According to the Daily Mail, Williamsburg’s newest intern is none other than Malia Obama: Malia was spotted on the set of Girls on Thursday and reportedly has landed a summer internship with Lena Dunham’s critically-acclaimed HBO show, TMZ revealed. The soon-to-be 17-year-old, whose birthday is on Saturday, was seen at the Aurora Ristorante in Brooklyn […]
"Too Many Lenas 3" brings millennial attitude to ANT Fest
While the real Lena Dunham was filming in Williamsburg, North Brooklynites prepare for “Too Many Lenas 3: Let Them Eat Cake” at Ars Nova’s ANT Fest. The Carroll Simmons Performance Collective brings to the indie theatre festival a montage depicting a Brooklyn loft filled to the brim with Lena-esk 20 somethings. Before their rehearsal, I […]
Girl bus tour may be coming to Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Bushwick
This is just what Brooklyn needs! More tourists. Ugh. They should just shuttle them off to Brooklyn Heights: The circuit would focus on everything from Greenpoint’s coffee outpost Café Grumpy, where Lena Dunham’s character Hannah Horvath once slung lattes, to a Bushwick warehouse where Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) accidentally smokes crack. But don’t expect a glitzy […]
Lena Dunham posted her super-retro book cover for "Not That Kind of Girl"
Ms Dunham sent it out on Instagram yesterday and, well, we love it. Hopefully it will be better than the current season of Girls, which frankly is boring the hell out of us. (We’re enjoying the much funnier Broad City!) Random House will publish Not That Kind of Girl on October 7 and it better […]
Yes, Vogue did a Girls guide to Greenpoint
Here are some highlights: Go to Ramona when “your college boyfriend announces he’s gay” Café Grumpy is “where you can peck away at your literary masterpiece on your MacBook Pro while hoping to meet a hot divorced doctor with a brownstone.” Peter Pan donuts “when you realize you’ve married a jerk or to eat on […]
SNL did a funny Girls spoof
Hustler Made A XXX Porn Parody Of Girls: "This Ain't Girls XXX"
Via Xbiz In the XXX parody, Hannah (Alex Chance) decides to forsake men, and boyfriend Adam, to experiment with lesbianism. After a few satisfying jaunts she returns to Adam — and mankind. Adam accepts her back into the fold, but, true to the original show, adds a dominant and quirky dimension to the scene. “[Adam’s] […]
Lena Dunham May Be Moving To South Williamsburg
Via The sitcom writer, director and star looked at a $4.45 million apartment in South Williamsburg’s luxurious Gretsch Building this weekend, the Daily News reported. The “full-floor penthouse” includes a “1900-square-foot wrap-around terrace,” three bedrooms and even “electric drapery controls,” realty company Douglas Elliman notes on its website about the space. “This is one of […]
Girls Recap: If Keira Knightley Was Lena Dunham
Last night, HBO premiered its depraved comedy about life in New York’s outer boroughs, Girls — a show as insidious and hotly anticipated as a sexually transmitted disease. Think: Sex and the City for ugly people with a fat chick named Hannah (played by the show’s writer and director, [Keira Knightley]). New York Post. Everything […]
Video: Greenpointers Respond to Girls
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