It’s been 10 years since the inaugural Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, and this time around the crew at Brooklyn Bodega—the hip-hop advocates that produce the festival—promise it’ll be the freshest yet (their words, not ours).
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Out in the Streets Announces Killer Lineup
Here’s to hoping you don’t have plans for the weekend of July 26th/27th, and if you do cancel them because Bird Dog, Super Crush Studio, and Scott Bowman (Radio Bushwick) are bringing a killer lineup to a wide open two-acre plot o’ land in Ridgewood for Out in the Streets 2014.
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We Answered This Personal Ad Placed On an East Village Phone Booth
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
No, not everybody is swiping away on Tinder. We recently spotted a couple of handmade lonely-hearts flyers in the East Village. The one at left offered just an email address and a head shot of Oscar the Grouch. We decided to get in touch with ladies man “Alex A,” and he answered a few of our questions about love and luck in the city. (Though only after he had made a play for a date. Cheeky devil.) Read our exchange below, and stay tuned tomorrow as we talk to the author of the other flyer, a loner from Detroit who wrote, “If you have a heart you can give me a call or text.”
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Tony Bennett’s Granddaughter Riffs On ‘Rom-Com Befuddlement,’ With Buttercup Bill
Emilie Richard-Froozan and Remy Bennett (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan)
“We’ve never been interested in anything that doesn’t include sex,” says Remy Bennett, granddaughter of crooner Tony Bennett. “I don’t understand who would be.”
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Watch It: James Franco, Michael Stipe and Patti Smith Kick Off ‘Rockaway!’
(Photo: Angelo Fabara)
Outrage over the weekend shutdown of Rockaway’s city beaches made the cover of the Daily News (excuse to put a bikinied hardbody on the front page, much?), but fans of Patti Smith and James Franco found more welcoming sands over at Fort Tilden during the kickoff of the “Rockaway!” art festival.
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Bereket Closes After Two Decades; Alleged Serial Mugger Nabbed
(Photo: Scott Lynch)
Travis Taylor— a 17-year-old who lives on East 6th Street—was arrested for allegedly breaking a man’s jaw and then robbing him outside 67 Avenue B two weeks ago. Police say Taylor and two partners in crime carried out four recent Lower East Side/East Village attacks. [DNA Info]
Bereket Turkish Kebab House shuttered after nearly two decades on the corner of East Houston and Orchard Streets. Landlord Ben Shaoul bought the Bereket space and several of its Lower East Side neighbors earlier this year. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY]
A 61-year-old East Village man, Carlos Pena, has been missing since Tuesday evening. [Town & Village Blog]
Jenny Slate’s Breakup Jeans Come to Williamsburg as Courtshop Opens
Bedford Avenue was abuzz last night with the opening of Courtshop, a New York-based women’s clothing brand specializing in skin-tight denim, tops, overalls and accessories.
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9 Things Todd Phillips Revealed About Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies
Todd Phillips at left. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Nitehawk’s highly anticipated (by us, anyway) screening of Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies drew a crowd that may or may not have ever seen Todd Phillips’s subsequent films (Old School, The Hangover, etc.) In front of us was a guy in a Mohawk, brazenly smoking a vaporizer. Then there was the guy in the Plato’s Retreat shirt.
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First Taste of Root & Bone, Opening Next Week in Alphabet City
Inside Root & Bone (photo: Nicole Disser)
Two of Top Chef’s blondest, Southernest contestants, Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth were making the rounds at Root & Bone‘s opening party last night. The duo are at the helm of the newest Southern dining establishment in the old Mama’s Food Shop space.
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Cruising the Bijou, a Hidden Underground Cinema and Sex Den
The Bijou’s exit door. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)
It took me three passes before I could bring myself to open the unmarked black door on East 4th Street, the one an older man had entered after trying to cruise me near a rack of Citi Bikes. Inside was a steep staircase, painted deep orange, leading down into a basement lobby. There was a framed poster on the wall: Eyes Wide Shut, the Stanley Kubrick film in which an overcurious New Yorker stumbles into an orgy of anonymous, Bacchanalian sex.
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