Last night I spotted this disco Vespa outside of Cafe Colette in Williamsburg (I’m guessing it’s the doing of a restaurateur or bartender, given the…
Is Williamsburg Ready For Its First Fern Bar? Oleanders Opens Friday
I’m going to say I called this: some years ago, after rewatching Looking For Mr. Goodbar, I wondered why the hell New York’s retro-obsessed restaurateurs…
Even the Cops Were All Atwitter About Bushwick Open Studios
Don’t let their tweets about busting graffiti artists and weed growers fool you — the 83rd Precinct is 100 percent down. We’re not sure why we even covered…
Greenpoint Horror Flick They Look Like People Isn’t Just ‘a Movie About a Crazy Guy’
North Brooklyn has seen its share of campy DIY horror films (think Ava’s Possessions and Summer of Blood), but They Look Like People is dead…
Alphabet City’s New Soccer Pitch; Kanye-Inspired Desserts
Developers hoping to build an apartment building on the Greenpoint waterfront celebrated a victory via a $58 million loan to help them refinance. [Wall Street…
A Threesome Messed Around With ‘Banal Erotics’ at Bushwick Open Studios
Anyone who attended Bushwick Open Studios this past weekend knows there was a plethora of penetrating art. Especially at the closing weekend of “Housebound,” an exhibit…
At BOS, Detroit Artists Shared Concerns with Bushwickians
“I’m not trying to make anyone jealous by telling you this, but I bought my house for $800,” James Cornish, a Detroit-based artist told the…
Watch Solange Cover Dirty Projectors at Africa’s Out!
As expected, Friday night’s Africa’s Out! benefit was a grand old time. There was a room filled with donated artworks, auctioned off in support of…
Trash Bar’s ‘Epic and Chaotic’ Last Night Will Be June 27
Just a couple months after Trash Bar (albeit a fictitious version of it) was called a “New York landmark” on network television, the Williamsburg dive…
This Photo Show Marks a High Point for the Transgender Movement
Robyn Renee Hasty is no stranger to outsiders, countercultures, and misfits. So it might feel a little strange for the artist to be in the…