Jay Maisel is one of our greatest living photographers, known for his gorgeous, striking street photography and his eye for the art in the mundane.…
Whit Stillman Reveals Some ‘Appalling’ Dirty Words of Cinema
I arrived yesterday at Film Forum’s Whit Stillman retrospective dressed not unlike a character in one of his films — tweed Brooks jacket, button-down shirt…
Eccentric Pop-Up Antique Shoppe Coming to LES
Is your apartment missing that certain something? Could that certain something be a turn-of-the-century slide projector? Or mother-of-pearl opera glasses? Or an original Singer sewing…
City Council Passes Sweeping Tenant Protections
Yesterday the City Council passed a sweeping package of pro-tenant legislation long advocated by tenants’ rights groups, activists, and sympathetic city officials. One of the…
Artists and Latex Lovers Whip Out Their Pens at Kink ‘n’ Draw
Those in attendance at the most recent “Kink ‘n’ Draw” event got to feast their “lustful and perverted eyes” on latex-clad live models as they…
Worlds Fair Coming to Brooklyn Promises Art, Food, Tech, Tim Kaine
“Worlds Fairs have inspired Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, and many others to express their brilliance. For 130 years, American cities set the standard for…
New LES Beer Store Promises to Cure What Ales You
A new craft beer store is coming to the Lower East Side: Beer Fridge, at 41 Essex St., is currently in soft launch, with the…
Greenpoint Resto Brooklyn Label to be Revived, With Some Help from Le Gamin
Brooklyn Label, the French corner restaurant in Greenpoint’s historic Astral Building that closed last year, is going to be revived. Now under new management, it…
East Broadway Subway Station Is F-ing Disgusting, Pols Say
A group of city officials and local residents gathered today at the East Broadway subway station as part of a publicity tour calling attention to…
East Village Community Gardens to Host Screenings of National Security Docs
Does government surveillance really get your goat? (To be honest I have never really understood that expression but I am just going to run with…