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Punk club CBGB reopens as John Varvatos boutique

You can kick it, smother it, force the owner to sell it, but CBGB just won't die. Not quite, anyway, thanks to designer John Varvatos, who's taken defibrillator paddles to the former home of the underground club and juiced it back to life.

After recently leasing the space at 315 Bowery - aka the "birthplace of punk," where legends like Talking Heads, Patti Smith, the Ramones and Green Day...

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