In Japan, a tiny studio apartment is often known as a “rabbit hutch”–usually a cramped little space for young people to get a foothold in the…
John Colapinto On the ‘Dangerous’ Literary Sex Novel That Put Him in the Eye of a Tweet Storm
John Colapinto has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2008, and is responsible for this brilliant piece on used cooking oil theft, among others.…
Tim Burton Theme Bar Opening Soon; Hot Sauce Expo This Weekend
Ecuadorians held a vigil in Maria Hernandez Park for the victims of Saturday’s devastating earthquake in that nation. [Bushwick Daily] According to a bartender at…
Five Upcoming Shows That Should Be On Your Radar
Sediment Club, New England Patriots, Guardian Alien, Bugs & Rats, Worse Friday April 22, 8 pm at Aviv: $8 It’s true that I inevitably run…
The After-Bern: Twitter Reacts to Neighborhood Primary Results
If you aren’t celebrating 4/20 right now, you’re probably still hashing out the winners and losers of New York’s Primary Day. Luckily for every election nerd,…
Magical Mystery Tour: I Did Record Store Day On a Yellow School Bus
The yellow Blue Bird school bus creakily climbed the ascent of the Williamsburg Bridge, the vinyl seat was hot against my legs, the air from…
Performance Picks: Experimental Fest, Macaulay Prom, Wormhole Party, and More
WEDNESDAY Wednesdays With A “W”: Wormholes At The City Reliquary, 370 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg. 7pm. $7. More info here. This is the second iteration of…
Greenpoint Open Studios is the Local Artist Fest That the G Train Keeps Real
While Bushwick Open Studios is fighting back against the bro-vasion of a festival that started out, anyway, as a means of celebrating local artists and the…
Demetri Martin Aims For ‘Box Office Gold’ With a Bicoastal Dramedy, Dean
“I thought a movie about a dead mom would be very appealing,” Demetri Martin, er, deadpanned after a screening of his debut feature, Dean, at…
Family of East Village Explosion Victim Sues; St. Mark’s Church Turns 50
A victim of the Spring 2015 East Village explosion, Nicholas Figueroa, is the subject of a wrongful death lawsuit his family filed recently in the state’s…