William S. Burroughs isn’t the only counterculture deity being feted with a centenial. The late Sun Ra would have been about a month shy of…
New Gallery On the LES; Pop-Ups in McCarren Park
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Per the terms of a plea bargain, the man who allegedly threw bleach in a rabbi’s face on a Williamsburg sidewalk in…
A Car Slammed Into a Hardware Store in the East Village
A car jumped the curb and slammed into Saifee Hardware in the East Village this afternoon.
Liza Dye Is Out of the Hospital and Doing Stand-Up About Getting Hit By a Train
Comedian Liza Dye, who earlier this month told us about getting hit by a train at the Broadway-Lafayette station in mid-February, was released from Bellevue…
The Lost Lectures Found Their Way to NYC, With Dev Hynes, Amanda Lepore and More
Not only did New York get its first taste of the Hump! Film Festival, but on Friday it was introduced to The Lost Lectures. If you…
In East Williamsburg, a Fresh Take On Martha Cooper’s ’70s LES Photos
The challenge is always the same: how to translate the urgency, the lawlessness, the serendipity of discovery inherent in street art and graffiti into the…
After 11 Years, The Sun Has Set On the Sunburnt Cow
The first thing we noticed when we walked into the Sunburnt Cow yesterday was the penetrating smell of vomit. And the first thing that happened?…
Dan Savage Did It at The Vatican, Has an Amazeballs Story About a Sex Party
Last night, before screening 20 of the best shorts that have been submitted to his Hump! Film Festival since it launched in Seattle in 2005, Dan Savage…
Woman Killed by Train at Astor Place; Kim’s Tries to Relocate
As you can see from Scott Lynch’s photo above, the latest installment of the Centre-Fuge project — part of Lower East Side History Month —…
Cat Cafe Scratch Pad: Day 2
It’s the weekend! Maybe we’ll clock out and head over to Bowery and Kenmare to experience NYC’s first Cat Cafe! Oops, scratch that idea. For the…