While you’re checking out Artists & Fleas and all the other usual suspects, don’t miss these pop-up markets coming to Williamsburg in the coming weekends.…
Pop-Up Club Will Turn Coney Island Into Jersey Shore, With the Help of DJ Pauly D
The big news coming out of Coney Island today isn’t that the city just bestowed Scenic Landmark status on the Riegelmann Boardwalk. Sure, it’s cool…
‘Radical’ Downtown Composer Glenn Branca Has Died at 69
Downtown guitarist and composer Glenn Branca died last night at the age of 69. The longtime West Villager died in his sleep of throat cancer, his…
Grab Lunch With Parquet Courts, Playing a Noon Show at Rough Trade
For obvious reasons, “Wide Awake!” has pretty much been my daily wakeup song ever since Parquet Courts dropped the single off their forthcoming album of…
Art This Week: Life-Size Rhinos, Lower East Side Grit, and More
Things Opening Tuesday, May 15 at Gagosian, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through June 23. When you look into the body of work…
‘Everybody Got Laid Here’: Williamsburg Loses Another Venue as Legion Bar Closes
Williamsburg’s Legion Bar closed its doors early Sunday morning for a legion of regulars. The closing was bittersweet for Merle Chornuk, who opened Legion in 2005 with the hopes of…
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…
Tired of Mario World? Enter the Queer Matrixxx With Some LGBTQ Video Game Designers
While sexism and homophobia persist in the mainstream gaming industry, a “vibrant scene of queer game developers” has emerged. This month, several members of that community are…
Sweetbitter Author and Series Creator Stephanie Danler On Being ‘Hungry’ For New York City
Lots of television shows mythologize New York City. But few succeed in depicting the city’s magnetism and allure as precisely as Stephanie Danler’s Sweetbitter, adapted…
Union Pool’s Free Summer Thunder Shows: Sun Ra Arkastra, Songhoy Blues, Deradoorian and More
Elsewhere’s new rooftop isn’t the only outdoor spot making a summer programming announcement today. That old standby, Union Pool’s Summer Thunder series, just announced its lineup…