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January 11, 2012
EPIC
Sharon Van Etten gets cozy at WNYC
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December 20, 2011
Say Hello to Shake Shack Brooklyn, Pera Soho
Here are the latest newcomers to New York City's cutthroat dining scene. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. At long last, Shake Shack has opened in Brooklyn. The chainlet's newest store is located in the Fulton Street Mall. [Serious Eats] Ryan Skeen has officially taken char ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
The Brooklyn (Hipster) Christmas Tree Gets a (Hipster) Time-Lapse Video
Brooklyn Christmas Tree from Chris Kirkinis on Vimeo.Everything good and decent in this world gets a time-lapse video, right? Right. Such is the case for the Brooklyn (Hipster) Christmas Tree, created by 26-year-old Aussie expat Julian Cole. Watch the stylized time-lapse of the making, by Chris Kirk ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Merry Christmas, Hipster! With Love From Metrocards, PBR, and Old Shoes
New York ShittyHappy holidays! This is when we cut down trees, decorate them with a billion lights and stars and shiny things, and watch them die. It's also when we walk down sidewalks and inhale deeply and pretend, if only for a minute, that we live in the forest -- and when we chug all of t ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
5 More New York City Parks Will Get Free Wireless Internet This Week
Earlier this year the city announced a five-year plan with AT&T to bring free Wi-Fi to 26 spots in 20 New York City parks throughout the boroughs. This Thursday, Astoria Park in Queens, Herbert Von King Park and McCarren Park Field House in Brooklyn, Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan, and Clo ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2011
How You Can Help Upstate NY, NJ, and Vermont Farmers Now
Lots of people have asked me how they can help farmers whose acreage has been damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Irene. In the coming months there will doubtlessly be a host of benefits for farms at restaurants, concert halls, and other venues, but there is something you can do more immediatel ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 17, 2011
UNDER THE SEA
Glass Bandits Theater Company present The Little Mermaid
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Ten Years Of Free Ted Leo Shows In NYC: A Brief Retrospective
Matias Corral You're forgiven for wondering if the Sound Of The City is really just a gussied-up Ted Leo fansite, but we argue that's the only natural reaction to his glorious existence. Ted Leo is many things: insightful songwriter; leave-it-all-on-the-stage performer; great interview subjec ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2011
Live: Beirut And Sharon Van Etten Beat The Rain At McCarren Park
Beirut w/ Sharon van Etten, Yellow Ostrich McCarren Park Friday, June 17 Better than: The rainout that at one point seemed likely. It was hard to see Yellow Ostrich through all of the umbrellas when they first took the McCarren Park stage on Friday. By the time the band finished their fir ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Southern Brooklyn Left Out of Wi-Fi Plans
via NYC Department of Parks & RecreationNot in southern Brooklyn.Life in southern Brooklyn is rural. Last week we brought you the news that Wi-Fi is coming to 20 parks around the city this summer. But an article in The Brooklyn Paper today points out that none of those locations are south o ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Comments of the Week: Village Voice T-Shirt Giveaway!
This week we're starting a new feature in which we give away Village Voice t-shirts to some of our esteemed commenters. We've judged this week's crop and have come away with some winners. If your comment was picked, email web editor Francesca Stabile to claim your prize. Because there's nothi ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Williamsburg's McCarren Park Has a Dominatrix
Imagine our pleasure when we stumbled upon this delightful video in the "pets and animals" section of YouTube (the things we do for you!). Here is a dominatrix doing what she does best in McCarren Park. People around her range from moderately amused to completely oblivious. This summer is shaping up ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
THEY LIVE
Hipsters. Zombies. Same thing.
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March 5, 2011
The Weather Is Much Improved: Five Places to Take Advantage in NYC
This weather is really something! For everyone besides weekend bloggers. You're probably out frolicking already, aren't you. But if you're not -- if you're hungover and melting into a blob in front of Jersey Shore, mired in an existential crisis about what you're doing with your life -- it's ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Live: M.I.A. Encounters (And Conquers!) Further Adversity At Terminal 5
Doing a lot better now, thanks. Pics by Jason Gross, more below.M.I.A. Terminal 5 Monday, September 27 Better Than: Getting drenched at her last gig. Listen, Maya, if you don't like this review, don't Tweet my cell. You're having a shitty year, but everyone else has, too. Yours is just more ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
New Head Chef at Fives Leaves; Former JoJo Meat Cook Cries Sexual Harassment
Riingo, the Japanese fusion restaurant once run by Marcus Samuelsson, no longer serves Asian food since Samuelsson left last year. Executive chef Jimmy Lappalainen has completed reworked the menu. [Crain's] Colby Spikes, formerly the sous chef, is the new head chef at Five Leaves near McCarr ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
Last Pool Party Canceled, OSA Slams Jelly, Jelly Prepares Rebuttal: "Their Statement Contains Numerous Falsehoods That We Can Document"
At the !!! Pool Party Sunday, in (slightly) happier times. Pic by Sam Horine.A bad summer for the Jelly Pool Parties is ending worse. Word spread last night that the August 29th show at East River State Park, featuring Delorean, Dominique Young Unique, and two never-revealed SECRET SPECIAL GU ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
JUST LIKE HONEY
A choreographer takes advantage of the heat wave
Blogs
May 28, 2010
Justin Bieber's Lesbian Haircut Gets Taken to Task in Williamsburg
Click to enlarge. We like the idea better than the execution here, but these fictional Office of Blame Accountability bills wheatpasted on Bedford Ave, along McCarren Park, take all sorts of well-known figures task: Bloomberg (for "being a douchebag"), New Yorkers (for "returning to the values of 9- ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
Signs of Attrition in Hasid-Hipster War; Is Peace Forthcoming?
The blogger behind the deliciously feisty Musings of an Irate Commuter has posted an open letter that gives us faith in a communing of spirits that have long held very different beliefs. (See "Hipsters Repaint Bike Lanes in Brush Off to Hasids," and "Clash of the Bearded Ones.") As it turns ... More >>
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May 25, 2010
The Early Word: Kickstand Coffee, Williamsburg's First Coffee Bike
Mackenzie SchmidtKickstand sets up shop at McCarren Park.In our many caffeinated years, we've committed every crime known to coffee--making old hot coffee into iced, reheating in the microwave, and mixing vintages (making new coffee over yesterday's lingering leftovers in the pot). We're not ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Watch Hipsters Exert Themselves!
Tomorrow at McCarren Park in Brooklyn the 2nd annual Punk Rope Games will ensue. They start at 10:15 a.m. (does anyone actually get up and into their skinny jeans/shorts with knee socks that early?) with a "procession of nations." The actual games -- throwing around rubber chickens and styrof ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
New York City Ballet Dancers Take to the Streets—on Film
Tomorrow at McCarren Park in Brooklyn the 2nd annual Punk Rope Games will ensue. They start at 10:15 a.m. (does anyone actually get up and into their skinny jeans/shorts with knee socks that early?) with a "procession of nations." The actual games -- throwing around rubber chickens and styrof ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Sad Things for Lonely People: Hipster Speed Dating
Doesn't this sound fun? If it's free, it must be good!
Blogs
February 17, 2010
Williamsburg's First (?) Mardi Gras Parade Leads to Confusion, Rabble-Rousing, Brooklyn Bowl
Mackenzie SchmidtShow me your . . . drifts? The L Magazine put on what may very well be Williamsburg's first Mardi Gras parade last night amid confused, yet surprisingly festive revelers. An impressive purple, gold, and green float stocked with burlesque dancers in winter jackets, and the mag ... More >>
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December 7, 2009
McCarren Park Pool Takes The Final Plunge
Photo of MPP groundbreaking via DBOBNot that there were any illusions that the Greenpoint pool would remain a venue--the Williamsburg Waterfront area took over hosting duties for Jelly NYC's Summer Pool Parties a year ago. But now that the Williamsburg Waterfront space also appears to be in j ... More >>
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October 2, 2009
Week in Review: I Dunno, I Don't Smoke
YYYs, by Rebecca Smeyne, of course.In the week in which death shrugged off the "summer of" appellation and kept right on killing people, we mourned the Death Set's Beau Velasco, a good man cut down too early, and Mr. Magic, whose work as a DJ in New York in the 1980s is an enormous wormhole d ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
Posts of the Week
It's Friday afternoon, which means it's time to give a little love to the best posts of the week:Sietsema rounded up the 10 Best Food-Themed Shows of all time.LUPEC stands for Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails.Anita Lo has returned from her Mongolian boar hunt, and has no pl ... More >>
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July 29, 2009
Organ Recital: Anticuchos in McCarren Park
McCarren Park may be the very last place where you'd expect to find organs, yet, last Sunday I did. The occasion was the summer picnic of a Greenpoint Peruvian soccer club, attended by perhaps 300 souls, who sat on folding chairs under the London plane trees as bad weather threatened. Undeter ... More >>
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July 21, 2009
In Case You Missed Our Photos from Sunday's Pool Party With the Dirty Projectors. . .
Sam HorineDirty Projectors Dave Longstreth . . . they are here. Sunday was the second week of Jelly NYC's Pool Parties, relocated this summer from McCarren Pool, and Dirty Projectors proved to Brooklyn for the first time since Bitte Orce's' official release that they've only begun to feel out the e ... More >>
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July 2, 2009
Jelly NYC Pool Party Addendum: Leave Your Pink Uggs, Cargo Shorts at Home
In a blow to snake-handlers everywhere, Jelly NYC has posted this entertaining graphic of prohibited material for this year's slate of free Sunday-afternoon shows in Williamsburg. Banned items include grenades, machine guns, syringes, throwing stars, bald eagles, and--showing that the series is de ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2009
Bedford Avenue Street Fairs Automatically Suck
We're not sure why that is, but we think it has to do with a lack of faith. Hipsterville may be the worst possible place for homemade palm-reading, arts 'n' crafts, and sustainable energy tables. (Last week's Renegade Craft Fair in the Park, on the other hand, did great because it had the essenti ... More >>
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June 1, 2009
City to Sell Naming Rights to 7 Sorta-Landmarks
Strapped for cash, the city turns to its traditional wellsprings of vitality. No, not the grit and determination of its people -- rich people who want their names on things. The New York Post has a preliminary list of seven city sites for which naming rights will be offered for sale. Thankfully, not ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2009
No Age, Deerhunter, Dan Deacon Playing Jelly Space 2009
Deerhunter at McCarren Pool last summer, photo by Rebecca Smeyne No Age, Deerhunter, Dan Deacon--the CMJ 2007 All-Star trifecta--just announced a summer tour, and the schedule includes an August 2 date at the Jelly Space 2009. Excellent news, since this officially confirms that Jelly NYC are throw ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 19, 2008
IT’S FISCHER!
Catch Wes Anderson’s very best
Voice Choices
July 2, 2008
SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK
Ophelia loses it in McCarren Park Pool
Voice Choices
July 2, 2008
BEAUTY KILLS
This flick put Sofia Coppola on the map
Music
May 27, 2008
The Official Guide to Twee Outdoor Summer Dance Parties
Stock up on deodorant, and gird yourself for another trip down the ol’ Slip N Slide
Music
August 28, 2007
Learning to Fly Solo
Canadian rock stars alternately please crowd, themselves
Music
July 24, 2007
Whose Nostalgia?
No R.I.P. for the rock album just yet—Sonic Youth's seminal Daydream Nation lives again at McCarren Pool.
News
July 24, 2007
Letters
No R.I.P. for the rock album just yet—Sonic Youth's seminal Daydream Nation lives again at McCarren Pool.
NYC Life
May 8, 2007
Let's Take This Outside
Al fresco shows for real New Yorkers (and their houseguests)
NYC Life
May 8, 2007
Get Your Cool On
From free cookouts to urban beaches, the best in New York's summer scenes
NYC Life
January 30, 2007
Old Bars Meet Luxe Condos
From free cookouts to urban beaches, the best in New York's summer scenes
NYC Life
October 31, 2006
Duel Personalities
From free cookouts to urban beaches, the best in New York's summer scenes
Music
August 22, 2006
Start Making Sense
On the beauty but hollow humanity of micromanaged Mac rock
NYC Life
August 1, 2006
Friday 8/11
On the beauty but hollow humanity of micromanaged Mac rock
NYC Life
May 16, 2006
Fresh Direct
Seasonal fare abounds at farmers' markets around the city
Dance
August 23, 2005
The World at Our Feet
As days grow short, dancers from around the planet visit our city to share their visions
NYC Life
May 4, 2004
Cabin Fever
The heat is on—and for a limited time only—so get out of the house and soak it up before it's gone
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