THURSDAY Loose: A Comedy Show August 11, 7 pm at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: $10. The always-effervescent Jo Firestone hosts this monthly evening of chuckles…
This Taxidermy Show Will Make You Wish You Stuffed all Your Dead Pets
Get your “disgusted-but-intrigued” face ready: the Morbid Anatomy Museum, the ultimate haven for the morbidly curious, is putting on a new exhibition. The Gowanus center for…
Film: Seven Reasons to Poison Yourself + Charlie Parker’s Doppel in Black-and-White
Bottle Rocket Wednesday August 10, 6 pm, 8:15 pm, and 10:30 pm at Syndicated: $3 There’s a Wes Anderson retrospective happening this week at Syndicated…
Brooklyn’s Adult Coloring Book Club is Putting the ‘Cray’ in Crayola
Adult coloring books have shot up in popularity lately– CNN’s gotten wind of it, the books were topping out Amazon’s bestsellers list earlier this year, and the…
Brooklyn Night Bazaar’s First Headliner Announced; Thursday Kitchen Debuts in EV
Last week a Bedford Avenue pharmacy manager was threatened with a pistol by two thieves during an early-morning shift. [Brooklyn Paper] A man was repeatedly…
Downtown Leaders Flocked to Trump Building, Gave GOP Candidate the Bird
Most New Yorkers don’t like to be reminded that the current orange-hued Republican presidential nominee is technically one of us. Yes, it’s true. Say it…
More Salad Tossers Coming to Astor Place, Sweetgreen Sprouting New Location
In just a couple of weeks, 10 Astor Place will be home to yet another franchise of the ever-popular mini-chain Sweetgreen whose salad-tossing expertise and local-farm-to-tongs…
Grand Street Restaurant Week: Gentrifier’s Grub, or Feeding Local Biz?
Yesterday a dozen restaurants along Grand Street in East Williamsburg kicked off their second-annual Grand Street Restaurant Week, the area’s very own location-specific version of the…
Yer Week in Shows: Hardcore History Under Siege + Brass-Backed Disco Vibes
Siege, Ultramantis Black, Lunglust Saturday August 13, 7 pm to 11 pm at Sunnyvale: $15 The Acheron’s closing got you down? (RIP BBs.) Well, here’s…
Bands Apart: White Lung or White Denim?
There really are just too many bands. How to keep them all straight? Is it really that hard? The real problem is that there are only so…