Man, it is hot today (it’s hot, too). With temps hitting the high 90s, the National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory from noon…
Bar Goto Is About to Be Your New Go-To For Japanese-Style Cocktails and Tapas
The rapidly upscaling Lower Lower East Side — which recently got a new nightspot and French bistro — adds a cocktail destination to its ranks…
Shows: Gaze at Synth-Psych Legends and Dance to the Sound of Crack Recovery
We’ve got quite a week in music ahead of us, with no shortage of neuron-twisting, brain ‘sploding variety. A week in shows wouldn’t be the…
Talks and Readings: Letterman Writer, Iranian Women, and the Quest For 78s
Time again for Word Up, our weekly roundup of talks and readings. TUESDAY Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against…
Watch Alex Karpovsky Slip into a Gown For ‘Actor Seeking Role’
Why settle for catching glimpses of Alex Karpovsky on the set of Girls when you can see him in a genu-whine short film? “Actor Seeking…
Some Gut-Pleasin’ Reasons to See Films in Tompkins
As if those Rockaway film fests weren’t exciting enough, the good news for al-fresco cinephiles keeps coming. Films in Tompkins sends word that it’s hosting…
Police Brutality Protest Spills into Streets of Williamsburg
Protesters affiliated with Black Lives Matter and NYC Shut It Down briefly took over Williamsburg’s busiest intersection last night and marched through the neighborhood while police…
Trash and Vaudeville Leaves St. Marks; Williamsburg Gets a Ralph Lauren
Trash and Vaudeville plans to relocate from its 40-year-old digs on St. Marks Place to E. 7th Street this fall. [EV Grieve] According to surveillance…
At New East Williamsburg Bar, The Topaz, Sip a Cocktail Named for a Death Yarn
I was in the grips of a full-on Sunday hangover, on a caffeine-addled regret-stroll through East Williamsburg, when I locked eyes with a bar I’d…
Go Watch an Orchestra and Circus Perform Together in a Bushwick Warehouse
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. This Friday night in a Bushwick warehouse, almost 1,000 people are gathering to watch a performance of…