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Morris “Moishe” Cohen, founder of Economy Candy on Rivington Street, died Friday in his sleep at the age of 97. [DNA Info]
Hector Vega, who previously served 13 years in prison for robbery, was arrested for wielding a knife and stealing $36 total from three individuals on the Lower East Side this weekend. [NY Daily News]
Champions of El Garden in Bushwick are currently rallying alongside NYC Community Garden Coalition activists at City Hall. [Bushwick Daily]
The twin snowmen of LoLoEaSi, last month. (Photo: Angelo Fabara)
Way back in 2006, New York published a map of the newly trendy “Lower-Lower East Side” with an intro that read: “Not so long ago, you’d have done anything to get away from the Lower–Lower East Side. Now you’ll do anything to come back.” It’s amazing that it took almost nine years for the area between Delancey and Canal to be called LoLoEaSi, but it has finally happened.
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For those who missed their chance to experience the mystical world of Nicolina Johnson via “13 Portals,” the Inaugural Monochromatic Costume Ball promises to bring the artist’s world of whimsy to the Lower Eastside Girls Club this Thursday. A dream for anyone who ever took “matchy-matchy” as a compliment, guests are invited to dress head to toe in the color of their choice for a night of waltzing and dining on monochromatic food and cocktails.
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We have to admit, we hardly batted an eye when the Kickstarter went up for The Great American 1921 Gentleman’s Box Company. So a Greenpoint-based “activist/craftsman/humanist/disrupter” with a handlebar mustache wants to manufacture “a Super Premium, unisex cardboard box made with only the finest of materials”? And he’s offering perks like organic jar lids, pulped fruit, and a “Guide to Being Ungentrified” (“a handy digital hipster’s guide to remaining near authentic un-gentrified neighborhoods”)?
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Last week, organizers behind the hotly anticipated NYC Porn Film Festival finally released a schedule. And with just a couple of weeks to go until things are in full swing at Secret Project Robot, you’re probably wondering what on earth to expect.
We spoke with the festival’s founder Simon Leahy, who’s also one of the people behind Bushwig, the annual (and amazing) drag fest held at Secret Project Robot approaching its fourth year. He dropped hints about some of the surprises in store. No matter what your feelings are about mainstream porn, you’re definitely not going to want to miss this one, we can tell you that much.
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At a q&a on Saturday at Savannah College of Art Design’s aTVfest in Atlanta, Mindy Kaling revealed that she’s long wanted the Eastbound & Down star to play Dr. Mindy Lahiri’s gay best friend. But not your stereotypical one.
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Local sculptor, landlord, and retired fire marshal Ralph Feldman died Thursday morning in his East Village home at age 79. [NY Daily News]
Robert Vilensky, a Manhattan lawyer, filed a $20 million lawsuit against the city for property damage sustained during the recent CitiStorage warehouse fire in Williamsburg. [Gothamist]
Police are looking for this man, 37-year-old Anton Liverpool, who allegedly approached a 21-year-old woman while masturbating on the street in Bushwick last month. [Gothamist]
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A food fight broke out at Brooklyn Brewery last night. Lots of them, actually.
Immersed in the thick scent of brewing beer, people in olive green jackets and cable-knit sweaters showed up to watch Leyla Acaroglu’s Verbal Fight Club and Drew Weigel’s Presentation Party Night NYC join forces. The result: a series of five-minute presentations on the “food fight ethics of what we choose to put in our bodies.”
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“Could you survive Brooklyn back in ’84?” That’s the question posed by a newly launched fundraiser for “Living Los Sures,” the interactive film project we first told you about last summer.
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