Who doesn’t love the Film Forum? The autonomous, non-profit institution first started showing films (foreign, art house, independent, repertory) back in 1970, in a space with…
The Fantastic Soul Summit Festival Turned Fort Greene Park Into a Daytime Disco
Summer’s most joyous dance party lit up Fort Greene Park yesterday with the first of two Soul Summit Music Festivals, as thousands of people packed into…
Uplifting Photos: The Giglio Feast Brings Sultans and Saxophones to Williamsburg
The Giglio Feast, a Williamsburg tradition since 1903, is going on now in the streets around Our Lady of Mount Carmel church on Havemeyer. And while most…
Inside the Installation of the Summer, Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Narcissus Garden’
MoMA PS1 has once again brought their crack aesthetic instincts and curatorial muscle out to Fort Tilden for the summer, this year hosting a fantastic…
Swiss Institute’s East Village Art Space Has a Rooftop Sculpture Garden and a Floating Yoda
Arriving, amazingly, with almost zero hype, a four-story contemporary art museum opened over the weekend on one of the busiest corners of the East Village,…
Pretty Sweet: Williamsburg’s New Waterfront Wonderland, Domino Park
South Williamsburg’s Domino Park is finally finished and open to the public, and it is a gleaming example of what approximately $50 million can do…
Jim Jarmusch, Rosie Perez, and Other Downtown Legends Basked in Basquiat at the Opening of ‘Zeitgeist’
By all appearances, downtown filmmaker Sara Driver had a pretty good weekend. On Friday night, Boom For Real, Driver’s evocative, propulsive, and genuinely moving documentary of…
At the Cannabis Parade, Cynthia Nixon Rolled With New Yorkers Fired Up About Legalizing It
If it smelled a bit more skunky than usual in the city on Saturday, you probably were walking within wafting distance of the annual Cannabis Parade and…
Photos: Jerk Chicken, Jewelry and Jenga at Opening Day of Hester Street Fair
The Hester Street Fair kicked off its ninth outdoor season on Saturday, with more than 20 food and crafty vendors setting up in the usual Seward…
This Insta-Friendly Egg House Has Everyone Scrambling to the LES
Do you remember the Museum of Ice Cream? That not-really-a-museum pop-up thing that drew massive lines of selfie-seekers to the Meatpacking a few years back? Made a ton…