It’s been a big summer for the Yin Yangs, the Brooklyn garage-psych-punk outfit you’ve most likely seen at any number of DIY venues around town. Right…
Like Champers and Oysters? The McCarren Hotel’s Rooftop Is Your New Xanadu
After a brief turn as Sheltering Sky, the McCarren Hotel & Pool’s rooftop bar is now Xanadu. The year-round roof deck has been reimagined by Joe Carroll…
Penelope Gazin Draws Monstrous Broads and Alien Goddesses as If She Were ‘Living in a Cave’
We’re guessing the world would look a whole lot different if bad ass women like Penelope Gazin had been well-represented in animation and comics from the…
Watch This Giant Donald Trump Piñata Get Bashed to Bits
A flock of Trump groupies gathered on the eastern side of McCarren Park yesterday, but there was nary a “Thank You Lord Jesus” sign to be…
Elizabeth Street Garden Under Threat; Work Stopped at Ace Hotel Bowery
A 42-year-old man is in critical condition after being assaulted outside Bushwick’s La Fogata restaurant yesterday morning around 4 a.m. Police are looking for the…
Who Was Able to Wake This Sleeping Artist With a Kiss?
A young man with rich brown hair, soft lips and a blindfold reposes on a mattress. It will only take one quick movement of your wrist…
Chef-Driven Cantonese Spot Will Bring Venison Stir-Fry to Avenue B
The co-founder of what might just be “the best Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn” is setting up shop in the East Village. Ben Pope, former executive…
Read This Book Before You Snapchat That Masked Punk Musician
“What if on the outside of this picture, where this guy is sitting on a chair with his guitar, there’s a chained up hostage being…
Talks and Readings: Bourbon Guru, Top-Notch Poets, and a Professional Internet Person
TUESDAY Robert Goolrick’s most recent novel, The Fall of Princes, finds retired 1980s ad man Rooney writing his memoir after an era of American Psycho-style unrepentant debauchery and greed (but…
Tap Your Inner ‘Good Ole Boy’ in Bushwick This Weekend
“Boots and buckles, red clay and sand. My point ain’t subtle. I’m a southern man,” are the opening lines to The Cadillac Three’s song “The…