{"id":376671,"date":"2026-10-19T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376671\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T07:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:32:27","slug":"ev-grieve-manic-panics-colorful-history-on-display-at-the-city-reliquary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376671\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Manic Panic&#8217;s colorful history on display at the City Reliquary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj6OWfxXD-U3VJOBo1WkJncXlB6FjOSoNOyBDo7ZgCBrZWv7q1bNm7Yr9kRLgjTJ6CJseZ_Hj_gPrtOVIJQm-f3_j42gWd4Cxw4dej_n_rB9fHhSH2q56On4LC-2GDE28f4hDZzz9yJ8B-Rt99HCGPo_cTJx1U4Kgethf9O1H-CUMrQZUN1qMU_EqD0tPc\/s2856\/unnamed.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792395147_644_unnamed.jpg\"\/><\/a>A new exhibit at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityreliquary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the City Reliquary<\/a>\u00a0on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg opened last night and celebrates fifty years of Manic Panic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Still Manic After All These Years: 50 Years of Manic Panic!&#8221; traces the history of the hair dye brand founded by Bronx sisters Tish and Snooky Bellomo, from their punk rock beginnings in the East Village to international success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sisters opened the original Manic Panic boutique at 33 St. Mark&#8217;s Place in the 1970s, selling punk clothing and accessories before their brightly colored hair dyes became the brand&#8217;s signature product.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Curated by Lee Berman, the exhibit features photographs, artifacts and other memorabilia from the sisters&#8217; early days performing at CBGB alongside bands such as Blondie, as well as the growth of their business.<\/p>\n<p>The City Reliquary, a museum devoted to New York City artifacts, memorabilia, and ephemera, will display the exhibit through the end of March.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhGFIfCnYSfiUBFsftvBKnDXGQp5UewohEp6MWpF4JS8sIwps1n1zXDevBV95j2Z3J45yggoJcqnlGPk0nwBMLIKFlwpfHIlejTSVHi6IPO4tJVUUVkyQaLnl49GmKb72PSMZjm3uWWlABvjTtI_vO8o0t-PR8Y2V4i2qL6lvk5evyK_jM8m3NZTRELz5Y\/s2538\/unnamed-2.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/unnamed-2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 12-6. Museum admission: $10 &#8230; $8 for NYC residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to EVG reader Jacob Ford for the photos and tip. Disclosure: He is an emeritus board member of the City Reliquary Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new exhibit at\u00a0the City Reliquary\u00a0on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg opened last night and celebrates fifty years of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-376671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}