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Exclusive First Look: Amy Sedaris Guest-Stars on Broad City Next Week
For this Wednesday night’s episode of Broad City, the script called for a belligerent realtor with a neck brace and a penchant for creepy crafts. Comedy Central did fans old and young a favor by...
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The Lineup For the William S. Burroughs 100, From Laurie Anderson to Nick Zedd
The WSB100, a month-long celebration of William S. Burroughs’s centenary, just announced that Cinema of Transgression pioneer Nick Zedd has joined a lineup that already included Steve Buscemi, Genesis...
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Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon Are Playing The Stone (Not Together, Sorry)
John Zorn and Thurston Moore at a Faculty Against the Sexton Plan fundraiser at LPR in 2012. The saga of Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon has been back in the news lately (and by “the news,”...
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A Fact-Checking Note for This Bar-Hating Graffitist
Graffiti at 151 Avenue C (Photo: Jenna Marotta) One curmudgeonly graffiti artist is not on board with the watering hole set to open at 151 Avenue C. The artist should note that Nublu, the...
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Slothrust’s Frontwoman Was Into Sloths Before They Were Cool
At the Sailor Jerry Gypsy Lounge event in East Austin, Slothrust opened their set with the same song they always open with. Simply titled “Intro,” it’s a minute and a half of intimidating sound that...
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Cultfever Likes to Get ‘A Little Manic’ On Stage
(Photo: Richard Kauffman) At Baby’s All Right, Cultfever played an energetic set for an enthusiastic hometown crowd before setting off to SXSW. The Williamsburg venue’s backdrop, a mosaic of lit-up...
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Mr. Throwback Stuck His Finger in His Dunk-a-roo Icing (Let’s Face It – Who...
This week, we asked Mr. Throwback what his childhood snack of choice was. Gushers? Fruit Roll-Ups? Fun Dip? Bugles? Damn, the ’90s had good snacks. Yes, all of those artificial ingredient-laden treats...
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Channel Your Inner Doug E. Fresh at La MaMa’s Beatboxing Festival
Be still my beatboxing heart–10 p.m. is go time for La MaMa’s fourth annual American Human Beatbox Festival. Veteran vocal percussionist Kid Lucky, the festival’s co-founder, will emcee events through...
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Goodbye, Blue Monday to Say Goodnight; Neighbors Not-So-Sweet on Sweet Chick
(Photo: bahramforoughi Flickr) Bushwick concert space Goodbye, Blue Monday is begging for a buyer, otherwise it will close this month. [The Brooklyn Paper] Meanwhile, the property at 37 E. 12th St. was...
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Corrigan Will Hold Court Again!
Buscemi, Garofalo and Weiner at last month’s Corrigan Show. After orchestrating a historic meeting of the minds between Steve Buscemi, Janeane Garofalo, and Anthony Weiner, actor, musician and...
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You Have More Chances to Check Out These Giant Tighty Whities in Bushwick
Photo courtesy of ArtHelix Most people hate airing their dirty laundry. Not Michael McKeown. His massive handmade skivvies will be hanging on a clothesline in a Bushwick alley through April. The...
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Life of a Piformance Artist
Pi Written From Memory, 0-4000. 18″ x 24″ Oil on canvas 2013 Pi is used as a pattern on individual plains, echoing the cubist use of lettering and collage. (Photo: Courtesy of the artist) For...
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Dirck the Norseman Debuts Eight Beers They Love to Drink (And You Will Too)
(Photos: Virginia McLure) Glasses of the Clifford Pilsner at Dirck the Norseman. So, perhaps you’ve made it to Dirck the Norseman in Greenpoint by now, tasted their pig knuckle, sipped their German...
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Cure Sunday’s Hangover By Drinking Blessed Water at a Full Moon Ceremony
(Photo: Carriage House Birth) There’s going to be a full moon this Sunday, so naturally women in Brooklyn will be blessing H2O in a sacred bowl, drinking it, and then pouring the remainder into the...
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Archangel Antiques Will Close Its 2-in-1 Store in June after 20-Plus Years
(Photos: Sherry Hseih) Gail Busche, co-owner of Archangel Antiques. Normcore is Gail Busche’s nightmare. Ask the co-owner of Archangel Antiques to describe each decade’s fashion in a word or two and...
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Eat a Sloppy Joe at Currant Cafe Sunday While You Wait For Lit Brooklyn to Open
(Photo: Erik Foss) As we emphatically announced last month, the folks behind the notoriously debauched East Village gallery-slash-bar Lit Lounge are set to open a cafe-slash-nightclub in Bushwick....
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Watch Animal Years Play ‘Heart on Heart’ in Bushwick Before They Do It Again...
When Baltimore-bred musician Mike McFadden came to Brooklyn in late 2012, he brought a new album with him. Having recorded virtually all of the music by himself before the move, all he needed was a...
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A Shooting in Williamsburg; Drama at the Half-Marathon; An AirBNB Brothel
(Photo: Francisco Daum) Four young males–a 12-year-old, two 14-year-olds and a 17-year-old–were shot Friday evening at South 1st and Roebling Street in Williamsburg. All four victims are expected to...
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We’re Celebrating St. Paddy’s at McSorley’s Ale House — in China!
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) The East Village is going to be mobbed with “green” drinkers tonight — and that doesn’t mean folks sporting St. Patrick’s Day colors. That means rank amateurs. So where does one...
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Katarina Hybenova and Gina Pollack on Girls: ‘That’s Not How You Take Off 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. Mark Schafer/Courtesy of HBO Gina Pollack takes a selfie. The text...
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