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This Weekend, Rock Out at an Old Stone House
OUT IN THE STREETS This weekend, a two-day music-and-arts festival (featuring Doldrums, Pictureplane, Ava Luna, Heliotropes, Heavenly Beat, and plenty more) comes to the oldest Dutch Colonial stone...
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This Guy Will Turn Your Favorite Old T-Shirt into a Five-Panel Hat
If you, like us, have a drawer full of t-shirts that shrank in the wash or tragically stained with ramen-burger sauce (or both), listen up. After a launch party tonight, you’ll be able to head into...
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Theater for the New City Got a Facelift But Not the One It Wanted
Theater For The New City has a spiffy new front. (Photo: Natalie Rinn) If you’ve walked down First Avenue recently, you might’ve noticed that Theater for the New City has spruced up the building it’s...
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Theater This Month: Caribbean Carnivals, Activist Cats, Singing Bros
SmokeBreakForest artwork by director Diane Exavier The shining star of downtown theater events this month is undoubtedly the Fringe Festival, but for Brooklynites and those who have panic attacks when...
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Ridgewood Is the New Bushwick; Man Seeks Missing Puppet
Michael Tapp If you do go to Out in the Streets in Ridgewood, take note: that’s where everyone is moving now that the average rent for a studio in Bushwick ($1,675) is up 27 percent in the last year....
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Afro-Punk, a Psychedlic Western, and a ‘Rapture of Rottenness’
This Sunday at Pianos, delve into a world of “taboos and sin wrapped into one big steaming pile of filth,” as artist Beryl Fine describes her work — with a free 7 p.m. screening of five short films...
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While Away a Day Watching Free Theater in Some Community Gardens
Green Oasis Community Garden (Photo: Communal Spaces) If you missed the MoRUS Film Fest’s community-garden screenings, well then shame on you! But okay, okay, here’s another chance to take in some...
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Welcome Bossa Nova Civic Club Radio to the Dance Floor
(Photo: Jorge Day/Courtesy of Bossa Nova Civic Club) Bossa Nova Civic Club — which is not so much a civic club as it is the city’s best dance club — just launched a radio station, for y’all house-head...
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Just Looping You Into This Conversation With the King of All Vines
Nick Megalis brainstorming Vines. Nick Megalis burned his hand pretty badly right before we talked to him. Luckily, the New Yorker with the most subscribers (2.3 million!) on Vine had something to show...
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Here’s How Nick Megalis’s 5 Fave Vines Sprouted Into Being
Now that you know that Nick Megalis is really good at making things go viral, you probably wanna get inside his brain. Luckily, Nick has provided us with a list of his all-time favorite Vines, and the...
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Point Your Vintage Triumph to This Motorcycle Block Party and Film Festival
“Anybody can own a bike and anybody can ride a bike” is the mantra of veteran motorcyclist Jack Drury. The former punk and metal rocker has spent his entire career as an event producer trying to prove...
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NYC’s Largest Firearm Seizure; ‘Girls’ Season 3 Teaser
The current state of Mary Help of Christians Church. (Photo: Scott Lynch) The largest seizure of firearms in NYC history was announced today, after the NYPD arrested 19 people in connection to gun...
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Think Your Commute Is Bad? Step Into the Shoes of a Jakartan Subway Surfer
(Courtesy Brian Duggan and ISCP, New York) August is normally a barren wasteland of shuttered galleries on summer vacation, but the North Brooklyn art scene has been reinvigorated by a powerful...
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High Fidelity: Breaking Up With Your Dealer Can Be Such a Drag
Did I get in a fight with my weed dealer because I was high? Or did I get high because I was in a fight with my weed dealer? The answer is both. Shortly after the misunderstanding, I found myself...
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More Gunplay in Greenpoint: There Was An Armed Robbery Near McGolrick Park
Mini Mart robbed at 560 Morgan Avenue. (Photo: Kaitlin Durand) More bad news out of Greenpoint: a bodega at 560 Morgan Avenue was robbed last night at 11:10 p.m., according to the police. Two men...
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Is the Greenpoint Film Festival Back? Dolphinately!
A pyrotechnics addict in love, a moody French-Canadian out to save a Palestinian refugee, and a trailblazing dolphin. They’ll all hit the big screen at the third annual Greenpoint Film Festival next...
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Arrests at House of Yes Were ‘Totally Unrelated’ to Jellyboy the Clown
This morning, the New York Post ran a brief item about a bust this weekend at House of Yes, an East Williamsburg warehouse space that hosts an eclectic array of performance art and other creative...
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East Village Murals Vanish; More Development in Williamsburg and Bushwick
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Does Bushwick Collective (above) have to get all the murals? Chico’s wall, located at the corner of East Houston and Avenue B, was painted over without explanation this weekend,...
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This Hypnotherapist Has Girls in Greenpoint Crying Uncontrollably
Dan Ryan at the Maha Rose Center for Healing (Photo: Kristy Ann Muniz) When I first met Dan Ryan and he told me he was a hypnotherapist, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it — mainly because I had no...
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Greenpointers Are Still Not Getting Behind Those New Towers
Greenpointers protest outside Automative High School. (Photo: Natalie Rinn) You can bring a “gigantic sandwich” to Greenpointers but you can’t force them to eat it. Once again last night, local...
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