William Powhida, a New York-based artist best known for his 2011 stunt of putting on a “VIP Douchebag”-inspired performance art show at the gallery Marlborough…
Jimmy McMillan Wants to Eat Your Cookie
Mayoral also-ran Jimmy McMillan has always been concerned about world hunger (“not only is the rent too damn high, the food is too damn high,” he recently…
Bushwick Is Becoming A Foodie Haven; Inside a Dilapidated Synagogue
A woman was shot in the chest in a Bushwick building Sunday. [NY Daily News] Police have released video of a man who allegedly assaulted…
Allen Ginsberg’s Old Business Card, On the Occasion of His Post Office’s Closing
With the Peter Stuyvesant Station post office closing today and moving over to a retail-only location next week, it seems like a good time to…
Bacon Toothpaste Is Half Off As This Novelty Store Leaves Its Home of 30 Years
When a reader wrote in to tell us Alphabets was closing its original location on Avenue A we wondered where we’d get our mustache-shaped cookie…
Celebrate the Release of Outdoor Gallery at This Indoor Gallery Done Up By Street Artists
Tomorrow night there’ll be a party in Williamsburg to celebrate the release of Outdoor Gallery, a book of photographs that author Yoav Litvin hopes will…
This Dance Studio’s Move Means Free Massages, Smoothies and Reiki Sessions
Yet another Williamsburg business has moved to Greenpoint in search of lower rent, and at their “Re-Grand Opening” Sunday, you can score a free massage,…
Will Fussell Of Mood Rings Settled For This Tattoo Instead Of an Iggy Pop One
Welcome to Why That Tat?, in which we bring you the origin stories of the best/strangest/most hilarious/bizarre tattoos we encounter. When we last chatted with…
Starving Artist? NewPatron Will Find You a Medici
Unless you can survive without sleep or food or your parents have lots and lots of money, it’s tough being an emerging artist in New…
The Mac and Cheese Bagel Is a Thing That Exists
Sometimes you wake up in desperate need of coffee, turn to Seamless to see if Tompkins Square Bagels will deliver a cappuccino, and then you…