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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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Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis Premieres TYPHOID MARY Tonight
by BWW News Desk - April 30, 2015

Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the World Premiere production of Typhoid Mary opening tonight, April 30, 2015 on the Frank and Katrina Basile Stage. This production runs through May 24, 2015, with Bill Simmons serving as director. Tom Horan wrote Typhoid Mary in 2013 during his first seaso...


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!...


THE MIDNIGHT CABARET Opens Tonight at DROM
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2015

Drom, Jenny Rocha and Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions are thrilled to announce the premiere of The Midnight Cabaret, tonight, March 14th at East village hot-spot Drom. This sexy soiree features an alluring line up filled with dancing ladies, circus spectacles, live music and a DJ after-party!...


VOIX DE VILLE Variety Show, WEIRD ASS Game Show and More Set for Now thru Oct 12 at The Wiggle Room
by BWW News Desk - October 08, 2014

Announcing this week (today, October 8 - Sunday, October 12) at The Wiggle Room -- an intimate and exciting experience and Montreal's first cabaret cocktail club devoted to burlesque, comedy, live music, variety and the neo-vaudeville arts!...


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....


Berkshire Theatre Group to Welcome Mixed Media Comedian McQueen, 6/6
by Tyler Peterson - May 20, 2015

Berkshire Theatre Group welcomes mixed media comedian McQueen at The Garage on Saturday, June 6 at 8pm....


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...


House of Independents Hosts Rockabilly Bash for New Year's Tonight
by BWW News Desk - December 31, 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!...


Creating Arts Studios' THE EXPERIMENT to Run 9/11-10/31
by Tyler Peterson - August 12, 2015

Creating Arts Studios is proud to present The Experiment a 360-degree immersive theatrical cabaret running for eight weeks September 11 - October 31, 2015 from 8PM- 10PM at CAC Studios 3110 Pennsylvania Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90404....


BWW Review: NEW YORK CITY BALLET's 'New Combinations' Isn't as Innovative as the Program Title Suggests
by Wesley Doucette - February 18, 2016

Justin Peck's 'Most Incredible Thing' headlines this program of new works....


Photo Flash: Cincinnati Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Opens Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 21, 2014

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company continues with this season's opening Shakespeare production of 'The Comedy of Errors' playing tonight, November 21- December 13, 2014....


Rock 'n' Roll Carnival EVO Returns to Shadowbox Live Tonight
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2014

Come one! Come all! Experience the bizarre and the strange! Marvel at the oddities of the human condition and see yourself reflected in the freakish mirror of Shadowbox Live's Evo, opening tonight, September 26th!...


Rock 'n' Roll Carnival EVO returns to Shadowbox Live 9/26
by Matt Tamanini - September 05, 2014

Come one! Come all! Experience the bizarre and the strange! Marvel at the oddities of the human condition and see yourself reflected in the freakish mirror of Shadowbox Live's Evo, opening Sunday, September 26th!...


THE CARDBOARD BIBLE is Released
by Christina Mancuso - October 19, 2015

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ YouTube cardboard craft instructor L.A. Nuwame known as The Homemade Game Guru believes cardboard is the greatest crafting and building material available to all people worldwide. He also believes every single human being has latent creative potential...


Kanaku y El Tigre Releases Sophomore Album QUEMA QUEMA QUEMA Today
by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2015

Peruvian 'wandering folk' beatniks Kanaku y El Tigre, release their sophomore (and first international) album, 'Quema Quema Quema', via the acclaimed Strut imprint in conjunction with Tiger's Milk Records. This anthemic, hook laden slice of electronic tinged indie-folk, direct from Lima, could very ...


Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis to Premiere TYPHOID MARY, 4/30-5/24
by BWW News Desk - April 13, 2015

Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the World Premiere production of Typhoid Mary opening April 30, 2015 on the Frank and Katrina Basile Stage. This production runs through May 24, 2015, with Bill Simmons serving as director. Tom Horan wrote Typhoid Mary in 2013 during his first season as the ...


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!...


Nat Geo Wild Presents FREAKEND This Halloween
by TV News Desk - October 31, 2015

This Halloween, Nat Geo WILD's FREAKEND awakens the spookiest, creepiest and strangest beasts of the animal underworld....


Sprout Launches First Original Series of 2016, FLOOGALS
by Caryn Robbins - January 27, 2016

Sprout, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment's 24-hour preschool network, is launching FLOOGALS, its newest original series....


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....


BWW Reviews: Inspire Creative's SHREK More Fractured Than Fairy Tale
by Christi Esterle - September 22, 2014

Shrek doesn't seem like the song-and-dance type, but Inspire Creative has fun with him anyway....


BWW Reviews: London Fashion and the Vision of THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN
by Patrick Kennedy - May 12, 2015

A new book from Thames & Hudson casts London as a world capital of menswear luxury....


THE MIDNIGHT CABARET Premieres 3/14 at Drom
by Tyler Peterson - February 24, 2015

Drom, Jenny Rocha and Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions have announced the premiere of The Midnight Cabaret, Saturday March 14th at East village hot-spot Drom. This sexy soiree features an alluring line up filled with dancing ladies, circus spectacles, live music and a DJ after-party!...


BWW Reviews: WE ARE SAMURAI Wanders Wild, Well-Made, And Weird
by Alan Katz - September 09, 2014

Here's the key: the play takes place in 5 different physical locations within and outside Venus Theater's compound. You, the audience, choose how to experience the play. One could stay in the same location for the majority of the play or follow a particular character around. The best way to experien...






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