Our cat cafe dreams have been realized: the Bowery will be home to Purina ONE Cat Cafe, a pop-up coffee shop with free food and drinks,…
Bushwick Open Studios Gets… NEWD
Art Basel and the Armory Show have always had their share of satellite fairs, but they haven’t really sprouted up around Bushwick Open Studios. Until…
Arrests Made in a Pair of Bushwick Shootings
A 14-year-old Bushwick resident, Richard Gonzalez, has been charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon following a shooting that occurred Saturday morning outside…
Those Stolen Snoop and Mandela Paintings Have Been Found and Returned
The missing portraits of Nelson Mandela and Snoop Lion are back on the premises of the Cotton Candy Machine, the Williamsburg gallery where they were…
Kim’s Video & Music Is Closing
This is not what we wanted to see on our lunch break. A couple of days after Record Store Day got us feeling good about…
BangOn Threw an Epic Easter Island Warehouse Rave
Last time we checked in with roving rave producers BangOn, they were blowing up a reproduction of the Titanic and using it as an inflatable…
Adam Rapp’s New Film Features Fellow Villagers Sam Rockwell, Natasha Lyonne and Some Atomic Passion
Adam Rapp’s new film – featuring the playwright, novelist and screenwriter’s East Village neighbors Sam Rockwell and Natasha Lyonne – had its Tribeca Film Festival…
More Landlord Strife for Steve Cannon; Bartender Sues Over Headbutt
When emptying his East Village apartment–and the longtime home of his gallery, A Gathering of Tribes—Steve Cannon removed a wall painted by artist David Hammonds, replacing it…
Onur Tukel On His Bushwick Vampire Comedy Featuring Alex Karpovsky of Girls
One of the buzzed about movies at the Tribeca Film Festival this season is Bushwick filmmaker Onur Tukel’s Summer of Blood, a vampire mumblecore rom…
Natasha Lyonne and the Broad City Girls Talked Lou Reed, Hangovers and Pocket Pussies
Last night Kevin Corrigan interviewed three stars who’ve each completed a very successful first season on TV (or Netflix). Seems he’s hoping their good fortune…