This week, we continue with our series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. In June 1931, with America’s working class still deep in the…
How a Mosque Ended Up Next to a Pig-Roasting, Shot-Pounding Metal Bar
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. At dusk, bearded men dressed in suits take…
East Village Landlord’s Ice Cream Social Gets a Chilly Reception
It’s hard to imagine how anyone could get pissed off about ice cream. It’s pretty delicious stuff on its own, but when ice cream comes free,…
Many Nudes, None By Dudes, at This Art Show Dedicated to the Female Gaze
Opening night for In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude (on view now through May 21 at The Untitled Space) was predictably packed,…
Awkwafina All Around Us: Queens Rapper’s Doc Debut and TV Takeover
Queens-born rapper Awkwafina (the alter-ego of Nora Lum) says she’s been doing some serious “hustling” in the last couple of years: recording an album, putting out an…
After You See ‘Visceral’ Danger Doc, The Bomb, You’re Gonna Be All, ‘Mind = Blown’
Taking a stance against nuclear weapons proliferation might not be as controversial as hating on vaccines– as we saw when Tribeca Film Festival announced it was…
From the Allen Street Boys to Satan’s Sinners, Street Gangs of the Lower East Side
Last week, Elliot Caldwell was fatally shot outside of Campos Plaza, the NYCHA public housing project where he’d grown up. An EV Grieve commenter noted that the 23-year-old…
Tinder Trapped and Peeved at Beards: the 81-Year-Old Comic Who’s Just Like Us
At 81 years old, D’yan Forest describes herself as a “young Betty White.” The octogenarian and veteran performer doesn’t mask her sexual conquests in grandma-speak. Indeed she speaks Millennial more…
With Erotic, Girl-Power Snow White On Stage, Who Needs Seven Little Men?
I was not feeling particularly delighted when I nestled into my seat at Company XIV‘s stage production of Snow White. Firstly, the theater smelled like a…
St. Mark’s Bookshop Receives ‘Execution Notice,’ Down to Final Hours
A lawyer for the struggling St. Mark’s Bookshop tells us “they’re probably not going to be around much longer, we’re talking days.” Since we last reported…