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For more than a decade, the East Village's iconic Obscura Antiques & Oddities shop has been New York City's foremost destination for one-of-a-kind, bizarre-and often shocking-artifacts. Since becoming the focus of SCIENCE's hit series, ODDITIES, the Big Apple's epicenter of the eccentric has become pop culture's Mecca of the macabre.

This season of ODDITIES turns up the volume for eleven ridiculously entertaining episodes that redefine the notion of "freak chic." The merchandise has never been more memorable, with notable highlights including a two-headed pig, a mummified "member," an occupied coffin, a prostate warmer, and a preserved heart full of bullet holes. However, at Obscura, the people are even more eccentric than the products.



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DIY Network to Premiere SALVAGE DAWGS Season 5, 2/28
by Caryn Robbins - February 24, 2016

Salvage Dawgs returns to the DIY Network for a 5th Season premiering two exciting new episodes back-to-back Sunday, February 28 at 9 and 9:30pm EST....


Top 10 Plays Set In School
by Marianka Swain - September 07, 2016

Education, education, education - it's an inescapable topic in theatre. Recent years have seen Future Conditional (kicking off Matthew Warchus's Old Vic tenure), Matilda the Musical, The Brink, Kin, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, and, of course, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. To celebrate back...


'Mist and Mirrors' is Released
by Christina Mancuso - March 27, 2017

In Kalishandra, the city of lost travelers, darkness has formed. In the mist that rises from cracks between the cobblestones, it has life. The strange mist drifts along empty streets, welling into deep, choking pools in forgotten courtyards. It breaks in ephemeral waves upon the stark stone walls of...


Comedian Kevin McGahern Celebrates St. Patrick's Day on Premiere of Travel Channel's WEIRD AMERICA, 3/18
by Caryn Robbins - March 07, 2017

In WEIRD AMERICA premiering the day after St. Patrick's Day on Saturday, March 18 at 2:00 p.m. ET/PT, McGahern is finally getting his big chance to discover all the gloriously unique things about this nation....


Flaming Lips to Release 'Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997'
by BWW News Desk - November 27, 2015

The Flaming Lips have announced the release of Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997, on November 27th.  This will be the Deluxe 20th Anniversary Box Set edition of THE LIPS globally influential and essential edition of CLOUDS TASTE METALLIC 1995 classic album...


Lynda Radley's FUTUREPROOF Begins Tonight at Carriageworks Theatre Leeds
by BWW News Desk - September 16, 2015

First envisioned as a response to reality television, Lynda Radley's 2011 playFutureproof, about a down on its luck travelling freak show rolls up to Carriageworks Theatre Leeds, from today 16 - 19 September. The show's motley cast and crew are all members of local company Leeds Art Theatre....


Review Roundup: Deanna Dunagan Goes from Stage to Scare in THE VISIT
by Tess Reynolds - September 11, 2015

M. Night Shyamalan's horror film THE VISIT opens today, Sept. 11, 2015. The film stars award-winning stage actress Deanna Dunagan as well as Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn, and Celia Keenan-Bolger....


THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN Announces First US Tour in 47 Years!
by A.A. Cristi - December 05, 2016

After a highlight performance at Psycho Las Vegas 2016, hugely influential UK heavy psychedelic progressive oddities The Crazy World of Arthur Brown announce their 2017 "ZIM ZAM ZIM" tour - their first run of US shows since 1969....


Chen Dance Center's 'Newsteps' Set for January
by Tyler Peterson - December 14, 2015

Chen Dance Center presents newsteps, its semi-annual emerging choreographer's series, January 14-16 at 7:30 PM at the Chen Dance Center, 70 Mulberry Street.    Since 1994, the Chen Dance Center has supported and presented hundreds of dancers and choreographers developing innovative works through the...


Blue Man Group to Hold Open Call at Chicago's Briar Street Theatre
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2016

Blue Man Group, celebrating 25 years of living in full color in 2016, announces the 2016 Blue Man Group open casting call scheduled for Monday, October 24 from 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. at the Briar Street Theatre (3133 N. Halsted Street). The Blue Man Group casting department is searching for talented...


House of Independents to Host Rockabilly Bash for New Year's
by BWW News Desk - December 23, 2015

House of Independents scorches with a swinging sixteen roaring Rockabilly sock hop to kickstart 2016! Put on your party pants and rebel rock those dancing feet. Ring in the New Year at Asbury Park's ultimate Rockabilly House Party!...


Chen Dance Center Presents NEWSTEPS, 1/14
by Christina Mancuso - January 12, 2016

Chen Dance Center presents newsteps, its semi-annual emerging choreographer's series, January 14-16 at 7:30 PM at the Chen Dance Center, 70 Mulberry Street.    Since 1994, the Chen Dance Center has supported and presented hundreds of dancers and choreographers developing innovative works through the...


BWW Review: In History Theatre's WATERMELON HILL, the Stories of Unwed Pregnant Women in 1960s St. Paul are Told with Humor, Intelligence, and Compassion.
by Jill Schafer - March 23, 2016

The History Theatre in St. Paul is committed to bringing new plays and musicals to the stage, usually inspired by true events in Minnesota history. Their yearly Raw Stages festival, a series of workshops and readings of new works, often results in full productions in the following season or two. But...


Bridge Street Theatre to Unveil New Marquee This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - January 02, 2016

Bridge Street Theatre (www.bridgest.org), the newest addition to the Hudson Valley theatre scene, will officially unveil and light the marquee over its main entrance in a ceremony to take place today, January 2, at 3:00 PM, at 44 W. Bridge Street in Catskill....


The Flaming Lips to Release CD & Digital Formats of HEADY NUGGS, 11/27
by Caryn Robbins - November 16, 2015

A family visit takes a terrifying turn when two siblings learn who Grandma and Grandpa really are in The Visit, a found documentary-style suspense thriller coming to Digital HD on December 15, 2015, and Blu-ray and DVD as well as On Demand on January 5, 2016 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainmen...


Players Club of Swarthmore's SPAMALOT Opens 10/23
by Tyler Peterson - October 08, 2015

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Flaming Lips to Release 'Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997'
by Tess Reynolds - September 25, 2015

The Flaming Lips have announced the release of Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997, on November 27th.  This will be the Deluxe 20th Anniversary Box Set edition of THE LIPS globally influential and essential edition of CLOUDS TASTE METALLIC 1995 classic album...


An Edgier Image for Elisa Monte Dance in 2017
by BWW News Desk - January 03, 2017

Elisa Monte Dance, an emotionally charged and highly acclaimed dance company that champions individuality, continues in it's 36th Season under new directorship. Upon the retirement of 35-year founder and director, Elisa Monte, Tiffany Rea-Fisher has spent the first half of the season creating new wo...


Players Club of Swarthmore's SPAMALOT Opens Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 23, 2015

For an irreverent reminder to 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,' look no further than the Holy Grail of musical comedies that is Monty Python's Spamalot. The Players Club of Swarthmore presents Spamalot tonight, Oct. 23 to Nov. 7 for ten performances at The Players Club of Swarthmore, 614 Fai...


Ripley's Believe It or Not! Eye-Popping Oddities! is Released
by Christina Mancuso - September 08, 2015

Readers beware: Ripley's Believe It or Not! Eye-Popping Oddities! is now on sale. The book has been known to induce actual eye-popping, jaw-dropping and head-spinning in people who stare at its pages for too long!...


BWW Review: THE OTHER MOZART at SHEA'S 710 THEATRE
by Michael Rabice - May 05, 2017

HIGH ART RETURNS IN 'THE OTHER MOZART' Child prodigies may be rare, but not necessarily that rare if you grew up in the Mozart family of Salzburg. The unknown and until now mostly untold story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's older sister, Maria Anna (Nannerl), is equally as fascinating as that of ...


WQXR and Met Opera Star Anthony Roth Costanzojoin Presents THE OPERA PARTY
by Christina Mancuso - March 29, 2017

This spring in The Greene Space, WQXR and Met Opera star Anthony Roth Costanzojoin forces to present The Opera Party, a new event series featuring world-class opera performances, engaging banter, unique physical environments, and culinary spectacle by celebrated chefs that will enchant opera aficion...


Warrington to Welcome Comedian Tom Stade
by Tyler Peterson - February 04, 2016

The UK's favourite Canadian, Tom Stade, is taking his brand new show 'You're Welcome' to Warrington's Pyramid arts centre and he's bringing his candid and alluring stand-up with him....


The Adobe Theater Presents YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
by A.A. Cristi - September 19, 2016

Alice Sycamore works for Tony Kirby, Junior. They have fallen in love and want to get married. Simple enough, but there are two problems - their families. The Kirbys are rich, ruthless, overflowing with self-importance, and sure they can always get what they want. The Sycamores are an unusual collec...


Dad's Garage Sets BaconFest 2016 Dates
by Tyler Peterson - January 15, 2016

This important news bulletin is brought to you by the letter B. Bacon, beer, booths and other letter B-centric oddities and attractions will once again be able to call Dad's Garage Theatre home. Atlanta's outrageously savory and oft-salacious annual event, BaconFest, is set to return in 2016, but to...






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