Members of the bike messenger community came together in Tompkins Square Park on Friday to mark the naming of a bench for bike messenger and photographer ‘Fast’ Eddie…
MoMaCha Turns Green Tea Into a Modern Art Experience
Gone are the days of the humble coffee shop a la Central Perk in Friends— in our current era of Instagram, many cafes moonlight as bars…
OddFellows Opens a Nolita Ice Cream Shop For People Who Take Their Lattes With Smoked Raisin Milk
It’s not yet ice cream weather (grrr), but that isn’t stopping OddFellows Ice Cream Co. from expanding to Nolita. The quirky parlor with locations in…
CB Lets Club Cumming Sing Again, With Some Restrictions
A drag queen let me into Community Board 3’s State Liquor Authority licensing committee meeting on Monday night. Inside, she was joined by a bevy of others who…
New Venues Coney Island Baby and Asbury Lanes Announce Lineups
Two forthcoming venues in hallowed spaces have announced their initial lineups. Asbury Lanes, the Bowery Presents reboot of the 57-year-old bowling-and-music dive in Asbury Park, will open…
Free-Jazz Pioneer Cecil Taylor Has Died At 89
Avant-garde jazz pianist and composer Cecil Taylor died at his Brooklyn home Thursday evening. He was 89. A polarizing figure during the jazz heyday of the 50s and…
Can This East Villager Get Elected to Congress By Going to Yoga Classes and Making Coffee Dates?
The space that used to house Coup, on Cooper Square, still feels like a cocktail lounge, but the young people at the bar during a recent visit…
UFO Cults, Modern Vaudeville, and More Performance Picks
WEDNESDAY Wondershow Wednesday, March 28 at Lot 45, 7 pm: $25 When you think of vaudeville, you may imagine charismatic and fast-talking magicians, jokesters, and other…
‘Downtown Was My Heaven’: Generations of Performers Revisit Club 57
Last Thursday, the theater at MoMA went back to the 20th century when Performing Difference: Gender in the 1980s Downtown Scene, a day of panel…
It’s Been 24 Years Since Flower Power Herb Shop Put Down Roots in the East Village
A woman with a shock of wild red hair and oversized sunglasses approached me outside of Flower Power Herbs and Roots as I stood waiting…