This summer El Diablito, Taqueria Diana, Sembrado en Nueva York, and Tacos Morelos have opened in the East Village. If all goes according to plan, Otto’s Tacos will enter…
The LES Is Getting a New Stand-Up Weekly, Courtesy of a Bushwick Comic
Tonight The Leadbelly, on the Lower East Side, kicks off a new weekly comedy show hosted by Bushwick-based comic Taylor Clark. Clark also hosts Big…
Get Hot with Burning Man, The Montagues and Capulets, and Debbie Harry
Every year thousands of people swarm the sweltering deserts of Nevada to indulge in hippiesque camaraderie, the building and destruction of a short-lived city, partying…
Watch Chrome Canyon Turn a Greenpoint Loft into a ’70s Berlin Discotheque
Morgan Z has long been drawn to the work of film-score composers like Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Giorgio Moroder. That much is clear when you…
It’s the Hyperdimensional Event You Didn’t Know You’d Been Waiting For
Forget Smurfs 2 — this week one of the East Village’s trippiest artists, M. Henry Jones, wants to show you some 3-D that doesn’t suck.
‘No 7-Eleven’ Is Still Raging Against the Slurpee Machine
A while back we wondered whether the folks behind No 7-Eleven would embrace the chain now that it’s offering to hold on to their spare…
Seems There Was a Pistol-Whipping in Greenpoint This Afternoon
We’re piecing together the details of an incident involving a gun that unfolded near Guernsey Street and Norman Avenue earlier today. The police-scanner scanners over…
Do We Even Have to Tell You Today’s Ramen Burger Line Was Absurd?
There’s an old saying: when a dog bites a man, that is not news. But when a man bites a ramen burger, that is news.…
There Was a Shooting in Bushwick This Morning
A man was shot in the arm early this morning in Bushwick, the police say. The shooting occurred outside of 371 Troutman Street, near the…
Your Freaky Weekend: a Twerking Contest and a Burgers and Burlesque Bash
Bummed you didn’t win the Smallest Penis contest last month? Maybe you can twerk your way to victory this weekend. Taking a cue from Nicki…