Located on East First Street off of First Avenue, the Centre-fuge Public Art Project is a rotating outdoor gallery featuring work by mostly street artists. Every two months, new artists are invited to paint a construction office trailer that has been occupying the block as part of the constructions of the Second Avenue Subway. It’s […]
Of course you would. First Street Green, a majestic art-and-garden-oasis tucked away in the chaos of the East Village right off Houston Street, is seeking artists to paint murals on the plywood walls of First Park. Ideas and volunteers are also welcome. More, from their website: Each selected artist will be assigned a site within […]
According to Bowery Boogie, “a fairly large neighborhood brawl” erupted on the Lower East Side earlier this week “near the intersection of Rutgers and Madison Streets.” What’s particularly odd about the fight is the casual nature by which the crowd goes about giggling, shouting and then, exchanging blows with each other. There’s also quite a […]
Olek‘s projects seem to be taking on increasingly epic proportions. For her latest yarn-bombing venture, she returned to Mother Poland to bedeck an enormous dysfunctional Px48 locomotive with her signature bursts of rainbow-camoflauge splendor. With the help of four assistants, the project took her two days to complete and will remain in the town of […]
RIP East Village. Poet, writer, long long long-time East Village resident Taylor Mead died yesterday at the age of 88, Bowery Boogie reports. Most everyone who lived in the East Village knew Taylor, or knew of Taylor, or saw Taylor hobbling sexily down Houston to 163 Ludlow Street where he lived in a notoriously dilapidated apartment. […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Kentucky’s Young Widows are perhaps the only working post-hardcore band that would put a 2010 Tom Petty track onto a curated playlist, and the rest of their “Listen In” mix continues that disregard […]
“I had to syphon gas out of ur car @ 3AM,” reads the note above, found and photographed by Lower East Sider Topper Luciani. “Gas stations were closed. Sorry for the inconvenience. Here’s some cash… Thanks!!!” And beside the note was a fresh $10 bill. I’m not sure if this makes the “random stranger” who […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. Today, we look at The Chakachas’ “Yo Soy Cubano,” a song that provided sample fodder for two wildly different tracks: Kendrick Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle” and “Magic Carpet Ride” […]
ANIMAL’s original series I Should Have Shot That! asks photographers about that one shot that got away. This week, Brendan McInerney talks about a moment in Moldovian hospice care he just couldn’t shoot. I’m in a town called Taraclia in Moldova of the former USSR. I’m currently an English teacher. It’s alright. It pays the bills. I live in […]
ANIMAL’s original series I Should Have Shot That! asks photographers about that one shot that got away. This week, Ian Cox recalls a perfect moment with FUTURA during the illegal, subterranean Underbelly Project in Paris. I was invited to document the second Underbelly Project, after New York. It’s an illegal project. It’s not sanctioned, so it’s all […]
