The outrage was more or less instantaneous when Gerber Group announced that the restaurant inside of the new Hotel Indigo would be named after Lower East Side…
Performance Picks: Puppets, Tinder, Playing With Gender
This week, you can eat turkey and see shows. I guess you could do that any week, but it’ll feel more significant now.
Bushwick Gets a ‘Generator’; Turkey’s Nest Pranks Patrons
Yesterday morning a man suffered a broken arm when he was hit by an M22 bus while crossing Madison Street on the Lower East Side.…
Dromedary Bar Will Serve Up Tiki Drinks and Fried-Cricket Deviled Eggs
Bushwick already has a heck of a tiki bar in El Cortez, but soon it’ll get some company in the form of Dromedary. Michael Lombardozzi, the drinks guy…
The Walls Have Eyes at This Interactive Exhibit Where Tech And Art Collide
Art openings are interesting entities. They’re often more of a social event than a chance to really take in art. At the opening of MediaLounge, a…
PC Worship’s Basement Hysteria is Out, Justin Frye Guides Us (Partway) Through the Haze
Let’s face it, this coming weekend is pretty much guaranteed to be a wash of regret and sorrow. But there’s a light at the end…
Pour Out a Frozen Titanic For John ‘Cha Cha’ Ciarcia, Unofficial Mayor of Little Italy
John “Cha Cha” Ciarcia, the “Unofficial Mayor of Little Italy,” has died of cancer. The sad news comes from his friend, WOR radio host Joey Reynolds. Cha…
Vaginal Davis Returns to New York, Taking on Sculpture and Mozart
Vaginal Davis is undeniably one of the most prolific artists to come out of the ’70s punk scene. The black, inter-sex born, self-declared outsider artist…
Former Drone Operators Say Paris Attacks Shouldn’t Justify More Strikes
With the U.S. “reasonably certain” that a drone strike killed the much reviled Jihadi John and a wave of recent attacks boosting our worst fears…
Stabbing Near Wilson Ave Station; Woody Allen Mosaic on the LES
Yesterday afternoon a 27-year-old man was stabbed multiple times near the Wilson Avenue L train station. He was hospitalized in stable condition. [NY Daily News]…