Dan Pierson was in awe of Robert Leslie when he heard him playing in the Second Avenue F station for quarters. But instead of dropping a bill in the British-born performer’s guitar case and moving along, he took his card and invited him to perform at the apartment-warming party he was throwing on his Brooklyn Heights roof.
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Annette Ramos, Stylist at Vice, Goes Black and Gold at Dusty Buttons
Introducing a new column in which we give a stylish local somewhere to go, so they can get all Dressed Up.
Annette Ramos’s career as a stylist at Vice spans eight years, and started shortly after she graduated from high school on the Upper West Side (“they raised me,” she said, of the magazine). She lives in the East Village now, two blocks from Dusty Buttons — the boutique we chose for this first installment of All Dressed Up. She met us outside of the East Ninth Street shop wearing chunky high-heeled combat boots and an acid-washed denim jacket sprayed with silver paint — a look she described rather inaccurately as tomboy.
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The G is Actually Running This Weekend; New Doc On Street Photographers
(Photo: Phillip Kalantzis Cope)
Paul Auster will headline at Comic Arts Brooklyn in Williamsburg this November, along with Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus. [Brokelyn]
German portraitist Hendrik Beikirch is at work on a haunting black-and-white mural of an anonymous woman on a Stanton Street building. [Bowery Boogie] More →
Oh, Hello! Will This New Luncheonette Bring Too Much Tuna to St. Marks?
Looks like “Too Much Tuna” has a new filming location.
A homey luncheonette specializing in deli-style chicken and tuna salad is slated to open within the next couple of weeks at 23 Third Avenue, right around the corner from the madness that is St. Marks Place.
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Drinking Games, Puppies, and Some Paintings, Too: The Weekend in Art
Artwork by Jack Jerz.
The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival wraps up this weekend. Also on deck: a dog-friendly pool party, eco-power theater, and haunting portraits of underground celebs. Read on for our weekend art picks.
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‘I’m Kind of Over New York’: It’s the End of Beginnings Gallery in Greenpoint
Artwork by Matt Leines.
On Monday evening, Beginnings Gallery in Greenpoint will hold its final show, appropriately titled (cue Jim Morrison voice) “The End.” The owners have decided to shutter the gallery after being open just shy of a year.
“It was always going to be an experiment, and that’s why we had a one-year sublease,” said Caroline Hwang, one of the space’s seven curators. “Because it’s so expensive, it’s difficult to do without so many people, and some of us want to do other things.”
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Mark Your Calendar For These Two Outdoor Arts Festivals in the East Village
2012’s FAB! Festival. (Photo: Whitney Browne)
The East Village’s cultural institutions are taking it to the streets again, as the details of two big outdoor arts festivals were announced today.
Theater for the New City is preparing to kick off its annual Summer Street Theater Tour, which has been bringing free outdoor theater to low-income communities since the 1970s. This year they’ll be hitting up neighborhoods in all five boroughs, including Bed-Stuy, the South Bronx, Jackson Heights, Coney Island, Harlem, West New Brighton, and the East Village.
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More G Service May Be on the Horizon, Theatre 80 Owners Mugged
(Photo: Dima James)
The MTA gave itself an $8 million budget increase, which may lead to both increased G train service and M train service on the weekends. [Daily News]
The driver who crashed into East Village Farm & Grocery last month, 32-year-old Shaun Martin of Queens, is being charged with a DWI and vehicular assault. [Streetsblog] More →
Looks Like That Mystical Public Art Game We Told You About Is In Full Swing
The Portals just got real. (Photo: Manny Inoa.)
The third portal in the 13 Portals, an interactive game conceived by artists Nicolina and Pérola Bonfanti that’s taking over the East Village one abandoned doorway at a time, was unveiled this Saturday in an elaborate ceremony on 10th Street between Avenues B and C.
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Bushwick Residents Call For Gun Control in Wake of Shooting Near Police Station
Scene of the shooting. (Photo: Lauren Carol Smith)
Local elected officials attended an open meeting in Bushwick today, at the site of a shooting in broad daylight on Saturday that left five people hospitalized. Residents, most of them Hispanic, gathered on the sidewalk at Menahan Street and Knickerbocker Ave, holding signs that demanded “Stop Gun Trafficking.”
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