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Your NYC St. Patty’s Day Roundup

By Leah Taylor on

St. Patrick’s Day festivities can be seen as an excuse for binge drinking and egregious uses of the color green, but here in NYC, there are also some pretty rad events worth your time, money, and liver. Read on for our top recommendations. … Read More

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30 Seconds With… Zosia Mamet

By Leah Taylor on

In this new weekly feature, WCBS culture critic Jim Taylor shares 30 seconds with the theatre stars and upstarts of NYC. From Broadway to Off-off, Jim tracks down the talent and gets them to spill just enough for our collectively shortened attention spans.

Really Really is easily the most significant new play of the year if you want to know what the Millennials are all about. It’s written by a playwright in his 20s (Paul Downs Colaizzo, a “scribe on the rise” according to Flavorpill’s own Mindy Bond) and features someone who should know all about the generation: Zosia Mamet.  … Read More

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Flavorpill Guide to the Week’s Top 10 New York Events

By Leah Taylor on

For our (unconscionably high) rent money, the best thing about living in New York City is its endless supply of fun, odd, and inspired cultural events. But with so many options, it can be hard to know where to even begin planning your week. To help you make sense of it all, Flavorpill has launched a new social discovery engine where users can create and share events with friends, as well as follow Flavorpill editors’ and plugged-in local curators’ picks. Below, you’ll find the very best of what’s on offer this week, recommended by Flavorpill NYC’s top contributing editor, Mindy Bond. It’s just a taste of what you can find on the new Flavorpill, so if you like what you see, be sure to sign up. … Read More

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Flavorpill’s Guide to the Week’s Top 10 New York Events

By Leah Taylor on

For our (unconscionably high) rent money, the best thing about living in New York City is its endless supply of fun, odd, and inspired cultural events. But with so many options, it can be hard to know where to even begin planning your week. To help you make sense of it all, Flavorpill has launched a new social discovery engine where users can create and share events with friends, as well as follow Flavorpill editors’ and plugged-in local curators’ picks. Below, you’ll find the very best of what’s on offer this week, recommended by Flavorpill NYC’s very own Managing Editor, Leah Taylor. It’s just a taste of what you can find on the new Flavorpill, so if you like what you see, be sure to sign up. We found so much this week, we bear to couldn’t stick to the 10-event limit! … Read More

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Gorgeous Vintage Postcards of Brooklyn

By Chloe Pantazi on

It’s easy to forget that before Brooklyn was trendy – its streets lined with yoga studios, vegan bakeries, and shops bearing artisanal offerings – there was another, quite different borough in its place. Brooklyn Visual Heritage, an arts project that has amassed thousands of remarkable images of Brooklyn and made them available online, offers a fresh look at the borough through its past. This Brooklynite was enamored of the collection’s assortment of postcards from the early 20th century. The cards picture attractions such as Prospect Park, Bay Ridge, Greenwood Cemetery, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Brighton Beach, and the correspondence on the other side ranges from simple quotidian messages to well-wishing and Brooklyn love. … Read More

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19 Former New York City Movie Palaces — And What They Are Now

By Adee Braun on

Hundreds of movie theaters have come and gone in New York City since the grand era of movie palaces and 25-cent matinées. While many have sadly been entirely demolished or lie in ruin, others remain hidden in plain sight, now repurposed as a Starbucks, a Modell’s, or… another Modell’s. Scattered around the city are dozens of movie theaters that are living a second life as a chain store, a church, or a gym. Their marquees may be stripped and their interiors mostly gutted, but the outlines of an old theater can still be seen if you know where to look. Here are a few New York City buildings that started out their lives as movie theaters and have survived to accommodate the city’s needs for more Modell’s.
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Michelle Orange Tells the Stories Behind the Essays in ‘This Is Running For Your Life’

By Tobias Carroll on

Michelle Orange’s name will be very familiar to anyone who’s kept an eye out for sharply written nonfiction and criticism in the past few years. Her new collection, This Is Running For Your Life, follows 2006’s The Sicily Papers, and includes work ranging from a meditation on aging on film (through the prism of Ethan Hawke, specifically in the time between Before Sunrise and Before Sunset) to a powerful account of her grandmother’s fading years. Orange is equally at home attending a psychological conference as she is sending dispatches from the civil war in Lebanon; the result is a constantly shifting collection, one which illuminates particular areas of life and culture methodically and unexpectedly. … Read More

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Saint Vitus, Sannhet, and Sacrament Music Deliver Brooklyn Metal’s State of the Union

By Tobias Carroll on

After you walk into Saint Vitus, a bar located in the northernmost part of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, it doesn’t take long to register the overarching theme of the place. Beer-and-shot combinations are named for members of the clergy; a space between the bar and the performance space houses rows of votive candles; and beside the stand where a guy sells buns loaded with toppings from tofu to pulled pork, a small altar has been erected. The bar’s distinctive logo — a skull housing a single, all-seeing eye, looks out from a position behind the stage; it is, dare I say, iconic. That motif extends as far as the bar’s website, where section headings point visitors to pages with titles like “Offerings,” “Penance,” and “Sacraments.” … Read More

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The Flavorpill Guide to the Week’s Top 10 New York Events

By Leah Taylor on

For our (unconscionably high) rent money, the best thing about living in New York City is its endless supply of fun, odd, and inspired cultural events. But with so many options, it can be hard to know where to even begin planning your week. To help you make sense of it all, Flavorpill has launched a new social discovery engine where users can create and share events with friends, as well as follow Flavorpill editors’ and plugged-in local curators’ picks. Below, you’ll find the very best of what’s on offer this week, recommended by Flavorpill NYC’s very own Managing Editor, Leah Taylor. It’s just a taste of what you can find on the new Flavorpill, so if you like what you see, be sure to sign up. … Read More

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The Flavorpill Guide to the Week’s Top 10 New York Events

By Judy Berman on

For our (unconscionably high) rent money, the best thing about living in New York City is its endless supply of fun, odd, and inspired cultural events. But with so many options, it can be hard to know where to even begin planning your week. To help you make sense of it all, Flavorpill has launched a new social discovery engine where users can create and share events with friends, as well as follow Flavorpill editors’ and plugged-in local curators’ picks. Below, you’ll find the very best of what’s on offer this week, recommended by Flavorpill NYC’s very own Managing Editor, Leah Taylor. It’s just a taste of what you can find on the new Flavorpill, so if you like what you see, be sure to sign up. … Read More