Visual artist Lunar New Year spent this very humid day on a raised platform, painting a mural on the wall next to Brooklyn Fox, on the…
Ajay Naidu On His New Web Series, the ‘Office Space’ Reunion, and ‘Bad Santa 2’
Boy, are we psyched to have way more of our friend Ajay Naidu in our life: the actor most loved as Samir in “Office Space”…
A Rider Got Mugged But Other Than That, Citi Bike Hasn’t Been Hell On Wheels
Thought Citi Bike would result in “total carnage”? WRONG. Unless you count some punny vandalism, the apocalypse on two wheels has yet to materialize. In…
Drunk Folks, Don’t Get Into This Car Unless You Want Be Robbed at Gunpoint
Pro tip: if you’re walking home from the bar and a white, four-door sedan offers you a ride, do not get in. The driver may…
Deborah Brown Is Showing on the LES While Going Big in Bushwick
Tonight, some of Deborah Brown’s bright, surreal, almost abstract paintings — inspired by the Bushwick landscape — will be featured in the opening of a…
Wheeee! Milk and Pull Brings More Coffee to Bushwick
So many coffee spots are opening in Bushwick, it’s getting hard to keep track. We were so excited about AP Coffee and then Strangeways that…
Inside Lake Street, the New Bar From Members of The Hold Steady, Spoon
When we first brought word that rockers Bobby Drake (The Hold Steady, w/o.), Frank Bevan (w/o.), Rob Pope (Spoon), Eric Odness (The Wanted, Primitive Weapons) were…
Titus Andronicus Sells Singing Telegrams, ‘Biggest Block Party in East Williamsburg’
For $50, Patrick Stickles, front-man of the Brooklyn-based rock outfit Titus Andronicus, will deliver a singing telegram right to your door. [The L] The real-estate…
‘Bowery Boys’ Reimagines the Really Bad, Really Old Days of the Lower East Side
Crooked political machines, race-tinged violence, rampant disease, and a gross disparity of wealth: just another day in Five Points in 1853. “Bowery Boys,” a new…
Bushwick Is Burning: Underground Trap Raves Keep It Weird
It’s 3 a.m. at Passion Lounge, the heavily mirrored club on Broadway previously known as Angels, and the roving underground party known as Ultra Velvet…