The recently announced Red Bull Music Academy Festival isn’t the only reason you need to unburn those raver pants: Verboten — the club long slated…
Hear Yr Fave Television and Pixies Albums On Some Really Expensive Speakers
This has to be the next best thing to seeing the Shitty Pixies live: next month, you’ll be able to listen to the real Pixies on Output’s…
A Chat With Oh, Honey, the Latest Williamsburg Band Sign With a Major
Oh, Honey, the Williamsburg-based band made up of Mitchy Collins and Danielle Bouchard, has a dreamy, sun-drenched sound that could almost pass as being from…
Homeland Security ‘Terrorized’ East Williamsburg; Greenpoint Leech Therapy
Sunday’s mysterious Department of Homeland Security raid “terrorized and confused” East Williamsburg residents. [Gothamist] Permits were filed yesterday for two of Greenpoint Landing’s 30-story-plus waterfront…
‘Art-less Dodger’ Indicted For Swiping Portraits of Basquiat, Mandela and Snoop
The 49-year-old who allegedly stole three paintings from a Williamsburg art gallery before being chased down by the gallery owner, and then apprehended by police,…
Allison Kave and Keavy Landreth on Girls: ‘I’m Writhing With Discomfort’
Welcome to Girls Talk, in which two of our favorite New Yorkers share the text messages they sent during this week’s episode of Girls. A…
This Massive Athletic Club Is Coming to the Williamsburg-Greenpoint Border
Williamsburg-Greenpoint is getting a 17,000-square-foot training facility where locals can work off the beers they downed next-door at Spritzenhaus. While their kids are looked after.…
Baby Seal in Greenpoint; ‘How Hipsters Ruined the Bowery’
Here’s more on Saturday night’s cab crash at Eldridge and Broome. [NY Daily News] A motorcyclist died after hitting a car on Manhattan Avenue in…
Williamsburg’s Croxley Abbey Has More TV Sets Than You Have Teeth
Despite 38 television sets, 10-cent wing nights*, 48 tap beers plus nearly 80 bottles, the owners of Croxley Abbey in Williamsburg — the sixth location in…
Vice’s Shane Smith: ‘Will We Eventually Be Old and Shitty? Yes.’
Previewing season two of HBO’s Vice to an audience of NYU students last night, Vice Media co-founder Shane Smith admitted there was a time when “we…