Amid the gloom and doom over closing record shops, there are a couple of glimmers of hope. Last week, Academy Annex  (check out photos of the new store at 83 Oak Street below) while a Bushwick newcomer hit the corner of Knickerbocker and Jefferson.
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Would you believe that we woke up this morning from the world’s biggest New York Comic Con hangover? The last two days since the convention ended on Sunday are a bit of a blur. These photos come from a memory card found in the tights of a discarded Robin cosplay on the bathroom floor that we don’t remember wearing. John Barrowman isn’t in any of them … yet.
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(Photo: Patrick Hogan)

La Goulette is the name of the main port in Tunis, Tunisia, and it’s also the name of a North African cafe headed for Grand Street, right next to the B+B Newsroom, in Williamsburg.

Husband-and-wife owners Millie and Karim Khemiri plan to serve “comfort Tunisian food” inspired by the cuisine Karim ate growing up in Tunisia. The menu is still being developed, but Karim says you can expect North African/Mediterranean staples, such as falafel and shawarma as well as Tunisian dishes such as a merguez lamb sausage. Plus coffee, of course.
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If you saw Macauley Culkin movies in the early ’90s you probably owned a Nintendo Entertainment System, and if you owned an NES you probably went to see movies with Macauley Culkin in them.

That spells synergy for Le Poisson Rouge, which is holding a Nintendo-themed Halloween party (three weeks before Halloween) hosted by Culkin. Apparently when he’s not being floated for a part in Adam Green’s Aladdin remake, Culkin does semi-regular DJ duty at LPR for the “Mac’s iPod” series.
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