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Weekend Music Picks

Here are musician Ken Beasley’s top music picks on the Lower East Side for this weekend: IN ONE WIND – Fri, Aug 12 | 11PM at Rockwood Music Hall The Brooklyn sextet In One Wind creates pop/jazz songs that sound country,...

Culturefix in the Crosshairs

You're looking at a grainy cell phone photo taken inside Clinton Street bar/performance space Culturefix this past weekend. As Grub Street and the Village Voice reported earlier in the week, the NYPD and several other city/state agencies paid the...

CB3 Panel Says “No” to Live Music at “Preserve 24”

A few more details from last night's CB3/liquor licensing hearing.  The owners of "Preserve 24," the bi-level, 24 hour Argentinian cafe/bar taking over 175-177 East Houston Street, made a return engagement.  The community board approved this concept back in...
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CB3 Panel Approves Liquor Licenses for Bowery Steakhouse, Basketball City

What's to be done with a venue boasting a maximum occupancy of 900? Well, in the case of 199 Bowery, the Lower East Side has already been graced with mega-clubs Blvd, Crash Mansion and Soiree. Tonight, at the tail...

Records Show Spike in Underage Drinking Charges on the LES

Underage drinking in Lower East Side bars -- it's been a hot topic for several months now.  Beginning last fall, the 7th Precinct made it a top priority -- coming after neighborhood drinking establishments for serving alcohol to undercover...

Restaurant Wrap: Dora, Banjo Jim’s, Cocoron, Spitzer’s Corner, Russ & Daughters

In neighborhood restaurant news today: Get your late-afternoon cappucino a little earlier from now until Labor Day: Dora tells us via Facebook they will close at 4 p.m. until then. Tonight's the finale for music bar Banjo Jim's in the East Village, EV...
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CB3 Releases Agenda for August Liquor License Hearing

Community Board 3 is mostly on hiatus in August but there's no rest for the State Liquor Authority Committee. Here's a look at the applications the board will consider when they meet August 8th (the applicant appears first, followed...

New LES Restaurant Anticipates Tidy Profit

Crain's weighs in today with a piece on CO-OP Food and Drink, the new nightlife spot in the Hotel on Rivington.  Profiling co-owner Alan Phillips, reporter Tina Traster writes: The restaurant represents a crowning moment in Mr.  Philips' career. It...

Weekend Music Picks

Here are musician Ken Beasley’s top music picks on the Lower East Side for this weekend: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER – Fri, July 29 | 7PM at The Living Room While most pop-rock bands are content to pick a key, strum 4...
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A Digital Graffiti Throw-Down Happens Tonight with Questlove

There's a fun, free "digital art battle" happening in Nolita at The Spot tonight and Questlove, from The Roots will be at the turntables. Our friends at Openhouse Gallery write: The Spot’s digital art battle pits four pairs of...
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