If you haven’t heard of the Northside Music & Arts Festival already, or don’t ever go to Brooklyn (really?!) then you may have noticed plenty o’advertising for this massive weekend event. Along with tons of bands playing venues all over town (see full line-up HERE), local artists will also be

If you’ve never seen Lou Reed, then I’m sorry but you are not yet a New Yorker no matter how many years of high rent and sticky summers you’ve put in. Fortunately, tonight you can fix this. Reed and icons like Todd Rundgren, jazz legend Geri Allen, Rosanne Cash, Eric

FREE BOWLING AND SHOES! FREE BOWLING AND SHOES! FREE BOWLING AND SHOES! Phew. Sorry. Just a little excited that bowling has finally returned to the cheap-ass entertainment activity I grew up loving it to be thanks to the fine folks at Brooklyn Bowl. Starting now, mention “Summer Bowl” when checking

Are you tired of electronica, metal, hip-hop, free jazz, bebop, noise music, classic rock, indie-rock, and everything else that mankind has created after the end of prohibition? Are you so tired of society, technology and the future that you don’t have a cell phone? Do you write on a typewriter,

After much thought during a recent long drive so boring that counting deer carcasses became an actual game,  I have made an important realization that I feel I must–must!–share with the world RIGHT NOW: Peter McManus Cafe is my favorite pub in New York City. If you haven’t been there

I am fascinated by other people’s homes.  It’s like looking in someone’s medicine cabinet on a grander, way more obvious scale that sometimes involves deciphering magnetic poetry or discovering a secret My Little Pony collection. And or once, and it’s nice not to have to feel like a creeper about

It’s no secret that live music and booze are two of my besties.  But make it FREE live music and FREE booze and we’re talking BFF status, and maybe even one of those rad heart necklaces to prove it. Tonight,  The Shop is offering up those things and more just