Obey your thirst, for great marketing gimmicks. Last night on the corner of Spring and Bowery, a hubbub gathered around a green-hued convenience store emblazoned…
Crazy For Scorsese? He’s Shooting His HBO Show, Vinyl, Tomorrow
On Friday a tipster sent us this photo from the set of Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming HBO show, now titled Vinyl. As you can see, Marty…
LES Gets Another Cat Cafe; Two New EV Pizzerias
In the wake of Tuesday’s wall collapse on Bowery, Andrew Edlin Gallery has postponed the first event at its new Lower East Side location. [Art…
Difficult People Premiere Spares Nobody, Including David Byrne
You’ll recall that Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner’tunt show Difficult People filmed on East 11th Street in January and at San Marzano in February. Now the first two…
St. Mark’s Bookshop Says It ‘Needs Help to Survive’
Interested in owning a piece of the new St. Mark’s Bookshop? Now might just be your chance. In another call-for-help email sent out earlier today,…
9 Pop Culture Homages at Fringe Festival, From Lena Dunham to Patrick Bateman
Next week thousands of theater patrons will once again descend on Lower Manhattan for the 19th annual NYC Fringe Festival. “Fringe theater” usually denotes plays…
And Now Donald Trump Is Literally a Clown
With the Republican debates coming up, Ivan Orama, the Lower East Side artist who turned Kanye West and Andy Warhol into Ronald McDonalds (only Wizard Skull…
Kevin Smith Talked Mallrats 2 at a 20th Anniversary Screening of the Original
So many people showed up to the lot at 50 Kent last night for the 20th anniversary screening of Mallrats that it took over an hour…
Harmony Korine Doesn’t Much Like Coming Back to NYC These Days
Chloe Sevigny recently said that walking through her old neighborhood, the East Village, made her want to cry, and Leo Fitzpatrick told us he was thinking…
Puppet Slam Benefits Explosion Victims; B&H Close to Reopening
A five-year-old boy became trapped under the minivan that hit him yesterday morning on Rivington Street before he was freed and taken to Bellevue Hospital.…