I am terrified of haunted houses because they usually include the things that I find to be most terrifying: People leaping out from around corners,…
Glamorama! A Bowie Ball and a Roxy Music Tribute
With Halloween coming up, it’s time to respect the musical visionaries for whom — to paraphrase Ministry — every day was Halloween. Wig out at…
These Food Fests Are Turning the LES Into One Big Buffet
It’s late in the season and you’ve run through all the vendors at Smorgasburg, so where to graze next? Fill up and get down at these upcoming…
Send in the Sad, Bad, Singing, Stripping Clowns
Alas, the New York Clown Theatre Festival just passed, but there are still plenty of opportunities to see life through the eyes of a clown.…
Bushwick Coffee Shop Owner Denies Anti-Semitism; Inside a $6.5M Firehouse
Michael Avila—owner of The Coffee Shop in Bushwick—is being accused of anti-Semitism because of a rant against Jewish landlords who “function via greed and dominance.”…
Here’s Why Yaffa Cafe Had to Close, and One Last Look Inside
First the backyard went, then the by the health department, and finally, as if struck by a hellish lightning bolt straight from the hand of…
Lena Dunham Thinks Catcalls Are a Reason to Love New York
Lena Dunham’s new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, is written with just the sort of unabashed honesty and self-depricating wit you’d expect from the…
Brooklyn Artists Take Over the Brooklyn Museum
There’s stuff to blow your mind for days on end at Crossing Brooklyn: Art From Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, which opens to the public at the Brooklyn…
Siempre Garden Issues a Cry For Help as Developer Moves In
In 2012, a blighted sliver of land between two buildings at 181 Stanton Street was transformed into a blooming green space by the hands of…
Lee Ranaldo Has an Art Show; Kim and Thurston Have Some Show Shows
If you were looking for an excuse to sport your $100 designer Sonic Youth t-shirt, here are a few of them. You may have missed Lee Ranaldo’s show…