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Eight Items or Less: Confetti System's New P.S. 1 Environment
1. New York art and design firm CONFETTISYSTEM created an "immersive environment" called "100 Arrangements" for MoMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City). The company has worked on numerous events with PAPER/ExtraExtra including the…
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Eight Items or Less: Wear, Don't Eat, Crustaceans
1. The new "experimental and minimal" album by Phoenix is called "Bankrupt!" and it's coming out in April.2. Shreddie Mercury, The Golden Pony and Chemicals of Creation are at DL (95 Delancey Street) tonight, January…
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Eight Items or Less: Leo Villareal's BUCKYBALL Stays in Madison Square Park
1. A new art fair is coming to New York's Lower East Side from May 10 to 13, 2013. The "cutlog" fair will happen during the same week as the second edition of Frieze NY,…
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Eight Items or Less: The Coffin for Audiophiles
1. New York avant-garde/underground filmmaker Nick Zedd curated a "Cinema of Transgression" festival featuring his films and others by Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Richard Kern, Mary Jordan and more. It starts tonight, January 15, 9 p.m., and…
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Eight Items or Less: Furniture by Rem Koolhaas...
1. Chances With Wolves is hosting an "old-school dance party" on the second floor of Taavo Somer's Williamsburg restaurant, ISA (348 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn), this Wednesday, January 16, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. AND, admission…
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Eight Items or Less: RAMBO Opening at Bowery Hotel
1. Here's a list of all the bands set to play MulchFest 2013. Just kidding. This weekend's MulchFest, January 12 & 13, is actually the time to bring your holiday tree to a designated spot…
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Eight Items or Less: Amy Winehouse Nominated for Brit Award
1. Alt-J, Emeli Sande and Mumford & Sons top this year's list of nominees for the UK Brit Awards with three nominations each. Amy Winehouse was also nominated posthumously for Best Female Singer for her Lioness:…
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Eight Items or Less: Japanese Schoolgirls vs. Robots
1. Lola Montes Schnabel opens "Within Reach," an exhibit of her new paintings, next week in New York City. Tripoli Gallery is mounting the show in a pop-up space at 980 Madison Avenue on the…
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Eight Items or Less: The First Gay Bible...
1. The Ace Hotel (20 West 29th Street) has a cool exhibit in their lobby gallery called "Fifty and Fifty" that features graphic interpretations of state mottos. Greenpoint, Brooklyn, designer Dan Cassaro asked fifty people…
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Eight Items or Less: Studio 54 Memorabilia For Auction...
1. Bleecker Bob's is closing soon and one of the store's employees told the New York Post some funny stories about the store's celebrity customers like Lou Reed, Bruce Willis, Keith Richards, David Bowie and…
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Eight Items or Less: Robot Combat League Premieres Next Month
1. Get ready to party. Another super-mega club called "A State of Trance 600: The Expedition" is coming to Madison Square Garden on March 30. It's one of the stops on DJ Armin Van Buuren's…
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Eight Items or Less: 50 Cent Weighs in on Fake Jewelry
1. Jonathan LeVine Gallery (529 West 20th Street, Ninth Floor) opens two new solo shows on January 12, 7 to 9 p.m. "Virtual Reality" features works by the Japanese artist Haroshi -- he makes wooden…
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Eight Items or Less: Wrecked Hot Wheels...
1. "Oh! You Pretty Things" celebrates the birthdays of all you Capricorn things -- including David Bowie and Elvis Presley -- with a big blowout on Sunday, January 20, 10 p.m., at (le) Poisson Rouge…
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Eight Items or Less: Dieter Roth to Open at Hauser & Wirth
1. The bodies of the infamous killers who inspired Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" were exhumed on Wednesday to check their DNA for possible involvement in another mass murder. (Live Science)2. The first exhibit at…
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Eight Items or Less: Get Your Donkey Cheese
1) Donkey cheese is apparently the world's most expensive cheese at $600 a pound and has a "musty-fusty" flavor. (NYT, photo by Moose G. on Flickr)2) Last week, Scion opened a group exhibition and charity…
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Eight Items or Less: Spider Self-Portraits...
1. "A spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon." [Wired; photo by Phil Torres]2. José Parlá unveils his latest 70-foot-long, site-specific mural, "Diary…
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Eight Items or Less: "Modern Family" Nail Polish is Coming
1. Twitter is about to allow their users the option to "Request Your Archive" -- ie to download every friggin' Tweet you ever made. [TechCrunch]2, 3. New Product Alert: If you thought "Girls" nail polish…
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Build Your Own Architect-Designed Dog House
1. Thirteen international architects and designers built cool structures for their pets -- i.e. doghouses -- and the results are here. They've included all the plans, instructions and how-to videos so you can make a…
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The South By South Bronx Festival Kicks Off This Weekend...
1. UK artist Damien Hirst is leaving Gagosian after 17 years with the New York gallery. The split was "amicable." (Financial Times, photo by Luke Stephenson on Flickr) 2. It's a little too soon to…
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Dog Drives Car...
1. Dog drives car! Seriously. An animal rescue organization in New Zealand taught several dogs to drive a MINI around a track. (Autoblog) 2. The NYC off-shoot of Ibiza's Space nightclub won approval from Community…
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