“How are you going to stay here?” “Maybe I’ll marry you…” That line from Critically Ashamed’s season 2 premiere episode got a laugh from the…
The New Get Up Kids Video Starring Lou Barlow Is Sebadoh Bad It’s Good
In what might be the most delightful intra-indie homage since Sleater-Kinney sang “I wanna be your Thurston Moore,” the new single from The Get Up…
Can Pretty Ricky’s Work With the City’s New Plan to Make Nightlife Less Ugly?
The Lower East Side is notorious for its bars, noise and rising crime rates, and the 24-block section known as Hell Square has one of…
Art This Week: Anxiety-Inspired Mosaics, Nostalgic Beading, and More
The HikersOpening Tuesday, November 12 at Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through January 25. Mosaics have an interesting…
Best of Other Art Fair, Where Attendees Got Nude and Tattooed
The Other Art Fair returned to Greenpoint this past weekend to show works from over 130 emerging masterpiece-makers. The fair wants to draw in a…
The Premiere of the Lydia Lunch Documentary Was Followed By the Most Punk Q&A Ever
“Enough!” Lydia Lunch told the crowd at IFC Center as they gave her a semi-standing ovation after the world premiere of Lydia Lunch: The War…
A New Doc Rides Alongside Terry Gilliam as He Tilts at His Long-Unmade Don Quixote Film
When it comes to famously unmade movies, there’s Jodorowsky’s Dune and Terry Gilliam’s Don. Gilliam’s decades-long quest to adapt Don Quixote was the stuff of…
Does a CBD Workout Make Hitting the Gym More Chill?
Before starting the new CBD workout at Hanson Fitness, owner Harry Hanson— known for training celebrities like Rihanna and Tyra Banks— helped me apply a…
A Notable Pierogi Shop Comes From Overseas to Greenpoint
Greenpoint is a place where you can do your laundry while playing pinball, score affordable old-fashioned doughnuts, eat a nice dinner, and catch a metal…
The Activist Whose Family Owns One of the City’s Most Beloved Mexican Restaurants Still Faces Deportation
On the way to his asylum hearing at 26 Federal Plaza this morning, Marco Saavedra first stopped across the street at the African Burial Ground…