Mermaid Parade

Mark Greenwold Paints Public Nightmares

Slow to offend

Ruby's Bar and Grill in Coney Island, 1985

Every week, the Brooklyn Historical Society sends round a historic photo of Brooklyn. This weeks it's a shot from Ruby's Bar in Coney Island, taken during the 1985 World Series, a nail biter in which the Kansas City Royals edged out the St. Louis Cardinals four games to three. Ruby's has been a favo ... More >>

Happy Pride! Here Are Some Gay Things for You to Read

In case the gigantic rainbow flags and scantily-clad men did not already tip you off, it's Pride weekend in New York City. Happy Pride! I'm stuck inside blogging so I can't go to the parade, but there are some great Pride-related things on the internet that you should definitely read and/or watch on ... More >>

MERMAIDS MARCH

Chase some tail

UNDER THE SEA

The Titanic rises for one last party

Coney Island Mermaid Parade Features Pasties, People Named Hellvis

Esther Zuckerman​On Friday we talked to Talk Stoop-er Cat Greenleaf about her stint as Queen Mermaid of this year's Coney Island Mermaid Parade. Driven by curiosity and a desire to see people in bizarre costumes, we ventured to the far reaches of Brooklyn Saturday to see what Coney Island wrou ... More >>

Cat Greenleaf, the Mermaid Parade's Queen Mermaid, Stoop Talks With Us

Esther Zuckerman​When I arrived at Cat Greenleaf's Cobble Hill brownstone this morning, she offered me some "Brooklyn seltzer," which she proceeded to pour into a small cup from an old-fashioned bottle. Greenleaf has made a lot of her Brooklyn residency. Her red door near the corner of Wyckoff ... More >>

SIREN SONG

Urban merpeople, rejoice!

TINY BUBBLES

A soapy battle in Coney Island

Live: Laurie Anderson Brings Her Delusion To BAM

Theories on the afterlife, and how many times you die. Photos by Rahav Segev courtesy of BAM, more below.​Laurie Anderson BAM/Harvey Theater Tuesday, September 21 Better Than: Hearing anyone else on earth talk about their dreams. Laurie Anderson should be legally required to provide the voi ... More >>

Sex on the Beaches

MARCH OF THE FLIPPERS

Now you can be part of their world

Lou Reed Doesn't Make a Very Good Illustrated Mermaid

Norman Blake via LouReed.orgLaurie and Lou: Queen and King Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson have been christened Master of Ceremonies for this year's Mermaid Parade, which for a day will make them, respectively, King Neptune and Queen Mermaid. Hopefully, this means in the press lead-up to June 19's top ... More >>

Tonight! Sleigh Bells, Cults, Sundelles, Massive Attack, Two Door Cinema Club, Dinosaur Feathers, And Phosphorescent

Tonight is a Nicolas-Cage-circa-National-Treasure wet dream: The Ridgewood Masonic Temple is housing Sleigh Bells, the M.I.A./Jonas Brother-endorsed duo consisting of metallic guitars fused with overdriven, butt-spanking hip-hop beats. Openers include ecstatic lo-fiers Sundelles and mysterious, sp ... More >>

Tonight! Phosphorescent, Strange Powers, Softspot, And Unsolved Mysteries

Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck, a/k/a the bro who sat for Da Vinci one time. ​Tonight, Phosphorescent, the only country warblers ever to dedicate a song to Coney Island's fleshy Mermaid Parade, celebrate the release of their new album at Other Music. In last week's Yes in My Backyard installme ... More >>

Week in Review: May Day

Salute. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we finally got to unleash the initial Siren Festival details on the world (July 17! 10th anniversary! Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Harlem! Totally free!), we celebrated Cinco De Mayo like Anna Wintour, Pharrell, a ... More >>

Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck Talks "The Mermaid Parade," His Ballad of a Trip to Coney Island

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn troubadour Matthew Houck, the ever-bearded frontman of Phosphorescent, has added another stellar album to his formidable roster, the slow-sailing, appropriately titled fifth full length Her ... More >>

Interview: Dick Zigun, Mayor of Coney Island, on What's Good and Not So Good About the City's Coney Plans

Photo (c) Robert Schaffer. Dick Zigun is the artistic director of Coney Island USA. His Sideshows by the Seashore not only features the last "10 in One" sideshow, but showcases burlesque, houses a museum, and plays hosts to many events, including the Coney Island Film Festival, and is the headqua ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Twitpic by moises. The spectre of death stalked the nation. We were all shocked by the death of a great American musician: Sky Saxon. Also, Michael Jackson. We looked at his fans, press reactions, his good works and his weird headlines. And let's not forget Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. Presid ... More >>

Despite Drizzle, Mermaids March at Coney

A little rain couldn't stop the Annual Mermaid Parade on Surf Avenue in Coney Island. This year's King Neptune, actor Harvey Keitel (with his wife Daphna as Mermaid Queen), was pushed along the route in the traditional chariot, and afterwards was escorted to the beach to cut four ribbons symbolizi ... More >>

MER-MADNESS

Coney is still Coney

ATTACK OF THE MERFOLK!

Feelin’ fishy? Walk it off

The Mail Gaze

Taylor Mac seeks his dead dad in old letters to the ladies

Ghost World

You'll need a memory like an elephant to remember Coney Island

Let's Take This Outside

Al fresco shows for real New Yorkers (and their houseguests)

Coney Island's Last Ride? The Bulldozer!

Behind the scenes, a scary game of chicken between the city and a developer who dreams of high-rise condos that won't amuse you

Scary Ride at Coney Island

Extreme makeover not amusing to everybody in the amusement district

New 'Batman' Fails to Scare

'Apocalypse Now' Creator Makes War; Tiny Baseball

The Literary 'Kirby'; a Mini 'Wario' Avalanche

Two Tiny Ways to Spend Time

Open City

Personal-Ad Adventure

Girlfriend gives her guy a special gift: Rachel in a live lesbian sex show

Out of Bellevue and Alcohol-Doused

Events

Swimming

Wet Dreams

Open City

Close-Up On: Coney Island

Open City

Parades, Beaches, Festivals: What's Out There

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