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Teen, Tweens, and The Teen Age: How to Tell All Those Northside Bands Apart
No doubt you’ve already got your Northside Festival favorites penciled in, but what about the hordes of sound artistes whom you’ve never heard of and whose band names are befuddlingly similar? Lest you...
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House of Vans Announces More Free Shows: Holy Ghost!, Future Islands and More
Summertime is decidedly a time for lounging, but the official season of Leisure Club also means a slew of free events, not least of which are the super-chill Vans House Parties. As previously...
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A Documentary Turns the Camera On Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin shot to fame with her visceral, heart-wrenching photographs of the drug-addled, sex-strewn lives of her East Village “tribe” in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Despite her Bostonian roots,...
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Photos and Video of Momofukumania at Shake Shack
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New Yorkers Tell Us Why They Lined Up For Hillary
Earlier today we surveyed the insane line at Hillary Clinton’s signing at Barnes & Noble in Union Square. Now, click through the slideshow to hear why her supporters were so stoked to meet her....
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Your First Look Inside Keith McNally’s Cherche Midi, Opening Friday
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos:...
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WD~50 Will Close in November; Occupy Protestors Get Big Payday
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Wylie Dufresne will close wd~50, his 11-year-old molecular gastronomy mecca, on November 30. A seven-story mixed-use building will soon be constructed on the restaurant’s Lower...
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As Bushwick Gets an ‘Injection of Luxury,’ Art Studios Adapt
A poetry reading at Brooklyn Wayfarers, May 2014. (Photo: George Ferrandi) Luis Martin, programming director at Brooklyn Brush Studios, noticed something different at Bushwick Open Studios this year....
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Wondering Where to Watch Your Team in the World Cup? Here’s Where to Kick It
By now, plenty of punters have told you where to watch the World Cup, but what about your team? Whether you’re rooting for the Blues (France) or the Red Fury (Spain), or you’re just looking for an...
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Make an Escape From New York Via These Films and Fests
Welcome to Reel Psyched, our weekly rundown of movies we’re especially excited to see. Escape from New York Get served Greenpoint brews and an array of appetizing plates while watching Snake Plissken...
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One of Williamsburg’s Mysteriously Missing Citi Bike Stations Returns Tonight
(Photo: Kate Beaudoin) Williamsburg doesn’t exactly have an overabundance of bike-share stations (according to Citi Bike’s map, it has 9 to the East Village’s 24), so it was a bummer when two of them...
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The Men’s Mags Are All Up On Brooklyn’s Jock
Vogue might have mixed feelings about Brooklyn, but the men’s magazines seem to be embracing it wholeheartedly. GQ just dropped a “City Guide” that rounds up its favorite bars, restaurants and shops...
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Lucky Cheng’s Owner Dies; Gun Violence Up Citywide
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Hayne Suthon, owner of the drag club Lucky Cheng’s—which moved to Midtown in 2012 following two decades in the East Village—has died from breast cancer at age 59. [Blackbook]...
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Celebrate Bloomsday and Friday the 13th With These Talks and Readings
Who ever said that writing, at its best, is a lonely life? We’ve got your weekly round-up of bibliovents that prove once in a while writers do actually jerk themselves away from their laptops to good...
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This Vintage Clothier Is Opening On an Increasingly Stylish Stretch of...
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) The space that held Strange Loop gallery will become a vintage clothing store next week, further solidifying easternmost Canal Street as the new Brooklyn. Wednesday night,...
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Make Music NY Returns With Block Parties, Ukulele Jams, Billy Joel Karaoke
Last year’s block party at Joe’s Pub. (Photo: Erica Martin) If you’re a live music completist, the next few weeks are going to be simply overwhelming. Not only does the Northside Festival kick off...
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Watch Bishop Allen’s New Video and Read About Justin Rice’s Post-Brooklyn Life
Justin Rice was called the “first heartthrob of the mumblecore era” in Marc Spitz’s new book, Twee, and indeed the last time we enjoyed his work it was on screen, starring alongside Leo Fitzpatrick in...
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After You’ve Left the ClickHole, Enjoy This Bushwicky Fake News Site
So you’ve clicked on everything over at The Onion’s newly launched site, ClickHole, and you’re looking for yet more pernicious parody? Allow us to recommend The Burning Bush, “Bushwick’s Least...
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‘Official Art Gallery of Satan’ Gets Burned By Its Landlord
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) The devil went down to East Broadway? VECTOR Gallery, the self-declared “Official Art Gallery of Satan,” has been cast out of heaven — or at least, Clinton Street. JJ Brine,...
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‘Quooklyn’ Is Not a Thing; 13 Stories of Affordable Housing For LES
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) In a shudder-worthy neighborhood name mash-up, The New York Times deemed the Bushwick, Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens border “Quooklyn.” [Brokelyn] Former reBar owner Jason...
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