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Allison Kave and Keavy Landreth on Girls: ‘I’m Writhing With Discomfort’
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. Mark Schafer/Courtesy of HBO A lot happened in the Girls universe...
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Jorge Arias of Bushwick’s The Sampler Has Opened an East Village Wine Shop
The interior of Urban Wines (photo: Allyson Shiffman) Urban Wines. (Photo: Allyson Shiffman) The opening of a new wine store is always cause for celebration, particularly if it boasts a healthy...
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These 8 Images Show What a Stronger, Sexier LES Waterfront Might Look Like
One vision for the future of East River Park. (Renderings courtesy of Rebuild by Design). The East River waterfront is in for a dramatic transformation in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Today, several...
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‘Art-less Dodger’ Indicted For Swiping Portraits of Basquiat, Mandela and Snoop
The 49-year-old who allegedly stole three paintings from a Williamsburg art gallery before being chased down by the gallery owner, and then apprehended by police, has been indicted and is facing...
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Homeland Security ‘Terrorized’ East Williamsburg; Greenpoint Leech Therapy
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Sunday’s mysterious Department of Homeland Security raid “terrorized and confused” East Williamsburg residents. [Gothamist] Permits were filed yesterday for two of Greenpoint...
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Police Say This Guy Rented Out a Fake Apartment in Andy Warhol’s Old Building
We’ve seen this one before: a man posing as a broker conned nine women out of deposits for an East Village apartment he wasn’t licensed to rent. Police say a man using the names David Horowitz and...
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Spiegel Opens Monday With Fish Tacos and Cali Coffee
Spiegel’s inviting interior. (photo: Allyson Shiffman) Forget Arabian/French, Japanese/Ukrainian or Swedish/Mexican — new neighborhood joint Spiegel is ditching the East Village trend of unexpected...
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A Chat With Oh, Honey, the Latest Williamsburg Band Sign With a Major
Danielle Bouchard and Mitchy Collins of Oh, Honey (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio) Oh, Honey, the Williamsburg-based band made up of Mitchy Collins and Danielle Bouchard, has a dreamy, sun-drenched sound that...
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Hear Yr Fave Television and Pixies Albums On Some Really Expensive Speakers
This has to be the next best thing to seeing the Shitty Pixies live: next month, you’ll be able to listen to the real Pixies on Output’s bone-rattling sound system. Classic Album Sundays, an...
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The Heart Machine Plumbs an East Village-Bushwick Cyber Affair
Still from The Heart Machine The first moments of The Heart Machine are a dream, an abstract impression of movement and shifting light, laced with muted sounds like music from next door. Then the...
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Verboten, Williamsburg’s Newest Dance Club, Finally Opens This Weekend
(Photo courtesy of Verboten)The speakers! The recently announced Red Bull Music Academy Festival isn’t the only reason you need to unburn those raver pants: Verboten — the club long slated to join...
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First Look: Smorgasburg’s Shnitz Opens Its East Village Sando Shop This Weekend
Donna and Yoni Erlich (Photos: Jenna Marotta) Spiegel isn’t the only East Village newcomer that’ll soon be serving schnitzel. Yoni Erlich, 27, is aiming to open Schnitz this Friday with his sister,...
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Brooklyn Buildings Marketed to Beijingers; BrisketTown Taps Free Kegs
(photo: Scott Lynch) What does that pesky groundhog know? The truest sign of spring arrived yesterday: Gemma at The Bowery Hotel put its tables outside. [Eater] It’s a sad day for pizza lovers (so,...
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CB 3 Committee v. Hot Sauce Committee: Beastie Boys Square Rejected Again
(derekb’s Flickr) You gotta fight for your right to petition. Brooklyn hip hop promoter Leroy McCarthy returned to Community Board 3′s Transportation and Public Safety Committee last night with more...
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This Film About a Sex Surrogate Explores Intimacy and Isolation in NYC
She’s Lost Control is a tense, brooding story about a sex surrogate and her involvement with a volatile new client. Technically, the profession is now called “surrogate partner training” (in...
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Dead Stars, Tearing Through SXSW, Aren’t Hipsters So Much As Beatsters
Dead Stars (photo: Cary Whittier) Austin’s Club 1808 felt like a soul-food roadhouse yesterday as some young dudes who clearly dig Sebadoh worked through their tight, efficient set. In the bright sun...
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Class Attire’s New Pop-Up Shop is ‘Chalk’-Full of Tees
Photos courtesy of Class Attire In Williamsburg, the dust has settled on a the first stand-alone pop-up shop devoted to The Chalkboard Tee by Class Attire, a perennial flea market favorite. Jinyen and...
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Dark Sister Got Matching Tats of Henry Rollins’s Autograph
Dark Sister’s matching tats. Dark Sister, the Bushwick phenomenon comprised of Jessi Wade and Tiffany Nicole, really, really, really, really like Henry Rollins. How else could one explain why they have...
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Take Your Pick: Art Inspired By Taylor Swift or Art Inspired By Werner Herzog
werner herzog eats a sandwich i (by Roxanne Palmer) Who makes for a better muse — bubbly songstress Taylor Swift or duke of darkness Werner Herzog? Find out for yourself by checking out two exhibits...
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Katz’s Sues Katz and Dogz, Car Plows Through Crowd at SXSW
(Photo: beau-dog Flickr) Katz’s is suing a competing pastrami truck for naming its operation “Katz & Dogz.” We are currently fashioning our “Team Katz’s” -shirts in order to capitalize… er… show...
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