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The Commodore’s Stephen Tanner Will Open El Dorado in Bushwick
Tanner’s fried chicken at The Commodore. (Photo: Grub Street) As Pies ‘n’ Thighs readies its Lower East Side location, one of its founders, Southern-grub virtuoso Stephen Tanner, is making moves of his...
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Yo! Billboards Out of the Bike Lane!
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) This advertisement for the Cellphone Doctor has been roving around the East Village since the shop opened on Avenue C late last year, but the fine weather has brought it out in...
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Walks, Talks, and Chalk: 80 Things to Do During Lower East Side History Month
The organizers of the first annual Lower East Side History Month have announced next month’s lineup, featuring over 80 events organized by over 60 cultural and community groups based in the LES, East...
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Comedian W. Kamau Bell Is a ‘Big Fan of Awkward Conversations As a Way to...
(Photo: Matthias Clamer) W. Kamau Bell, the political comedian whose show, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, ran on FXX, is back in the standup circuit. Tonight, his Oh, Everything! tour, comes to The...
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The East Village’s New Halal Butcher Makes an ‘Honest-to-God’ Guarantee
(Photo: Amanda Waldroupe) Move over, Verameat — an actual meat store has quietly opened on an East Village block known more for boutiques than for butchering. Anas Hassan first got the idea for Honest...
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Robataya NY Has Closed For a Reboot
(Photo: Melissa Hom) It’s always been hard to snag a seat at the chef’s counter at Robataya NY, one of Timeout‘s best restaurants of 2011, but now you can forget about it: last Thursday, the Little...
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An East Village Woman Woke Up to Find a Rapist in Her Apartment, Police Say
This one is truly nightmarish: police say that around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, an East Village woman woke up to someone resembling this man standing on her bed. The man sexually assaulted her but fled...
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A Shooting and A Stabbing in Bushwick, Greenpoint Couple Found Dead in Hot Tub
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A Bushwick police officer told B+B that a man was stabbed on Broadway at 11:15 p.m. Monday. He was taken to Kings County Hospital and is expected to survive. No arrest has been...
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Aziz Ansari and Eric Wareheim Were Actually in Food Club Before Food Club
Yesterday when Grub Street turned us on to Food Club, the new JASH show from Aziz Ansari, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner, we figured it was something along the lines of Tim’s Kitchen Tips — the...
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Andres Serrano’s Portraits of Homeless New Yorkers Will Live On the Streets
Andres Serrano, the photographer and artist best known for his controversial 1987 photograph, “Piss Christ,” has turned his attention to the homeless of New York City in a new public art project on...
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Bowery Mission Residents Will See Their Art in New Museum, a Couple Doors Down
“Draftsmen’s Congress,” a collective painting currently on display. (Photo courtesy New Museum, New York. Photo: Benoit Pailley) Andres Serrano isn’t the only artist to have recently worked with...
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Nan Goldin’s Goddaughter Scored a Major Book Deal For Her East Village Memoir
A 28-year-old child-actor turned photographer recently landed a six-figure book deal to tell the story of how she masqueraded as a boy while growing up in the East Village. According to Publisher’s...
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In Five Star, Keith Miller’s Leading Man Is a General in the East New York...
Left to right: Primo (James ‘Primo’ Grant) and John (John Diaz) talk business on the court. (Photo: Nathan Fitch) Keith Miller’s latest film grew out of his 2011 short, “Gang Bangin’ 101.” In that...
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What the Corner of St. Marks and Second Will Look Like When DF Mavens Opens
(Images courtesy of DF Mavens) We’ve gotten our hot little hands on a pair of renderings for DF Mavens, the dairy-free ice cream store set to open later this year on the corner of St. Mark’s Place and...
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Tonight: Drink Scotch While Admiring This Scottish Artist’s Work
Tonight Rebecca Hossack Gallery will be feting a Scottish artist with Scottish cocktails. Glasgow-born Alasdair Wallace will be in attendance tonight, making his New York debut with “Rare Vagrant &...
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J. Crew Coming to Williamsburg; Michael Alig Soon to Be Free
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A 32-year-old man who mistakenly turned into oncoming traffic flipped his car while attempting to correct the mistake yesterday morning. He is in “grave” condition at Woodhull...
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Where to Find Kevin Corrigan Before He Chats Up the Broad City Girls Tonight
Maybe you don’t recognize Kevin Corrigan’s name, but when you see his face and hear that Bronx accent, you realize, “Oh, yeah. That guy. I LOVE that guy.” He’s been in countless movies you like:...
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Clayton Patterson Had a Farewell Show: Is It Really Goodbye For the LES Legend?
Word that Clayton Patterson was leaving the Lower East Side for Austria really rattled those who considered him the neighborhood’s “last bohemian,” as the Times headline dubbed him. Could the man who...
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City Tries to Fix Notorious Homeless Shelter; Neighbors Say Not So Fast
(Photo: Amanda Waldroupe) Ask anyone living near the Lower East Side’s Catherine Street shelter and they will tell you it’s a hellhole. The Department of Buildings has repeatedly cited the homeless...
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The East Village Is One Big Sound Stage This Week
And these are just the signs we saw on our walk to work! No less than five projects are shooting in the East Village this week. One of those signs said Time Out of Mind, in which Richard Gere plays a...
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