Nightlife

Monday, October 29, 2012

Introducing Whatever 4Evr, Nightlife Photos by Alli Coates

Posted by on Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:15 PM

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Alli Coates is a photographer who happens to take photos of nightlife. Whatever 4evr is her new photo column, starring her cast of whimsical and attractive friends and the divey locations that host them. Enjoy.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Brooklyn Museum Cancels "First Saturdays" Dance Parties Indefinitely

Posted by on Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:22 PM

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  • Brooklyn Museum
It is a sad, sad day for vaguely art-related dance parties, with the Brooklyn Museum's announcement that they've suspended their "First Saturdays," which regularly bring in up to 20,000 people for a dance party in the museum on the first weekend of every month.

Museum staff cite local complaints about excess noise and foot traffic, while internet commenters, per usual, blame factors including "debt-fueled gentrification."

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Glow-In-The-Dark Pool At Rave Caused Permanent Eye Damage, Claims Lawsuit

Posted by on Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:18 PM

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  • Gothamist via Unicorn Meat NYC
If you were hoping for news today that would scare you away from ever partying again in your entire life, you're in luck.

Gothamist reports that two women, both 19 and from the Bronx, are suing the promoters of a party called Return to the Bubble Kingdom, at which glow-in-the-dark pool water allegedly left them with irreparable damage to their eyesight.

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Photos: Bex Wade on Fashion's Night Out

Posted by on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:30 PM

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We have this thing where we immediately roll our eyes literally any time we even hear the words Fashion's Night Out. We don't know why, exactly, but after looking at these photos, taken by the inimitable Bex Wade, we're reconsidering. These people look so cool! Just sitting on stoops and fucking hanging out being all attractive and shit. So we apologize Fashion's Night Out, we won't roll our eyes at you anymore.

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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Some Guy Live-Tweeted His Acid Trip, And It Is Spectacular

Posted by on Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:11 AM

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Parents, social media experts, and squares alike all tend to advise against advertising your drug use on the internet where "employers" and "the government" might see. All those people are small-minded and wrong.

Witness, one man's uncensored live-tweeting of a recent acid trip.

About a week ago, Brad (née "Gary Debussy" or @hella_brad) decided to take some acid before a "frat barbecue," and the results range from the predictable:

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Friday, July 20, 2012

Lesbians at the Beach: A Queer Tea Party

Posted by on Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:09 PM

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Last Saturday at Roberta's beachside joint, Rippers, there was a big old queer dance party. An impromptu conga, multiple lap dances and two girls greeting/hitting on each other hanging from the awning in a semi-choreographed routine to Robyn were just a few of the highlights from that afternoon in the Rockaways. Luckily, we were able to grab photo evidence of the whole wonderful day...



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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Brooklyn Binge Drinking More, Smoking Less

Posted by on Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:22 PM

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Most Brooklyn neighborhoods were smoking less but binge drinking more in 2007 than they were five years earlier, according to data compiled by Brooklyn College's Center for the Study of Brooklyn. Two thirds of Brooklyn's community districts saw increases in binge drinking, while every district except Community District 18 (Bergen Beach, Canarsie, Flatlands, Marine Park and Mill Basin) saw a decrease in cigarette smoking. The largest increase in binge drinking by percentage point (+2.7) was in CD1, which includes Williamsburg and Greenpoint, followed closely by CD4, which encompasses Bushwick, with 2.4 percentage points. CD1 reported the highest levels of binge drinking, as well: 19.4 percent of residents binge drank. The lowest levels were CD12, which includes Borough Park and Kensington, where it was 8.5 percent.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

You Can Find Me in Dada Club: 5 Galleries That Were Legendary Nightlife Spots

Posted by on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:46 AM

The Tunnel (at left) now houses several galleries and the Moving Image art fair (at right).
  • The Tunnel (at left) now houses several galleries and the Moving Image art fair (at right).

Earlier this month Orchard Street gallerist Lisa Cooley announced that her gallery would move to 107 Norfolk Street, a location familiar to many as the venue Tonic. And last week the gallery Hauser & Wirth—which has locations in London, Zurich and on the Upper East Side—announced it would take over the massive former garage on West 18th Street that housed the infamous roller disco and club The Roxy. But the club-to-gallery transition is nothing new; in fact it's something of a natural cycle in New York real estate ecology, as evidenced by these 5 Galleries That Were Legendary Nightlife Spots.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Chelsea Gallerist Paul Kasmin Expanding into Former Bungalow 8 Space

Posted by on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:55 AM

Bungalow Art: Soon this will be a gallery.
  • Bungalow Art: Soon this will be a gallery.

Does this qualify as de-gentrification? Paul Kasmin, owner of the eponymous blue chip Chelsea gallery at the corner of West 27th Street and Tenth Avenue (and a small annex space on 27th), has bought the neighboring space formerly occupied by West Side nightclub Bungalow 8, and tells ArtInfo that he'll be turning the skylight-lit space into another gallery, likely dedicated to sculpture.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Twas the Night of our Office Holiday Party

Posted by on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:55 AM

This past Friday afternoon, we shut things down in the office a bit early for The L Magazine's annual Secret Santa gift exchange and office holiday party. According to The Ls official mathematician Sarah Shanfield, the ratio of booze to actual gifts was about 5 to 2 this year—great job guys! After a rousing rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas led by all of your favorite bloggers, the next logical step was to take it to the streets, ie. Home Sweet Home, Santa's favorite watering hole on the LES. We drank, we danced, and we drank some more.

Now dont feel bad if you were on the naughty list and missed all the fun— photographer John Flowers was there to document it all! Click the slideshow below to see your friendly neighborhood L staffer getting down on the dance floor.

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Pictures of Pretty Young Artists Set Free in New Museum

Posted by on Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM

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Last night the New Museum held an opening party for its new exhibition of art inspired or informed by the near-freedom of information and content on the internets, Free (through January 23). Curator Lauren Cornell, most of the artists, and a cross-section of the New York art world was in attendance, and we were there taking pictures of them all to post for free on the internet, our unsolicited contribution to the exhibition.
(photos by Crystal Gwyn)

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Friday, September 24, 2010

You Wanna Go to a Secret Party in Bushwick?

Posted by on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:39 PM

We just got word about a pretty cool party happening tomorrow night. In Bushwick. Which is a neighborhood in Brooklyn. Which is cool. Super-secret special details after the jump.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Rubulad Loft Status Update

Posted by on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:58 AM

If the Brooklyn Paper continues to go with this image, we will, too.
  • If the Brooklyn Paper continues to go with this image, we will, too.
Last week we took note of a raid and possible eviction at the Clinton Hill space occupied by the arts collective Rubulad, whose periodic party we named the city's best underground to-do just last year. Rubulad representatives dropped by the comments with their official statement, in which they noted inconsistencies between the Fire Department (who announced their "eviction," citing fire-safety violations in the first-floor studio/event space's "illegal cabaret") and the Department of Buildings (who issued a noise violation but have not written up any safety violations or expressed intent to lock Rubulad out).

The Rubulad folks have now moved back into their apartments, the Brooklyn Paper's Aaron Short reports, though the first-floor studio/event space remains off-limits—pending, yes, the resolution of the FDNY and DOB's competing assessments of the space's safety. (This partly according to a spokesman for Williamsburg assembleyman Crazy Joe Lentol, pulling a Schumer and making himself visible around cool-kid issues.) Actual specific fire-code violations and subsequent improvements to the space, or else a slow quiet backing-down from the FDNY, seem the likeliest next steps, to be followed in either case by the resumption of crazy hipster raves you're glad are still happening even if you would never go to them because you dress like a junior editor at the New Republic.

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Today in Illegally Converted Loft-Space Raids

Posted by on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:45 AM

The Brooklyn Paper has this photograph of an Authentic Brooklyn Artist moving out of his soon-to-be-shut-down loft.
  • The Brooklyn Paper has this photograph of an Authentic Brooklyn Artist moving out of his soon-to-be-shut-down loft.
City inspectors raided? visited? two artists' spaces in Williamsburg yesterday—573 Metropolitan Avenue, reported as a workspace for Bushwick's 3rd Ward, and 151 Kent Avenue, an artist loft—after complaints of illegally converted space, local reporter Aaron Short, writing for the Post, reports. Last month's passage of the Loft Law grants protections to residential tenants in industrial-zoned buildings, but requires buildings to be up to code—573 Metropolitan's owner will be required to fix its fire escape, it appears.

Meanwhile, the city has also issued an eviction notice to Rubulad, occupants of building at Flushing Avenue near the BQE (Clinton Hill? South Williamsburg? Bed-Stuy?), where the arts-collective-that-also-throws-killer-parties has, seemingly, picked up enough noise complaints to negate the gentlemen's agreement that often allows cool things to go on in otherwise vacant industrial buildings.

Hey, listen—I work at a desk and report things secondhand, so if I'm missing anything important, email or something.

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Cinco de Mayo: St. Patrick's Day, Part Dos

Posted by on Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:22 PM

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Literally translated, "Cinco de Mayo" means "Drinking Holiday". It's the Mexican answer to St. Patrick's Day, which Mexicans began to celebrate when racist Irish immigrants forbade them to partake in the city's Marchtime alcoholic festivities. "We'll just get drunk in May then," those Mexicans said. (Christians agree not to celebrate drinking holidays in April, in honor of Easter, which sometimes happens then.)

Today, we don't have racism anymore because Obama won, so we can all celebrate the year's copious drinking holidays. Suggestions after the jump. (Thanks to Robert Tumas for the leggooglework!)

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Monday, April 26, 2010

The Trippy Art of LSD Tabs

Posted by on Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM

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For the uninitiated: from what I hear, LSD often comes in sheets of many, many tabs that have been dipped in an LSD solution so that each tab is of a roughly similar dosage. The decoration of these sheets of LSD tabs has long been a bit of an exclusive little art world all its own, and the pro-mind expansion site Erowid has a huge database of so-called LSD blotter art, most of which were submitted anonymously, and which range from the typically psychedelic to truly high art—like Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Shepard Fairey's Obama, above. (NOTCOT)

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Look At These Appetizing Photos from Jennifer Rubell's Brooklyn Ball Spread Last Night

Posted by on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:31 PM

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Last night wealthy Brooklyn Museum patrons were treated to one of Jennifer Rubell's epic food installation performances for the institution's annual Brooklyn Ball gala, which, as previously reported, ended with the smashing of a giant pinata in the shape of Andy Warhol's head. Included in the spread: suspended melting blocks of cheese inspired by Bruce Nauman’s Ten Heads Circle/Up and Down (1990), champagne dispensers inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s infamous urinal Fountain (1917)—ew!—and a potato chip installation (pictured) made to evoke by Jackson Pollock’s One: Number 31 (1950), in which diners squeezed out tubes of paint-like toppings onto a giant pile of crisps. Check out more delicious photographs of the evening on the BK Museum's Flickr page. (Have some food ready within reach; artful foodie decadence is really mouth-watering.)

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Last Night's Michael Shannon Secret Show

Posted by on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM

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Michael Shannon and family left last night's Falconworks fundraiser right about the time it turned into a dance party. But not before he and several other Professional Actors gave mildly unrehearsed readings of some of the original work the non-profit theater company has produced. The Red Hook-based Falconworks works with teens and adults in transforming their life experiences into theater, and the samples performed by the Academy Award-nominated Shannon, who'll be seen in the upcoming Runaways, and others dealt with dysfunctional families and housing project flirtations, among other subjects, written in an authentic vernacular. It was a treat to see a secret Shannon show, but even more fun was watching him follow his toddler around all night. Celebrities—they're just like us!

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Monday, March 8, 2010

The Maturity Index: Oscar Trauma

Posted by on Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:21 PM

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This week we danced, played with puppies, ate fro-yo and dealt with the Kubler-Ross Model for the stages of grief while wearing prom dresses. It was an emotional roller coaster, lets see if we handled it with maturity.

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-At work, Paige is given a bottle of Three Olives Orange-Flavored Vodka, from The L Magazine's generous editor, Jonny Diamond: Age 24
-After work we all get ready for a night in Manhattan, we are extremely excited, like tourists (because Friday's too often are spent resting for Saturday festivities): Age 18

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Ten-Year Low in NYC Drug Deaths, People Too Poor to Score

Posted by on Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:13 PM

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Here's some good news: last year had the fewest drug-overdose deaths in New York City in ten years, with a creepy, creepy number of 666. Seriously, 666. Is that more or less than you would've guessed? Maybe I'm naive but I would've guessed somewhere in the mid-100s. The same study told us that pot is the most commonly used illicit substance in the city, which, duh. Also—and this kind of alarmed me—drug overdoses are the third most common cause of death for New Yorkers between 25 and 34, which is pretty much you, who is reading this. So please be careful with that laudanum habit you've been affecting. Thanks.

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