TUESDAY Nadja Spiegelman presents I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This in conversation with Molly Fischer August 2, 7:30pm at Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton…
Four Readings: This Month’s Prose Bowl, Sarah Anderson’s Webcomics Come to Print, and a Road Trip Gone Wrong
TUESDAY The Prose Bowl XII July 19, 6:30pm at Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street at Richardson Street, Williamsburg. The Prose Bowl (billed as “one…
Comedian Hits the Motherlode, Plays 16 Moms Onstage
Carrie McCrossen has moms on her mind. More specifically, she has about 16 moms on her mind. There’s hardcore career mom, there’s “overtly accommodating of…
A By-the-Public, For-the-Public Art Project Takes Shape Under the FDR
The Department of Transportation’s newest pet project has been the DOT Art Initiative, which partners with artists and community organizations to bring some color into…
Missed Your Docs Appointment at Tribeca? Nitehawk’s Summer Series Is the Cure
In case you needed yet another film festival to bookmark this summer, Nitehawk Cinema has announced the lineup for its third annual summer documentary series.…
Toto, We’re Not in the Theater Anymore: Metrograph Launches Outdoor Films With Wizard of Oz
The Lower East Side’s new cinephile paradise is joining the city’s summer tradition of (mostly free) outdoor film screenings. Next Tuesday, Metrograph will be showing The…
Four Readings: Klingon Blood Wine, Abortion Stories, and Refugee Poems
THURSDAY Ed Gross presents: The Fifty-Year Mission July 7, 7pm at Word Bookstore, at Villain LLC at 50 N 3rd Street. Trekkies, this one’s for…
Leave Your Mark On Wallplay Tonight Before It Leaves The LES
Today is Wallplay’s last day on the Lower East Side before it has to vacate the premises at 118 Orchard Street, and if you’ll remember,…
City’s Latest ‘Asphalt Activation’ Wants to Turn Your Frown Upside-Down
Amidst all the pigeon poop, garbage juice, and sundry other mystery substances littering the streets of New York, there are actually some hard-working people out…
This Artist Goes Around Turning Trash Into Bags of Gold
It’s no secret: New York in the summer stinks. Most of the time, that overpoweringly unpleasant smell is coming from the garbage bags whose contents…