Most dating apps can be depressing. But Tinder, in all its swipe-based simplicity, is a digital landscape with perhaps the most potential to expose how…
Space Odyssey Meets Beckett in This Far-Out Play
It’s been a long voyage for Erin Treadway, the sole actor onstage during Spaceman. The play—which, this week, is finishing up its run at the…
Luis Flores Wrestles With Gender By Crotcheting Himself in WWE Mode
Wrestling and crochet clash battle-of-the-sexes-style in Salon 94’s newest exhibit, Luis Flores’ “Another Thing You Did to Me.” The exhibit, which opened Tuesday at the…
Poison Ivory, The Pregnant Burlesque Performer Who Refused to Be Bumped Off Stage
(Photo: Dave Wood) At a Switch n’ Play show at Branded Saloon earlier this month, Poison Ivory gave one of her last burlesque performances for…
Dig the New Trailer For the Other Music Doc, Premiering at Tribeca Film Fest
It’s been a year and a half since we last checked in on the Other Music documentary, but it looks like the beloved, bygone East…
Celebrate Women’s History Month With These Female-Focused Films
“Captain Marvel” isn’t the only feminist film making headlines this month. To celebrate Women’s History Month, venues across Manhattan and Brooklyn are showing female-focused features.…
Art Shows: Fire Island, Creative Teens, and Political Cakes
Fire Opening Wednesday, March 6 at Baby Company, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through April 14. Oh, Fire Island. Even if you’ve never…
Death By Audio Arcade Seeks Permanent Quarters
When Death By Audio succumbed to Death By Vice, New York City lost a beloved concert space and scene, but it also lost a weird…
Dutch Artists Have Created a Warped Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory in Red Hook
An enormous, alternative version of life at the dawn of industrial revolution was unveiled in Red Hook over the weekend, a world that includes a…
These Beer-Soaked Polaroids Are All That Remain of Two of Williamsburg’s Great Dives
Williamsburg became a boozy funeral row on Thursday with the closings of Rosemary’s Greenpoint Tavern and The Abbey. Nostalgic drinkers bounced from Bedford to Driggs all…