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Bushwick’s New Wine Bar Wants to Buck the ‘Trader Joe’s Model’
The current drinks list (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan) Oenophiles of Bushwick, take note: Yes, you are slightly pretentious (full disclosure, I sheepishly include myself in this category) and no, you no...
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Okay, This Totally Trumps Seth Rogen
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) We were pretty sure Seth Rogen would be the biggest star around Tompkins Square Park this afternoon, but yeah — this totally trumps it. While Rogen’s “Untitled X-mas Movie” was...
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Emily Dickinson in Space; Thrift Disco in Bushwick
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Tommaso Mazzoni, owner of Milk and Roses Bistro in Greenpoint, was sliced on the chest with a sharp object Sunday night when he attempted to break up a customer dispute about a...
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Watch Jason Mantzoukas, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jason Jones Celebrate...
We didn’t know how right we’d be when we guessed Seth Rogen’s next movie would involve an encounter with SantaCon. The “Untitled X-Mas Project” filmed across from the newly opened Seoul Chicken in the...
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A Big Egg, Big Bees, and Even Bigger Data
All subjects you can contemplate at this week’s thrilling selection of readings and talks. Friday, September 5 We, The Outsiders Opening Reception We, The Outsiders is an art exhibition that explores...
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Join These Ladies Who LUNCH For Some Colorful Punch
Detail from Beka Goedde’s Lunch (still life), 2014 from “All Solid Things Hold Together” series (image courtesy of Angela Conant) It’s a meal that many New Yorkers eat out of plastic containers at a...
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Steve Buscemi Premiered His FDNY Doc, Offering an Eye Into His Firefighting Days
Steve Buschemi at the New York City Fire Museum. (Dave Allocca/Starpix) A day after Boardwalk Empire’s season premiere party at the Ziegfeld, Steve Buscemi returned to his old Lower East Side stomping...
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Pols Back Kushner Tenants Who Say They’re Being Muscled Out
(Photo:) Tenants of two buildings owned by New York Observer honcho Jared Kushner are accusing the real estate tycoon of trying to strong-arm them out of their apartments. Backed by Councilwoman Rosie...
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Look For Werner Herzog On Parks and Recreation (No, Really)
Photo © Beowulf Sheehan It’s Werner Herzog’s 72nd birthday today (and it’s also “Tweet Like Werner Herzog Day” #twertzog), but it looks like he’s giving us the present. Despite his reputation as the...
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Mission Chinese Has Found a New Home
Nearly a year after Mission Chinese Food shuttered at the height of its popularity, owner Danny Bowien has announced a comeback. Mission Chinese’s Instagram just posted a photo of Bowien and executive...
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Whitehouse Hostel Closes On Bowery; Miley Cyrus Hits Bushwick For Fashion Week
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Frederik Eklund of Million Dollar Listing reportedly sold the 40-unit development at 50 Clinton Street for $28 million. [The Real Deal] Clad in black pants and pasties, Miley Cyrus...
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Cleaner Streets, But Dirty Needles Are Still a Cause for Concern
(Photo: Amy Lombard) It was dark by the time members of the East Village walkabout group entered Tompkins Square Park, carrying plastic bags containing clean syringes, sterilized cookers and...
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ABC No Rio and Its Zine Library Hope to Turn a New Page
ABC No Rio Zine Library (Photo: Nicole Disser) ABC No Rio is falling apart, as it has been for decades. But it sort of comes with the territory– as a (now former) squat house, punk venue, and...
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Il Buco Brings Back Its Sidewalk Pig Roast (and Many Former Chefs) For Its 20th
(Courtesy Il Buco) Four years after Il Buco stopped hosting its yearly pig roasts after a neighborhood activist put up a stink, the pioneering enoteca has announced that it’ll once again host a Sagra...
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Beloved DIY Venue Death By Audio Will Close in November
Juniper Rising, Ski Mask, Natural Child at Death By Audio (Photo: Dylan Johnson/@giantclick) First 285 Kent bit the bullet and now its neighbor, Death By Audio, has announced that it’ll close in...
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NBC Wants to Come Over to Your Place and Shoot a Couple of Shows
The Slap location-seeking flyer, spotted on Grand Street, Williamsburg (Photo: Daniel Maurer) Gird your lofts. North Brooklyn is set to be enshrined (yet again) in the ageless portals of our most...
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Journey to Jackson Heights Without Having to Hop On the 7 Train
Jerreme Rodriguez as Reina and Brandi Bravo as Alex (Photo courtesy of Joel Weber) Audiences of the latest play to appear at The New Ohio Theater can relish the sweetly comedic absurdity of an Indian...
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Bushwick’s 10 Best Restaurants; SJP and Matthew Broderick’s Crib For Sale
(Photo: ribonyc) An uninsured 37-year-old female cyclist caught on camera sustaining serious injuries from a hit-and-run driver in Bushwick last month says the NYPD won’t interview the driver who...
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Pig Out: New Orleans’s Cochon Is Coming to Momofuku
As if the opening of Orleans wasn’t exciting enough for the New Orleans starved, one of the city’s finest restaurants, Cochon, is next up in Momofuku’s Late-Night Dinner series, which has been...
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Trolling For Tats at Max Fish: Cuddly Cats, Party Deer and Flesh-Eating Exes
Poo Screen and Woody Donahue.(Photos: Sarah Kjelleren) Click to enlarge This week, in our latest installment of a recurring series, we asked patrons of the new Max Fish: “Why That Tat?” Click on...
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