Williamsburg fave The Sketchbook Project is riding high–they recently hit 35,000 sketchbooks (that’s a lot of doodles) and they’ve also finally re-opened their storefront, the…
Drummer Emi Kariya Sips Cocktails at The Narrows When She’s Not ‘Party Drinking’
Out this month, “Meet the Regulars: People of Brooklyn and the Places They Love” is Joshua D. Fischer’s debut book, and the first to come…
Sheldon Silver Gets 12 Years; Delaware & Hudson Adds Tavern
Former NY state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, who represented the Lower East Side, received a 12-year prison sentence yesterday on corruption charges. [NY Times]…
Williamsburg, Brace For Niçoise Salad in a Crêpe Cone
Williamsburg already has its share of oddities: soaps that look like cupcakes, budding taxidermy museums, and, of course, Pat Kiernan. But one thing it doesn’t have…
Amy Sedaris Wants to Give You Some Motel-Room Art
Somehow Amy Sedaris always seems to be around when paintings have to come down off the walls. Remember the Mondrian that Jacqueline was forced to…
Owner of Bowery Bank Building to Pay $7 Million for Art Tax Evasion
Aby J. Rosen, owner of the gloriously graffitied Germania Bank building at 190 Bowery (soon to be outfitted as a high-end office building for fashion agencies…
4 Readings: Whingeing About Work, Surveying the Surveillance State, and More
WEDNESDAY Dave Isay presents Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street. Feeling unmotivated at…
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Is Summering in Coney Island, Via the Coney Art Walls
Coney Island isn’t about to let Rockaway hog all the sun, what with the new food vendors at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar and the Rockaway Beach Club.…
Will the Actors in Icaros: A Vision Win Ayahu-Oscars For Their On-Set Tripping?
If you really, really wanted to, you could probably find ayahuasca right here in Brooklyn. We know you’d be “asking for a friend” and everything, but…
Some Burglars Went On a Lower East Side Bar Crawl
If you own a bar or restaurant in Chinatown or on the Lower East Side, you may want to double bolt the door tonight. Last…