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…
Come And Play With Hotsy-Totsy Burlesque As They Honor Stephen King
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 –…
Affordable Housing Threatens Community Gardens; SNL’s Bushwick Sketch
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…
All Eyes On Pies ‘n’ Thighs, Opening Its Manhattan Location Monday
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…
So, How Was Courtney Love’s Experimental Opera Debut?
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…
20-Year-Old La Paella Closes For a Reboot, Fights Community Board For New Life
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.
SugarCube, South Street Seaport’s Sweet Attempt At DIY
“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…
A Chat With Catalina Sandino Moreno, Whose Film Medeas Premieres Tonight
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…
New Takeout: Polish Pastries, Champion Pizza, and Hangover Juice
The Lower East Side and East Village just got a few new takeout options for healthy and decidedly unhealthy food alike. Check em out.
When Art Attacks! Keith Haring’s Self-Portrait Kicked Someone in the Head
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…