Brace yourselves, the behemoth is coming: the Lower East Side monster development known as Essex Crossing is (sort of close) to completing the first of…
Performance Picks: Western Wildness, 2-Year Anniversaries, Bits N’ Buddy Holly
WEDNESDAY Wednesday With Westerns! Wednesday August 24, 7 pm at City Reliquary; $7. The City Reliquary, a tiny, quirky wonderland of a museum, will be…
Cancel the TV Party, New Museum Is Having a Raymond Pettibon Retrospective
It’s been two years since Raymond Pettibon’s surfer art went on display on the Upper East Side. Wait, wha? The artist who did the anarchic…
Tim Murphy, Author of Christadora, On the East Village Then and Now
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the East Village in the 90s? Junkies passed out on Avenue A while…
Official Art Gallery of Satan Comes Back With Its Tail Between Its Legs
As is JJ Brine’s way, he’s hesitant to speak about the past. Even the very recent past, when Brine– Satanic gallerist, practitioner of “Post-human” art, founder…
Offices Replaces Brewery; Party to Save The Muse
A female cyclist claims she was physically assaulted by an Uber driver at a busy intersection on August 4, but the police officers who witnessed…
Ketamine: The Musical Proves Much More Stimulating Than Expected
Admittedly, when I heard House of Yes was doing a show called Ketamine: The Musical, I wanted to roll my eyes. I imagined a glitzy…
Backyard Wrestling Has Come to Brooklyn
If you were recently enjoying a peaceful night in your quiet apartment in Park Slope when, all of a sudden, a crowd of nearby 20-and-30-somethings…
New Millennial-Friendly Hotel Threatens Historic East Village Tenements
Yesterday afternoon a group of vocal protesters gathered along East 11th Street, facing a row of historic brick buildings they’re intent on saving from demolition at the…
Four Readings: Margo Jefferson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Americans in Revolt
TUESDAY Margo Jefferson and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah August 23, 7pm at Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th Street. Margo Jefferson’s acclaimed memoir Negroland, which The New…