Get Your Photo Taken With Santa (Drunk or Sober) at These Ho-Ho-Holiday Markets
If you were too busy, oh, say protesting police brutality on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, don’t worry — you’ve still got a couple more awesome opportunities to grab some gifts for the ones you love....
View ArticleMarky Ramone On Life as a Ramone in the E. Village: ‘Everybody Was...
(Photo: Frank Mastropolo) No band is more identified with the East Village than the Ramones. The band’s performances at Hilly Kristal’s CBGB and other neighborhood venues defined punk rock forever. In...
View ArticleCat Cafe Now Taking Reservations; Top 10 East Village Eateries
(Photo: Scott Lynch) On Clinton Street, the six-story tenement building that houses recently revamped bar Barramundi is on the market for $7 million. [Bowery Boogie] Chef Marco Canora and wine...
View ArticleOver 200 Arrested As Thousands Return to the Streets to Protest Police Killings
(Photo: Christopher Looft) Thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets of New York last night to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner,...
View ArticleFarewell to Ray Abeyta, Williamsburg Royalty
An outtake from the Regulars photo shoot in August of 2013. I only had one real conversation with Ray Abeyta. Luckily, I captured it for everybody to see. We met at his favorite hangout, the...
View ArticleDeath By Audio’s Edan Wilber On What Happened With Vice, and What’s Next
A place to Bury Strangers play the final show at DBA. (Photo: Alex Hess & Jon Brown) Life for Edan Wilber has changed dramatically in the two weeks since his Williamsburg DIY venue Death By Audio...
View ArticleGetting High at the New Home of The Muse, Bushwick’s Future ‘Circus Heaven’
(Photo: Nicole Disser) In the farthest reaches of Bushwick, right on the border of Knollwood Cemetery, Moffat Street drops off into oblivion. The sidewalks are cracked and few working street lights are...
View ArticleWatch an Exclusive Clip From Delusions of Guinevere, From Folks Behind Fort...
If you dug Fort Tilden as much as we did, you’ll be psyched to hear that a couple of its creators are involved in a new film opening locally at Cinema Village today. Co-produced, co-written, and...
View ArticleFilm This Week: Ice-Cold Club Kids, Xmas Horror, and Rare Glimpses of Vaudeville
Sup guys? Darkness reigns right now, so instead of pining away for the sun when it sets just two hours after freaking lunch, forget about it. Embrace the season of death by spending it far, far away...
View ArticleConviction in Williamsburg Stabbing; Lox Factory Up For Sale
(Photo: Scott Lynch) While protests against police brutality turned violent in Berkeley, Calif. over the weekend, New York demonstrations continued on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with marchers taking...
View Article‘Kids (Not Cute)’: Not Your Typical Tot Shots
“At the Fair, Taos, NM,” 2013 by Margarita Mavromichalis Tis the season for adorable tots to pose on Santa’s lap, but you won’t find any tinsel-framed photos at “Kids (Not Cute),” a new exhibition at...
View ArticleOur Miley Moment, and 99 Other Images From Art Basel and Miami Art Week
For me, Peak Basel came sometime around midnight Saturday, when a young man toting a volume of F. Scott Fitzgerald strolled into Nobu flanked by a pair of semi-naked women with disco-ball pasties and...
View ArticleDev Hynes and Matthew Stone Took the Basel Crowd to ‘Other Worlds’
Matthew Stone’s introducing the piece. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) Dressed in head-to-toe white, London-based artist Matthew Stone took the stage at Soho Studios in Miami on Saturday night to introduce what...
View Article14-Screen Movie Theater Coming to LES; Croman Loses Lawsuit
(Photo: Scott Lynch) LES development Essex Crossing will include a new 14-screen Regal Cinemas upon completion, making it the largest Lower Manhattan multiplex below Union Square. [DNA Info] Near the...
View ArticleMamma Mia, Check Out This Scandi-lous Pop-Up
It’s safe to say “Spain’s sexy little island” has jumped the shark with this Times write-up, so go ahead and forget about the Ibiza pop-up we told you about and focus, instead, on this chance to look...
View ArticleThe First Snowman of the Season Isn’t Sweating the Rain
(Courtesy of frosch&portmann) Snowmen have become a bit of a thing on the Lower East Side, but it usually takes a snowstorm for them to appear. Not in this case. Portland-based artist Bruce Conkle...
View ArticleHoliday Shoppers, Prepare For Marfamania
Ibiza, Scandinavia — with all these geographically themed pop-ups, why even leave New York to go shopping? Oh, wait, yeah: this shitty weather. No way is it going to be 70 degrees and sunny like it...
View ArticleArtist Goes to Basel to Feed the Homeless Instead of the Hype
Last week, there was no shortage of artists out to make a statement about the orgy of excess that is Art Basel and Miami Art Week – Josef Pinlac’s “This is Not a Cliché” (a cheeky commentary on the...
View ArticleTommy Ramone, Joan Rivers and 80+ Others Come Back For One Last Party
From Tommy Ramone to Philip Seymour Hoffman, we lost a lot of legends this year, and one T-shirt aims to honor them all. For his annual “Faces of Death” project, Brooklyn portraitist Michael Hambouz —...
View Article3 More Chances to Kill the Pain of Holiday Shopping With Free Music and Booze
Holiday markets are like a game of Whack-a-Mole: they’re popping up everywhere and you want to hit them all. Good luck with that, because we can barely keep track of them. Here are the latest three to...
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