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Get Down: An East Village Radio Show Is DJing a Williamsburg Subway Station
The nouveau newsstand at the Metropolitan stop just got even funkier — and we’re not talking about your typical subway-station funk. The guys from Chances With Wolves — the awesome and dizzyingly...
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LODRO Brings ‘Neo-Noir Punk’ to SummerScreen Tonight
Tonight, SummerScreen takes over McCarren Park for an evening of free music and a screening of “Peewee’s Big Adventure.” Starting at 7pm, you’ll hear from power-pop dudes Oberhofer, saxo-pop outfit...
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No, Hannah Horvath Did Not Snort Coke Off This Toilet
An apartment listing on Craigslist wants to know: “Do u watch GIRLS?” If so, “you’re sure to LOVE this completely unrelated apartment in Greenpoint!” a Twitter user mocks. Okay, so Hannah and Adam...
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Vogue Makes the ‘Long, Bumpy,’ ‘Perilous,’ ‘Costly, Time-Consuming, Often...
This month’s issue of Vogue also includes a Brooklyn-themed fashion spread featuring Devon Aoki (right) outside of the Bedford Cheese Shop. It’s apparently been too long since a middle-aged...
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Relive the Tompkins Square Park Riots In Their Bloody Entirety, 25 Years Later
Southerners have their Civil War reenactments but what do East Villagers have when it comes to reliving their defining battle? Just the annual Tompkins Square Park Riot reunion shows. But this year,...
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Norah Jones Quits Cooper Square, House of Yes Has a Last Blast
(Photo: Timothy Krause). The House of Yes, which has been forced out of its Maujer Street space by rent hikes, will give a final “end-of-times-themed” variety show this Sunday. [DNAinfo] Norah Jones...
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And Another Thing, Mr. Steingarten: Roberta’s Is NOT 8 Blocks From the Train
Man, we got so worked up yesterday about Vogue’s patronizing praise of Brooklyn dining that we forgot to mention one of the things that irked us the most: Jeffrey Steingarten’s complaint about the...
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Want to Live in an ‘Old-School Williamsburg Apartment’?
You know things have gone topsy turvy when even realtors are pining after “old-school Williamsburg.” According to the broker, this 3-bedroom apartment is in a “creative, artsy, industrial building as...
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Not What You Want On a 100-Degree Day: Fires in Williamsburg and Chinatown
Thought today was a scorcher? Just be glad you’re not wearing an FDNY uniform. Firefighters were taken to hospitals this morning when blazes broke out on the fringes of Chinatown and in Williamsburg....
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When Skal Opens, the Nordic Invasion Shall Be Complete
Skal is coming along nicely, wouldn’t you say? (Photo: Anna Silman)First Aska, then Torst, then Luksus, and now… Skal. Few details have been released about the Nordic restaurant opening at 37 Canal...
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Sexy vs. Sexton: Padma Shows Up to Support Lawsuit Against NYU 2031
(Photo: @jennababin, WNYC) As expected, Padma Lakshmi was among those who packed into a courtroom today to hear arguments against NYU’s Greenwich Village expansion plan. This was the first public...
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Vice Photography and Painters on LSD: The Weekend in Art
artwork by Daniel Allegrucci No plans tonight? Galleries are having openings by the dozen this evening in all our neighborhoods. We’re most intrigued by the Vice Photo Show at Culture Fix on the Lower...
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Williamsburg Condo Prices Plummet, PKNY and East Yoga Need New Homes
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The bar formerly known as Painkiller (now PKNY) will no lonber be putting you out of your misery. The bar’s landlord decided not to renew the lease, though no shutter date has been...
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SKATERS Celebrated Their Record Deal With Drugs, Karaoke, and a $2,000 Dinner
When SKATERS headlines Bowery Ballroom tonight with special guests Drowners and The Denzels, it’ll be the biggest hometown show they’ve headlined to date. Michael Ian Cummings, Noah Rubin, and Joshua...
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Watch a Creepy Clown Reenact Rand Paul’s 13-Hour Filibuster (Yep, All of It)
When Rand Paul spoke for nearly 13 hours against the nomination of CIA director John Brennan and Wendy Davis railed for more than 11 hours against HB2, they weren’t clowning around. Not so much with...
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Unlocking the Truth’s Guitarist Sustained a Monkey-Bar Injury, But Shredded...
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Sigmund’s Reopens Tonight With Beer and a Menu That Goes Way Beyond Pretzels
Sigmund's (Photo: Deena Shenker) Sigmund's (Photo: Deena Shenker)Sigmund's (Photo: Dyske Suematsu) Sliders. (Photo: Dyske Suematsu) Sigmund's (Photo: Deena Shenker) Sigmund's (Photo: Deena Shenker)...
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Alaska Bounces Back From Fire (With Flaming Shots, Natch)
Less than a month after a “freak electrical fire” cleared Alaska and forced it to close, the Bushwick bar is back on its feet. It’ll reopen tomorrow, according to a Facebook invite that promises “an...
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It’s Not Every Day The Culture Whore Invites You to a Satanic Smokeout
Dick the Balls with Loads of Molly. (photo: The Culture Whore) Dick the Balls with Loads of Molly. (photo: The Culture Whore) Δ N 1 M 0 R P H S Party at House of Yes. (Photo: Andrew Bisdale) Δ N 1 M 0...
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Richard Hell Hearts the EV, City Gets Its First E-Cig Store
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Punk-rock icon Richard Hell just lurves his East Village apartment, according to an interview in the Wall Street Journal. [WSJ] Reminder: the first annual Smallest Penis in...
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