THURSDAY Petting Zoo: The Wildlife Stand-Up ShowThursday, November 7 at Vital Joint, 8 pm: $10 Some might say performers and animals have quite a bit…
What to Watch at This Year’s DOC NYC Festival
Cult leaders! Despots! And a man who goes by the name of Mr. Toilet. One of the city’s most popular film fests, DOC NYC, starts…
Politicians Press the Flesh at a Kinky Party Supporting Asian Sex Workers
Nudity, leather, kink, heavy makeup. It was a celebration of desire and sexuality, of BDSM and marginalized voices. On stage, burlesque dancer Viva Lamore took…
Claywoman, An Ancient Alien With a Cult Following, Talked Impeachment With Some Celebrity Friends
Claywoman is withered and weathered, like something literally molded from clay and, by degrees, dried out. She’s the 500-million-year-old extra-terrestrial performance persona of the actor…
Art This Week: Riffs On History and Hyperreal Sculptures
A Part of USOpening Thursday, November 7 at Geary. On view through December 20. The first thing an onlooker might notice about the works of…
Errol Morris Made a ‘Fucked Up Movie’ About Steve Bannon, and Bannon Apparently Liked It
“I know you’ve already paid to get in here,” Errol Morris told everyone who had just watched American Dharma, his new documentary about Steve Bannon.…
Take the ‘A’ Stairs: New Entrance Extends First Ave L Station to Alphabet City
Monday morning at 9am, a shiny new entrance to the First Avenue stop on the L train opened to the public. What’s been years of…
Ruffian’s New Offshoot Adds a Tropical Touch to Aperitivo
This week, the hospitality team behind Ruffian (the recently designated Michelin Bib Gourmand) opened their offshoot project, Kindred, an East Village restaurant with nods to…
Why You’ll Find Paula Sánchez-Kucukozer Dancing On Day of the Dead
If there is something music performer Paula Sánchez-Kucukozer is obsessed with, it is skulls. Her shoulder bag has a Mexican skull design; her necklace has…
Heidi Klum’s Alien Costume Was So Good, She Should Be Chestbursting With Pride
Video by Angelo Fabara H.R. Giger is having somewhat of a moment lately, as a new documentary about his Oscar-winning visual effects work, Memory: the…