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Echo and the Bunnymen Covered The Doors, Bowie, and Lou Reed Last Night
Echo and the Bunnymen — the ’80s band that was covered by ’90s stalwarts like Pavement to the Flaming Lips — unleashed some covers of its own last night during the second of two sold-out shows at...
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The Rice Burger Shack Has Opened, and It’s Serving Small-Batch Pickles On a...
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) That Broad City shoot isn’t the only super exciting thing happening on East Ninth Street, between Second and Third Avenues: Yonekichi, the rice-burger stand that we’ve been...
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Ed Sanders Had a Fuggin Amazing 75th Birthday
Sanders performs Fugs songs. (Photo: Gina Murrell/@GinaMurrell1) Last night at Bowery Poetry Club, friends of counterculture icon Ed Sanders marked his 75th birthday by lauding him variously as a...
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Listen to ‘Williamsburg Love Song,’ an East Village Restaurateur’s Ode to...
When we posted about the “Brooklyn Girls” remixes this morning, we weren’t expecting a local entrepreneur to come forward with his own hipster anthem, but that’s just what we got from Keith Beavers,...
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Would You Sign Up For an Art CSA?
Print by Jonathan Hull Broke art collectors don’t exist, and broke artists can only exist for so long. Enter: Brooklyn Community Supported Art + Design (CSA+D). Putting a twist on the idea of Community...
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Model Goes Missing; Seth Rogen and Shephard Fairey On LES
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Police say 22-year-old model Ataui Deng of the Lower East Side—who has walked runways for Zac Posen and Proenza Schouler— went missing from a 48th Street nightclub on August 6....
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Broad City Filmed: Here’s Ilana Hitting Her Marks On St. Marks
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) As expected, Broad City got all up on St. Marks Place last night. When we passed through around 11:30 p.m., Ilana Glazer was rehearsing a scene where she walks down the Dirty...
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A Mobster Flick Is Setting Williamsburg Back Four Decades
The guy who played Furio Giunta in The Sopranos is taking Williamsburg back to 1973. Federico Castelluccio’s first feature as a director, “Lily of the Feast” — an adaptation of a short film that won...
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Which Girls Character Will You Get On Your Nails at Greenpoint’s Primp & Polish?
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) After opening three locations in Williamsburg it was only a matter of time before luxe nail salon Primp and Polish honed in on Greenpoint. And now it’s happened. The chain just...
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Cthulhu Calls! Celebrate H.P.’s B-Day at This Lovecraftian Bar and Festival
A bar named Lovecraft opened on Avenue B two weekends ago, just in time for its namesake’s birthday: H.P. Lovecraft, the horror writer who’s influenced the likes of Stephen King and Guillermo Del...
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Did 3rd Ward Stiff You? This Person Wants to Know
When Bushwick’s DIY studio space and artist residence 3rd Ward abruptly shuttered its doors last October, members, teachers and students were left out in the cold. They were given a day’s notice to...
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Hear Screech Roar in the Saved by the Bell Movie, Then See Him in the SBTB...
It’s a good time to be a Dustin Diamond fan (anyone?). First off, Lifetime just unleashed a teaser for its forthcoming “unauthorized” Saved By the Bell movie, which depicts behind-the-scenes antics...
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Ricky’s Is Dressing Up For Halloween On Houston Street
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) It’s been 25 years since Ricky’s opened its first store (called Ricky Love) in Greenwich Village, and the quirky/kinky/funky/punky cosmetics and accessories chain is still going...
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This New Bushwick Bar Is The Most Literal Boobie Trap We’ve Ever Seen
Welcome to Boobie Trap (Photo: Nicole Disser) Much like beloved Pumps, the vast majority of boobs at Bushwick’s newest bar are synthetic– but that’s about the only quality these establishments share....
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Missing Model Found; Fall’s Most Anticipated Restaurants
(Photo: Scott Lynch) An employee at an unidentified hospital tipped off police that Lower East Side model Ataui Deng has been admitted as a patient. She’d been missing for 12 days. [NY Daily News]...
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Broad City Returned to St. Marks, This Time With a Trippy Silt Walker
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) After taking over St. Marks earlier this week, Broad City was back at it last night, this time bringing a green-festooned stilt walker into the mix. “It looks like a bigass...
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Antiques and Book Fair Will Bring Vintage Prostie Prints to Greenpoint
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)If you’re still mourning the closure of Antiques Garage (YIMBY just posted renderings for the hotel that will replace it), this may be the event for you. The Brooklyn Antiques and...
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This New Cafe Has Stumptown, Sandwiches and Biggie Smalls Wallpaper
Photos courtesy Re.Union The stretch of Williamsburg luxury rentals that houses Patisserie Tomoko just got a chic new coffee bar. Eldad and Inna Mashiach, a husband-and-wife team that recently...
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Catch Three of Cinema’s Most Audacious Auteurs in Coversation
Three out-there filmmakers are getting out of the directors chair and into the hot seat next month. Werner Herzog (Flickr user “erinc salor”) John Waters (David Shankbone), Darren Aronofsky (Dkandell)...
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Honey, I Shrunk Basquiat!
4″ Basquiat Munny by Julissa Lopez In case you missed out on your chance to score a Basquiat beanie, we’ve got you covered. Local artist Julissa Lopez has a Basquiat Munny for sale, and it can be yours...
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