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Help This Visionary Bring Some Wacky Windsocks to Bushwick Open Studios
Throughout history, few human endeavors have managed to capture poetry in motion quite like the flailing neon limbs of the “dancing inflatable man.” Of course, there are the critics, ready to object,...
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Watch Lane Moore Channel John Waters in the Video For ‘Philadelphia’
Moore rocking out. (Photo Credit: Katia Temkin) It turns out Lane Moore isn’t just the host of comedy show Tinder LIVE! and the sex and relationships editor at Cosmopolitan.com — she’s also been a...
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There’s NEWD and Nude Weekend, But Only One Involves a Human Display Case
(Photo: Brooklyn Wildlife) Bushwick Open Studios is upon us once again and leave it to an event of this magnitude — really though, a decade in, BOS is like post-post-post blown up at this point — to...
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It’s NY African Restaurant Week, Here’s What to Eat
Dish from Bunna Cafe (Photo: Liz Clayman) Conceptually, the vast continent of “Africa” still exists for many as a land viewed atop Pride Rock, extending one’s vision “as far as the light touches,...
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Comedy Club Coming to LES; John Cusack and Brian Wilson at Apple Store
(Photo: Scott Lynch) On E. 6th Street, the 86-unit Hudson East apartment building was purchased for $60 million. [The Real Deal] Comedian Jessica Delfino will soon open The Unicorn, a music/comedy...
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Police: Woman Pushed Onto Tracks By Trash-Tossing Stranger
A woman was pushed onto the tracks at the Bleecker Street station during the Monday morning rush, and police have identified the bottle-heaving man in the above video as their suspect in the assault....
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It’s Negroni Week, Here’s Where We’re Tossin’ Em Back
Perfection (Photo: Nicole Disser)Ah, the Negroni — one part gin, one part Campari, one part vermouth, but all parts refreshing, bitter sophistication. The Italian-born drink was immaculately conceived...
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Watch: Doomsdays Brings Leo Fitzpatrick Back to Big Screen Before Kids Turns 20
Leo Fitzpatrick is a busy mayor of the Lower East Side these days: not only is he due to appear alongside Chloe Sevigny and Rosario Dawson at BAM’s sold-out 20th anniversary screening of Kids (yep,...
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Talks and Readings: Dennis Hopper, Blonde Redhead, and a Bounty of Bourbon
Whether you want to ogle Rolling Stones fans from a safe distance or you’re a rabid Blonde Redhead fan, it’s time for this week’s Word Up. Tonight “In the mid 1970s two of my high school students...
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Follow These Ladies to the LES Film Festival’s Secret Beer Garden
It’s hard to keep all these summer film festivals straight (among others, the Brooklyn Film Festival and Rooftop Films Summer Series are currently underway, with Nitehawk’s Summer Series coming soon)....
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Eduardo Sarabia Turned Mexican Narco Imagery Into Fine Art
Eduardo Sarabia, “Ballads” exhibit. (photo: Rob Scher) Paper holds much value, even when it’s not green, with Franklin’s unsmiling mug on it. A recent MoMA exhibit, for instance, showed Henri Matisse’s...
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Looks Like Rockaway Is Getting This Rad Skate Bowl
(Photo: Seth Rosko) First Rockaway got palm trees and now it’s (hopefully) getting this $18,000 skate bowl. Professionally built for a Soho popup, the ramp is destined to find a new home next to the...
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Groper On the Loose in Williamsburg; Pommes Frites Moves to MacDougal
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Nine women say that the same random man grabbed or slapped their butt in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Paper] This fall Pommes Frites—sidelined since March’s Second Avenue explosion—will...
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Two New Outdoor Oases For Drinking, Dining, and DJs
The Living Room’s rooftop by day (photo: Greg Tannen) This week’s weather-induced PTSD served to remind us that a moment not spent in the sun is really a moment wasted. Fortunately, as the azure skies...
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Jonathan C. Stewart Dives into a Williamsburg Story On AMC’s Making of the Mob
Jonathan C. Stewart, actor who plays Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel in the new AMC series,The Making of the Mob (Photo: Nicole Disser) We couldn’t have picked a better spot to meet Jonathan C. Stewart, the...
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Throw Vision Balances a Four-Pronged Musical Orbit for a Distinct Fusion of...
Throw Vision (Photo: Nicole Disser) Due to some scheduling snafus, I was able to keep coming back to Throw Vision‘s music again and again before we finally met in-person this past weekend. And to my...
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Who’s the Artist Behind This Haunting New Mural?
“Nepal 2015,” 2nd Ave & Houston (Photo Credit: Lmnopi) Walk up the steps of the F-train station at Second Avenue, and you’ll lock eyes with the Nepalese girl. Stop for longer than is polite on...
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Week in Film: Attack of the Sleep Demons and Flashback to Reagan Doom
Winter demons be gone, will you not?! How many of our yearly allotment of BBQs and rooftop hang outs have we lost already to this arctic blast that cares for no one and forgives nothing? How many more...
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Onur Tukel’s New One Is a ‘No-Budget, Poor Man’s’ Birdman
Onur Tukel must’ve set some kind of record when he premiered Applesauce at Tribeca Film Festival just weeks before premiering his other new film at the Brooklyn Film Festival. So how the hell did he...
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Kim Gordon’s New Show: Fear of Lost Art and Ideas in a Changing City
“The City is a Garden” : an exhibition of work by Kim Gordon now at 303 Gallery (Photo: Nicole Disser) As of today, a new body of work by Kim Gordon is living at 303 Gallery in Chelsea, a white box...
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