We’ve been hearing rumblings that the folks behind Lit, which just celebrated 12 years in the East Village, were working on a new bar in…
42 Kooky, Kinky Films to See in Theaters While You Wait For Nymphomaniac
Part one of Lars Von Trier’s much ballyhooed NC-17 tour de force, Nymphomaniac (NSFW trailer above), will finally make its NYC debut at Nitehawk Cinema on…
Another Manhattanite, The Bean, Hits Bedford Avenue
Because Bedford Avenue isn’t caffeinated enough, The Bean, a chain of East Village coffee shops popular with NYU students, is planning to open a location…
This Film Has It All: Rooftop Teepees, Reclaimed Water-Tower-Wood Surfboards
Just, wow. Any given frame of this short film created by Patagonia Surf Bowery along with Indoek (makers of everything from custom teepees to a Bro in the City app) is a diorama-like snapshot…
Jimmy McMillan Wants to Eat Your Cookie
Mayoral also-ran Jimmy McMillan has always been concerned about world hunger (“not only is the rent too damn high, the food is too damn high,” he recently…
Bushwick Is Becoming A Foodie Haven; Inside a Dilapidated Synagogue
A woman was shot in the chest in a Bushwick building Sunday. [NY Daily News] Police have released video of a man who allegedly assaulted…
Allen Ginsberg’s Old Business Card, On the Occasion of His Post Office’s Closing
With the Peter Stuyvesant Station post office closing today and moving over to a retail-only location next week, it seems like a good time to…
Bacon Toothpaste Is Half Off As This Novelty Store Leaves Its Home of 30 Years
When a reader wrote in to tell us Alphabets was closing its original location on Avenue A we wondered where we’d get our mustache-shaped cookie…
Starving Artist? NewPatron Will Find You a Medici
Unless you can survive without sleep or food or your parents have lots and lots of money, it’s tough being an emerging artist in New…
The Mac and Cheese Bagel Is a Thing That Exists
Sometimes you wake up in desperate need of coffee, turn to Seamless to see if Tompkins Square Bagels will deliver a cappuccino, and then you…