“My Name Is Jonah” makes its NYC premiere at the fest.
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LES Film Festival Brings Google Glass, Pool Parties and BYOB to the Cinema
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‘There’s Beautiful Light’: Meryl Meisler’s Snapshots of Disco-Era Bushwick
The ’70s were a wild time to be in Bushwick: following a major blackout in 1977, shops and homes were devastated in a wave of riots and looting. Meryl Meisler began teaching art at a public school there in 1981 and spent her early adulthood capturing both the hedonistic disco scene of Manhattan and the bombed-out streets of de-industrializing North Brooklyn. The native New Yorker’s snapshots, taken during the height of the city’s crack epidemic, will go on display Friday as part of Bushwick Open Studios.
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7 Local and Not-So-Local Ones to Catch at the Brooklyn Film Festival
Still from Tonitas, courtesy of Brooklyn Film Festival.
“Brooklyn is exploding right now,” says Nathan Kensinger, and he should know. For months, the documentary filmmaker and photographer has been working hard on the lineup for the 17th annual Brooklyn Film Festival, which kicks off this Friday.
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Memorial Day Shooting in East Williamsburg
A man was shot in East Williamsburg shortly before 11 p.m. last night.
The 25-year-old victim was in front of 236 Meserole Street, near Bushwick Avenue, when he heard shots ring out, felt a pain in his chest and fell to the ground, the police said.
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A Tribeca Winner With Brooklyn Roots Opens in the Village Today
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors follows a 13-year-old autistic boy who wanders into the subway system, leading his mother — an undocumented Mexican immigrant — on a desperate search to find him as superstorm Sandy descends on their home in Rockaway Beach.
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Hold On To Your Seats: Stephen Hawking, Yoko Ono, and Pussy Riot Get Ionescoed
Stephen Hawking chair puppet, with Marit Sirgmets, Jane Catherine Shaw, and Jessica Smith. (Photo: Richard Termine)
If your dream answer to “Guess who’s coming to dinner?” is Pussy Riot, Stephen Hawking, Yoko Ono and Gertrude Stein — or if you happen to be a furniture lover and a connoisseur of existential angst — then get thee to The Chairs, premiering this evening at La Mama in the East Village.
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Montana’s Trail House Brings Mountain Soda, Black Magic Cuisine to Bushwick
Come May 30, an awesomely rustic bungalow will be purveying “Appalachian east coast country food, and some black-magic inspired dishes” to the woodsmen (and -women) of Bushwick.
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First Look at The Black Ant, Now Serving Insect-Dusted Margs and Guac
The Black Ant, opening tonight in the East Village, doesn’t look much like any other Mexican restaurant in town, and that’s the way the owner likes it. “Our inspiration is Salvador Dali and Buñuel,” explains Jorge Guzman, who is Dominican but has spent time in Mexico. “All Mexican restaurants go with the same old ideas — it’s what they know. But we wanted something different. And you know, Mexico is so surreal.”
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A Look Inside Miss Lily’s 7A Cafe, Now Jerking and Juicing in the East Village
Calling all jerk-loving downtown scenesters! The new location of Miss Lily’s, in the old 7A space, is open for business.
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For a Group Show Titled ‘POLISH,’ This Photographer Got Raw [NSFW]
(Photo: Nina Westervelt)
Last time we bumped in photographer Anna Bloda, she was trying on clothes. This time, she’s stripping them off. Bloda is baring all for a group exhibit that opens tonight at Rox gallery — and judging from the flyer for “POLISH,” she’s not the only one getting naked.
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