Surfbort, Promise Land, Casey Hopkins, Flasher Tuesday July 11, 8 pm at Elvis Guesthouse: FREE It appears that live rock/other non-laptop-fronted music bands have returned to…
Four Readings: Growing Up in the Chelsea Hotel, Nerdy Road Trip, and Life in the Shadow of NASA
Tuesday Nicolaia Rips: Trying to Float July 12, 7pm at Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th Street. The Chelsea Hotel is deeply entrenched in New…
EV Art Store Closing After 111 Years; Sunshine Cinema Expands Uptown
After eleven decades in business, New York Central Art Supply on 3rd Avenue will shutter later this summer. [Vanishing NY] A real estate investment firm…
The Rooftop Screening of Goodnight Brooklyn Was a Death By Audio Reunion, With Choice Words for Vice
It’s kind of fitting that a torrential downpour occurred with just 15 minutes left in Saturday’s Rooftop Films screening of Goodnight Brooklyn, the documentary about…
Downtowners Get a New Place to Co-Work, Work, Work, Work, Work
Paging Rihanna and anyone else who has to work, work, work, work, work: There’s a new place to do just that on the Bowery. Yes,…
Druids, Faeries, and Sorcery of All Manner at the 5th Annual ‘WitchsFest USA’
As one might expect, the 5th annual WitchsFest USA, which unfurled its freak flag over Astor Place on Saturday, was a hotbed for crazies. Oh, we’re not…
Black Lives Matter Marches and Arrests Continued Over the Weekend
Since Thursday evening, Black Lives Matter protesters have been on-and-off occupying the streets of New York City. Demonstrations were held almost continuously this weekend in New…
Moaning Metalheads and Weeping Punks Mourned The Acheron’s Closing
It was clear from the get-go things were gonna be seriously crazy at The Acheron’s very last show on Saturday night, what with another stellar lineup of…
Bushwick Inlet Park Advocates Camped Out, Demanded S’more Progress on Negotiations
On Saturday evening, about 40 neighborhood activists and elected officials braved the ominously dark clouds in the sky and gathered on the concrete slab adjacent…
Sultan, Your Lift Has Arrived: Scenes From Williamsburg’s 129th Giglio Feast
The annual Giglio Feast, a Williamsburg tradition since 1903, is going on right now on the blocks around Our Lady of Mount Carmel church. And…