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Help Make This Documentary About Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Spiritual Wife’ a Reality
While we honor the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs and mourn the loss of Amiri Baraka, one of their old colleagues, Anne Waldman, will be celebrated in an forthcoming documentary. But the...
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The East Village Is Losing Its Sole Laser Center/Thrift Shop
(Photo: Jenna Marotta) One of the East Village’s quirkier concepts — a subterranean skincare center with a ground-level secondhand shop — is getting zapped like so much unsightly mustache hair. A year...
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Looks Like the 7A and Odessa Spaces Will Be Back in Play Next Month
Bathroom graffiti at Odessa Bar. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)Next month, Community Board 3 may find itself weighing the fates of two iconic spaces on Avenue A. Odessa Bar and Cafe closed in September, and, a...
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Broad City Goes From Web Series to TV Show to ‘Unique Experience’
Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson (Courtesy of Comedy Central) Only one episode of Comedy Central’s Broad City has aired so far (the second airs 10:30 p.m. tonight), but the ratings must have been...
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Beastie Boys Square Gets Final Slapdown; Bushwick Church Headed For Conversion
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The blood of slain Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark was found in a van that police recovered in Brownsville earlier this month. [NY Post] Community Board 3 rejected a bid to bring...
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Something Magical Happens When This ‘Coffeetographer’ Goes to Café Grumpy
(Photo: Ebru Yildiz) Coffee shops are very important to Chérmelle Edwards. As a freelance writer and “coffeetographer” (a coffee photographer), the passionate and...
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Mr. Throwback Sleeps On Stephanie Tanner’s Pillowcase Every Night
Everyone’s favorite connoisseur of all things retro and nostalgic, Mr. Throwback, gives us his weekly blast from the past. Though nearly everyone who grew up in the ’90s feels a visceral connection to...
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Last Chance to Worship Dead Celebrities at This Freaky Pop-Up Reliquary
Jean Michel Basquiat The celebrity cemetery on Broome Street has no headstones, graves or flowers. Through Sunday, the Whitebox Art Center will display 51 portraits from British painter Robert...
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Crown Heights Is the ‘New Williamsburg,’ East New York Is the ‘Next Bushwick’
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Is East New York the “next Bushwick”? [Untapped Cities] And is Crown Heights the “new Williamsburg”? [Curbed] The owners of the Jarmulowsky Bank building have decided to restore...
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This Woman Says the Chelsea Hotel’s New Owner Offered Her Nearly Half a...
Tina Rossner in her studio apartment. (Photo: Scott Lynch) The Stop Work order plastered on a lobby door of the historic Hotel Chelsea could be lifted any day now, allowing for a new round of...
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Lindsay Lohan Caught the Debut of ‘New York’s Hottest New Band’ Last Night
Public Access TV takes the stage at Niagara last night (photo: Allyson Shiffman) “This is fun,” said John Eatherly midway through the first gig of the East Village’s newest indie darlings, Public...
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Lena Dunham Will Milk a Cow on ‘Billy on the Street’: Get FREE TIX to the...
We’re helping give away tickets for an invite-only shindig celebrating the new season of Billy on the Street – and you don’t even have to get Quizzed in the Face to snag em. All you have to do is sign...
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Here’s an Early Look at the New Museum’s Fantastic Pawel Althamer Exhibit
(Photos: Scott Lynch) Polish artist Paweł Althamer — whose sculptural figures of himself, friends, family, and neighbors pull off the neat trick of being simultaneously friendly and slightly disturbing...
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Magnolia Is Giving Away Cupcakes in Honor of Justin Timberlake’s Birthday...
(Photo by Shanna Ravindra for New York magazine) If you bring your MasterCard to Magnolia Bakery today, you’ll get a free cupcake in honor of Justin Timberlake’s 33rd birthday. No, they don’t have...
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50 Filmmakers Created This Delightfully Glitchy Reboot of RoboCop
Adam Green’s remake of Aladdin and the Bushwick remake of Wizard of Oz may or may not happen, but this is very real: the group of filmmakers that remade Footloose back in 2010 are back with their new...
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12 Things You Might Not Have Known About William S. Burroughs, Per His...
A week before a 100th birthday concert for William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, author of the new biography Call Me Burroughs, dropped by The Strand to talk about his time with the Beat legend, starting...
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Calm Before the Storm: Williamsburg’s Sports Bars Brace For Super Bowl Sunday
Williamsburg definitely isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think Super Bowl, but as evidenced by Grub Street’s rundown of non-douchey places to watch, there are sports bars in the...
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Another Warhol Superstar Has Died; Would-Be Cop Killer Gets Convicted
(Photo: beau-dog) First Taylor Mead and now this: Rene Ricard, the East Village “poet, painter, art critic, scene-maker, ex-Andy Warhol super-star, subject of one of Allen’s most penetrating...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Took Me Under His Wing
Hoffman at the opening night party for “The Little Flower of East Orange,” at B Bar on April 6, 2008. (Photo by Will Ragozzino/Getty Images) Philip Seymour Hoffman, found dead in his West Village...
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Rob Michael Hugel and Shannon Coffey on Girls: ‘She’s Gonna Try to Take a...
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. Craig Blankenhorn/Courtesy of HBO Rob Michael Hubel.The text in...
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