Last time BangOn! hit Brooklyn, it brought giant fire-breathing replicas of Easter Island’s moai. This time, it’s all about short shorts. The next rave —…
Talking Dating and Drama With the Writer and Director of ‘Get Me a Guy’
New Yorkers are not only constantly dramatizing their own already rather dramatic love lives, but also adore consuming dramatizations of other such love lives: see…
Girls Goes From Bedford to Bowery
Yesterday, when we considered dropping $25,000 to dine with Lena Dunham, we had no idea we might just bump into her on the street, a…
Street Artists Messin’ With Animation
A couple of street artists known for appropriating pop iconography have been dipping into the world of animation recently.
Life of Pie: Food For Thought at an Event and Exhibit in DUMBO
Tonight in DUMBO, a quartet of creatives (including Michael J. Cirino of a razor, a shiny knife, the pop-up dinner rapscallions known for serving rogue…
Veselka Celebrates 60 Years; McKibbin Lofts Hit With Partial Vacate Order
Sadie Silver—a public school principal living in Bushwick—was arrested and fired after police allegedly caught she and her partner, Michael Acosta, bringing heroin and prescription…
Dine With Lena Dunham in the Confines of the Lowline!
The Lowline folks are on a roll. Less than a month after a lucrative benefit netted them $30,000 for their ambitious underground park project, they’ve…
Champs Is Frying Up Vegan Corn Dogs in Rockaway
Champs, the vegan diner with locations in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick, is doing what everyone else in North Brooklyn is doing these days and weekending…
Here’s How Locals Are Feeling About Williamsburg’s First Starbucks
In case you hadn’t heard, Williamsburg finally got itself a Starbucks location this morning—on Union Ave near the Lorimer/Metropolitan L and G station. The neighborhood…
At Last, a Look Inside the New St. Mark’s Bookshop
After a spate of setbacks and slowdowns, St. Mark’s Bookshop has reopened in its new digs at 136 East Third Street. It’s the beloved book…