Representation matters. But unsurprisingly, it’s still lacking in nearly all fields. Especially in Hollywood. Casts, directors and producers are overwhelmingly white and male. So much…
Lee Ranaldo Is Doing a Free In-Store at Rough Trade and Signing His New Album
The last couple of times we saw Lee Ranaldo, he was out of town– first at an Inauguration Day show in DC where he and…
Forget Beauty Rest, Judah Friedlander’s Activist Barbie Is Woke As Hell
Even Barbie is snapping out of her dream world and mobilizing against Trumpism. During the past several months, comedian and “World Champion” Judah Friedlander, of…
How an Art Raft Gets Built For a Gonzo DIY Boat Battle in the Rockaways
This year’s Battle For Mau Mau Island, the annual art-raft extravaganza that raged last month in the Rockaways, was as crazy as we showed you last year and the “combatants”…
No Charges Expected in Greenpoint Hit-and-Run; Grand Street Ferry Dock Proposed
The garbage truck driver who killed cyclist and Paulie Gee’s employee Neftaly Ramirez, 27, in a hit-and-run last month reportedly won’t face charges from Brooklyn’s…
35,000 Drawings Turn a Vampire Classic Into a Story of Immigrant New York
For three years, Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito and a dozen assistants have slaved away on NYsferatu: a Symphonie of a Century, a remake of the…
Eccentric Pop-Up Antique Shoppe Coming to LES
Is your apartment missing that certain something? Could that certain something be a turn-of-the-century slide projector? Or mother-of-pearl opera glasses? Or an original Singer sewing…
Vermin Got You Squirmin’? Here’s 10 Things We Learned at Rat Academy
In a city with as many rats as there are children, New York has taken on several methods of eliminating the pests from city streets,…
Bushwick’s Living Gallery Opens an East Village Outpost With BYO Art
Back in June, when Joseph Meloy and Alexandria Hodgkins saw an ad for a storefront at 53 Avenue B, they fell in love with the…
A Mysterious New Netflix Show Is Filming at Cup and Saucer
It’s been nearly a month since Cup and Saucer went dark after over 75 years, but someone is basking in the diner’s old-school charm today.…