In the middle of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, a tin full of dried worms was passed around, and I was strongly encouraged to sample…
Orange You Glad You Didn’t Wait 4 Hours to Get Into CJ Hendry’s ‘House of Color’?
Between the Egg House on the Lower East Side and the Dream Machine in Greenpoint, there’s no shortage of Insta-friendly environments in the city right…
With 760K Followers and a New Book, Cartoonist Mari Andrew Asks: ‘Am I There Yet?’
Mari Andrew is a fan of winding and convoluted roads. One of her illustrations, “Procrastination: The Videogame,” portrays the obstacles between ourselves and a productive…
This Line Inspired By Victorian Wax Corpses Really Made Our Fashion Week
Ashley Rose Couture’s collections have always been a mix of the bizarre and the Harper’s Bazaar, but on Tuesday the Massachusetts-based designer really outdid herself…
Scratch-N-Sniff: Artist Pairs Paintings and Perfumes
Okay, it’s not quite a Scratch N Sniff art exhibit, but it’s close. On a Tipped Chair, an olfactory-visual show at the Gallery at The…
Hexcellent News: Occult Bookstore Catland Is Launching a Magazine
If print is dead, Catland is determined to commune with the spirits. The Bushwick occult bookstore is planning to launch a print magazine, come Spring equinox. At the…
Bushwick’s Living Gallery Opens an East Village Outpost With BYO Art
Back in June, when Joseph Meloy and Alexandria Hodgkins saw an ad for a storefront at 53 Avenue B, they fell in love with the…
One of the City’s Trippiest Troupes, Company XIV, Has Found a New Home in Bushwick
For the past years, Company XIV has twirled, leaped and pranced– and not just during their bawdy, outre reimaginings of Snow White and The Nutcracker.…
Comic Artist Liana Finck On Her Solo Show and Getting Hazed By the New Yorker
In one of Liana Finck’s cartoons, a man and a woman sit at a bar. “I want to be upfront with you. I am a…
Toshi Salvino Is a ‘Living Doll’– and Definitely Not the American Girl Kind
When Toshi Salvino met me at a café in East Williamsburg, she sported wide-striped tights, chunky platform boots, black shorts, and a black t-shirt portraying…