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‘Hipster Trash’: Abbi, Ilana, and Lena Are Now Garbage Pail Kids

16GPPS_1089_FR.pdf.pdfIf you thought Lena Dunham reached the pinnacle of fame when she became a surrogate for Hillary Clinton, and Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer did the same when the presidential frontrunner went on Broad City, think again. This, dear readers, is the ne plus ultra: They’ve all been immortalized as Garbage Pail Kids. That’s right, not only has GPK released a new election-themed Disgrace to the White House series, but they’ve unleashed a series of sticker cards making fun of everything on TV that isn’t Desperado Donald.

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Not Enough Lena On Wythe Ave Today, Too Many Lenas On Stage Next Month

(Photo: Kirsten O'Regan)

(Photo: Kirsten O’Regan)

We didn’t spot Lena Dunham when Girls filmed at Café Mogador in Williamsburg this morning — though, as you can (barely) see above, we did spot Zosia Mamet wearing a cute blue-and-white printed dress and Ugg boots, her hair newly shorn into a bob.
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A Trailblazing Tailor Offers the Wrongfully Convicted a Stitch in Time

From left: Darryl Howard and Daniel Friedman. (Photo via @bindleandkeep on Instagram)

Mark Denny went to prison when he was 16, for the robbery and gang rape of an 18-year old inside a Burger King in Brooklyn. He spent 30 years behind bars before he was exonerated, and the Innocence Project proved he wasn’t involved. “All the proof was right there, it was there that I was innocent,” Denny says. “But the prisoners, the guards, the judge and the jury, they’re so blinded by the awful crime that they don’t see innocence.”

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Jemima Kirke of Girls Talks Painting, Marriage and #MeToo

Kirke with “ShiShi In My Wedding Dress,” 2017. (photo: Cassidy Dawn Graves)

You may know her as the free-spirited Jessa in oft-discussed HBO show Girls, but Jemima Kirke considers herself more painter than actor. Her third solo exhibition, The Ceremony, is currently on view at Lower East Side gallery Sargent’s Daughters. A series of portraits depicting both friends and fictional women in their wedding dresses, the show seeks to interrogate why women still partake in this “antiquated ceremony.” A few days after the opening, we met with Kirke at the gallery to talk marriage, the #metoo movement, and recent controversy involving her castmate Lena Dunham.
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