Williamsburg’s Bedford Avenue strip just got a very familiar coffee shop, and it’ll get another one in a month or so. Doughnut Plant, the Lower…
Prelude Festival, A Queer Sabrina Cabaret, and More Performance Picks
THURSDAY Prelude 2019: Riotous ExcursionsOctober 3-5 at Martin E. Segal Theater Center, various times: FREE Free theater, performance art, panels and more abound at this…
Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade Survives Another Ruff Patch
For a second year in a row, the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade has a bone to pick with the City of New York. The…
Make It an Endless Summer With These Beachside Film Fests
Don’t be fooled by the forecast of 90-degree weather: Summer ended last week and even the die-hards are calling it a season. Caracas shuttered its…
Ridgewood Gets An Evil Twin At Last
The Bushwick-Ridgewood border is about to get evil in the best way, as Copenhagen-born, Brooklyn-based Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø’s Evil Twin Brewing is finally opening their taproom…
Ridgewood Open Studios, Satellite Fair, and More Art This Week
Satellite Art FairOpening Thursday, October 3 at 630 Flushing Avenue, 5 pm to midnight. On view through October 6. Tickets $10 for one day, $15…
After a Fire, Food Coop Ponders Its Place in Bushwick
A fire outside the beloved Bushwick Food Coop burst the shop’s storefront window in the early morning of July 3. After shattering the glass, the…
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival’s Scary Settings, Ranked By Fear Factor
Boo ya! The Brooklyn Horror Festival is bringing an international array of spine-tingling, hair-raising shorts and features to Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park, Cobble Hill Cinema,…
The Backwards Aging in Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Is Uncanny, and De Niro Didn’t Have to Put Balls On His Face
If you recently saw Robert De Niro looking like a hostage victim as he got ruthlessly dragged in The Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin,…
Is a Highly Valuable Work of Art Sitting on the Bowery, There For the Taking?
If you’ve ever dreamed of finding a briefcase full of money on the street to help pay off looming student loans, the escape from a…