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This Group Wants to Unite Bushwick’s Longtimers With… Can We Say ‘Hipsters’?
via Bridging Bushwick’s Facebook page. No discussion of the state of things in Bushwick would be complete without a philosophical brainstorming session on what a “hipster” is, and whether the label...
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11 Cult-Movie-Inspired Artworks We May Just Have to Buy Tonight
The last time I went to an art gallery, my main complaint was there weren’t enough pictures of Atreyu from The Never-Ending Story. There will be several of them at a show of artwork inspired by cult...
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See and Be Seen, and See Some Zines, at the 8-Ball Fair This Weekend
The first zine fair. (Photo courtesy of 8-Ball) Lele Saveri is a busy, mustacheoed man: he helped open MuddGuts in November, just extended The Newsstand’s run into January and this Sunday he’ll put on...
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Red Alert: SantaCon Has Stormed Manhattan
Do we even have to tell you that hundreds of slurring Santas (on CitiBikes! in SantaTanks!) have hit the snowy streets of the East Village and Lower East Side? Love it or hate it, SantaCon has come to...
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No SantaCon Arrests, Despite Brawl; Marina Abramović as the Grim Reaper
(Photo: Francisco Valera) Good morning, all. Here’s what happened over the weekend. As you can see from Francisco Valera’s photo above, we’ve survived another SantaCon — see Saturday’s slideshow for...
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So, How’s That 24/7 Thing Going For Empire Biscuit?
A month and a half after Empire Biscuit opened to out-the-door lines and magazine write-ups galore, the biscuit buzz is still going strong: New York dropped two Underground Gourmet stars on the shop...
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Party With Videology’s Open Bar or Partake in Spectacle’s Favorites of 2013
We’re officially in end-of-year mode, which means reading endless year-end lists, working extra hours to pay for Christmas gifts, and hopefully going to Spectacle Theater night after night to catch...
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16 Things John Waters Wants For Christmas
SantaCon wasn’t the only depraved holiday tradition to hit Manhattan this past weekend, thank goodness: John Waters brought his Christmas tour to Stage 48 on Friday. Sporting a jazzy, snazzy Comme des...
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Check Out Kathleen Hanna’s Anti-Evan Dando Zine, Plus an Excerpt From Bamboo...
This week is your last chance to see The Punk Singer on the big screen, and you should definitely, definitely catch this cool doc about Kathleen Hanna – one of the most visible and outspoken figures of...
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A.P.C. Finally Opened Its Bond Street Store
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Hot on the heels of Il Buco Vita, NoHo got another shopping location for the well-heeled over the weekend: Kanye-collaborating French clothier A.P.C. opened its fourth NYC store...
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What’s a Gallery Opening Without Some Slam Dancing?
(Photo: Anthony Pappalardo) “Everyone’s pissed in there because people are dancing to punk rock,” said a frustrated slam dancer standing outside of Envoy Enterprises gallery on Rivington Street last...
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Read Jill Freedman’s Epic Rant About Photography and the ‘Mechanized...
We only crop square and we ONLY use the Earlybird filter. (Left to right: Dunn, Freedman and Patterson) It’s tough to out-talk Clayton Patterson, the Bloomberg-bashing photographer with the Santa beard...
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Gretsch Building Loft Going For $6.5 Mil; Mocassin Making Classes Just $575
(Photo: Scott Lynch) With the City Council’s last session of the year coming up on Thursday, Council Member Stephen Levin has to decide whether to allow the 15-story towers bound for Greenpoint to...
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Here’s Your Handsome New Spot For Sesame Whiskey and Chicken Cracklins
The dining room, opening next month. (Photo: Ron Castellano) A stone’s throw from where Les Enfants Terribles turned into Skal in August, another Lower Lower East Side spot will unveil a new look and...
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This Itinerate Bookstore Is Settling Down and Adding a Cafe Bar
(Photo: BGS-QD’s Facebook) After raising a little over $20,000 this summer, the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division has secured a home for at least the next year. Back in September, the queer...
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Follow Us and We’ll Give You All 20 of These Chanel Purses
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Okay, no, we’re not going to give you any of the Chanel purses on display at the Pilgrim store. Who do you think we are, Swagg Man? What me meant is that if you like us on...
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This Starving Artist Has a $5 Wine Recommendation For You
(Photo: Ebru Yildiz) Raimundo Rubio has been buying his booze at Greenpoint Wine & Liquors for 13 years. The clean and well-lit, no-frills store is just a block away from his apartment where he...
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Manatees Are Huge This Year, Says One of These Novelty-Gift Gurus
Whether you’re looking for an inflatable unicorn horn, a MetroCard bow tie, or a Ryan Gosling coloring book, the East Village is just the place to find those preposterous stocking stuffers. If you’re...
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Incomes Rising in Williamsburg; Could LES Get a Beastie Boys Square?
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Is an Ace Hotel coming to the Bowery? BuzzBuzz Home reports that plans for a 178-room hotel at the former Salvation Army Chinatown shelter are moving ahead. Bowery Boogie spotted a...
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Drunken Santas Are ‘Not Bad People,’ Says Police Captain
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Despite a noticeable police presence around Tompkins Square Park and a viral video of Santas brawling near Union Square, SantaCon posed few problems in the Ninth Precinct, police...
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