As long as we can keep breathing for the next 40 hours or so– oh, and dodge any breakaway scaffolding flying overhead, and reject your roommate’s…
3 Ways to Lend a Small but Helping Hand to those Impacted by Oakland Fire
Whenever someone compares Brooklyn to Oakland, an angel loses its wings, and is sent plunging straight down to hell where the sexless being is reborn…
Week in Film: Love Poems You Never Knew Were Communist and Pour One Out for Your Katz’s Homies
Neruda Now through Thursday January 5 at IFC Center: $14 For all you literary nerds out there, here’s your once-in-a-great-while chance to see a film…
Secret Project Robot Will Return, Rewind Time to When ‘All Parties Used to Be Art Parties’
No matter how much you love your favorite DIY venue, there’s no sense in getting too attached– as anyone who’s been in the game for…
Week in Shows: Fresh Newgaze, Disco Misnomers, and Phish Swims Up Livestream
Guilty Giraffe, Disco Cream, Sooner, Yairms Wednesday December 28, 8 pm at Sunnyvale: $10 Welcome back friends, orphans, Santa assassins, and gainfully employed. This is…
Soap Library’s Outer-Space Tape Set to Launch into the New Year
Last week, we told you about Soap Library, the “holistic” tape label specializing in cassettes that are not just objects to behold with your with your…
Shows Make the Holidays Less Horrible: Make Like Total Slacker, and More
White Rope, Fruit and Flowers, Sweet Baby Jesus, Grim River Tuesday December 20, 8 pm at Sunnyvale: $10 You’d be crazy to leave your apartment…
Was this Performance Art Show Calling Out Hate Groups Too Real?
The results of the election have churned up a tsunami of cultural backlash aimed at the incoming Trump administration’s rhetoric of hatred and intolerance (or,…
New Tape Label Has Scented Cassingles, Ready to Mingle
One recent X-Mas, three, maybe four years ago, my then-BF/now very much ex-BF, and I were out gift shopping (aka escaping family time), and making…
5 Ways New Yorkers Can Fight the ‘Shocking Turn’ Our Country Has Taken
You might have noticed that since the election, stories of hate crimes and swastika sightings have been everywhere. But the increase isn’t simply due to a greater…