To get people psyched for Sunday’s Downtown Literary Festival, tonight Housing Works Bookstore Cafe will host a happy hour from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.,…
Could This New Web Series Be The Next Broad City?
Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leite, a Greenpointer and a Williamsburger who together are Purple Milk, know a thing or two about reinvention: for their web…
Absolutely Nuts: The Smallest Penis Contest Is Back
Get ready for some not-so-stiff competition. The Smallest Penis in Brooklyn contest that went, er, viral last year is BACK and bigger than ever. Okay,…
Merchant’s House Desperately Needs You to Nominate Its Plaster For an Award
The Merchant’s House Museum suffered a blow on Tuesday when the Landmarks Preservation Commission finally signed off on the design of a controversial nine-story building…
Jad Abumrad of Radiolab Gets His Black Sabbath Fix at Splitty
Jad Abumrad is a genius. Really. In 2011, he received the ridiculously prestigious MacArthur Genius Award for creating “engaging audio explorations of scientific and philosophical…
Watch Nirvana Reunite — With Kim Gordon, St. Vincent and Lorde As Kurt
It’s not every show that Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens, Hall and Oates and freaking Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are merely the warm-up…
Williamsburg Apartment Fire; Bushwick Hit-and-Run Driver Caught on Video
More than 100 firefighters fought a blaze at a Williamsburg apartment building. Two police officers were hospitalized with smoke inhalation before being released. [The Brooklyn…
Near Joey Ramone Way, De Blasio Touts First 100 Days As ‘Rockaway Beach’ Plays
Today while the rest of us were celebrating Stephen Colbert’s succession of David Letterman, Mayor Bill de Blasio was celebrating himself. Specifically, his first 100…
Three Bookselling Institutions Get Ready For Their Next Chapters
There’s real estate news from three of the city’s book-selling institutions. The rumors about Shakespeare & Co.’s possible closure are getting harder to ignore. The space…
Surprise, Surprise: Half Off All Housewares at Two East Village Goners
If you’re looking for cheap housewares, today’s your day: everything is 50 percent off at Surprise! Surprise!, which will close at the end of this…