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By Dave Basner On April 27th, 1951, Ace Frehley was born in The Bronx. We all know the now 70-year-old rocker went on to make a name for himself in Kiss and with his solo career, but here are 25 things you might not know about him: 1. Ace’s real name is Paul Daniel Frehley. 2. Frehley’s father is the son of Dutch immigrants and his mother is Cherokee. 3. Growing up in The Bronx, Ace was part of a street gang called the Ducky Boys. 4. Frehley never took a guitar lesson, but music runs in his blood – his mom played piano, his dad played the organ at their church, and his brother and si...

As we reported in the last several days, demolition is scheduled to begin this week on the vacant building on the south side of Delancey Street that once housed a portion of the Essex Street Market. The 1940 structure will be replaced by a 24-story residential and commercial tower as part of the big Essex Crossing project. We stopped by to snap some fresh images of the building, a part of Lower East Side history. Seventy-five years ago, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia built the market to get the neighborhood’s pushcarts off the street. In 1995, the Essex Street Market was consolidated into a sing...

Behind the dialogue We're in a mess. There’s a future essay to be written about COVID-19 culture – the artefacts that emerged from our plague year and what they say about where we were as a society: celebrities Zoom duets, the veneration of Sir Tom, our weekly clap for the NHS. These things were born of an instinct to find a unifying sense of positivity. Now, with a few months’ distance, it looks more like escapism, all of it masking a terror writhing beneath. At the time there seemed to be little alternative, culturally speaking. But last year, amid what we would come to know as the UK...

Lost WiiWare Title Space Invaders Get Even Could Come To Switch If There's Enough Demand We enjoyed Space Invaders' more curious spinoffs, it offered a role reversal that saw us playing the invaders, destroying cities from a UFO. Unfortunately, there's currently no official method of playing it since the Wii Shop Channel shut down, making it one of many digital-only games currently lost forever. Speaking with Wccftech about Space Invaders Forever, Taito's game director Yuichi Toyama was asked about a potential re-release, replying: Space Invaders Get Even was a WiiWare exclusive title where...

Saturday, 13 Feb 2021 09:36 AM MYT Several arcades went bust following Japan's first state of emergency last year, which saw most of them close completely for two months, and those that survived are now struggling. ― AFP pic via ETX Studio Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. TOKYO, Feb 13 ― Evenings are normally the busiest time at Mikado, a retro gaming arcade in Tokyo, but these days the shutters come down early, leaving Street Fighter fans out in the cold. Bright, noisy arcades are still a neighbourhood fixture in Japan, but they have bee...