Watching The Final Year is a little bit like time traveling. The film, which opened the DOC NYC Film Festival last night, charts the last…
Scorsese Transforms the LES Into ’70s Little Italy, For The Irishman
This week Lower East Side hipsters may fret that the neighborhood’s invasion of piercing salons and beard-trimming shops has come to an end. Storefronts on…
Derrick Adams Stays Focused On ‘Triumphant Moments’ in New Art Show
Though he’s been a prominent artist for far too long to be saddled with labels like “meteoric rise,” it’s hard to fully convey just how…
Thank You, Come Again? Hari Kondabolu Explores ‘The Problem With Apu’
In the upcoming documentary The Problem with Apu, Brooklyn-based comic Hari Kondabolu explores what happens when a beloved cartoon character is also an offensive caricature for…
Russ & Daughters Shows Off Its Future Brooklyn Outpost, Opening Early Next Year
Back in February, Russ & Daughters announced that it was opening a multipurpose space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in a World War II-era building…
Unwrapping a New York Mystery: The Fluctuating Deli Sandwich Price
What I meant to say was, “Lettuce?! Who puts lettuce on a bagel?” But what I said instead was, “Sure.” That’s when I learned about…
Hear Jonathan Lethem Talk, Lee Ranaldo Play at Premiere of Sonic Youther Doc
Doc NYC kicks off today, and there are still tickets left to one of the documentary festival’s highlights: the New York City premiere of a…
Alamo Is Throwing a Gremlins Party, But the Ticket Order Page Has a Gremlin In It
“They put them in the watches, little teeny gremlins,” a drunken Mr. Futterman warns in Joe Dante’s 1984 Christmas classic. It looks like those wily…
Battered Big Bird Shows PETA Isn’t Down With Canada Goose
A giant bloodied goose was spotted outside of the Canada Goose store on Wooster Street shortly after noon on Wednesday. This was, of course, just…
Performance Picks: Comedic Compliments, Native Satire, All the Feels
WEDNESDAY This Isn’t Funny!: I, An Moron Wednesday, November 8 at CUNY Graduate Center’s James Gallery, 7 pm: FREE Comedy is a strange thing. Many…