“We all signed N.D.A.s,” before gearing up for the highly-anticipated reboot of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Kyle MacLachlan told the Times. While reboots are dime-a-dozen,…
East Village Residents Get Crusty About Travelers
The Times called them a “harbinger of spring” in the East Village. That was back in 2011, when the paper asked, “Where Have All the Crusties Gone?”…
San Fran-Style Super Burritos Are Hitting the Rockaway Boardwalk, Starting Friday
After befriending each other as teenagers in the Bay Area, Eugene Cleghorn and Sam Neely moved to New York and had an idea: Wouldn’t it…
Synagogue Fire Was Arson; Last Week for Empellón Cocina
Rosario Dawson, who was raised in the East Village, found her 26-year-old cousin and employee, Vaneza Ines Vasquez, dead inside the actress’s Venice, California home…
Week in Shows: Sacred Bones Turns 10, The Future Is Odwalla 1221, and More
Odwalla 1221, SADAF, Chicklet, Half Pet Friday May 19, 8 pm at Alphaville: $10 There’s this weird feature on Soundcloud, ostensibly an interactive one, that…
50 Years Ago: The Summer of Love Brings Pot, Protests and Psychedelic Rock to the East Village
“As the hour grew late and working people around Tompkins Square Park began turning out the lights on Memorial Day 1967, police asked several hundred…
Book It To These Three Book Fairs
We can only agree with the Strand when it says Make America Read Again. Hence, a heads up about three upcoming book fairs. BookExpo America…
The William Vale Opens Its Pool, Launching Williamsburg Wading Season
Ever since its opening last summer, The William Vale has added more and more amenities to its little corner of Williamsburg– the most recent being…
Schiller’s Liquor Bar to Close; Village Voice Pride Awards
Restauranteur Keith McNally will shutter 14-year-old Lower East Side spot Schiller’s Liquor Bar at the end of the summer. [Eater NY] The city filed a…
Butcher Bar Is the Latest Outer-Borough BBQ Spot to Land in Manhattan
I haven’t yet watched the new season of Master of None (maybe I’m still smarting from getting bounced by Aziz Ansari from the William Vale),…