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…
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…
What Happens When You Stop and Talk to a Clipboard Person
I can come up with a handful of half-decent excuses to not talk to a canvasser on the street, ranging from the whiny to the…
Performance Picks: Chatbots Gone Rogue, Snowed-in Radio Plays, Psychedelic Burlesque
THURSDAY Bordello: Psychedelic Thursday, January 26 at Bizarre Bushwick, 10 pm: $10 suggested donation Sinister and sultry variety show Bordello, hosted by Madame Vivien V,…
Protesters Urge Council Member to Curb Luxury Housing in Chinatown and LES
Perhaps you thought that the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side sounded angry earlier this year when about 60 activists associated with…
Performance Picks: Fainting Clowns, Doom Spirituals, and So Much More
WEDNESDAY Portrait of myself as my father Continues through September 17 at BAM Fisher, 7:30 pm: $25. Choreographer Nora Chipaumire, born in Zimbabwe and based in…
Get Sugared Up On National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, This Thursday
Did you know this Thursday is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day? It might get a little confusing, as National Chocolate Chip (sans cookie) Day is…
Grab a Lotto Ticket With Your Indie Erotica at This Bookstore and 99-Cent Shop
“Retail diversity” is taking on a whole new meaning in the Lower East Side. Scrappy indie publishers Badlands Unlimited, launched in 2010, recently moved from a studio…
Embittered By Corruption and Displacement, LES Neighbors Coalition Demands to See the Mayor
At an emotional Lower East Side town hall meeting on Saturday afternoon, hundreds of concerned residents, a number of small business owners, and representatives of…