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What in the World Is This Sloth Doing On the Bowery?
In its quest to be king of all media, Vice News has taken over a couple of billboards on the Bowery. What better way to get eyes on its newish news channel than with the world’s most viral folivore?...
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Five Shows Y’all Should Really Not Miss This Week
Ducktails A heavy dose of Ariel Pink and a hint of bubblegum Chillwave are definitely in the mix for Ducktails. All in all Mondanile’s hazy slacker pop is very LA (um, by way of New Jersey though)....
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Mr. Throwback Now Has an Action Figure, and 2Pac and Biggie Are Next
(Courtesy of Mr. Throwback) Mini Basquiat has a new friend to play with now that Mr. Throwback has his own action figure. Michael Spitz (aka Mr. Throwback) tells us it all started when Brooklyn-based...
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45-Year-Old Phebe’s, the ‘Sardi’s of Off-Off Broadway,’ Gets Another Facelift
The newly painted bar at Phebe’s (Photo: Nicole Disser) Phebe’s Tavern & Grill in the East Village has been derided for its less than classy clientele, and tends to blend into the background, but...
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Russ & Daughters Expands Uptown; Bushwick Is World’s 7th Coolest Neighborhood
(Photo: ribonyc) A $65 million, 75K-sqaure-foot mixed-use building is planned for 120 Union Avenue in Williamsburg. [The Real Deal] When the 10-unit apartment building 42 Crosby Street is complete, its...
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Rent Hike? Knickerbocker Village Tenants Aren’t Hearing It
Margaret Chin and tenant leader Mary Keating (Photo: Mary Reinholz) More than 120 tenants of Knickerbocker Village crammed into a fifth-floor room in lower Manhattan yesterday to protest a rent...
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‘It Was a Joint’: Jazz Musicians Remember Slugs’ in the Far East
Albert Ayler outside of Slugs. Slugs’ Saloon opened its doors in 1964, a neighborhood bar owned by Robert Schoenholt, who died in 2012, and Jerry Schultz. By early 1965, many musicians who lived in the...
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Ginger Mama Is Back, and This Time She’s Occupying A Documentary
Still from ‘Go Lightly’ (Photo: Forrest McCuller) After running into Ellen Turrietta earlier this month, we left the encounter feeling confused, but still curious about the Ginger Mama. Was her...
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Attention Brave Boys, Dress-Length Tunics And Leather Track Shorts Now On Bowery
Inside General Idea (Photo: Nicole Disser) If you saw “Scarf Guy” yesterday and thought, “Nice look,” this might be the place for you. Just in time for Fashion Week, Korean label General Idea has...
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Local Ukrainians Talk Sanctions, Ceasefire, and NATO Aid That May Not Do Enough
Protest attendee dons a Ukrainian flag at Sunday’s gathering. (Photo: Jasmine Lee)Iryna Vitkovska says NATO’s involvement in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia will not bring peace to her country. “They...
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Talks and Readings: Sex, Shift Scheduling, and Student Debt
This week: everything you generally avoid talking about gets talked about. Monday, Sept. 15 Hot, Wet and Shaking: Talking About Sex with Kaleigh Trace Kaleigh Trace is a disabled, queer, feminist sex...
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Bushwick’s 10 Biggest Fall Events; Brooklyn’s Best BYOB
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A 23-year-old woman chased down the thief who stole her iPhone Sunday in Williamsburg, but was unable to reclaim the contents of her wallet. Also, two Subarus and a motorcycle...
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‘We Have the Bourgie-ness’: An Early Look Inside Westside Market’s Eastside...
The newest Westside Market prepares to open in the East Village (Photo: Nicole Disser) Last week, a Bloomberg Intelligence report concluded that Whole Foods was now one of the city’s best budget...
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Look For Painted Pubises Outside of the Calvin Klein Show Today
(Photo: Ilyse Liffreing) If you’re anywhere near 50 Varick Street today, you may want to head over there toot sweet. Not for the Calvin Klein fashion show (yawn), but for something far more colorful...
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Williamsburg Will Have to Wait a Bit Longer For McNally Jackson
(Courtesy of McNally Jackson) Since the story broke in the Times, Williamsburg has been waiting for its very own outpost of the Soho bookstore McNally Jackson. Sadly, it’ll have to wait a bit longer....
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Hamas Prince Betrays His Pops, Gary Has A Nervous Breakdown, and Teenage Girl...
Check out our list of films we’re excited to see this week. Bird People French filmmaker Pascale Ferran hasn’t made a film in over a decade, but she returns with this strangely set movie. Bird People...
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Our Favorite Bull’s Penis Purveyor Opens Beronberon Tonight
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) Panya Ongkeo, owner of Kenka on St. Marks Place, is readying Beronberon for an opening tonight at the corner of East 10th Street and First Avenue. And we do mean “readying”–...
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Phillip Lim Opens in Noho, Is Concerned About Dry Mouth
(Photo: Nicole Disser) The kind, and very well dressed crew of 3.1 Phillip Lim on Great Jones Street were very concerned that I was hydrated. At first I couldn’t figure out why several people at the...
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Oh, That’s Just Korilla BBQ Putting Tiger Stripes On Its New Home
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) For years the words “Falafel” and “Shawarma” (somewhat ridiculously) ran down the facade of the building at 23 Third Avenue. It briefly got a new look after Archie & Sons...
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Boozy Starbucks Stumbles in Williamsburg; Ron Swanson in Union Square
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Community Board 1 pushed back its vote on Starbuck’s proposed liquor license for its forthcoming N. 7th Street location in Williamsburg because the coffee empire apparently hasn’t...
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