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Lil’ Nugs: Dressler Closes, Ludlow Lot Sells For $5.7M

June 17, 2013 By Natalie Rinn

Delancey Street view from the Williamsburg Bridge

Photo by: Congo Rodes

Every day at 4:20 p.m. we stuff your pipe with Lil’ Nugs, our late afternoon link dump. Sorry we’re late today — launch and all!

A Williamsburg/East Village writer-producer team uses the Bedford + Bowery tipline to tell us about their new web series, “Brunch on Sundays.” Filmed in both neighborhoods, it explores the real brunch-time topics of 20-somethings, like pooping in front of boyfriends. [Brunch on Sundays]

South Williamsburg’s Dressler, serving fancy food since 2006, closed its doors for good today. The restaurant’s website cited a regrettable failure to reach a lease-renewal agreement with the landlord. [Free Williamsburg]

A vacant lot at 145 Ludlow Street has been sold by Lower East Side developer Sion Misrahi for $5.7 million. A six-story apartment complex and 1,900 sq. ft. of retail space are set to take its place. [The Lo-Down] More →

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Reel Psyched: Our Northside and L.E.S* Film Festival Picks

June 17, 2013 By Jay Honstetter

Introducing “Reel Psyched,” wherein we tell you what we’re really excited to see in the theaters this week.

With the Lower East Side Film Festival in full swing in Manhattan and the Northside Festival’s film program popping off tonight in Brooklyn, it’s a good time to be a film buff.

At the L.E.S* Film Festival, which kicked off Thursday and continues through the weekend, offerings from up-and-coming directors are judged by a panel of guests including celebrities like Judah Friedlander (“30 Rock”) and Dan Janvey (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”). The audience favorite gets a $2,000 check from Vimeo (ahem, Bedford + Bowery’s video player of choice).
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Help This Man Realize His Trippy Dream Of Staging ‘Wizard Of Oz’ in Bushwick

June 17, 2013 By Sam Blum

Somewhere over in Bushwick the L train rides; artists and Hasids, poets and dreamers, ride their bikes.

So goes a dreamy, surreal version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” that may some day appear in “Bushwick the Musical the Movie,” an in-the-works film set in the neighborhood and modeled almost entirely on “The Wizard of Oz.” John Martino, a 55 year-old former IT specialist, is trying to raise a staggering $2.5 million to get the movie made.
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Tags: Bushwick, bushwick the musical the movie, catland, film, indie gogo, john martino, journal gallery, kave, kickstarter, mary meyer clothing, movies, online fundraisers, somewhere over the rainbow, the wizard of oz

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We Go To Raves and Instagram Them So You Don’t Have To

June 17, 2013 By Anna Silman

Already craving more Bedford + Bowery in your life? We thought so. Follow all our exploits on Instagram as we photograph, filter and #hashtag all the cultural goodies on offer in our favorite neighborhoods.

This weekend we went to a sprawling indoor-outdoor party at 299 Meserole thrown by masters of debauchery Bang On NYC (yep, we did a lot of Banging this weekend). In the interest of supporting our fellow ravers, we’d like to refer everyone to this Craigslist Missed Connection. Good luck, shirtless tall guy. We’re rooting for you.

#Nofilter folks, we love you, too. Submit your shots to our Flickr group and we’ll share the standouts with our readers.

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At Rooftop Supper Club, a Sunset Hang With Mr. ‘Cook to Bang’

June 17, 2013 By Anna Silman

This past Saturday, Spencer Walker, the author of the pickup-artist cookbook “Cook to Bang” (think Martha Stewart for the Tucker Max set) mingled with a group of about 80 people on a private rooftop in his home neighborhood of Williamsburg.

No, he wasn’t teaching them how to “bring out their date’s inner slut” through recipes like “Tap that ass-paragus soup” and “miso horny cod.” Walker insists that the supper club he produces with his friend Will Holloway is entirely separate from “Cook to Bang.”
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Hi-Collar Opens Tomorrow With the Blingiest Bathroom Ever

June 17, 2013 By Natalie Rinn

Bon Yagi isn’t Osaka’s latest Bon Jovi cover band. He’s the “mayor of Japantown” who quietly owns, oh, pretty much every Japanese joint in the East Village: Robataya, Decibel, the list goes on.

After a quiet test run last week, he’ll open Hi-Collar tomorrow in the old Rai Rai Ken space (another Yagi venture, now relocated two doors down). The bar-cafe is a slim portal to Japan’s jazz, or “Taisho,” era, when western fashion and food first made inroads – up to a point.
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Tags: bon yagi, cafes, coffee, coffee bars, decibel, East Village, hi collar, japanese food, japantown, little tokyo, porto rico importing co., pour-over coffee, rai rai ken, restaurants, robataya

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100 Bottles of Beer On the Wall (Literally!) at Bushwick’s New Growler Den

June 17, 2013 By Erin Kelley

For all the new bars that have opened up in Bushwick in the past year or so, the craft beer scene has remained woefully underrepresented. That changed this weekend when Jorge Arias opened The Sampler just steps off the Jefferson L.
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Tags: 124 rabbit club, bars, Bars + Restaurants, bayou teche, beer stores, Bushwick, craft beer, evil twin, jorge arias, kelso, left hand, rafael martinez, soho, stillwater, the sampler, the wine hut

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Can’t Get Enough Lena Dunham? Boy, Do We Have the Play For You

June 17, 2013 By Jazmine Hughes

Left to right: Tessa Skara (Apologetic Lena), Haley Traub (Perfect Lena), Stephanie Hsu (Urban Lena), Sam Corbin (Self-Depicted Lena), Jaime Wright (Naked Lena)

She’s won a Golden Globe. She’s sold a book for over $3.5 million. She’s one of the most influential people in the world. Now imagine if there were six of her.

This is the premise of “Too Many Lenas,” a play based on — you guessed it — the creator of HBO’s “Girls” premiering at Dixon Place later this month.
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Tags: carroll dunham, david bernstein, dixon place, girls, golden globes, hbo, jaime wright, laurie simmons, lena dunham, Lower East Side, nyu, plays, theater, too many lenas

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Members of Hold Steady, Spoon Bring Minneapolis to Manhattan Avenue

June 17, 2013 By Jesse Sposato

Bobby Drake in Lake Street’s bathroom. (Photo: Jesse Sposato)

What do a bunch of band dudes from the Midwest, who now live in Greenpoint, do when not making music together? Easy: they open a bar. Bobby Drake (The Hold Steady, w/o.), Frank Bevan (w/o.), Rob Pope (Spoon), Eric Odness (The Wanted, Primitive Weapons) named Lake Street after a major thoroughfare in Minneapolis, and they want it to be reminiscent of the bars they used to hang out at back home – “kind of old-man divey but cool bars, you know, where they could be sketchy, but not really,” Drake told Bedford + Bowery during a chat at the nearly finished space at 706 Manhattan Avenue, near Norman.
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Black Flag Annihilated Last Week With a Super Secret Show

June 17, 2013 By Daniel Maurer

Depending on whose tweets you prefer, Black Flag spent Friday and Saturday either “destroying” or “kicking the crap out of” Warsaw, only to go on to do a Sunday show at a venue so secret that if anyone gave up the name (Grand Victory) they probably would’ve had to disappear to Hong Kong. (Seriously, the email confirmation was all: “Any social media or other discovered leaks of location may result in denied entry.”)
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