Williamsburg definitely isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think Super Bowl, but as evidenced by Grub Street’s rundown of non-douchey places to…
12 Things You Might Not Have Known About William S. Burroughs, Per His Biographer
A week before a 100th birthday concert for William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, author of the new biography Call Me Burroughs, dropped by The Strand to talk about…
50 Filmmakers Created This Delightfully Glitchy Reboot of RoboCop
Adam Green’s remake of Aladdin and the Bushwick remake of Wizard of Oz may or may not happen, but this is very real: the group…
Magnolia Is Giving Away Cupcakes in Honor of Justin Timberlake’s Birthday Because, Uh…
If you bring your MasterCard to Magnolia Bakery today, you’ll get a free cupcake in honor of Justin Timberlake’s 33rd birthday. No, they don’t have…
Here’s an Early Look at the New Museum’s Fantastic Pawel Althamer Exhibit
Polish artist Paweł Althamer — whose sculptural figures of himself, friends, family, and neighbors pull off the neat trick of being simultaneously friendly and slightly…
Lena Dunham Will Milk a Cow on ‘Billy on the Street’: Get FREE TIX to the Season Premiere
We’re helping give away tickets for an invite-only shindig celebrating the new season of Billy on the Street — and you don’t even have to get Quizzed…
Lindsay Lohan Caught the Debut of ‘New York’s Hottest New Band’ Last Night
“This is fun,” said John Eatherly midway through the first gig of the East Village’s newest indie darlings, Public Access TV, at Niagara yesterday evening. Of…
This Woman Says the Chelsea Hotel’s New Owner Offered Her Nearly Half a Million to Move
The plastered on a lobby door of the historic Hotel Chelsea could be lifted any day now, allowing for a new round of renovations in…
Crown Heights Is the ‘New Williamsburg,’ East New York Is the ‘Next Bushwick’
Is East New York the “next Bushwick”? [Untapped Cities] And is Crown Heights the “new Williamsburg”? [Curbed] The owners of the Jarmulowsky Bank building have decided to restore its…
Last Chance to Worship Dead Celebrities at This Freaky Pop-Up Reliquary
The celebrity cemetery on Broome Street has no headstones, graves or flowers. Through Sunday, the Whitebox Art Center will display 51 portraits from British painter…