Day and night, Tapash Sarkar, a Bangladeshi street vendor in lower Manhattan clinks his spatulas as he cooks biryani behind a fingerprint-stained food truck window.…
Performance Picks: The TEAM, Drippy Dollars, Butch Dionysus
THURSDAY (photo: Eoin Carey, via the TEAM / Facebook) Anything That Gives Off Light Now through March 30 at Joe’s Pub, 7 pm (some dates…
This Anti-MAGA Hat Is Attempting to Make Fashion Great Again
At this point, there’ve been hundreds of takes on the “Make America Great Again” hat—my favorite being the “Make Youth Sonic Again” hat that recently…
Watch a ‘Peer-Reviewed Rapper’ Get His Brain Dissected By His Scientist Wife
Baba Brinkman bills himself as “the world’s only peer-reviewed rapper,” and nobody disputes the title. In college, the lumbering son of Canadian tree planters studied…
Mexican Songstress Magos Herrera Shows ‘Beauty Is a Political Act’
In this climate, titling any artwork Dreamers signals politics. Fittingly, politics is the main undercurrent of the album Magos Herrera released last year with chamber…
Greenpoint’s Lot Radio Stations Itself in Manhattan
Greenpoint’s Lot Radio recently hit a setback when its shipping-container cafe was temporarily shuttered by the health department, but it’s keeping the music alive with a new pop-up shop on Canal Street and…
Party Like It’s 1398 at These Persian New Year Celebrations
The spring festival season has officially begun with carnival and mardi gras celebrations around the world. Fortunately, New Yorkers won’t have to wait until Easter…
Who Let the Dogs Out Is, Pound for Pound, the Most Dogged Reporting On Baha Men
Saturday afternoon at South by Southwest, I had a choice between watching presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speak and watching a documentary about the making of…
Satisfying Shapes, A Mother-Daughter Show, And More Art This Week
Quiet as a Space Opening reception Thursday, March 14 at 54 Eldridge Street, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through April 1. One type…
What On Earth Is This New Public Art Project on the LES?
Starting March 13, you won’t have to leave the city to see the night sky; you’ll just need to take a trip to 159 Ludlow…