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When Amiri Baraka Was LeRoi Jones, ‘King of the Lower East Side’
The day of his play ‘The Toilet’ debuted at the St. Marks Playhouse (Second Ave & 8th Street), December 13, 1964. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images) Amiri Baraka may have been a “son of...
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Live From Greenpoint, It’s SNL’s New Hire! Sasheer Zamata Is ‘Going to Kill It’
(Photo courtesy of UCB) Sasheer Zamata learned she was SNL’s newest cast member just minutes before you probably did. “It was pretty wild because that day they called her [at] Monday at like 3 p.m. and...
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Judge Says Yippie Building Tenants Must Peace Out
9 Bleecker. (Daniel Maurer) A New York State Supreme Court judge has ruled that the venerable Yippie Museum be cleared for new tenants and has handed yippie leader Dana Beal a hell of a birthday gift,...
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NYU Is, Of Course, Appealing That Expansion Ruling
(Courtesy of NYU) To the surprise of no one, NYU has announced that it will appeal a State Supreme Court judge’s ruling that it must get the state’s blessing to build on parts of two superblocks in...
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Will Fussell of Mood Rings Got His Bucket Hat Stolen By a Groupie
Zach Wolfe Last month I had the glorious opportunity to see Atlanta-based band Mood Rings open for Cults but I didn’t because I was too busy getting drunk or straightening my hair (or getting drunk...
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The East Village Jazz Scene Remembers Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka reads the words to songs by Curtis Mayfield as William Parker and Leena Conquest perform Parker’s “Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield” on the final evening of Vision Festival at Clemente Soto...
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It’s Official: Cooper Union Will Charge Tuition
Unleashing 2,000 ping-pong balls can only do so much. Cooper Union’s Board of Trustees announced this evening that it will go ahead with a plan to cut its full-tuition scholarships in half. Back in...
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House of Yes Finds New Space; Coco 66 Reopens
(Photo: Scott Lynch) De Blasio says finding Menachem Stark’s killer is a high priority. [DNA Info] The House of Yes has found a new space in Bushwick. It’ll have a larger stage and seating area, a...
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Here’s How Hannah’s Neighbors Feel About the New Season of Girls
(Photos by Amy Lombard) If the streets of the East Village seemed eerily deserted last night, it’s because everyone was packed into Professor Thom’s to watch the season premiere of (cue Santigold riff)...
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Jena Friedman and Elna Baker On Girls: ‘My Daddy Issues Are That I Love My...
Welcome to Girls Talk, in which two of our favorite New Yorkers share the text messages they sent during this week’s episode of Girls. (Photo: Jessica Miglio/Courtesy of HBO) Elna and Jena. (Photo:...
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Max Fish Bartenders: Where Are They Now?
(Photo: Daniel Savage) Many of us are still mourning the loss of Max Fish, hopelessly wandering the gentrified streets of the Lower East Side for a watering hole to call home. However, we musn’t lose...
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This Week: Activist Nuns, a Music-Video Battle and ’70s Performance Artists
(Photo courtesy of Whitney Museum) In conjunction with the Whitney Museum’s Rituals of Rented Island, Anthology Film Archives is presenting Further Rituals of Rented Island. During the 1970s...
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Police Say This Man Raped a Woman in Her East Village Apartment
Police say the man in the above video forced his way into a woman’s East Village apartment and raped her. The 22-year-old victim was walking into her apartment on East Seventh Street yesterday around...
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Jerry’s Newsstand Reopens; Tenement Museum Expands; Domino Refinery Gets Artsy
(Photo: Phillip Kalantzis Cope/Flickr) With a little help from Mayor de Blasio, Jerry Delakas is back at his Astor Place newsstand after the Department of Consumer of affairs dropped his fines from...
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Michael Ian Cummings of SKATERS Loves Pizza, and Has the Tattoo to Prove It
Welcome to the first installment of Why That Tat?, in which we bring you the origin stories of the best/strangest/most hilarious/bizarre tattoos we encounter. Michael Ian Cummings shows off his arm at...
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Do You Know More About The Pixies Than the Shitty Pixies Do?
Ezra Selove, Jesse Ministero, Evan Flath, Lisha Nadkarni of The Shitty Pixies (photo: Frank Grecco) An instrumental factor in the success of any cover band (aside from their ability to actually sound...
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At This Opening, the Food, Booze, and the Art Is Free
“I’ve always done the kind of art where people look at it and say, ‘That looks like ovaries,’ said Carla Avruch, who is giving away 70 drawings Friday night at Bushwick’s Sardine gallery. “That’s the...
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No ‘Beastie Boys Square’ On the LES Just Yet: CB Says Get It Together
Danielle Mastrion posed with her Beastie Boys mural on East 1st Street in May of 2012. (Photo: Stephen Robinson) The quest to have a Lower East Side corner co-named after the Beastie Boys isn’t looking...
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LPC Approves Domino Conversion; Check L Train Times From Your Phone
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The Landmarks Preservation Committee approved plans to convert the landmarked portion of the Domino Sugar factory into office space with a four-story glass addition on the roof and...
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Watch Sacco Play ‘Carnival Ghost’ and Talk About Their Tour With Cults
John Fredericks and Andy Breihan aren’t anarchists, but that didn’t stop them from naming their band after Sacco & Vanzetti (Fredericks encountered the name while enrolled in an art history...
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