Exciting things are happening in Brooklyn music these days. For one thing, we’re quickly approaching South By Southwest, that mecca of music […]

For reasons that are pretty much just angry men saying “because reasons,” rape is still a very serious and global threat to women […]

We get a lot of emails about bars and it takes a special advertisement to stand out in our flooded inboxes. Bushwick’s […]

1. Celebrate International Women’s Month at the Third Annual Oxfam Jam, with lady musicians New Tarot, Amy Leon, and Ellen Winter, plus […]

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You feel that tensions in your shoulders whenever you turn on CNN, that crick in your neck when you realize “should you […]

Konichiwa, bitches! Except not bitches, because that has violent, misogynistic overtones, and not konichiwa, because it feels like cultural appropriation. And if that […]

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Many New Yorkers are apoplectic about the new turkey carcass Oculus WTC PATH train that opened yesterday. Design compromises, incredible delays, and cost overruns of $2 […]

See if you can guess where this story goes: A bunch of NYC comedians disappointed by what they see as the still-lingering lack […]