Assorted dishes from Mission Cantina’s Vietnamese breakfast. (Photo: Paul Wagtouicz for NY Mag)
At the start of the New Year, most people resolved to give up gluten or join a gym; instead, I resolved to eat three large meals in one day, all prepared by the same chef.
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From “The Shining” by Lee Roy Myers (Woodrocket via Death and Taxes)
True story: Stephen King taught me the P-word. So it makes sense that Hotsy Totsy Burlesque – the troupe that tarted up The Big Lebowski – is paying homage to the Master of Modern Horror.
The set-up for the tribute, happening Feb. 12 at The Slipper Room, goes something like this:
Handsome Brad is thrilled to have won “The Stephen King Scariest Story Ever Written Contest.” The prize is a writer’s residency at the isolated (and haunted) Overlook Hotel during the off-season, where Brad will be finishing his book and chewing on aspirin. Knowing that all work and no play makes Brad a dull boy, he has decided to throw a burlesque blow out party and he has invited Cherry Pitz and the gals from the Home For Wayward Girls and Fallen Women to pop up during the off season for a show.
(Photo: Scott Lynch)
A man in Bushwick was arrested when police found a single-use grenade launcher during a drug raid in his Knickerbocker Avenue apartment. [Gothamist]
Bushwick’s Evergreen Lots and Williamsburg’s La Casista Verde are among the community gardens that could be replaced by affordable housing. [Curbed NY]
Bowery Coffee on Houston shuttered last week. [EV Grieve]
Pies ‘n’ Thighs, 43 Canal Street. (Photo: Jaime Cone)
After nearly a year of anticipation, Pies ‘n’ Thighs opens Monday on the border of Chinatown and the Lower East Side; the Manhattan outpost will serve the signature fried chicken that made it a hit in Williamsburg as well as a few special LES treats, including sourdough donuts.
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Almond and Love. (Photos: Cory Weaver, Courtesy Prototype Festival)
I can’t say I’m as lucky as the friend who claims he was the only other person in the store when Courtney Love was shopping for lingerie at Agent Provocateur this one time – but I have seen the former Hole frontwoman in an intimate setting before. Namely, at a surprise show at Plaid in 2004, when she ended up getting arrested for heaving a microphone into the crowd.
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La Paella, on East 9th Street in the East VIllage. (Photo: Noah Kalina for NY Mag)
After 20 years of dishing out Spanish food on East Ninth Street, La Paella is hoping to reinvent itself — but first it’ll have to lock horns with the community board.
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(Photo: Nicole Disser)
“I like to think of it as rising from the ashes of Kent Avenue,” Drew Briggie of 100m records explained, twice actually, once when I met up with him last Friday night, and again in a follow-up interview this week.
Drew was talking about the SugarCube, the second iteration of an inflatable rectangular igloo of sorts that made its second annual debut on the South Street Seaport at the start of December. The cube is open to the public, with programming curated by 100m Records scheduled through the end of January. “It might go until March if they let us, we’ll see,” Drew said when I stopped by last Friday to take a look at the place and check out the show featuring Relations and Savants. Each Friday at the SugarCube there’s a free show featuring bands and DJs, and the event is made boozy with either a bar or BYOB policy.
“We’re trying to keep most of the acts local,” Drew explained.
Catalina Sandino Moreno in Medeas. (Courtesy of The Vladar Company)
Colombian-born actress Catalina Sandino Moreno will be on hand tonight for the New York premiere of her feature film, Medeas, in which she stars alongside Brian F. O’Byrne (Million Dollar Baby), Mary Mouser (Bride Wars) and Ian Nelson (The Hunger Games). In the film, which explores issues of alienation, intimacy and disconnect within families, she plays a deaf mother of five living in the California desert. Moreno, nominated for an Oscar for her role in Maria Full of Grace in 2004, and director Andrea Pallaoro will be answering questions from the audience at the 7 p.m. premiere on Jan. 16 at Village East Cinema. Moreno chatted with us about her new film, her fondness for the “awesome” East Village, and her next projects.
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(Photo: Courtesy Juicy Spot Cafe)
The Lower East Side and East Village just got a few new takeout options for healthy and decidedly unhealthy food alike. Check em out.
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(Photos: John Walber)
A man whose daughter was whacked in the head by Astor Place’s new Keith Haring sculpture tells us he thinks the installation is a “very dangerous hazard” for pedestrians – especially NYU students who text while walking.
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