The last time I went to an art gallery, my main complaint was there weren’t enough pictures of Atreyu from The Never-Ending Story.
There will be several of them at a show of artwork inspired by cult movies, opening tonight.
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St. Marks Comics Just Got More Transformers Than Can Meet the Eye
(Photo: Patrick Hogan)
Ever wonder what happened to those old Transformers? Through one route or another they end up in display cases like these at St. Mark’s Comics.
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Play Cutting-Edge Video Games in Old-School Arcade Cabinets at This Rock Show Tomorrow
From the Deathmatch By Audio Facebook page.
Forget the Playstation 4 and X-Box One, arcade cabinets are the hot place to drop your new game, because apparently it’s 1982 and kids these days got the Pac-Man Fever.
At least, that’s what the developers of two upcoming multiplayer indie games must be thinking. These days you don’t often see a new game get the full wooden arcade cabinet treatment, so consider “Deathmatch by Audio,” at Williamsburg’s Death By Audio tomorrow, a rare opportunity to combine feelings of nostalgia and the cutting edge.
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Watch a 2,100 Ping-Pong-Ball Assault On Cooper Union’s Administration
The grand staircase at the Thom Mayne-designed Cooper Union academic building at 41 Cooper Square connects four floors of the nine story building in a single, unbroken sweep.
Now imagine it blanketed with ping pong balls. No need to imagine, because it happened yesterday.
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Adam Sandler Isn’t the Only Reason Ave B Was a Hot Spot Today
Film crews pack up as construction workers dig on a sewer line next door. (photo by Patrick Hogan)
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Mental Note: See This Exhibit at ABC No Rio Before Its Building Is a Distant Memory
There was something I was supposed to post this afternoon, but it seems to have slipped my mind.
Oh, right. “Collect, Store, Retrieve” — a new gallery exhibit at ABC No Rio on the Lower East Side — opens this evening featuring artistic takes on the science of memory.
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Regress to 1996 at These Retro Video Game Nights
Mom sold the Nintendo 64 for $25 back in 2005 and that was the end of that. If your classic video game console met a similar fate at a stoop sale or a Goodwill donation, here a couple of chances to re-up on nostalgia.
Entertainment group Sexy Nerds is having its latest Retro Video Game Night next Saturday at Nevada Smiths at 100 3rd Avenue. Fellow East Village nerds from Video Games New York on East 6th Street provide the discontinued video game consoles and games, and you provide the carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Help the Philippines: a Hackathon for Techies, a Drinkathon for Alkies
Outside of Jeepney. (Photo: Patrick Hogan)
Post-typhoon reports from the Philippines look increasingly grim, and the country badly needs any help it can get. Does that include apps?
, an organization that holds talks and events promoting Filipino entrepreneurship, is hosting a disaster-relief hackathon on the Lower East Side this weekend.
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Forget Thor and Pick Over Some Highbrow Comics This Weekend
(Photo: Comic Arts Brooklyn)
While theater-goers watch a comic book-based movie about a Norse god who smashes things with a hammer this weekend, a different kind of comic book will be celebrated in Williamsburg. Comic Arts Brooklyn is having its first festival Saturday at Mt. Carmel Church and The Knitting Factory, replacing the now defunct Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.
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Steven Soderbergh Just Set the Lower East Side Back 100 Years
Either a group of very dedicated steampunk fans decided to carve out a piece of the Lower East Side as their own, or Cinemax was shooting a period drama this morning on the corner of Broome and Orchard Streets.
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