The white brick and neon pink sign of Ruby’s Cafe is a welcome sight in the East Village, especially on a rainy day. The Australian…
Performance Picks: MCR Burlesque and Indoor-Outdoor Comedy
THURSDAY Not Straight Not WhiteThursday, October 10 at 132 W 21st Street, 7 pm: FREE At this trio show, audiences get the best of three…
The Comic Geniuses Behind ‘On Cinema’ Have an Unmade Murder Mystery Lying Around Somewhere
Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s Adult Swim show, On Cinema at the Cinema, has birthed so many wacky offshoots– a podcast! a spinoff show! a…
‘The Booksellers’: A Musty-See Documentary About Old Books
I remember the moment I almost emptied my bank account at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. The object of temptation: a poster advertising the…
Art This Week: Pastels, Flowers, and Queer Abstraction
The Heart is a Lonely HunterOpening Wednesday, October 9 at Equity Gallery, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through November 2. There are plenty…
Brooklyn Bazaar Will Close (Again) at the End of November
The Brooklyn Bazaar will leave its home of three years at the end of November, it announced today. “This is literally like fucking Groundhog Day…
6 Lines From the ‘West Wing’ Impeachment That Are Still Timely, 20 Years Later
What better way to ponder (read: mourn) the current state of the union than with the 20th anniversary of Aaron Sorkin’s political drama The West…
The Easter Egg in Bong Joon-ho’s Genre-Bending, Mind-Blowing ‘Parasite’ That Explains the Ending
Spoiler Alert: This item is intended for those who’ve already watched “Parasite,” which opens Oct. 11; it contains plot spoilers including a description of the…
Immerse Yourself in a Bizarre, Interactive ‘Explosion of Dolls’ in a Chelsea Townhouse
There are few things so eerie as forsaken dolls; then there’s what’s going on at The Cell’s converted townhouse theater in Chelsea. “FOUND” is the…
Package Free Shop Gets $4.5 Million to Save the World One Biodegradable Vibrator at a Time
From compostable toothbrushes and reusable cotton produce bags to biodegradable mini vibrators, Williamsburg’s Package Free Shop is on a mission to make the world less…