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Mein Gott! Zum Schneider Is Pitching a Proper Tent For Oktoberfest
No need to cram into Zum Schneider’s tight quarters this Oktoberfest: the hard-partying East Village biergarten is finally doing justice to the “garden” part of “beer garden” by pitching a 700-person...
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‘If We Weren’t Taking Pictures, We’d Just Be Complete Maniacs and Degenerates’
From left, Mike Krim, PJ Monte, Osvaldo Chance Jimenez (aka Slutlust), Mikhail Sokovikov, Harry McNally, and Jason Aaron Wall. (Photo: Nicole Disser) Party photos are more than ubiquitous– images of...
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Watch Heaven’s Jail Play a Cut Off Their New Record, Produced by Phosphorescent
Heaven’s Jail recorded their new album not in a celestial prison, but in the woods of Connecticut. Then they brought it back to Greenpoint for some mixing and production work by Matthew Houck of...
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Air Sex World Championships: It’s Coming! It’s Coming!
When Howard Stern says you’re “highly offensive,” you’re probably doing something right. That was his reaction to seeing the Air Sex World Championships, a tour de sex that slides into the East...
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’90s Style Was ‘Exciting’ (Maybe) But the Fashion World Is a Horrible Place
Things you can learn at this weeks stellar readings and talks. Thursday, August 28 That’s When the Knives Come Down with Dolan Morgan Greenpointer Dolan Morgan will read on home turf for the Brooklyn...
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It’s Curtains Up For a Coffee Shop in the East Village’s Cultural District
Photos by Kate Beaudoin A stone’s throw from where Au Breve remains closed, the owner of the East Village’s latest coffee shop is optimistic she can hold her own. “I’m on the side street and I’m near...
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Anarchy In Utah, Free Beer At Shark Night, Cyborg Cops in 2029
Pony up to the films we’re excited to see this week. Winners of Slamdance Film Festival 2014 Early next week IFC is screening the winners of the OG rebel film festival, Slamdance, created by a couple...
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A Gift Shop Opens Below 7th, Under the Radar
Photos by Kate Beaudoin Below 7th quietly opened its doors earlier this month on (where else?) East 7th Street. The gift shop, tucked away among restaurants and clothing stores, is the kind of place...
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Bushwick Vendors Market Works To Bridge The Gap
Last time we checked in with boutique owner Yazmin Colon, she had started a discussion group and a blog meant to bridge the divide between Bushwick’s newer residents and longtimers like herself. Now...
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Celebs Heart Bushwick; Grey Lady’s Greenpoint To-Do List
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Just before 7 a.m. yesterday, a Volvo driver struck three female pedestrians on the Lower East Side‘s South Street. According to the NYPD, one woman suffered life-threatening...
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Help Fund This Drag Documentary Where the Filmmaker Starts Wigging Out
When I meet Adam Golub, under the elevated tracks of the M train on one of the hottest days of the summer, he’s wearing a sleeveless top, shorts, sandals (the Teva-esque type that all Israelis seem to...
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Turn to the Left: Fashion Events!
(Courtesy of LES BID) While so many New Yorkers succumb to the insidious “normcore” and “athleisure” trends, others are determined to stay fresh — and not just the drag queens. With Fashion Week coming...
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This New Bar Will Throw You a Party if You Take Its 50-Cocktail Road Trip
The bar at Kilo Bravo (Photo: Nicole Disser) Kilo Bravo, North Williamsburg’s newest bar, is right off of Bedford Avenue, a couple of blocks from the new Diesel pop-up. So it wasn’t surprising that I...
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The Kim’s Sign Has Come Down — But It May Come Back
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) That’s a wrap. We noticed the Kim’s Video & Music sign lying on First Avenue just minutes ago, next to a moving van that was being loaded with what little of the store...
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A ‘Really Special Space in Bushwick’ Will Soon Be Serving Dinner and Drinks
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) One of Bushwick’s most alluring nooks is about to spring back to life, as Forrest Point readies for its opening next month. Darin Rubell of East Village spots Boulton & Watt...
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After Two Decades, This Greenpoint Pool Hall Is Sunk
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) First Grand Billiards & Cafe closes, then Soho Billiards becomes a CVS, and now this: after two decades, the no-frills pool hall on McGuinness Boulevard is shuttering. Risque...
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This New Crab Shack Is Serving Crustaceans Straight Outta Deadliest Catch
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) With the recent openings of The Boil and Claw Daddy’s, the Lower East Side has become crustacean nation. And now the East Village has a contender with the opening of Red &...
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‘Domino Sugar’ Sign Coming Down; DOH Combats East Village Rats
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Yesterday around 5:30 a.m. a female Mini Thai Cafe employee was robbed at knifepoint near the corner of E.9th Street and Avenue A. No arrest has been made. According to police, the...
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Watch Anthony D’Amato Perform ‘Ludlow’ in a Historic LES Synagogue
Tonight, Brooklyn folk rocker Anthony D’Amato releases his debut studio album, The Shipwreck from the Shore (New West Records) by playing the whole thing live at Mercury Lounge. (Added bonus: his 7:30...
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Gender-Benders Pierre Molinier and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Together at Last
After feting William S. Burroughs, the great Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is appearing alongside another one of his heroes in a new exhibition. The East Village musician and artist known for his...
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