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Laurie Anderson Will Be at The Strand Tonight
Performance artist Laurie Anderson will be in the East Village tonight at the Strand, one of her first public appearances since losing husband Lou Reed in October. Anderson and Brooklyn author Amanda...
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One Word For the Observer Editor Who Thinks Brooklyn Is ‘Over’: Junglepussy
(Photo: The Gunckle’s Flickr) After deriding “Brooklyn’s Overhyped, Undercooked Restaurant Scene,” the New York Observer has now gone ahead and declared that “Brooklyn is over. Done. Finished. Brooklyn...
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Nightwood Is Leaving Williamsburg, Sharktooth Is Moving In
(Photo: Jenna Marotta)While it seems like every business on the planet is trying to lock up a lease in Williamsburg, Nightwood is walking away from theirs. At the end of the month, the furniture and...
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Vice‘s Shane Smith: ‘Will We Eventually Be Old and Shitty? Yes.’
Previewing the upcoming HBO season to an audience of NYU students last night, Vice co-founder Shane Smith admitted there was a time when “we were concerned about rare denim, cocaine and super models —...
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This Theater Kid Has a Thing For Skulls, and So Does Hair Metal
(Photo: Nina Westervelt) In the two and a half years that Ariel Pellman has gone to Hair Metal in Greenpoint, she’s also gone through six hairstyles. See if you can follow along with just a few: When...
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At Independent, There Are Newspapers in Jars and Pickled Veggies in Tables
Andra Ursuta, “Even More Love Hours” at Ramiken Crucible. (photo: Allyson Shiffman) The Independent art fair (the art fair that prefers not to be described as an art fair) opened its doors yesterday...
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Watch the New TEEN Video and Snag Tickets to The Album Release Party
Greenpoint’s TEEN just released a video for their single, “Not For Long.” It’s kind of like the “Nothing Compares 2 You” video meets “Spaceballs” on shrooms… Okay, we won’t bother trying to describe...
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The Last Brucennial, Featuring Only Women, Was Just Nuts
(Photos: Scott Lynch) (Photos: Scott Lynch) (Photos: Scott Lynch) (Photos: Scott Lynch) (Photos: Scott Lynch) (Photos: Scott Lynch) (Photos: Scott Lynch) (Photos: Scott Lynch) (Photos: Scott Lynch)...
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Some Warholians Dined at Indochine to Celebrate Paul Kasmin’s Latest Shows
Atmosphere at Indochine. (photo: Patrick McMullan) What happens when Andy Warhol’s cronies – superstar Jane Holzer, iconic writer Glenn O’Brien, former Interview editor Bob Colacello (who wrote Holy...
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Honduras Ain’t Gonna Lie: ‘We Want to Be a Big Band, So We’re Trying to Write...
Pat Philips, opening for Kaiser Chiefs at Music Hall of Williamsburg last month. (Photo: Shayne Hanley) Pat Philips, the lead singer of the band Honduras, might be hungover. He’s drinking a lot of...
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‘Don’t Put Your Butts in the Creek,’ Other Green Projects Score Oil-Spill Funds
(Photo: gsz’s Flickr) Greenpoint is about to get a whole lot greener: more than a dozen community organizations will be awarded a total of $600,000 in funds to make up for ExxonMobil’s massive Newtown...
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Williamsburg’s Croxley Abbey Has More TV Sets Than You Have Teeth
(Photos: Jenna Marotta) (Photos: Jenna Marotta) (Photos: Jenna Marotta) (Photos: Jenna Marotta) (Photos: Jenna Marotta) Despite 38 television sets, 10-cent wing nights*, 48 tap beers plus nearly 80...
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A Tiny Gift Shop Has Opened and Now Manhattan Is Officially Over, Too
Earlier this week, Brooklyn was declared over, and now Manhattan is over, too. Done. Finished. On St. Marks Place, a small gift shop has opened, selling I ♥ NY baby tees, cheap ties, and a bunch of...
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This Crash Sent Two Cabbies to the Hospital
superpusha on Instagram A pair of cabs collided at the intersection of Eldridge and Broome Streets tonight. It happened shortly before 9 p.m. and two people were taken to Bellevue Hospital, according...
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Baby Seal in Greenpoint; ‘How Hipsters Ruined the Bowery’
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Here’s more on Saturday night’s cab crash at Eldridge and Broome. [NY Daily News] A motorcyclist died after hitting a car on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. [NY Daily News] There...
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Don’t Worry, Those ‘Dad Glasses’ Might Not Be Matt Berninger’s New Look
Yes, Lena Dunham was naked on SNL. But Matt Berninger, lead singer of The National, also set off a twitstorm during Saturday’s episode when he hit the stage wearing a pair of wire-frame eyeglasses...
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Guardian Angels On the Case After Sunday’s ‘Knockout’ Attack
The Guardian Angels want to “stop the knock out game” with flyers posted near Bowery and Prince, where a 23-year-old Long Island resident was sucker-punched from behind after leaving a bar early Sunday...
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This Massive Athletic Club Is Coming to the Williamsburg-Greenpoint Border
Williamsburg-Greenpoint is getting a 17,000-square-foot training facility where locals can work off the beers they downed next-door at Spritzenhaus. While their kids are looked after. Brooklyn Athletic...
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Dalaga Closes, Home of the Brave Opens on Franklin Avenue
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) While the Franklin Avenue retail strip keeps growing (a home design shop, Home of the Brave, popped up last week) one of its pioneers said farewell over the weekend. Dalaga,...
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Pedestrian Struck in the East Village; Councilman Calls For Traffic Review in...
Scene of Sunday’s East Village incident. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) After a horrific horrific collision between a car and motorcyclist on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint Sunday that left the motorcyclist...
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