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Arts & Entertainment
Travel Back In Time To Bill Graham's Fillmore East
The short-lived venue on Second Avenue is now a bank, but Graham's mark there remains.
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Jesse Jarnow
Arts & Entertainment
Eight More Nights: A Recap Of Yo La Tengo’s 2019 Hanukkah Shows
Featuring nearly 150 different songs over eight shows, this year’s Hanukkah included five drummers, two mentalists, one ballpark organist, one reunion, and tons of surprise guests.
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Jesse Jarnow
Arts & Entertainment
How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Like Times Square
Its glamorous artifice remains gaudy, chaotic, and seedy in all the most modern and terrifying ways.
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Jesse Jarnow
Arts & Entertainment
An Interview With Samuel R. Delany, Literary Legend And Intellectual Historian Of Times Square Cruising Spots
Alongside 'Times Square Red, Times Square Blue'’s handjobs, there are both provocative arguments and charmingly observed tidbits of lore and history—like the fact that 35mm films disappeared from porn theaters by 1986.
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Jesse Jarnow
Arts & Entertainment
Gem Spa Rally Turns Beloved East Village Institution Into Mock "Schitibank"
It’s been a turbulent year at the corner of Second Avenue and St. Marks Place.
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Jesse Jarnow
Food
Can Instagram & Colorful New Egg Cream Flavors Keep Gem Spa Afloat?
'It's not as eccentric as the '80s, but if you want to see a true representation of what culture looks like, come late at night.'
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Jesse Jarnow
News
Why I (Sometimes) Miss Williamsburg's Infamous Murdered Slumlord
Max was a daily presence in our lives during those years, as the Morgan Avenue stop transformed around us from an industrial park into an extreme model of Brooklyn gentrification.
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Jesse Jarnow
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