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Gabbing About Grub: 23 Food Events That’ll Feed Yr Brain
If you like talking about food as much as you like shoving it in your face, prepare to clear your calendar. The next weeks and months will bring a veritable cornucopia of gabbing about grub, from a...
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James Franco Tackles Necrophilia, Dee Dee Ramone in the Park, and Three Amigos
This upcoming weekend, if you can make it to only one cinematic affair, it should definitely be the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) Film Festival, happening at venues all over East Village....
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Bask in This ‘Summer Pop Song’ From Members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liturgy,...
If “Brooklyn Girls” wasn’t the song of the summer, what will be? Allow us to debut, for your consideration, “Summer Pop Song” by Star Ballads. True to its name, the band is made up of some fixtures of...
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Brooklyn Grange Scores a Book Deal
On the heels of Kings County Distillery’s latest book deal, another local producer is bound for the bookshelves. Brooklyn Grange has snagged a contract of its own, according to Publishers Marketplace....
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San Marzano Disappears from LES, Reemerges in East Village With New Menu
(Photo: Nicole Disser) More pizza for the East Village? Impossible. Well we certainly thought this was the case when San Marzano, originally a za zone in the Lower East Side, officially opened...
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Schwimmer Wants to Be ‘Accepted Totally’ By East Village; ‘Rape Cop’ Sues
(Photo: Scott Lynch) David Schwimmer finally talks about his rocky start as an East Villager. “My plan is to demonstrate that we’re good neighbors,” he says, explaining that he and his wife “really...
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Buy Some Convict Art So This Guy Can Take a Jail Cell On a Musical Prison Tour
Fury Young with his anti-prison art (Photo courtesy of Fury Young) Fury Young is planning a road trip—but not just any old cross-country joyride. He’ll be traveling from New York to LA in a faux prison...
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Manhattan Gets More Mini Golf!
The 3-hole course at 55 Water. (Photo courtesy of Downtown Alliance) Till recently, Manhattanites have had to trek out to the Brooklyn Night Bazaar in Greenpoint to play mini golf while browsing noshes...
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Think Steve Croman Is a Bad Landlord? Wait’ll You See Klaus Kinski in Crawlspace
Today elected officials put out a joint statement complaining of the “pattern of tenant harassment” that has caused landlord Steve Croman to be investigated by the State District Attorney. But if you...
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An Outdoor Music-and-Film Fest in LIC, a ‘Mad Cow’ Marching Band, and More
Time again for Good Shows, our weekly roundup of what’s good in live music. The LOT LIC Music & Film Series, an eight-week summer party, makes its debut in Long Island City this weekend. It’s a...
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Could This New Cab-Sharing App Ease Your G Woes and Be the Next Tinder?
Today B+B got the chance to test out Cab With Me, a new app that’s launching Sunday in order to help Greenpointers cope with the G train shutdown. Its creators say it’ll help out your wallet when it...
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Watch Lady Gaga Sing Nancy Sinatra at the LES’s Newest Rock Bar
The area of the Lower East Side known as Hells Square is undergoing a lot of change, but hey, Max Fish is reopening tomorrow and we’re told Lady Gaga has been hanging out at the new incarnation of her...
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Lucky Cheng’s Returns as a Pop-Up and Seeks a New Location
(Photo: Melissa Hom) Max Fish isn’t the only downtown fixture returning to its old stomping grounds. Lucky Cheng’s, the drag dinner theater that left the East Village in 2012 and moved to Times Square...
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Point-Blank Shooting in Bushwick; Welcome to ‘Bushwood’
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Friday night a point-blank shooting near Moffat Street and Wilson Avenue in Bushwick was captured on video. Police are looking for the shooter whose bullets hit a 24-year-old male...
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Video: Max Fish’s Triumphant Return to the LES
If there was any doubt Max Fish’s return to the LES would be epic, it was put to rest Saturday when the art bar’s reopening brought lines to its new door at 120 Orchard Street. Among those who packed...
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Watch the ‘Subway Car of Tomorrow’ Roll into Rockaway — Its First Run in 30+...
We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach — on a train that hasn’t run in three decades. That’s what dozens of train-loving “foamers”– and a couple of adorable doggies — did yesterday during the Transit...
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The 10 Fringiest of This Year’s Fringe Fest
It’s that time again, folks. The time when the world’s most avant-garde and experimental theater types descend on the East Village and Lower East Side for a fortnight of moderately insane adventure...
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Is Taxi Driver 2 Really Filming On St. Marks Place?
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Among the film-shoot signs we spotted around the East Village today (Forever, Flesh and Bone) this one certainly stood out: the placard claims Taxi Driver 2 will be filming later...
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In LES and Williamsburg, Two Epic Works Give Some Love to the Locals
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) A couple of massive art pieces were recently installed in the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, and its time to ask: which one of them reps its hood better? Back in June, Lower...
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Checking in With Kim’s As the Lights Dim
Ugh, why? (Photo: Nicole Disser) The inevitable “50% Off” sign has arrived at Kim’s, planting a death mask on the soon to be shuttered legendary East Village music and video store. We stood outside for...
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