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Get ‘Transported to Another Realm’ Tomorrow at Secret Project Robot
We know we only gave you a few hours’ notice on the Hair Police/Pharmakon show at 285 Kent last night, so if you failed to get your weekend noise fix, here’s another excellent option. Joe DeNardo’s...
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Scenes From Today’s Trayvon Martin Rally in Union Square
Hundreds gathered for a rally in Union Square this afternoon, to protest the not guilty verdict in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. On the scene was organizer Kevin Powell of “Real...
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Watch It Live: 6pm Trayvon Martin Rally in Union Square
Earlier today we brought you video and photos from a 2pm rally protesting the not guilty verdict in the Trayvon Martin case. We now return to Union Square to livestream a protest scheduled for 6pm....
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‘You Yell, You Scream, and Then… What?’: Trayvon Martin Rally Ends in 12 to...
Derek Wilson"I came out last night as soon as I heard the verdict and I've been up all night, just riding around on Citi Bikes, trying to make sense of things." Emily De La Cruz"America is made this...
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Watch Zosia Mamet of ‘Girls’ Play With Some Fake Boobs
Saturday, The Cabin Sisters played a set at the Grand Victory in Williamsburg. The folk duo has two claims to fame: one is that Zosia Mamet of “Girls” and “Mad Men” is a Cabin Sister. (The other...
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G Line Could Get 25% More Trains — IF the MTA Springs For It
(Photo: Natalie Rinn) Greenpointers, if you were jealous of Williamsburgers and their increased L train service, hold tight: it could happen to you! Today the MTA announced that a review of the G line,...
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Wafels & Dinges Café Is OPEN and Serving Milkshakes, Coffee, and…Lox Waffles?
(Photo: Lauren Carol Smith) The insanely popular Wafels & Dinges truck opened its first brick-and-mortar location this morning at 2nd Street and Avenue B, and owner Thomas DeGeest hopes it’ll...
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Talking SimCity and Centipede With the Curator of the Video-Game Theater Fest
Above: “Harold Pinter’s Duck Hunt,” from the 2010 festival. 8-Bit villains, roleplaying heroes, and an evil queen who wants to destroy Earth by boring its gamers to death — these are not sort of things...
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Cooper Union Students End Occupation of President’s Office
There’ll be no more pizza airlifts at Cooper Union. Students camped out in President Jamshed Bharucha’s office for 65 days have reached an agreement with the Board of Trustees that ends their...
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Roll Up For the ‘Magical Mystery Tour,’ Get ‘Dazed and Confused’
These upcoming screenings, q&as, and open cereal bars have us Reel Psyched. It was on this day 45 years ago that the Beatles moved into the Apple Records headquarters in London, where a huge chunk...
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Update on Pike St. Fire, Bushwick Bohemia in the Hamptons
(Photo: Bahram Foroughi) Last week’s fire on Pike Street rendered 34 adults and 7 children homeless. [The Lo Down] Hamptons Bohemia, this summer’s annual ArtHamptons fair, will feature a “Bushwick...
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Watch Seattle Surf Rockers La Luz Play a Seattle Pizzeria, Right Here in New...
If you missed La Luz’s first New York City show Sunday at Mercury Lounge, you’ll want to catch them at Shea Stadium tonight. The band, formed a year ago in Seattle, plays surf rock tinged with lead...
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10 Things You Always Wanted to Know About the G Train But Were Stuck...
The waiting is the hardest part. (Photo: Natalie Rinn) Like any relationship fraught with “issues,” riders of the G train know acute highs (like catching the train just as it arrives at the dank...
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Apparently, Padma Lakshmi Wants NYU to Pack Its Knives and Go
(Photo: Randi Eichenbaum) Whelp, this land-use matter just got a whole lot sexier! Opponents of NYU’s plan to expand in Greenwich Village have gotten a few more bold-face names behind their lawsuit...
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Listen to a New Desert Stars Song Before Tonight’s Album Release Party
Not every Brooklyn band is an overnight success story: it’s easy to forget that some have been chipping away at their craft for years. Take Desert Stars. They’ve been on the scene with different...
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Bushwick Elucidations Teaches You How to Dougie
Time for the latest episode of “Bushwick Elucidations,” the BK-based advice column we’ve shamelessly appropriated as our own. This week, Tigre and Cricket teach us how to pronounce Thames and also how...
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Academy Annex Will Leave Williamsburg and Turn Greenpoint into a Vinyl Mecca
(Illustration: Lauren Carol Smith) Academy Annex is moving on up – from Williamsburg to Greenpoint. Owner Mike Davis says the record store has to leave its current building on N. 6th St. because it’s...
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Sexual Costumes in Bushwick, Williamsburg’s Two New Parks
(Photo: Timothy Krause) Hate Citi Bikes? Think they’re shiti? Tonight’s your chance to stand up and be heard. The transportation and public safety subcommittee of Community Board 3 will hear concerns...
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A Quirky Antiques Shop Opens an Even Quirkier New Cultural Venue
The new space (Photo: Anna Silman) The new space (Photo: Anna Silman) The new space (Photo: Anna Silman) The new space (Photo: Anna Silman) The new space (Photo: Anna Silman) The new space (Photo:...
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And Sometimes You Get Stoned and Go to a Seance
(Illustration: Steven Charles Manale) The séance was scheduled to start at 7 p.m. and anyone arriving 10 minutes late would be turned away, so I left the office early and headed straight to my friend’s...
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