A 20-year-old house cleaner was arrested Tuesday after allegedly sneaking into a client’s residence on July 25 to bound, blindfold and rape her. [NY Daily…
Ex-Interpol Bassist Carlos Dengler Monkeys Around With a One Man Show
There’s a singular, surreal, and very memorable moment invoked by Carlos Dengler in his new solo stage production Homo Sapiens Interruptus (the last performance, part of the…
Artist Lorna Simpson Brings Her Arresting Collages to the Bowery
Lorna Simpson is returning to Salon 94 for her third exhibition at the Bowery gallery. The Brooklyn-born artist became well-known in the mid-’80s for her large-scale works…
South By South Death is the Music-Festival Slasher Musical You Didn’t Know You Needed
America is replete with music festivals (especially this summer, New York). There are so many it could make your head spin, causing you to momentarily lose…
Week in Music: Exile on Girl Street and One Righteously Bubbly Bubu Crew
OMG You’re a Girl Drummer?! w/ Milk Dick, Desert Sharks, Prima, Fraidycat, Rizzos Saturday August 27, 8 pm at Sunnyvale: $8 “Girl bands.” You know…
Bling Snatchings On LES; Heroin Bust in East Village
A 60-year-old man was arrested Saturday for selling heroin at the intersection of E. 14th Street and 1st Avenue. [Town & Village] Three incidences of…
Jerome’s Will Go Out With a Bang, Throws One Last Party Tonight
Another day, another watering hole that’s closing. This time it’s Jerome’s, the Lower East Side late-night staple just steps from the Williamsburg Bridge, which will…
The Monster That is Essex Crossing is One Step Closer to Completion
Brace yourselves, the behemoth is coming: the Lower East Side monster development known as Essex Crossing is (sort of close) to completing the first of…
Performance Picks: Western Wildness, 2-Year Anniversaries, Bits N’ Buddy Holly
WEDNESDAY Wednesday With Westerns! Wednesday August 24, 7 pm at City Reliquary; $7. The City Reliquary, a tiny, quirky wonderland of a museum, will be…
Cancel the TV Party, New Museum Is Having a Raymond Pettibon Retrospective
It’s been two years since Raymond Pettibon’s surfer art went on display on the Upper East Side. Wait, wha? The artist who did the anarchic…