THERE’S SOMETHING GOING ON THAT’S ACTUALLY QUITE RIGHT U.K. band Wire came of age in the first wave of punk, but they’re perhaps more responsible…
Magic Flying Carpets and Late Night Openings: Art This Weekend
Between the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival taking over galleries and venues across the borough and Williamsburg Every 2:ND going down tonight, it’s a big weekend…
Charles Bellafiore Usually Finds Someone to Talk to at Enid’s
Last week, the unthinkable happened: Enid’s went dry. The Greenpoint bar’s liquor license expired and it went a week without being able to serve (yesterday…
Titus Andronicus Sells Singing Telegrams, ‘Biggest Block Party in East Williamsburg’
For $50, Patrick Stickles, front-man of the Brooklyn-based rock outfit Titus Andronicus, will deliver a singing telegram right to your door. [The L] The real-estate…
‘Bowery Boys’ Reimagines the Really Bad, Really Old Days of the Lower East Side
Crooked political machines, race-tinged violence, rampant disease, and a gross disparity of wealth: just another day in Five Points in 1853. “Bowery Boys,” a new…
The 40-Year-Old Hipster Goes to a Rave
Tom Lombardi has returned to his stomping grounds of Williamsburg after several years away. The wife and I ride the elevator thirty-something floors up the…
Free Soul Cycling in Williamsburg, Spanish Poet Reborn in Bushwick
Soul Cycle NYC has launched Williamsburg Local Rides, in which neighborhood residents can take a class for free every Wednesday this summer. [Bedford + Bowery]…
Rocks Off Film Festival Docks in EV, SummerScreen Comes to McCarren
These upcoming flicks, films and festivals have us Reel Psyched. Rocks Off is best known for taking sex, drugs and rock n’ roll to the…
What a Shiti Thing to Do…
A few weeks ago, writer-photographer Kyle Dean Reinford tweeted, “surprised I haven’t seen an easily applicable sticker that changes citibike to shitibike.” Et voilà! Last…
This Week, So Much Power Pop
We’ve already outlined a couple of worthwhile shows in our weekend events round-up (reminder: Death by Audio. Tonight. Speedy Ortiz, Roomrunner, and California X. You…