Two androgynous sisters, their cheeks caked with jewel-sized tears, embracing in silvery black-and-white. Contrasted against the downtown street, with its storied past muzzled by high-priced…
Honor Among Thieves Wants to Give New York ‘Its Sense of Adventure Back’
Even on Memorial Day weekend, when half the city seemed to be out of town, Gramercy Theatre drew a boisterous crowd to see Honor Among Thieves supporting Ten Ton…
Can We Talk About the VitaminWater Jukebox On Bedford Avenue?
When Williamsburg longtimer Bliss Cafe closed at the end of last month, Free Williamsburg snarked that it “will be missed when it’s replaced by Zara,…
Di Fara Preps for W-Burg; The Bean Will Replace St. Mark’s Bookshop
The man who attacked a set of college-age brothers with brass knuckles and a knife this February on Hester Street will serve community service, per…
Performance Picks: MTA Love Poems, Jeb Bush Meets Sam Shepard, and More
WEDNESDAY Holding: A Queer Black Love Story Wednesday, July 12 at Secret Project Robot, 9 pm: FREE (donation suggested) This performance is presented as part…
LES Stalwart Cup & Saucer to Shutter After 75 Years
Cup & Saucer, a throwback luncheonette that has occupied the same quiet spot on Canal Street for more than 75 years, is likely closing, Bedford…
George Clinton On His Role in Flying Lotus’s Kuso: ‘I Thought I Was On Drugs Again’
We warned you that Flying Lotus’s debut feature, Kuso, would be one of the grossest, weirdest movies in recent memory. Sure enough, after last night’s Rooftop…
The Museum of VHS Is On Track to Make Its NYC Debut
Though the final VCRs were manufactured in Japan last year, VHS is far from extinct. Forty years after it was introduced, collectors still prospect many…
The Water Table Loses Its Dinner Boat, Looks Toward a Cloudy Horizon
In April we shared the sad news that The Water Table’s boat, the Revolution, was hit by a large tugboat, forcing them to postpone their…
Renovated Essex Street Market to Debut Next Sept.; Issa Rae’s BK Brunch Party
CW Pencil Enterprise became the third business temporarily sidelined in its Lower East Side building by a reported mold outbreak. [Bowery Boogie] Per last week’s…