Saturday Night Live was on hiatus last weekend, but cast member Sasheer Zamata could still be found performing before an audience in the wee hours. Just…
Watch Rare Footage of Amiri Baraka and the New York Art Quartet at Anthology
Speaking of Sun Ra, his fellow pioneers of avant-garde jazz, the New York Art Quartet, are the subject of a new documentary playing at Anthology…
Tonight: Drink Up As Columbia and NYU Profs Drop Some Knowledge
If you’ve ever snuck a flask into a college lecture, this may be the event for you. For tonight’s first annual Raising The Bar, Columbia…
Watch The Pizza Underground at Brooklyn Bowl, Then See Their Variety Show at LPR
The Pizza Underground played Brooklyn Bowl this past Saturday and footage just hit Youtube, courtesy of Sixdust. Check it out above, and note the cameo…
At a 100th Birthday Reading of Sun Ra’s Lost Works, Space Was the Place
William S. Burroughs isn’t the only counterculture deity being feted with a centenial. The late Sun Ra would have been about a month shy of…
New Gallery On the LES; Pop-Ups in McCarren Park
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Per the terms of a plea bargain, the man who allegedly threw bleach in a rabbi’s face on a Williamsburg sidewalk in…
A Car Slammed Into a Hardware Store in the East Village
A car jumped the curb and slammed into Saifee Hardware in the East Village this afternoon.
Liza Dye Is Out of the Hospital and Doing Stand-Up About Getting Hit By a Train
Comedian Liza Dye, who earlier this month told us about getting hit by a train at the Broadway-Lafayette station in mid-February, was released from Bellevue…
The Lost Lectures Found Their Way to NYC, With Dev Hynes, Amanda Lepore and More
Not only did New York get its first taste of the Hump! Film Festival, but on Friday it was introduced to The Lost Lectures. If you…
In East Williamsburg, a Fresh Take On Martha Cooper’s ’70s LES Photos
The challenge is always the same: how to translate the urgency, the lawlessness, the serendipity of discovery inherent in street art and graffiti into the…