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The Cornut (Sorry, Cronut™) Is Coming to the LES Tomorrow
(Courtesy Dominique Ansel Bakery) You could accuse us of being traffic whores for putting “porno” in one headline and “cronut” in the next, and you might be right. After all, we’re not even sure the...
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Adam Sandler Isn’t the Only Reason Ave B Was a Hot Spot Today
Film crews pack up as construction workers dig on a sewer line next door. (photo by Patrick Hogan)The last time a fire flanked a film shoot in the East Village, it was when Inside Llewyn Davis was in...
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Buy a Beard Brush at the Night Bazaar Or This Crazy Tooth Ring at the Holiday...
(Courtesy Sarustar) Attention, Greenpoint shoppers! Between the Brooklyn Night Bazaar and the Greenpointers Holiday Market, this weekend is your big chance to load up on gifts while getting loaded. The...
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James Murphy’s Espresso Is Brewing; Knockout Attacks Due to ‘Resentment’?
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A newly elected councilwoman attempting to explain recent knockout attacks believes that for some African-Americans “the accomplishments of the Jewish community triggers feelings...
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Watch a 1,500 Ping-Pong Ball Assault On Cooper Union’s Administration
The grand staircases at the Thom Mayne-designed Cooper Union academic building at 41 Cooper Square connects four floors of the nine story building in a single, unbroken sweep. Now imagine it blanketed...
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Are Jimmy McMillan’s New Jams Kind of Amazing, or Are We Too Damn High?
Sure, de Blasio filled three top slots yesterday, but that’s not half as exciting his runner-up’s three new jams. Jimmy McMillan snagged less than 2,000 votes and came in fifth on election day, but...
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Watch Coked-Up Rats Reenact Russian History at This Freaky Film Festival
The cartoon above — just one installment in the “Rats on Cocaine” series — is so completely depraved it makes R. Crumb look like Mr. Rogers. And yet the folks at the New York No Limits Film Series saw...
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