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Bar Primi Has Primed Its Primo Neon
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer)Lookin’ good! Bar Primi, the casual pasta spot that Andrew Carmellini is bringing to the old Peels space just got some neon signage, and it was all lit up...
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The Lucas Bros. Are Regulars at Tutu’s, Even If Weed Is Clearly Better Than...
The Lucas Brothers are comics and identical twins. And Keith and Kenny don’t just look alike — they also dress alike. One Lucas Bro says their twin dynamic is “deeper than brother-brother,” as the...
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Lee Ranaldo Is Working On the Scorsese-Jagger HBO Pilot About ’70s NYC
Somewhere in Oslo, by Lee Ranaldo. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) Okay, so that phonebook carving of Hunter S. Thompson wasn’t the only highlight of last night’s Select Fair preview: over at Kingston-based One...
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This Humongous House of Hummus Is Opening Next Week
(Photo: Jenna Marotta) Look out, Rainbow Falafel! The Hummus & Pita Co. will open its third location Thursday on Broadway near 12th Street. This Mediterranean fast-casual joint has moved into the...
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Watch This Trippy Reimagination of the Domino Site Before You See Kara Walker’s
Tomorrow, Kara Walker’s monumental installation in the Domino Sugar Factory, “A Subtlety” (or “The Marvelous Sugar Baby”) will be unveiled to the general public at the Domino Sugar Factory (sorry, you...
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Police Say This Man Attacked a 68-Year-Old On the Street
Police say the man at left beat a 68-year-old on the streets of the East Village last night. Around 8:43 p.m., the victim was walking down East Sixth Street, near Avenue D, when the suspect approached...
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Disturbing Video: 68-Year-Old Attacked On East Sixth Street
The graphic surveillance footage below shows the brutal attack on a 68-year-old that happened Friday night in the East Village. It was sent to us by a resident of 745 East Sixth Street, where the...
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Jay Ott Found Dead; $2.5M Coffee Shop Coming to Williamsburg
(Photos: Scott Lynch) The body of 31-year-old Bushwick designer Jay Ott, who went missing on March 22, was found Thursday night in the New York Bay near Sunset Park. [DNA Info] Lifelong housing...
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‘It’s Out of This World’: 18 Reactions to Kara Walker’s Domino Installation
For 22 years, Kara Walker’s work has probed the ugly issues of race, colonialism and power. But she’s never done something quite like A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby: a monumental,...
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At Comedy Bang Bang, Wyatt Cenac Pandered to Manhattanites For a Change
Last night Scott Aukerman (Mr. Show, Between Two Ferns) once again brought his farcical Comedy Bang Bang podcast to NYU Skirball for a live taping. We hit the late show, where guest Wyatt Cenac...
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Didn’t Make It to NADA or Cutlog? Here’s a Fairly Comprehensive Tour
NADA photo op (Photos: Scott Lynch) Cutlog: Jeremiah Johnson's pill house "Art School Entrance Exam No 3," by Li Lin "Metamorphic Garden," by Fanni Futterknecht and Marianee Vlaschits "See God," by...
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SXSW Winner Fort Tilden Will Show at Northside and LES Film Fest Next Month
From left: stars Clare McNulty and Bridey Elliott with directors Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers.While many spent their glorious Saturday afternoons rolling out to the Rockaways, we spent it in a...
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Girls Returns to Williamsburg, and It Isn’t the Only HBO Show Filming There
Lena Dunham filming on the LES last July. (Photo: Anna Silman) If you missed Lena and the gang outside of Toby’s Estate in Williamsburg on Friday you’ll have another chance to stalk them later this...
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Downtown Artist Dan Colen Buried a Couple of Semis in a Greenwich, CT Lawn
Dan Colen throws rocks at his own work. (Matteo Prandoni, BFAnyc.com) Dan Colen, the downtown artist best known for his charming antics with Ryan McGinley and the late Dash Snow, opened a solo show,...
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Cabbie Gets 20 Years For Rape; Blondie Plays Rough Trade
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Above: a look at the new Cope2 mural on the Bowery wall. Gurmeet Singh, the cab driver convicted of raping a passenger he was transporting from Williamsburg to the East Village,...
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Hungarian Drunk Food Rolls Into Town
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) At some point after launching his Langos Truck a couple of weeks ago, George Prepuk put up a sign explaining what the heck a langos is. “Every second people go, ‘What’s langos?...
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Taste of Bushwick Will Turn a Theater Into a Food Court
Taste of Rockaway has passed, but now you can grab a Taste of Bushwick. The first annual food fest doubles as a fundraiser for its location, The Bushwick Starr, where you’ll be able to sample food from...
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Alec Baldwin After Biking Arrest: NYC Is a ‘Carnival of Stupidity’
Alec Baldwin’s feelings about New York City aren’t exactly a secret, but the tweet above seems a bit harsh. It came after the East 10th Street resident was cuffed and arrested after biking the wrong...
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Check Out the New Williamsburg-Happy Dead Stars Video
Dead Stars was tearing through SXSW last time we caught up with them. Today they released a video that — along with their forthcoming album, Slumber, out June 17 — will do still more to solidify them...
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Greenpointers, Look Out For Raining Bricks
(Photo: Amanda Waldroupe) A stretch of Meserole Street is closed to traffic this afternoon, as the fire department and the Department of Buildings examines a row house that’s threatening to shed some...
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