Rudy’s — the rock-n-roll barbershop that Alex Calderwood and Wade Weigel launched in Seattle in 1993 before going on to create the Ace Hotel —…
Sweatshop, an Aussie-Style Coffee Spot Where You Can Buy the Barista’s Socks
Feel guilty every time you turn a coffee shop into your personal workspace? No need to at this new Williamsburg spot — the owners of Sweatshop use the…
They’re Putting the ‘Art’ in Cartography and Taking Subway Maps to New Places
There are few useful maps that blur the lines between reality and fantasy as completely as a subway map. Curves are smoothed, the space between…
‘Starrs’ of Bushwick Collide For Some Literary-Musical Performance
For those of us who use “right off of the Jefferson L” to describe where we live, and Roarke Menzies are familiar faces at the…
Office Building Rises on Kent, Uruguayan Food Comes to LES
Thanks to a $70 million construction loan, an eight-story luxe office building will rise in Williamsburg at 25 Kent Avenue. [] Box Kite’s former chefs…
Williamsburg Dance Destination TBA Tries to Bounce Back From Shutdown
TBA Brooklyn, a stripped-down South Williamsburg bunker for house and techno music that operated away from the flash of the Northside’s clubbing district, has been closed by the…
James Franco Screened a New Film, Held Forth About Teaching Among ‘Shitheads’
James Franco drew a line when he appeared at the Strand last week and is making headlines on Gawker today, but only a few dozen…
Rostarr’s New Mural On the Roof Of The Standard Will Floor You
Rostarr, the artist who did a mural for our pop-up newsroom a little over a year ago, has taken things to a whole new level…
Meet the Kitties of Meow Parlour, NYC’s First Permanent Cat Cafe
Just minutes from now, at precisely noon today, New York City’s first permanent cat café will open its doors, and your Instagram feed will look…
Broad City Secretly Previewed Season 2, Gave Em Something to Talk About
The tweet came from UCB on Saturday afternoon: “SECRET REVEALED: @broadcity live will have the last show of their tour TONIGHT AT UCB CHELSEA.”