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Talks and Readings: NYC Nostalgia, Bible Belt Memories, and Veterans’ Affairs
Tuesday Feel the need to commiserate about good times spent at neighborhood haunts of yore? Share poems, stories, monologues and memories about a New York City place you loved and lost at “A Ghost...
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East Village’s Curry Row Loses Two More Indian Spots, Gains a ‘Casual Korean’
Mitali East (Photo: Daniel Maurer) There’s more upheaval on the East Village’s Curry Row, where Banjara and Brick Lane Curry House moved away in recent years. Earlier today, workers were spotted moving...
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Council Member Stages a Sit-In to Try to Save North Brooklyn Community Centers
The Borinquen Plaza Senior Center, which isn’t in danger. (Photo: Natalie Rinn) This evening, Council Member Antonio Reynoso is planning to sit with seven others in the middle of Ainslie Street with...
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Dog Fight in Williamsburg; Triangle Factory Fire Anniversary
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Just after midnight on St. Patrick’s Day in Williamsburg, police say a 20-year-old pit bull owner punched a 65-year-old fellow canine owner for having a dog that belonged to a...
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#Badgeless at #SXSW: We Tried to Do South By Southwest Without Shelling Out
If you didn’t go to South by Southwest in Austin last week, it probably wasn’t because you didn’t want to. With the cheapest music ticket going for $650 (early bird), the festival’s entry fee wasn’t...
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Sneak Peek at Smorgasburg’s Newest Vendors, Debuting Next Week
Useful acronym: GMD = Gimme Dat (Photo: Nicole Disser) So we spent the better part of two hours yesterday chillin at Berg’n in Crown Heights, slowly working our way through Smorgasburg‘s new-for-spring...
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Neighborhood Kids Go Cray With Lowline Renderings
Mark Miller Gallery (Photo: Nicole Disser) At times the Lowline, an underground park planned near the Delancey and Essex street stops, seems like a distant imagining for the Lower East Side, in an area...
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3 Boozy Record Fairs You’d Be Hard Pressed to Beat
(Photo: Phillip Pantuso) When we told you about a couple of upcoming record fairs, we were just scratching the surface. Not only is Record Store Day coming up April 18 (check out the list of exclusive...
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Dawn Luebbe Gives You Permission to Read Her 1992 Diary
Photo courtesy of Dawn Luebbe With My 1992 Diary, Dawn Luebbe has become the adult star of her own awkward childhood. Officially released last night at Word in Greenpoint, the book collects Dawn’s...
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Some Burlesque Stars Are Putting On a Stellar Zodiac Show Tonight
Mr Gorgeous as Cancerian Crab. (Photo: Eli Schmidt) Do you find yourself humming “The Age of Aquarius” in the shower? constantly cursing Mercury retrograde?blaming your misfortunes on Saturn? All of...
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Cooper Union Investigated; Etch-a-Sketch Gallery Show
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Local politicians Antonio Reynoso and Nick Rizzo were arrested Tuesday while participating in a sit-in to save endangered daycare and senior centers in North Brooklyn. [Brooklyn...
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Locals Worry About Brant Foundation’s Swank Parties at Walter de Maria Studio
(Photo: Jaime Cone)“Very small luncheons” have been hosted all this week at 421 6th Street, according to two doormen in suits and ties who materialized through the ambiguous metal doors of the historic...
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There’s A New Detroit Banner, Everyone Will Probably Hate This One Too
Philip Kafka, owner of Soho-based advertising firm Prince Media, has put up a second Detroit banner in place of the one we spotted at the beginning of March. Before we could make fun of his latest...
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Come to Bed For Some Pillow Talk With This Artist
(Photo: Angelica Frey) Sure, it was cool to see Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass box, but what if the artist was present for some pillow talk? That’s exactly what’s happening at a new show at Bosi...
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‘We Won’t Move’ Exhibit Recalls — and Spurs — Tenant Activism
Can’t get your landlord to fix your sink? Is there a nebulous blob of black mold festering on your bedroom ceiling? Well maybe you and your roommates can pick up some hot tips on how to stick it to...
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Astoria Comes to Astor Place Via This Meat, Cheese and Beer Spot
(Photo: Giulia Alexandra) The Village just got a little slice of Queens. Tonight Milk & Hops, a Manhattan spinoff of Astoria Bier & Cheese, celebrates its grand opening with a par-tay: $35 gets...
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Week in Film: Sex & Death Cults, Secret Societies, And Sibling Rival Lovers
Welcome back to Reel Psyched in which we talk about films we’re REALLY excited to see this week and beyond. There seems to be a particular breeze blowing this week– evil, the occult, and seduction....
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Building Collapse and Seven-Alarm Fire Rocks East Village
Three buildings have collapsed and a fourth is in flames after an apparent explosion in the East Village. Nineteen people — including five firefighters — have been injured and four have been...
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These Dramatic Videos Tell the Story of the East Village Building Collapses
Three buildings have collapsed and a fourth is still ablaze in the East Village following an apparent gas explosion this afternoon at 121 Second Avenue. As of 10:30pm, there were 19 reported injuries,...
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2 Missing After East Village Explosion; Drea De Matteo, Public Access T.V....
A 23-year-old man who lunched yesterday at 121 Second Avenue, Nicholas Figueroa, has not been seen since a gas explosion at that address caused a massive East Village fire and the collapse of three...
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