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Ryan Raftery Plays Anna Wintour ‘From the Waist Up’ in a One-Man Musical
Ryan Raftery is the Most Powerful Woman in Fashion (Photo: Eva Sakellarides) He’s She. He’s Anna. Ryan Raftery’s pop-inspired one-man musical is a sassy, highly exaggerated take on the revered ice...
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The Story of Marnie’s ‘Pretty Modest’ Engagement Ring On Girls
On the just-ended season of Girls, Marnie accepted Desi’s marriage proposal, sounding the death knell for anyone hoping that she’d somehow reunite with Charlie to make “brown babies.” The 1920s bauble...
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Spring Clean Your Face with Bust’s Beauty Market at Brooklyn Bazaar
Brooklyn Bazaar is changing it up on Sunday, April 19 for Bust Craftacular’s Primped, an event dedicated to providing goods and services for the ladies and gents out there who tend toward grooming and...
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Hester Street Fair Returns With Fried Squid Sticks, Egyptian Sandwiches and More
Fried squid by Kaya NYC. (Photo courtesy Hester Street Fair) So many good things are coming back in April: tonight there’s Louie, Sunday there’s Silicon Valley and – oh yeah, IRL – there’s the Hester...
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Alter Opens New Shop in Greenpoint, Returns to Vintage
(Photo: Nicole Disser) Alter, the mid-scale, vaguely alt Brooklyn fashion boutique, has expanded its lineup to include a vintage store located directly across from its Franklin Avenue flagship location...
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Record Store Day Is Almost Here, Here’s How to Spend Your Money on...
(Record Store Day) Everyone knows the quickest way to turn your lame tech-bro pad from drab to authentic cool is to fill it with a bunch of vinyl. Just, please, if you’re going to do that at least take...
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Greenpoint Surf Shop Making Waves, Breaking Into the NYC Surf Scene
From left: Jeff Schroeder and Christopher Williams (Photo: Nicole Disser) Shaking hands with Chris Williams and Jeff Schroeder immediately made me feel not only very un-tan but also very un-rad. The...
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Leo Fitzpatrick Has a Timely Message For the World’s Pinheads
Leo Fitzpatrick, the Lower East Side actor who played a street kid in Kids and, hilariously, a street adult in the Broad City finale, just created a pin that’ll strike a chord with anyone who saw the...
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Head to This Pop-Up Shed For Some Nifty Irish Objects
If you totally blew Mother’s Day and are scrambling for a belated gift, you may want to hit up The Standard, East Village this weekend — especially if your máthair is Irish. Makers & Brothers — a...
View ArticleWeek in Film: Feel Bad About Fashion and Do a Classic Noir Redo
There’s a lot, a lot on the horizon in the New York City art world. Bushwick Open Studios is coming up and it’s apparently art festival season – seems like the last sigh of culture before everyone...
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Photos: Designers Cast a Queer Fashion Show at Brooklyn Museum
(Photos: chronicallylate) Queer fashionistas crowded into the basement of the Ace Hotel this past Sunday, hoping to get their shot at a runway spot for a gender nonconforming fashion show called VERGE...
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Freemans Chef Opens East River Skate Shop in Greenpoint
Rich Oates at East River Skate Shop (Photo: Nicole Disser) The sound of skateboards wooshing by triggers some stressful memory nerve in me, tripping me back to high school when I attempted to teach...
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Williamsburg Gets The Vale, a Cafe-Boutique-Gallery With Back Garden
If you’re looking to round out a lazy Saturday at the Brooklyn Flea, grab a morning coffee on the way to the L Train, or snag some unique pieces to invigorate your summer wardrobe, The Vale Collective...
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Untangling the Cat Hair Pill Enigma
(Photo: CHP) We’re still holding. Cat Hair Pills, that is. After answering a mysterious flyer posted in Bed-Stuy last week and being directed to One Last Shag, where we acquired pills stuffed with cat...
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Pioneer Works Opens a Tiny But Well Curated Bookstore
(Photo: Nicole Disser) Pioneer Works’ new bookstore in Red Hook, which had its grand opening on Tuesday night, is a remarkably small shop. Maybe the size of a very bitty studio apartment. “Wait, is...
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Two Events to Celebrate Local Zines and Indie Publishers Approacheth
(Flyer by Nikholis Planck) This is officially the season where all these people who describe themselves as your friends keep calling (on the actual phone, wtf), beckoning you to join them for some...
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These Pop-Ups Are Your Top Shop Opps
The law has spoken: leggings are not pants and the sidewalks of New York are not your yoga mat. So toss out the athleisure wear and take advantage of these two shopping opportunities. The Vintage Twin...
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New Branch of 2nd Time Around Ups the Consignment Ante in Nolita
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) A new branch of 2nd Time Around will open at 55 East Houston Street at the end of this month, making it that much easier to play out your own version of Sex and the City. “We’ve...
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In Greenpoint, a Vintage Furniture Shop That’s All “California ’70s”
Inside Adaptations (Photo via Adaptations Instagram)Adaptations, a newish vintage furniture store, breaks with most of what you’ll find around these parts of Greenpoint– heavy reclaimed wood,...
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Wanna Be a ‘Glorious Mess’? Peep This ‘Brooklyn Street Style’ Book
Cipriana Quann (Left) and TK Wonder near the L Train’s Jefferson Street stop in Bushwick. (Photo: Sioux Nesi) It’s not the main focus of the book, but in the last chapter of Brooklyn Street Style: The...
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