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Kathleen Hanna and Ad-Rock Played Together, Stayed Together at the St. Marks Is Dead Party

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L to R: Markey, Hanna, Horovitz. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)

L to R: Medlyn, Hanna, Horovitz. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)

“I know a lot of you complain about new groups coming in and replacing you,” Ada Calhoun told the crowd of East Villagers and ex-Villagers gathered in Cooper Union’s Great Hall last night. “If you’re not a Lenape Indian, I just don’t have a lot of compassion.”

Behind her was a photo of the area in all of its bucolic splendor, 400 years ago – way before the Pinkberrys and the Red Mangos inspired the tongue-in-cheek title of her new hyperlocal history, St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street.

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The 13 People You Meet On St. Marks Place, Per St. Marks Is Dead

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9780393240382_300Everyone has a St. Marks story — my first was smoking free hash after getting ripped off on bunk X. “And since the middle of the twentieth century, kids from all over the country, and the world, who wanted to be writers or artists or do drugs have come to St. Marks Place to find one another and themselves.” So says St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Coolest Street, the dizzyingly fascinating mostly-oral history by Ada Calhoun, which launches Monday, Nov. 2, at Cooper Union with free beer from Brooklyn Brewery and a punk cover band—the St. Marks Zeroes—featuring Ad-Rock.

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Bridget Everett: 'Rock Bottom'

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She’s big, she’s baudy, and we once saw her serenade/abuse an audience member and then sit on his face. If you’re sitting in the front row of this cabaret-on-crack act, you’ll probably see things you can’t unsee, and good luck getting the beer out of your clothes. This is a special preview of “Rock Bottom,” a show co-written with Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, among others. 

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Bridget Everett: 'Rock Bottom'

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She’s big, she’s baudy, and we once saw her serenade/abuse an audience member and then sit on his face. If you’re sitting in the front row of this cabaret-on-crack act, you’ll probably see things you can’t unsee, and good luck getting the beer out of your clothes. This is a special preview of “Rock Bottom,” a show co-written with Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, among others. 

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Check Out Kathleen Hanna’s Anti-Evan Dando Zine, Plus an Excerpt From Bamboo Girl

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evandando001This week is your last chance to see The Punk Singer on the big screen, and you should definitely, definitely catch this cool doc about Kathleen Hanna – one of the most visible and outspoken figures of the Riot Grrl movement – before it leaves IFC Center and Nitehawk on Thursday.

The film’s archival footage of Hanna’s band Bikini Kill – not to mention its interviews with Kim Gordon, Hanna’s bandmates in Le Tigre and her husband Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys – filled us with so much nostalgia for the ‘90s (when Courtney Love was so, so much nuttier than she is now) that we were inspired to check out the Riot Grrrl Collection at NYU’s Fales Library.
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B+B Q+A: Stefan Marolachakis of Caveman’s Prom Was Cooler Than Yours

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tktk at East Village Books. (Photo: Kristy Ann Muniz)

Stefan Marolachakis at East Village Books. (Photo: Kristy Ann Muniz)

I first met Stefan Marolachakis in 2010 when he was tending bar at Heathers, just a few blocks away from his apartment overlooking Tompkins Square Park. He still lives there, but these days he’s writing for ESPN, Nylon, and The Fader, and drumming for Caveman, which just released its self-titled sophomore album via Fat Possum.
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