Mainland is about as Bedford + Bowery as bands get: three of the guys used to work at the Bowery Hotel together, and the Brooklyn-based foursome…
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Wants You to Try and Altar Everything
There might be no other artist breathing today who lives their art as deeply and consistently as Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. The renowned occultist and “wrecker…
What’s a ‘Reverse Speakeasy’? We’re About to Find Out
It’s being billed as a “reverse speakeasy,” but you could also call it a reverse mullet: party in the front, business in the back. Wednesday, the…
Nas and Yeasayer Playing Free Show at House of Vans
The free shows at House of Vans in Greenpoint have always been a Reason to Live in New York, but on the occasion of its…
BYO Jams to the Sunday Party at Halcyon’s New Williamsburg Location
Resilient underground-electronic record store Halcyon opened its fourth incarnation earlier this month, inside of Williamsburg club Output. The hybrid cafe/record shop, which launched in Carroll Gardens in 1999,…
Chinese Developer Converts Nursing Home to Condos; Iggy Pop Poses Nude
A Chinese developer purchased the Rivington Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on the Lower East Side, a future condominium, for $116 million. [Wall Street Journal]…
High Atop PS 84, a New Hydroponic Greenhouse Grows Some Sweet Herb
“Do you know what hydroponics is?” asked Haylee, a willowy 6th grader with a flower-crown headband. No, she wasn’t trying to sell me weed. She…
Now You Can See Everywhere Girls, Broad City and All Your Other NYC Shows Have Shot
Who needs a Girls tour bus? Finally, the diehard couch potatoes among us will be able to check out every haunt Ilana, Aziz or Lena have graced…
The 1975-mania Sweeps the LES as Hundreds Queue Up to Meet the Boys
We expected a ton of fans of The 1975 (as many as 1,975 of them!) to descend on the Lower East Side this morning, and…
We Played the Adults-Only Bushwick Board Game– Now an App!
In 2011, Bushwick-based prop master Jan-Luc Van Damme began crafting the Bushwick Board Game, a Game of Life-meets-Cards Against Humanity “silly underground legend” that was…