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A Guide to North Brooklyn For Aspiring Twentysomething Female Memoirists
Now that you’ve read the B+B Q+A with Ashley Cardiff, you’re probably thinking, “Hey, I’m in my 20s and all about North Brooklyn, too! How can I write a memoir. Ashley’s here to show you how. Note:...
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We Played Paparazzo And All We Got Was This Lousy Simon Pegg Photo
Simon Pegg, maybe (Photo: Anna Silman) After yesterday’s Girls shoot, we were like, stalking celebrities is fun! But how could we keep it up with Girls all the way up in Gramercy today? The answer came...
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Tigre and Cricket On How to Perfect Your Over-the-Shoulder Mirror Booty Pic
It’s time again for our favorite advice column. The ladies of North Brooklyn got their career advice earlier today; now Tigre and Cricket dole out some wisdom to guys who are going on job interviews:...
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Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken Hatches Next Week
A peep inside. Get it? A peep is a group of chicken. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) Oh, Blue Ribbon, you’re such a tease! Today we noticed a brood of manager- and chef-types clucking around the well-lit...
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L Train Is Cutting Out Early; Driver in Sidewalk Wreck Pleads Not Guilty
(Photo: Phillip Kalantzis Cope) So apparently the L train isn’t going to be running late-nights in August. Guess the whole “city that never sleeps” business doesn’t extend beyond the East River....
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It’s Called Tropical Contact, and the Guy From Call Box Wants to Give It to You
Laser-dancers at The Call Box. (Photo: Natalie Rinn) Grab a Hawaiian shirt: Timothy Traynor, of Call Box Lounge dance party fame, is debuting Tropical Contact tonight at Isa. No, Tropical Contact isn’t...
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Watch Swaai Boys Turn Their Practice Space into an African Beach Hut
It’s Tropical Thursday here on Bedford + Bowery — now that we’ve introduced you to “castaway rock,” how bout some “turf rock”? Swaai Boys take their inspiration from the idea of adventure, manifesting...
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Watch the Melvins Cover the Butthole Surfers With Sir Gibby Haynes Himself
The Melvins played House of Vans in Greenpoint last night and we still haven’t recovered our hearing. Among the reasons: Dale Crover, looking half his age thanks to a Justin Bieber haircut, was joined...
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‘Style Junkie’ Sarah Lim Scores Her Local Cologne at In God We Trust
Sarah Lim in the shop’s backyard. (Photo: Ebru Yildiz) When In God We Trust’s first location opened on Wythe Avenue in 2005, it was a modest shop with a little studio in the back. In that small space,...
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Say Sayonara to Ha’chi Restaurant & Lounge
(Photo: Anna Silman) Ha’Chi, the Asian fusion restaurant located at the base of the Thompson LES, shuttered with little fanfare yesterday. When we walked past, the interior was in disarray, and the...
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Parking Lot Shakespeare and Evil Goddess Nudes: The Weekend in Art
“Norn #1″ by Jonny Ruzzo If you’d like some performance with your art tonight, check out Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, which is taking over the open pavement in the Municipal Parking Lot on the...
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Jimmy McMillan Endoses Weiner for Mayor; Behold the Ramen Burger
Summerscreen last night. (Photo: Reeve Jolliffe) The New Museum sends over a press release announcing plans to put two 36-foot-tall mini skyscrapers on its roof and a 30-foot double-ended vessel on its...
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You’ve Got 5 Summer Weekends Left: Here’s What to Do With ‘Em
At the King & Grove. (Photo: Joshua Kristal) At this point in the summer, the beach days and ice cream cones are interspersed with back-to-school ads and blazers in every shop window. It all starts...
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Dark-Pop Duo Weeknight Will Take You into the Weekend
Since October of 2011, Andy Simmons and Holly MacGibbon have been making dark, beautiful pop rock together as Weeknight. After a busy summer of finishing up a forthcoming debut album and touring the...
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Depreciation Guild Returns, Plus Lots of Good Small Shows
Depreciation Guild’s Facebook. IN HER GENTLE JAWS Pretty light week for super attention-grabbing shows in our neighborhoods this week — seems like all the big ticket items are in one or another of our...
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Mr. SMITHE Goes to Bushwick: Mexico City Artist Finishes Up Epic Mural
SMITHE at work at Vandervoort Place (Photo: Paula Villanueva for All City Canvas) Today, a Mexico City artist will complete a 200-foot-long mural on a Bushwick wall that had previously been covered...
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When Solange Plays a Laundromat, This Guy Makes It Look Fresh
Alan Del Rio Ortiz painted by Caris Reid. What do Florence and the Machine, St. Vincent, Smith Westerns, Drowners, and Spector have in common? Alan Del Rio Ortiz has directed videos for all of them....
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How Much Is That Cat Sarcophagus in the Window? Ask Adam of The Moldy Peaches
(Photo: Anna Silman) You may have noticed something, erm, unusual in the window of the gallery/store/performance space hybrid that recently opened next to A Repeat Performance. The small storefront at...
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Follow the ‘Best New Local Blog’ — or We Kill This Bunny
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Oh hey, look: it’s the Nesquik bunny on Bedford Avenue! Not as amazing as Mr. Peanut vs. Kool-Aid Man, but still… not the kind of thing you want to miss. So follow Bedford +...
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East Village Radio Is in Rockaway This Weekend, and So Is This Ping-Pong Table
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Our love for Chances With Wolves is such that we’ve traveled into the putrid bowels of the earth to boogie down with them. Luckily we won’t have to do that tomorrow, as the East...
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