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Innovation at Northside, or Maybe Not So Much
Innovation at the Brooklyn Brewery, photo: Nicole Disser. Northside 2014 broke ground yesterday with the start of its official programming, but the three Innovation talks we attended failed to do the...
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Kelis, Biz Markie, and More Throwbacks in Our Live Music Round-Up
Welcome to Good Shows. Here’s what’s good in live music this week. When you think of Kelis, chances are “Milkshake” (the video for which was shot at Relish diner — now La Esquina — in Williamsburg) is...
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Hear Cassandra Jenkins Play at Home Before Her Gig With Eleanor Friedberger
Cassandra Jenkins describes her musical genre as “ghost cowboy,” so it’s no surprise her song “Rabbit” incorporates themes from the Wallace Stevens poem “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts.” “I think...
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Mama’s Got a Brand New Bag: Root & Bone Will Open This Month
Mama’s, the East Village soul-food institution, was taken over by its landlord and then replaced by Heart n’ Soul in March of last year, but that restaurant closed after just six weeks — setting what...
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Mr. Gorgeous Shall Now Be Known as King Gorgeous
Mr. Gorgeous in his Best Boylesque winning number at the Burlesque Hall of Fame (Photo: Melody Mudd for Burlesque Beat) The Muse, a circus instruction and training facility in Williamsburg, has a new...
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Inside Henry Norman Hotel, Offering an ‘Industrial Chic’ Experience in...
The Henry Norman Hotel, photo: Nicole Disser Where Norman Avenue meets Henry Street in Greenpoint, in a building once filled with artists’ lofts, you’ll find the Henry Norman Hotel. B+B visited the...
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Brooklyn’s Smallest Penis; Graffiti Busts in Williamsburg
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Last week a retired NYPD detective allegedly lost his gun at the East Village gay bar Phoenix NYC after he put the firearm on the sink so he could throw up, forgetting about it for...
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Watch Coney’s Newest Coaster, The Thunderbolt, in Action
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) I cheated on the Cyclone this weekend. I had one too many at Ruby’s and decided to ride The Thunderbolt, which opened Saturday on the very lot where the original Thunderbolt sat...
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These Guys Are Delivering Artisanal Ice Cream Sandos to the Beach
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Until now, the best way to get an ice cream sandwich fix in Rockaway Beach was by snagging an It’s-It at Rippers. But a new artisanal ice cream maker just blew that out of the...
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Hear Jack Ridley of Drowners Play While Your Mind Is Flooded With Photos of NYC
(Photo: Pete Voelker) When photographer Pete Voelker first arrived in New York, he found the city overwhelming—and immediately began to document the constant movement and shifting surfaces of the urban...
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Rockaway’s Art Scene Just Got Topless
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Not only did Rockaway just get an ice-cream sandwich stand, but this weekend it got an art gallery on the strip where Sayra’s, Uma’s, and The Rock all opened in the past year....
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Soaking Up Rays (and Frozen Margs) With Bridey Elliott of Fort Tilden
Fort Tilden, screening tomorrow at Northside Festival, depicts a pair of naive, privileged, and self-obsessed friends journeying to the Rockaways. It’s a sunny, snarky quest to some very funny places....
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Hey, John Kerry! Look What Happens When NYC and Tehran Swap Street Art
Icy and Sot’s exterior mural. (Photos: Sara Afzal) Iranian exiles Icy and Sot brought together the two communities they know best by organizing two simultaneous gallery openings on Friday night, one in...
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Watch Hare Krishnas Take Over the Streets With Some Massive Chariots
Not since the Festival of Colors have we seen anything quite this, well, colorful: on Saturday, the 39th annual Parade of Chariots brought thousands of Hare Krishna devotees — and three giant chariots...
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North BK Gets More Affordable Housing; Williamsburg Hit-and-Run
(Photo: Scott Lynch) While the 14th Street Halal Guys brick-and-mortar is still a month from opening, the brand just inked a deal that could place it in not only LA but also Canada and the Middle East,...
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Seeking Apartment: North of Houston, South of $6 Million
43 Great Jones. (Photos: Nicole Disser) The B+B offices are right here in Cooper Square, so we spend a lot of time walking the cobblestones of NoHo, wondering if we’ll ever get to live in one of those...
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Shamans, Vermin, and a Campy Slasher Flick: This Week in Art
Ragnar Kjartansson at the New Museum Apparently some dude named Jeff Koons will be squeezing a bunch of vacuums and enormous balloon creatures into the Whitney over the next few weeks. But boys and...
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Watch Members of MGMT, Louis XIV and More Cut a Record For a New Vinyl Club
James Richardson mastering the trumpet. Ari Ingber, Emma Gomis, and Jason Hill in the background. Two brothers in Brooklyn are bringing back the days of mail-order record clubs, building on the...
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War, Marxism, Nannies and Crime: Serious Stuff at This Week’s Talks and Walks
If the fun and frippery of summer are wearing you out already, explore a darker side of life at these readings, talks, and historical walks. Tuesday, June 17 The Syrian Refugee Crisis with Diego Cupolo...
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Car Slams Into LES Store, Sending Two to Hospital
A car hopped the curb and smashed into a restaurant supply store on Allen Street this afternoon, injuring two. (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan) The incident happened shortly before 3:30 p.m., and sent two to...
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