You don’t have to know comics to know the work of Mark Alan Stamaty. He’s responsible for the ornately illustrated cover of the first free…
Tribeca Q&As Include Sarah Silverman, Werner Herzog, Scorsese and More
After revealing its lineup of features and the full slate for its TV festival, the Tribeca Film Festival is showering us, piñata-style, with yet more…
Tribeca TV Fest Will Be So ’90s: Simpsons and In Living Color Panels, Wu Tang and MTV Docs
Worst. Talkback. Ever. Tribeca TV Festival just announced its lineup, and the highlight might be a 30th anniversary screening of The Simpsons that will include…
Art This Week: Lines, Cut Paper, and Low-Tech Glitches
thecatamites, Magic Wand, 2016, Video game, Dimensions variable (still) (image via apexart) Dire Jank Opening Wednesday, March 20 at apexart, 6 pm to 8 pm.…
How NYC’s Broken Food Cart System Leaves Vendors Scraping By
Day and night, Tapash Sarkar, a Bangladeshi street vendor in lower Manhattan clinks his spatulas as he cooks biryani behind a fingerprint-stained food truck window.…
Performance Picks: The TEAM, Drippy Dollars, Butch Dionysus
THURSDAY (photo: Eoin Carey, via the TEAM / Facebook) Anything That Gives Off Light Now through March 30 at Joe’s Pub, 7 pm (some dates…
This Anti-MAGA Hat Is Attempting to Make Fashion Great Again
At this point, there’ve been hundreds of takes on the “Make America Great Again” hat—my favorite being the “Make Youth Sonic Again” hat that recently…
Watch a ‘Peer-Reviewed Rapper’ Get His Brain Dissected By His Scientist Wife
Baba Brinkman bills himself as “the world’s only peer-reviewed rapper,” and nobody disputes the title. In college, the lumbering son of Canadian tree planters studied…
Mexican Songstress Magos Herrera Shows ‘Beauty Is a Political Act’
In this climate, titling any artwork Dreamers signals politics. Fittingly, politics is the main undercurrent of the album Magos Herrera released last year with chamber…
Greenpoint’s Lot Radio Stations Itself in Manhattan
Greenpoint’s Lot Radio recently hit a setback when its shipping-container cafe was temporarily shuttered by the health department, but it’s keeping the music alive with a new pop-up shop on Canal Street and…