Yesterday marked 100 years since women won the right to vote in New York State. Activists used the occasion to urge New Yorkers going to…
Churls Gone Wild: Trumpkins Party Down in Teaser For Onur Tukel’s The Misogynists
Back in May, when Brooklyn filmmaker Onur Tukel showed his Bob Byington-directed Infinity Baby at the Montclair Film Festival, he said his next one would…
Yoko Ono Plants Her Flag On East 4th Street
East 4th Street just got a neat little Easter egg: You wouldn’t know it, but a flag designed by Yoko Ono is now flying above…
Help Lit Owner Erik Foss With His Art Book and He’ll Tattoo Your Name Wherever
It’s too late to etch your name on the bathroom walls of Lit Lounge (it closed in 2003), but Erik Foss, an owner of the legendary…
New Exhibitions: One Artist In Two Galleries, Beautiful Soup, Native Transformers
First, Play / Second Date Opening Wednesday, November 8 and Thursday, November 9 at Disclaimer Gallery and Field Projects, 6 pm to 9 pm and…
Papaya King Closes, Continental Bar Will Follow as ‘Boutique’ Office Building Comes to St. Marks
Papaya King, the iconic hot dog brand that expanded to the East Village in 2013, has closed its St. Marks Place location in the face of impending…
Photographer Jessica Yatrofsky On How Writing Poetry Is Like Keeping a Dirty Diary
Brooklyn-based photographer and filmmaker Jessica Yatrofsky has employed a sparse, muted, and– dare I say- poetic aesthetic that explores both male and female bodies and…
Elsewhere, the New Venue From Team Glasslands, May or May Not Have an Orgasmic Stage
Last year, the team behind Glasslands, the show space that shuttered alongside 285 Kent when Vice Media took over their space on the Williamsburg waterfront,…
Controversial Landlords Agree to Six-Figure Settlement in Bushwick Buyout Case
Two controversial landlords who paid tenants to leave their rent-regulated apartments in Bushwick have reached a $132,000 settlement, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced today. Between June 2016…
Opioid Crisis Must Be Fought With More Than Words, Says LES Harm Reduction Center
In New York City, the opioid crisis is seen every day in the lines outside methadone clinics and needles exchanges across the city. At the…