As I waited in line for the US premiere of Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator at the Hamptons International Film Festival on Saturday, I was reading…
KAZU of Blonde Redhead Goes Solo With a Little Help From a Legendary Composer
Kazu Makino, the lead singer of indie rockers Blonde Redhead, performed her new solo album, Adult Baby, on her home turf last Friday night at Williamsburg’s Rough Trade.…
Performance Picks: Comedy With Free Pizza and Plenty of Drag
WEDNESDAY I’m Selfish! The Birth of VenusWednesday, October 16 at Dream Baby, 9:30 pm: $10 Drag performer The Great Fairy Venus Celestina’s recurring show at…
In a New Doc, Imelda Marcos’s Son Is a Shoe-In For Vice President
Early in Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary about Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker, there’s a photo of the disgraced former First Lady of the Philippines mingling with one of…
Art This Week: Cinema of Transgression and Outdoor Oddities
Passed and PresentOpening Thursday, October 17 at Howl! Happening, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through November 17. One of the pioneers of the…
4 Exciting Artists We Discovered at the Clio Art ‘Anti-Fair’
Clio Art Fair came to Chelsea this past weekend, bringing with it 54 artists from over 20 different countries and from all over the United…
The Director of a New Truman Capote Doc Has a Theory About His Long-Missing, Incendiary Last Novel
What happened to the scathing roman a clef skewering Manhattan high society that Truman Capote may or may not have finished before his untimely death…
‘Motherless Brooklyn’: Robert Moses, Miles Davis, and Donald Trump Walk into a Film…
There’s a scene in Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn where Moses Randolph, a not-so-subtle stand-in for New York’s master builder Robert Moses,…
NYC’S First ‘Nut-Milk Bar’ Milks Nut Puns For All They’re Worth
Nolita cafe Tulo House wants to know: “Did you nut today?” The hashtag-worthy slogan immortalized by a bright blue neon sign (although, if your mom…
Canary Club Jazzes Up The Lower East Side
While you still can’t (legally) drink on the street, the Lower East Side is about to feel a little more like New Orleans now that…