If you’re doing some last-minute costume shopping, a) don’t even think about going as zombie Lou Reed, and b) don’t bother going to Vice Versa,…
7-Eleven Has Opened On Avenue A, and No 7-Eleven Has Something to Say About It
It happened on Halloween: 7-Eleven opened at the corner of Avenue A and East 11th Street, to the, em, horror of many an East Villager. Or…
Cower in Fear, For These Are the Kingdom’s Darkest, Bleakest Bands
To mark the occasion of this most blasphemous of holidays, B+B spoke with David Castillo, the ordained organizer of diabolical sacraments at Greenpoint’s darkest metal dungeon.…
Trick-or-Treaters, We’ve Found the Mother Lode
All day long, trick-or-treaters have been hitting us up for candy (our one pouch of Big League Chew went fast), but one thing’s for sure:…
The Church of Satan Thinks You’re All a Bunch of Amateurs
In response to an interview request, the nice people over at the Church of Satan were kind enough to direct B+B to their Halloween press…
It’s Fun to Eat at the YMCA! Seinfeld’s Ex-Chef Served 250 Years of LES Cuisine
The e-mail arrived at 11 a.m. three weeks ago: Jerry Seinfeld’s former private chef would be cooking a seven-course meal based on the history of…
The East Village Just Got an Anti-Banker Bar Named After the Hero of Fight Club
A Fight Club-themed bar called Durden opened last night in Nightingale Lounge’s former space on 13th and Second Ave (right near the forthcoming Westside Market),…
This San Francisco Transplant Is Picking Up Where 3rd Ward Left Off
With 3rd Ward closing and General Assembly discontinuing its co-working space, it doesn’t seem like the greatest time to open a new workspace in the…
Missed Nirvana Last Night? See Two More Bands Cover ‘Em Tonight
If you missed 285 Kent’s Halloween show last night, then you missed Butter the Children doing the Pixies and Dead Stars covering Nirvana — but…
The East Village Is Getting a Westside Market
First Brooklyn’s Union Market comes to Houston Street and now this: Westside Market — the family-owned supermarket chain known, among other things, for its funny cheese labels, is…