Paul Krassner sometimes gets touted as a forerunner to comics like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who blend fact and fiction into combustible political cocktails. But the Daily Show can…
Protesters Fracked Up Andrew Cuomo’s Book Signing
It’s safe to say Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s appearance at Barnes & Noble in Union Square last night wasn’t quite as electrifying as Russell Brand’s at…
Trouble Every Day For Frank Zappa’s Former Flame
Frank Zappa’s onetime mistress wants to release a new album, but first she’ll have to overcome a failed fundraiser and — worse still — a bureaucratic nightmare of…
Amidst Clean-Up Efforts, Neighbors Vent About a Controversial Homeless Shelter
A group of Bowery locals and activists are once again voicing concern about a homeless shelter that has long been linked to various crimes in…
Villagers Ask Cops to Do Something About Cyclists and Squatters
After a summer recess, the Ninth Precinct’s community council resumed its monthly meetings last night, drawing a large turnout of locals to the East Fifth…
Norman Siegel Wants ‘Lots of Reform in the NYPD,’ But Is OK With Stop-and-Frisk
Insisting he is not “anti-cop,” only “anti-bad cop,” civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel last night called for the creation of a New York State prosecutor…
Rent Hike? Knickerbocker Village Tenants Aren’t Hearing It
More than 120 tenants of Knickerbocker Village crammed into a fifth-floor room in lower Manhattan yesterday to protest a rent increase calculated at more than…
Cleaner Streets, But Dirty Needles Are Still a Cause for Concern
It was dark by the time members of the East Village walkabout group entered Tompkins Square Park, carrying plastic bags containing clean syringes, sterilized cookers…
Ed Sanders Had a Fuggin Amazing 75th Birthday
Last night at Bowery Poetry Club, friends of counterculture icon Ed Sanders marked his 75th birthday by lauding him variously as a journalist, an investigative poet, a utopian anarchist,…
In Williamsburg, A Hidden Refuge For the Undocumented and Incurable
The former convent on Hewes Street is a mystery house: there’s no sign outside announcing its name or mission. People walk in and out of the two-story…