Concert for Immigration Rights: Glasser, Underground System, Tigue, Elena Moon Park & Friends, Ashley Bathgate, and Ljova Wednesday March 22, doors 7 pm at Le…
Photos: ABC No Rio's Last Hurrah at Its Home of 36 Years
The closing of two beloved record stores wasn’t the only blow dealt to Manhattan’s music scene over the weekend. Down on the Lower East Side,…
ABC No Rio Bids Bye to Current Digs With Final Art Show and Close-Out Concerts
Artists from all eras of ABC No Rio’s radical history, including some who founded the legendary Lower East Side squat in 1980, have turned the dilapidated…
‘Literally a Rat Hole’: How Seventh Street Squat Grew on a Governor’s Meadow
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. In late October, I emailed Fly, a resident…
Anarchy-Lovin’ Film Fest to Occupy Local Community Gardens
It’s no secret the East Village has gone through immense changes over the last few decades, but some institutions from the pre-$20 cocktail days have stuck around.…
ABC No Rio Co-Founder Recalls a New Era of Hardcore in Exhibit and Screening
Once upon a time there were things called subcultures, that managed to thrive despite promotion through “social channels” or sponsorships from energy drinks. Since 1980,…
ABC No Rio and Its Zine Library Hope to Turn a New Page
ABC No Rio is falling apart, as it has been for decades. But it sort of comes with the territory– as a (now former) squat house,…
Maggie Estep Has Died at 50
Writer and spoken-word star Maggie Estep has died at the age of 50. A friend tells The Times she died two days after having a…
Mental Note: See This Exhibit at ABC No Rio Before Its Building Is a Distant Memory
There was something I was supposed to post this afternoon, but it seems to have slipped my mind. Oh, right. “Collect, Store, Retrieve” — a…