This past weekend’s warm weather welcomed back a new season of Smorgasburg, the much-loved outdoor market held Saturdays in Williamsburg and Sundays in Prospect Park…
Inside the Lower East Side’s Newest, Largest Movie Theater
Though the food market coming to Essex Crossing got some nice press last week, you’ll have to wait three months before it opens. In the…
Performance Picks: Autobiographical Bodies, Black Burlesque, and More
THURSDAY (image via Union Hall / Facebook) Yourself, Your Body Thursday, April 4 at Union Hall, 9:30 pm: $10 Arti Gollapudi, who we interviewed back…
The Last Days and Nights of Enid’s, Now Closed After 20 Years in Greenpoint
Greenpoint’s past and present collided last week as Enid’s shuttered after 20 years of early brunches and late-night parties. After the beloved bar and restaurant…
Relaxer and My Year of Rest and Relaxation: More Taxing Than Relaxing
It’s not often that two strikingly original works seem to have been cut from the same puke-drenched cloth, but that’s exactly the case with Ottessa…
Bedtime Stories Get Woke at This Library and Exhibit of Radical Kids Books
Children’s books have a way of teaching lessons without coming across as preachy or insistent. They teach you to eat your vegetables and take care…
Political Cartoons On the Wall at This Year’s MoCCA Arts Festival
The Society of Illustrators expects to draw crowds to Hudson Yards this weekend for the annual MoCCA Arts Festival. Hundreds of New York- and Brooklyn-based…
Dueling Pistols: Founding Members of the Sex Pistols Make Rare NYC Appearances
In rock and roll, there are legendary feuds. Mike Love vs. Brian Wilson, Axl vs. Slash, and one of the most savage: John Lydon, frontman of…
A Kerouac Fest, a Translation Slam, and More Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month
Aside from being April Fool’s, today was also the first day of National Poetry Month. If you forgot, that’s all right. There are plenty of…
Art This Week: An Activist’s Paintings, Interactive Light Vessels, and More
Monika Monika Opening Monday, April 1 at Steuben Gallery, 5 pm to 8 pm. On view through April 5. Monika Monika is both the name…