Well, this is a bummer. One of our favorite Spanish spots, La Churreria, has called it a day. Just a month after we got all…
Experimental Filmmaker Gets Year in Prison For Bank Heist
Experimental filmmaker Joseph Gibbons was the focus of multiple camera lenses this afternoon — not as part of one his projects, but because he had…
In Chinatown, Mr. Fong’s Aims to Be Like the Old Max Fish, ‘With Better Cocktails’
Alas, Lit is closing, but could Mr. Fong’s keep hope alive for the downtown set? Lucas Moran, who just opened the neighborhood bar in the shadow of the…
Comedian Damien Lemon Will ‘Get into the Deep Issues, But This Isn’t a TED Talk’
You’ve probably seen Damien Lemon on MTV 2’s Guy Code, or as the cabbie in one of those Spiderman movies or on Comedy Central’s The…
Rockaway Gets More Boardwalk and Clam Boils, Just in Time for the 4th
I’m proud to be an American, because the Parks Department just opened another stretch of Rockaway boardwalk, from Beach 97th Street to Beach 106th Street…
Shakespeare As You Like It: In a Park or in a Parking Lot
After construction of Essex Crossing bumped it from its home last year, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot will relaunch just three blocks away, in a…
Checking Out the Coney Art Walls As They Near Completion
While Bushwick Collective has been hogging all the attention lately (even from local cops), a series of equally impressive murals have been going up these…
Kevin Smith On Losing 80 Pounds and Getting Called Out By Courtney Love
It’s funny that Mallrats will be one of Nitehawk’s first outdoor films of the summer, because we just saw Kevin Smith at Vulture Festival, where…
Jonathan Franzen Has ‘No Idea’ Where His Latest Novel Came From
At Book Expo America last week, well-respected book critic and Salon co-founder Laura Miller attempted to open for us the “hot, hungry microcosm” of Jonathan Franzen’s brain.
Abbi and Ilana of Broad City Will Kick Off 420-Friendly Internet Week
With Internet Week booting up Monday, organizers of the annual tech-stravaganza have just sent word that none other than Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer will do the opening keynote conversation.…