Fresh Ground Pepper Festival Now through April 21 at New Ohio Theater, various times, various prices. If you thought theater festivals just happen during January…
MoMaCha Turns Green Tea Into a Modern Art Experience
Gone are the days of the humble coffee shop a la Central Perk in Friends— in our current era of Instagram, many cafes moonlight as bars…
Output, Our Wicked Lady Announce Their Summer Rooftop Lineups
Ice cream weather is so close we can taste it (preferably at the new OddFellows) and with warmer temperatures come rooftop hangs. To that end,…
OddFellows Opens a Nolita Ice Cream Shop For People Who Take Their Lattes With Smoked Raisin Milk
It’s not yet ice cream weather (grrr), but that isn’t stopping OddFellows Ice Cream Co. from expanding to Nolita. The quirky parlor with locations in…
Who Wants to ‘Stop Discos in Soho’?
The city just got its first “night mayor” and repealed the dread anti-dancing Cabaret Law, so nightclubs can bust out the sparklers and magnums of…
CB Lets Club Cumming Sing Again, With Some Restrictions
A drag queen let me into Community Board 3’s State Liquor Authority licensing committee meeting on Monday night. Inside, she was joined by a bevy of others who…
New Venues Coney Island Baby and Asbury Lanes Announce Lineups
Two forthcoming venues in hallowed spaces have announced their initial lineups. Asbury Lanes, the Bowery Presents reboot of the 57-year-old bowling-and-music dive in Asbury Park, will open…
Art This Week: Language, Marching Bands, 11 Shows In One
A Coded Language Opening Thursday, April 12 at bitforms gallery, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through May 20. As a child, perhaps you…
Orange You Glad You Didn’t Wait 4 Hours to Get Into CJ Hendry’s ‘House of Color’?
Between the Egg House on the Lower East Side and the Dream Machine in Greenpoint, there’s no shortage of Insta-friendly environments in the city right…
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…