Bedford + Bowery Newsroom
155 Grand St. off Bedford Ave., Brooklyn
Friday, October 11, free, 7:00
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Two very different Lower East Side decades come to Brooklyn on October 11 for the special literary event “The L.E.S. Was Theirs: Rayya Elias and Brendan Jay Sullivan Remember the ’80s and the Aughts.” In Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side (Viking, April 2013, $27.95), writer, musician, and hair stylist Rayya Elias bravely shares her dramatic story of sex, drugs, and rock and roll in the 1980s, a time she readily admits she was extremely fortunate to have survived. In Rivington Was Ours: Lady Gaga, the Lower East Side, and the Prime of Our Lives (It Books, August 2013, $16.99), writer, producer, and deejay Brendan Jay Sullivan details the year he spent with go-go dancer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, soon to become much better known as Lady Gaga. Elias and Sullivan will read from their books and discuss the changing downtown scene on Friday night at the Bedford + Bowery Newsroom on Grand St. in Brooklyn.