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Starting tonight, Gallery Bar at 120 Orchard Street will be hosting an exhibition of photography entitled Sampling and Revisions: The LES Deframed.  The neighborhood-centric showcase will feature archival stills from the Tenement Museum collection alongside more contemporary work.  Opening reception is at 7 pm, but the event itself will run through March 24.
[Photo via Tenement [...]

Later tonight, the 92Y Tribeca is hosting a free screening of four 16 mm film prints from the New York Public Library.  Each of the short films – Bowery Men’s Shelter, Crosby Street, Huberts, Coney Island – captures the essence of New York City during the 1970s.  The event kicks off at 6:30 pm in [...]

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Books Through Bars is out of money, so we’re playing cheap/fun/awesome Bingo to pay for postage and keep sending packages full of books to folks incarcerated in America’s broken prison system.
It’s free to get in, cheap ($1!) to play, and we’ll have beer from the Brooklyn Brewery for sale.  Plus you’ll [...]

Looking for a salaciously hellacious Halloween eve of frightening art and bloodwrestling?  Check out the following press release.

ABADDON: A HELLACIOUSLY themed Halloween Eve @ ART.LES.STUDIOS NYC
Fri. 10/30, 8pm till Midnight
202 Rivington Street (btwn Pitt and Ridge Sts.)
RSVP to artlesnyc@gmail.com is mandatory
Advance Tickets for Abaddon suggested @: www.abaddonnyc.com
On Friday night we will let people in @ [...]