The East Village is already the dessert capital of New York, what with its donut ice cream sandwiches, marshmallows on a stick, egg-waffle ice cream…
This Man Has Spent 7 Years Unpacking the Mystery of ‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’
Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who? Ben Sisto spent an hour pondering that very question at Ace Hotel New York on Sunday night. Backed up by a…
On Women’s Suffrage Centenary, Some Feminists Push For a Constitutional Convention
Yesterday marked 100 years since women won the right to vote in New York State. Activists used the occasion to urge New Yorkers going to…
Churls Gone Wild: Trumpkins Party Down in Teaser For Onur Tukel’s The Misogynists
Back in May, when Brooklyn filmmaker Onur Tukel showed his Bob Byington-directed Infinity Baby at the Montclair Film Festival, he said his next one would…
Yoko Ono Plants Her Flag On East 4th Street
East 4th Street just got a neat little Easter egg: You wouldn’t know it, but a flag designed by Yoko Ono is now flying above…
Help Lit Owner Erik Foss With His Art Book and He’ll Tattoo Your Name Wherever
It’s too late to etch your name on the bathroom walls of Lit Lounge (it closed in 2003), but Erik Foss, an owner of the legendary…
New Exhibitions: One Artist In Two Galleries, Beautiful Soup, Native Transformers
First, Play / Second Date Opening Wednesday, November 8 and Thursday, November 9 at Disclaimer Gallery and Field Projects, 6 pm to 9 pm and…
Papaya King Closes, Continental Bar Will Follow as ‘Boutique’ Office Building Comes to St. Marks
Papaya King, the iconic hot dog brand that expanded to the East Village in 2013, has closed its St. Marks Place location in the face of impending…
Photographer Jessica Yatrofsky On How Writing Poetry Is Like Keeping a Dirty Diary
Brooklyn-based photographer and filmmaker Jessica Yatrofsky has employed a sparse, muted, and– dare I say- poetic aesthetic that explores both male and female bodies and…
Elsewhere, the New Venue From Team Glasslands, May or May Not Have an Orgasmic Stage
Last year, the team behind Glasslands, the show space that shuttered alongside 285 Kent when Vice Media took over their space on the Williamsburg waterfront,…