Cube, meet spikes. The Alamo returned in November and now another piece of monumental art is being installed outside of Cooper Union’s Foundation Building. The…
Watch a Little Girl Absolutely Lose It to This Psychedelic Didgeridoo Player
“It’s scratch and sniff,” says Marc Mueller as a young man reaches for his business card. “It smells like me right now.” He gives a somewhat…
NADA to See Here: Best of the New Art Dealers Alliance Fair
The annual NADA New York art fair kicked off yesterday in Soho. With a new space (Skylight Clarkson North) and a new time of year…
Designers Search For a Way to Confront the Immigration Crisis
Design is something that most of us have a vague interest in, if only while furniture shopping. But what does a plebeian like me, to…
Sanctuary Restaurant Movement Takes Root on Lower East Side
News of President Trump’s tightened deportation plan together with the forty ICE arrests made in NYC last week and the earlier executive order restricting the…
What A Day Without Immigrants Looks Like in NYC
Uniting under #adaywithoutimmigrants, businesses across the nation remained closed today in powerful defiance of Trump’s crackdown on immigration. The protesters, enraged that Immigration and Customs…
Ralliers Try to Seduce Mayor Into Blocking East Village Dorm
https://vimeo.com/204107539 Residents, activists, community groups and their elected representatives gathered at the steps of City Hall yesterday afternoon with a Valentine’s Day message for Mayor…
Bertolt Brecht’s Grandson Has an Obsessive Chocolate Disorder
“Some very unsavory people threatened me into opening this chocolate shop,” says Sebastien Brecht. Brecht is the owner of Obsessive Chocolate Disorder (OCD), an artisanal…
Return of the Chinatown Snowman, and More Snow Day Shots
Winter Storm Niko dropped up to 14 inches of snow on the city today– the heaviest storm of the season in our post-climate-change world. With…
City Doesn’t Have Greenbacks For Rehab of Sara D. Roosevelt Park
“It’s not so good, huh?” laughs Kathleen Webster, president of the Sara D. Roosevelt Park Coalition as she refers to the D- grade that the…