New York Fringe Fest 2014
It’s that time again, folks. The time when the world’s most avant-garde and experimental theater types descend on the East Village and Lower East Side for a fortnight of moderately insane adventure...
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NYU’s Downtown Collection Adds Kembra Pfahler to Its Massive Punk Archive
(Photo: Facebook, Kembra Pfahler) If you’re feeling a little sapped of Kembra Pfahler these days tell your beating heart shut up and be still. While we’ve been sitting around waiting to see Kembra’s...
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This Playwright Imagined Iggy Pop as Dionysus in a New Version of The Bacchae
(Photo: Meta-Phys Ed.) Something caught our eye among the experimental, unusual, and low-budget plays that comprise the Ice Factory Festival, a spotlight of “the most exciting downtown companies” that...
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The Burbs Before Bushwick: Meryl Meisler Straddles ’70s Long Island and Downtown
Elda (Gentile) Stilletto and Guitarist at CBGB, NY, NY April 1978 (Photo: © Meryl Meisler) Meryl Meisler turned heads last year with her photographs of Bushwick in the late ’70s and early ’80s, when...
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Alone At Last : Slip Into a Booth and Prepare to Be Seduced
(Film still via “Alone at Last”, Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong) “At that time in New York things were really wild,” Emily Armstrong recalled of the ’70s punk scene. She and her partner, Pat Ivers, are...
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Sway’s Last Dance: Another Downtown Mainstay Gone Still
DJ Prince Terrance (center) and street artist Russell Murphy (Photo by Nick McManus) Patrons and staff gathered at Sway to bid bye bye as the downtown bar passed on to the next world, joining its...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth: David Bowie’s Formative Years in ’70s New York
Mourners laid flowers and outside David Bowie’s apartment on Lafayette Street (Kavitha Surana) By now you’re well aware that David Bowie has died, just days after his 69th birthday and the release of...
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St. Mark’s Bookshop Receives ‘Execution Notice,’ Down to Final Hours
Thin shelves spell bad news for St. Mark’s Bookshop (Photo via St. Mark’s Bookshop) A lawyer for the struggling St. Mark’s Bookshop tells us “they’re probably not going to be around much longer, we’re...
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With Erotic, Girl-Power Snow White On Stage, Who Needs Seven Little Men?
Center in red, Hilly Bodin as Snow White , Laura Careless as the Queen (Photo by Mark Shelby Perry, courtesy of Company XIV) I was not feeling particularly delighted when I nestled into my seat at...
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Tinder Trapped and Peeved at Beards: the 81-Year-Old Comic Who’s Just Like Us
(Photo courtesy of D’yan Forest) At 81 years old, D’yan Forest describes herself as a “young Betty White.” The octogenarian and veteran performer doesn’t mask her sexual conquests in grandma-speak....
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After Series of New Chapters for Left Bank Books, a Final Conclusion
Left Bank Books employees Eric and Jess with their customers outside their storefront on its final Saturday, 3/12 at 4 p.m. (Photo: Nick McManus) A few weeks back, the owners of Left Bank Books took to...
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From the Allen Street Boys to Satan’s Sinners, Street Gangs of the Lower East...
Clayton Patterson’s new book with Jose “Cochise” Quiles, cover photo by Clayton Patterson (Image: Nicole Disser) Last week, Elliot Caldwell was fatally shot outside of Campos Plaza, the NYCHA public...
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After You See ‘Visceral’ Danger Doc, The Bomb, You’re Gonna Be All, ‘Mind =...
Taking a stance against nuclear weapons proliferation might not be as controversial as hating on vaccines– as we saw when Tribeca Film Festival announced it was pulling Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to...
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Awkwafina All Around Us: Queens Rapper’s Doc Debut and TV Takeover
(Via “Bad Rap”) Queens-born rapper Awkwafina (the alter-ego of Nora Lum) says she’s been doing some serious “hustling” in the last couple of years: recording an album, putting out an NYC guidebook, and...
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Many Nudes, None By Dudes, at This Art Show Dedicated to the Female Gaze
Amanda Charchian“Ana in Costa Rica,” 2012 at “In The Raw: The Female Gaze on The Nude” Exhibit, (Courtesy of Untitled Space Gallery, New York) Opening night for In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude...
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Lifeforce Ditches Our Dystopian Present For a Post-Gender Cyborg Future
“Olympia44” by Kelsey Bennett (Image courtesy of Kelsey Bennett) I don’t think I’m alone in feeling like everything on this place we call Planet Earth is terrible right now. Mostly because a bigoted,...
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East Village Landlord’s Ice Cream Social Gets a Chilly Reception
Protestors yesterday at TK (Photo: Luisa Rollenhagen) It’s hard to imagine how anyone could get pissed off about ice cream. It’s pretty delicious stuff on its own, but when ice cream comes free, it’s...
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How a Mosque Ended Up Next to a Pig-Roasting, Shot-Pounding Metal Bar
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. 30 Cliff Street today. The metal bar “Iron Horse” located in background. At dusk, bearded men...
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The Theater That Was a ‘Weapon in the Class Struggle’
This week, we continue with our series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. The Workers Laboratory Theatre, headquartered at 42 East 12th street in the 1930s. (University of...
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St. Mark’s Bookshop Receives ‘Execution Notice,’ Down to Final Hours
Thin shelves spell bad news for St. Mark’s Bookshop (Photo via St. Mark’s Bookshop) A lawyer for the struggling St. Mark’s Bookshop tells us “they’re probably not going to be around much longer, we’re...
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