Last week, we gave you the heads up about Exponential Festival, a cavalcade of local productions that are “all experimental and strange in nature, but…
Catch East Village Royalty (Iggy Pop, Philip Glass) at These Regal Venues
Two members of East Village royalty, Philip Glass and Iggy Pop, have upcoming gigs at venues that befit their majesty. Iggy, whose throne is in Miami…
Bedford Ave’s Verb Cafe Now in G’point, Serving Hot Coffee Sans ‘Cold Interactions’
It was one of the last vestiges of a bygone Williamsburg– a grungy, cavernous little coffee shop with worn-down wood floors and a lifetime of…
Performance Picks: Salon, Salon …Macaulay Culkin?
This week is a week of variety… shows, that is. Plop down at a show featuring way more than just one performance. Take it all…
Slashing at Broadway-Lafayette; Zosia Mamet in Patti Smith Biopic
Carmen Rivera, a 71-year-old seamstress, needed 20 stitches yesterday after she was slashed while waiting for the D train at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in…
And Now, Your Moment of Jonas…
The Chinatown snowman is back in the New York groove. The oldie but goodie, spotted at Canal and Essex this morning, joins our other favorite…
A ‘Quite Unorthodox’ Artists Residency Puts Bushwick into Global Perspective
I had a hard time believing I was in the right place, what with shattered glass scattered everywhere and the absence of a sign. I’ve…
Pass a Tortilla Factory and Enter a Phantasmagoria of Art
Rice paper aerobics exercises, blotchy watercolor eeriness, and vast colorful landscapes all intermingle in a dance of shapes and shades in Phantasmagoria, an exhibit of…
Bummer: Lost Weekend Waves Goodbye to LES
If you were bummed when the Parks Department declared no surfing during the blizzard, you’re probably familiar with Lost Weekend, the Lower East Side’s haven for surfheads and poseurs…
Facebook Censors a Bushwick Gallery Over Artist’s Toilet-Squatting Stunt
For the second time since his eponymous Bushwick gallery opened, Christopher Stout logged onto Facebook to find that his account had been frozen. The gallerist, whose…