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An all-broth festival is coming to the South Street Seaport

The bone-broth trend has nearly reached saturation point, so it didn't come as much of a surprise when we heard that the city is getting its first-ever Broth Fest, to be held inside the inflatable Sugarcube at the South Street Seaport on March 14. While Brodo is oddly not included in the lineup, six New York restaurants, including LES legend Katz's Delicatessen, Nolita's Baz Bagel and spanking-new Tribeca outfit Belle Reve, are set to take part, serving their own versions of the trendy elixir. A $33 ticket gets festival-goers samplings of each restaurant's steaming cups, along with sets from live DJs and a shopping area showcasing local designers. The soup-filled day will run from noon–9pm, with ticketholders allotted 90-minute sessions throughout the day. 

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A 'Napoleon Dynamite'–themed restaurant could drop on the LES

The era of Napoleon is upon us. Currently vying for a subterranean spot on Essex Street, a potential new Mexican restaurant will pay homage to the kitschy, dry-humored film, Napoleon Dynamite. While details are scarce, we know that the Lower East Side eatery will be called Vote for Pedro and offer 16 seats, four TVs and eats until 4am. While we wait for confirmation on the opening and the full menu, we've come up with what we think should be on the docket—based on all the cult favorite's best food-on-film moments, of course:  • Tator tots. In two sizes: one that fits in your pocket and the jumbo, for when you're frickin' starving and haven't eaten anything all day• Dang quesadillas, doused in red-hot salsa as sassy as Napoleon's grandma• The farm dinner platter, including an egg-salad sandwich, eggnog smoothie and hard-boiled eggs on the side.• Tether-ball meatballs. Attached to a skewer, obviously.• Tortilla-chip crumbs—because Kip ate them all while chatting online with babes.• Cafeteria corn dogs.• A steak seared in the shape of Napolean's face. • Free red gatorade, but only after you show off your sweet dance moves to La Fawnduh• Whole and 1% milks, because sometimes you feel fab and other times you feel fat. • Tina's tuna casserole. The llama won't eat it, but that just means more for you. Vote for Pedro, 17 Essex Street between Canal and Hester Sts (no phone yet)

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Take a look inside Rocky Slim's, the Kips Bay pizzeria from Roberta's alum Angelo Romano

Angelo Romano made a name for himself in Brooklyn kitchens—The Pines, Roberta's, Masten Lake—but now the chef is giving Manhattan a go with a not-so-traditional Kips Bay pizza spot. The contemporary-minded menu gives New American an Italian accent—think wood-roasted chestnuts with Sambuca and fennel, celeriac with stracciatella and charred leeks, and pacherri pasta with parsnips and pecorino. And there will be pizza, naturally. The wood-fired rounds will come topped with mortadella and marjoram, sausage and pickled peppers, and guanciale and egg yolk. Check out some of the dishes and digs below:    Chestnuts at Rocky Slim'sPhotograph: Liz Clayman Bosc pear at Rocky Slim'sPhotograph: Liz Clayman Popcorn Sazerac at Rocky Slim'sPhotograph: Liz Clayman   Grilled treviso at Rocky Slim'sPhotograph: Liz Clayman   Rocky Slim'sPhotograph: Liz Clayman   

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When it comes to this weather, New Yorkers can't even

Snow, sleet, rain, snow, ice, SNOW: we get it New York, this is a season of torture. It's not like we want to go out on a cold night without the fear of falling flat on our face due to sneaky black ice. Why would we want that? And the wind? Can we please go one day without blizzard-like winds slapping our face? When it comes to NYC weather, we can't even, and here are 8 photos of notable New Yorkers illustrating just that:   Larry David just cannot.              Jay Z is not having it.           Ugh.           Lena Dunham's like, "no."   Read more

Dinner and drinks to premiere at Prospect Heights diner Tom's Restaurant

After 80 years of morning and afternoon service, beloved breakfast spot Tom's Restaurant is adding dinner, and, more importantly, liquor to its lineup. On Monday night the Prospect Heights diner received approval for a full liquor license, which means it'll soon be open past 4pm and offer an additional 50 seats in its backyard space—you know, for all the extra booze hounds banging down the door for mimosas with their banana-walnut pancakes.  Run by the Vlahavas family since opening in 1936, the corner spot on Washington Ave is known for its steady stream of weekend brunchers waiting for tables and munching on complimentary cookies doled out by friendly staff members. Oh, and those cherry-lime rickeys—just imagine the spiked soda-fountain possibilities! 

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The original Grey Gardens is returning to Film Forum

Freshly restored yet still a riveting dump, the seminal 1975 documentary Grey Gardens is getting an exclusive run at Film Forum beginning this Friday. (Read our five-star review.) Among the strangest real-life family dramas ever captured, this classic dysfunction doc sucks you in with the endless bickering between "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter, "Little Edie," who, despite their good breeding and glamorous appeal, descended into a kind of house-bound madness over several decades. Their East Hamptons mansion was nearly condemned by the Suffolk County Health Department in the early '70s, but soon after, vérité masters Albert and David Maysles insinuated themselves into the Beales' lives and got their story on film. You may know Grey Gardens from the decent HBO remake starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, or the Broadway musical, or just as a shorthand for squalor. But do yourself a favor and check out the original film, undoubtedly an influence on reality TV and our need to watch a train wreck in progress. As long as there are shut-ins and cameras, this will be their Citizen Kane.

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Northside Festival announces first wave of musical acts

Hear ye, hear ye, Brooklynites and Friends of Brooklyn: Northside Festival 2015 is on its way! The Williamsburg megafest runs from June 8 through 14, and while details are still sketchy, we do have a pretty sweet list of musical acts to share. Come summer, you'll be hearing from the buzzy likes of alt-hip-hop firespitters Run the Jewels, Canadian indie-pop darlings Alvvays (like RTJ, a Time Out best of 2014 finalist), hyped-up emo-punk faves Against Me! and many more. See below for the full list of artists confirmed so far, and here to score early-bird tickets. (You can also nab tix to the Film and Innovation portions of the fest at that very same link.) Tickets to individual shows to on sale Friday, March 6, at noon. Confirmed musical acts so far:Run the JewelsBuilt to SpillBest CoastNeko CaseAgainst Me!Lower DensEx HexViet CongRhyeVince StaplesMajical CloudzAlvvays

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Revisiting Soho Rep’s An Octoroon in Brooklyn

When An Octoroon opened last year at Soho Rep, it swept all before it. It grabbed spots on best of the year lists; it conquered the Obies; it cemented Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in his position as a star playwright with serious things to say. My delighted review of that production is here, and I have to say—I still agree with 2014 me. But now that Theatre for a New Audience has welcomed Sarah Benson's production onto its stage, fans of that first production may go asking: Can a show with a shock at its center still be a sensation after you know its secrets? Will something made for snug Soho Rep work on a TFANA scale? And does an almost entirely new cast change the magic?Happily, the transfer makes both parties look swell. TFANA's flexible stage is wonderful in this proscenium configuration, and Mimi Lien's startling set (a wall that falls forward with a gentle whoosh, a hidden slice of swamp) fill it handsomely. If this physical production's extreme charms pale a bit in comparison with the earlier one, it may only be that at the Rep, you were constantly aware that the show was making something out of almost nothing. The new cast is strong too. I particularly loved Mary Wiseman's Southern dumb-belle and Maechi Aharanwa's easily distracted slave (“When I woke up this morning, this is not how I thought my day was gonna go,” she says, on learning she's about to be sold.) And if I miss a few of the old performers—no shade to the current players, but it is a hard thing to lose Danny Wo

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In this week’s issue of Time Out New York, we highlight the city's best paintings

  New York is home to some of the best museums in the world—the Met, MoMA, Whitney and Brooklyn Museum, just to name a few—and those sanctuaries of art hold thousands upon thousands of paintings. It’s easy to get overwhelmed thinking about all that culture, so we asked 34 experts (artists, critics, journalists, curators, and gallery dealers) to whittle the list down to the best 100 paintings in the city. This week’s print issue features the top 24 with explanations from photographer David LaChapelle, MoMA Painting and sculpture curator Laura Hoptman, and our very own Time Out New York art editor Howard Halle.  Maybe you can use that new art knowledge when you hit up the galleries with an old flame, because also in this week’s issue, we talk to New Yorkers who are giving their exes another shot at love. Despite (or maybe because of) the online-dating craze some people are choosing to revisit those relationships that didn’t quite work, and we learn why we also should (or shouldn’t) give our past-loves a ring. Plus: The eight best and most unconventional pizza pies in town, Village Vanguard is celebrating its 80th anniversary, Danny Meyer’s first stand-alone bar, the city's best beauty and skin-care destinations, classic documentary Grey Gardens is coming to Film Forum and New York's top ten heroes of punk.—Tolly Wright  

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These are the NYC Instagram accounts you absolutely need to be following right now

You know as well as we do that New York does pretty much everything better than anywhere else—whether that's making the best pizza, finding amazing free things to do, or wrapping our favorite hybrid pastries in solid gold. So it stands to reason that NYC has the best Instagrammers, from the awesome folks behind Hot dudes reading (a city salutes you) to the legions of you who send your beautiful city shots to us at @timeoutnewyork. Here are the 10 NYC Instagram accounts you need to follow. Like, now. 1. @humzadeas This teenage phenomenon scales bridges, climbs buildings and explores subway tunnels for the shot—you've probably seen his feet hanging over the side of a building on a recent New York magazine cover. His adventures have paid off, as prints on his website now sell for $250 a pop.   A photo posted by @humzadeas on Mar 3, 2015 at 7:21am PST   2. @danielkrieger Food photographer Daniel Krieger (who once shot our entire Food & Drink Awards feature on an iPhone with Instagram filters) will make you want to lick your screen as he shoots everything from waffles at Williamsburg's Sweet Chick to mini-muffins at Dominique Ansel's bakery. His thoughtful shots of his travels in this city and others will give you the travel bug, too.   I had a great evening last night taking some photos for the charity @Cookies4Kids devoted to research on pediatric cancer. This was a course by @ramenjunkie: Ham & Eggs - pickled mustard seed rice, country ham, uni #chefs4kid

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