(Photo courtesy of Cafe Clover)
Speaking of radical art, a health-minded cafe that opens in the West Village tonight takes design cues from Viennese secessionist architecture and painters like Max Ernst and Alberto Giacometti.
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(Photos: DNAinfo/Irene Plagianos, Chrysalis)
Despite bold innovations in drinking like the cold-activated beer can, we still long to be besotted in the manner of our forefathers — hence switchel toddies that take four months to produce. But now that everyone knows how to make a shrub, how can a time-traveling tippler take it to the next level? Well, take your pick: today DNAinfo turns us on to the “Elixir of Long Life,” while Roads & Kingdoms introduces us to an ayahuasca shaman who practices right here in Bushwick.
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Mabel Dwight, “Danse Macabre,” c. 1934. Lithograph, 11 3/8 x 15 3/4 in. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 1995.59.
Anyone needing a crash course in the ways the pen can confront the gun should head over to NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, where a decade’s worth of revolutionary art celebrates immigrants, denounces tyrants, ennobles workers of every race–and even illustrates the very idea of terror.
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(Photo: Joel Raskin)
Lower East Side eatery Birds & Bubbles sustained thousands of dollars in flood damage Friday morning after a water pipe burst, but was able to fully reopen yesterday. [Bowery Boogie]
At tonight’s Community Board 3 meeting, a prospective Puebla/Mexican restaurant will vie for Native Bean‘s previous home on Avenue A. [EV Grieve]
Wednesday, local gastropub Boulton & Watt will toast its second birthday with $2 drinks and snacks from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. [Gothamist]
The Bushwick United Learning Center in Williamsburg closed last month. (Photo: Jaime Cone)
The community tried to stop it, but the wheels are officially in motion for a new five-story building that will replace a day-care center that was forced to close last month after nearly 40 years in Williamsburg.
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(Photos: John Chow)
The Chinese woman, bundled up and wearing a Hoboken hat in line at the food pantry, may not stand out at first glance. But many here know her by a surprising nickname: Ninja.
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(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Last month Giulio Adriani converted the Bowery location of Forcella into a Spanish joint, Espoleta Tapas & Wine Bar — but rest assured the pizzaiolo hasn’t left pie-making behind him. Tonight, in the tiny space next to the restaurant that used to hold takeout joint Slice of Naples, he’s opening “New York City’s only pizza speakeasy.”
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An artist’s rendering of the expanded Newtown Barge Park waterfront. (Photo courtesy of Stantec)
Greenpoint residents raised concerns last night about the expansion of Newtown Barge Park, with some pushing for a much-needed dog run and others complaining that they hadn’t been given a fair chance to weigh in on the $7 million project’s design.
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(Courtesy of The Cardinal)
The East Village may well be the fried chicken capital of New York: Unidentified Flying Chickens, Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken, Bobwhite, Empire Biscuit, Somtum Der, Root & Bone, the list goes on. But a restaurant that hit the neighborhood before any of those has had enough.
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Man this week has been brutal. What with the snow and the slow-as-hell trains and the wind and the ice, how will we ever get through the magnified pain of daily existence from here until, like, May? An old-fashioned trip to the cinema, that’s how! There are a slew of great new films to see and some old ones screening this week too. Check out our picks for films this week below.
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