Sure, Monday’s brief spike into warmer weather only lasted a day, but Industry City has dropped another much-needed reminder that good climes and good times…
With a New Exhibit, Women’s Work Is in the Art Gallery
Definitions around gender have shifted dramatically in recent years. Grammar aficionados have duked it out over the singular they and dictionaries have made space for…
Watch What Happens When Filmmakers and Poets Turn Stanzas into Cinema
A good poem is a small slice of life. Loud music, a gentle gaze, raucous laughter, a brisk winter breeze. Poetry moves sensation to the…
Miss Astrid’s ‘Striptease Séance’ Will Have a Celebrity Stage Kitten
Do you know Miss Astrid? The question is the Downtown equivalent to the Williamsburg litmus test query, “Remember Cokie’s?” Your answer speaks volumes about how…
The Deuce Shoots Final Season On LES
Back in September, HBO announced that it was renewing The Deuce, David Simon’s gritty drama about the rise of the porn trade in ’70s and…
Queens Night Market Returns With Cheese Donuts and International Delicacies
This past weekend’s warm weather welcomed back a new season of Smorgasburg, the much-loved outdoor market held Saturdays in Williamsburg and Sundays in Prospect Park…
Inside the Lower East Side’s Newest, Largest Movie Theater
Though the food market coming to Essex Crossing got some nice press last week, you’ll have to wait three months before it opens. In the…
Performance Picks: Autobiographical Bodies, Black Burlesque, and More
THURSDAY (image via Union Hall / Facebook) Yourself, Your Body Thursday, April 4 at Union Hall, 9:30 pm: $10 Arti Gollapudi, who we interviewed back…
The Last Days and Nights of Enid’s, Now Closed After 20 Years in Greenpoint
Greenpoint’s past and present collided last week as Enid’s shuttered after 20 years of early brunches and late-night parties. After the beloved bar and restaurant…
Relaxer and My Year of Rest and Relaxation: More Taxing Than Relaxing
It’s not often that two strikingly original works seem to have been cut from the same puke-drenched cloth, but that’s exactly the case with Ottessa…