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Umbrella Arts Wants Your Photos of Kids, the Creepier and Uglier the Better
This could be the antidote to all the tot shots that have been flooding your Facebook feed lately. Umbrella Arts is putting on a show called “Kids (Not Cute)” — as the title implies, it’ll be...
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Car Break-Ins in Williamsburg; East New York the Next Bushwick?
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Kim’s Video & Music in the East Village could shutter before the month’s end. [Jeremiah's Vanishing NY] Robert Durst, the real estate developer who sold 234 Union Avenue in...
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This Brooklyn Director Has a Cannes-Do Attitude
A scene from Short Lived Brooklyn-based director Michael Hobbs only ever imagined he’d have the opportunity to work with a dream team on his latest short film, Short Lived. But when Hobbs sent an email...
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Last Chance to Grab a Piece of the Bowery/Houston Art Wall
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Yesterday morning we noticed that a couple of panels of the boarded-up graffiti wall at Bowery and Houston had come down; today Cope2′s entire piece has been torn to shreds. It’s...
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The Gorbals Opens, Serving Pig’s Head Amidst Short Shorts and ‘Stache Wax
Ilan Hall, head chef of The Gorbals Brooklyn, the new restaurant inside Urban Outfitters concept store, Space Ninety 8 (Photo: Nicole Disser) If you enter Space Ninety 8 and make a beeline for the...
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Lena Dunham and Girls are Currently Camping On St. Marks
Hannah works on her novel. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) After hiding away inside of Saxon + Parole yesterday, Girls is turning the East Village’s biggest shitshow into an HBO show. Yep, they’re filming on...
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Oh Wow Oh Wow: The Rice Burger Is Coming
Move over, Ramen Burger (and generic ramen burgers). The rice burger has arrived. When our favorite takoyaki spot, Otafuku, moved a few doors down on East 9th Street, we had no idea something possibly...
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Preview Billy Reid’s 10th Anniversary Sample Sale, Launching Tomorrow
Billy Reid’s sample sale space on Bond/Bowery (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan) This year, Billy Reid turns 10. And to celebrate the big one-oh, the high-end Americana clothier (originally hailing from the...
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Microscope Focuses in on a New Gallery Space in Bushwick
Marni Kotak’s “Mad Meds” Exhibit; Photo Courtesy of Microscope Gallery It wasn’t easy for Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti to find a space in Bushwick to house their expanding gallery, Microscope. The...
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Save the Troll Museum; Subway Rage on the L Train
(Photo: circlealine) A man was arrested for allegedly breaking the jaw and ribs of a fellow L-train passenger at the Metropolitan Avenue station. [The Brooklyn Paper] New York Troll Museum proprietor...
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Babycastles’ 11-Year Old Intern Is Resigning (Not Because of the Hezbollah...
Liam the 11-year-old intern shows off his ID card. (Photo: Nicole Disser) Liam Walsh is leaving his internship at Babycastles, where, three days a week, he fires up the gallery’s indie video games and...
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Pierogi Lovers of the World United For Veselka’s Throwback Prices
Y’all are cray, it’s sweltering out here. (Photo: Nicole Disser) Yesterday East Village OG diner Veselka set the clock back to 1954, when the restaurant was first opened by Wolodymyr and Olha...
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A Midsummer Night’s Rave, With Williamsburg Hipsters as the Mechanicals
Demetrius and Helena get frisky (Photo courtesy of Jaclyn Cohen) This outdoor production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, returning to the East Village Friday for a final three-day run, won’t remind you...
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Wanna Be Our 5,000th?
If you’re not following Bedford + Bowery on Twitter, you’re really missing out. Hells, yesterday Natasha Lyonne favorited one of our tweets (yo Nicky, can we get a RT?). Rest assured, you don’t have to...
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Billykirk Is Bringing Natty Amish-Made Leather Goods to Orchard Street
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Just weeks after the opening of Georgia caused us to remark on Orchard Street’s “increasingly stylish” southernmost block, Billykirk is opening its first brick-and-mortar store...
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Lauryn Hill Killing Us Softly With Her Ticket Prices; Can’t Fight Veruca Salt
Time again for Good Shows, our weekly roundup of what’s good in live music. Take a trip back to the ’90s with grunge-rock babes Veruca Salt. The band has reunited to tour for the first time since 1995,...
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Nublu’s Owner Opens a Nu Spot Harkening to the East Village’s ‘Glory Days’
Studio 151 (Photo courtesy of Ilhan Ersahin)Last week Ilhan Ersahin opened a new club just a few blocks up from Nublu, the East Village institution he launched back in 2002, and tonight he’s...
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Ride Your Bike From LES to Rockaway to Protest Pipeline, Ride the Ferry...
A fireboat showed off for ferry passengers earlier this week. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) While weekenders enjoy vegan corn dogs and masa festivals, Rockaway locals are engaged in a couple of increasingly...
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Uber Wants to Give You Some ‘F.U., G’ Money
An earlier advisory. What once were weekend shutdowns will now be the daily norm. (Photo: Natalie Rinn) With the G train’s dreaded five-week shutdown set to go into effect tomorrow night, DNA Info has...
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‘Babe Magnet Pad’ in Williamsburg; Citi Bike Getting a Boost?
Red & Gold Crab Shack is replacing Japadog on St. Marks Place. At an apartment near Meserole Street and Bushwick Avenue, a 26-year-old woman was pinned to the ground by one man while his partner in...
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