Netherlands

The Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month (Jazz Appreciation Month Edition)

These are the 10 best jazz shows in New York this month. (Here for more on Jazz Appreciation Month.)

New Amsterdam Market Fights for the Seaport

On Thursday, March 14, the New York City Council will hold a public hearing to discuss future plans for South Street Seaport, the city's oldest communal meeting place. Organizers of the New Amsterdam Market -- an outdoor marketplace held in the area -- are seeking to "preserve and rehabilitate" the ... More >>

Are Mealworms the Meat of the Future?

Smithsonian takes a look at a new study from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands which finds that the greenhouse gas footprint of a pound of mealworm protein is just 1 percent that of a pound of beef. Mealworm, potentially the meat of the future, is a cute name for beetle larvae.

New Amsterdam Records Badly Hit by Sandy

Following the news of the unfortunate sizable damage to Norton Records, another label based in Red Hook, New Amsterdam Records, has had its headquarters devastated in the storm, including 70% of the label's CD inventory, which the artists themselves actually owned (the label held them as storage but ... More >>

Say Goodbye to The Lakeside Lounge, Mary Queen of Scots

Alphabet City loses another dive bar with The Lakeside Lounge gone. [EV Grieve] Niko on Mercer Street has closed due to a plumbing problem. "We had a flood; whether or not we reopen depends on what happens with the insurance,'' owner Cobi Levy told Grub Street. However, sources close to the restaur ... More >>

FRESH PAINT

Pick up works of art for cheap

Occupy Valentine's Day: Tomorrow's Bed-In in Washington Square Park

Revolutionary GamesThe flyer for tomorrow's "Bed-In."​Valentine's Day, it is now well-established by crushingly overwhelming consensus, is more or less the worst, a vastly successful conspiracy by the Things-That-Are-Pink-Or-Made-Of-Chocolate Industrial complex to boost sales. Whether you a ... More >>

'The Bunker' w/ Newworldaquarium

Science Solves Age-Old Mystery of Why the Trip Home Always Seems Shorter

​Pondering the long-held befuddler of why getting somewhere always seems to take longer than coming home afterward (and it's not because you're running late, or had a few drinks upon arrival at your location), science has determined that the return trip seems shorter because...your expectation ... More >>

Skirts on Bikes Ride Planned to Celebrate 'Freedom and Fashion'

​Earlier in the week we told you about Jasmijn Rijcken, the Dutch tourist in town for the New Amsterdam Bike Show who was stopped by a New York City police officer and told that her skirt, which she was wearing while cycling in Soho, was dangerous and distracting. Now one of her friends, Joann ... More >>

CRANK IT UP

A bad-ass bike show (for environmentalists)

Winter in Wartime: Updating the WWII Movie for a Skeptical Age

Moombahton Star Munchi Hospitalized In Hawaii; NYC DJs Flock To His Aid

​The Netherlands-based DJ, producer, and "moombahton" guru known as Munchi is a recent obsession in some corners of SOTC -- hear lots of examples of his adventurous, omnivorous style here -- which makes news of his recent medical trauma all the more disturbing. Per NYC's own DJ Ayres comes new ... More >>

Happy Birthday, New York!

Manu_H​Dear New York, On this date in 1653, you (then named New Amsterdam -- you never really looked like a New Amsterdam) were incorporated. You've had your ups, your downs and even that weird phase in the '80s when you got heavy into drugs and synth music.

'The Bunker Presents Virgo'

Bizarre 'Face Your Food' Campaign Hopes to Raise Awareness by Showing People Un-Eating

Ever wonder what it looks like to eat a doughnut in reverse? Well, now's your chance to find out. This somewhat icky campaign was spawned by FairFood.org, a mysteriously "global" initiative to promote sustainable eating by pushing big food corporations to adopt more ethical practices. It appears t ... More >>

BEST IN (SECOND) SHOW

A false start still meant great things for these Danes

Drunk Pilot Yanked from Delta Flight; His Passengers Could Probably Use a Drink

​A Delta Airlines pilot about to fly from Amsterdam to Newark today was removed from the plane after getting a .023 percent on his blood alcohol level test, which is just over the legal limit in the Netherlands. In the U.S., where the pilot is from (Woodbury, New Jersey, to be exact), drunk dr ... More >>

Where Can Gays Marry and Adopt?

​Watchdog reporter Rex Wockner knows, and he's put it all down in one handy list for future husbears and bear-ents: "Same-sex marriage is legal in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Mexico City, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts ... More >>

THEATER GONE WILD

How many Fringe shows can you see?

'The Bunker'

Warm Up Presents Gavin Russom, Alden Tyrell & the Crystal Ark

'Ampd Presents Lauhaus & Eric Cloutier'

Amsterdam to Employ "Decoy Jews," One-Liners Regarding Them Write Themselves

​Amsterdam is now going to be using "Decoy Jews" to help ferret out anti-Semitic violence. They already use "Decoy Gays" and "Decoy Rich People," so this isn't really anything new. But still:

Luke's Lobster, Mast Bros. Join New Amsterdam's Roster of Vendors

William Coupon/New Amsterdam MarketNew Amsterdam, new vendors.​When the New Amsterdam Market returns to the South Street Seaport next Sunday, it will have a few more local vendors on its roster.

Holland Herring Have Arrived at Russ and Daughters

A happy customer demonstrates how to eat a Holland herring. They're best consumed in the company of understanding friends.​ The nieuwe maatjes season has officially begun: as of this morning, the aquatic delicacies, otherwise known as new catch Holland herring, are available at Russ & Daughte ... More >>

'Galaxie Presents Legowelt, Alden Tyrell & Serge'

Holland Herring Will Arrive at Grand Central Oyster Bar on June 9

Clupea harengus​June is the most sacred month of the year for lovers of Clupea harengus, which are more widely known as the Atlantic herring. That's because June marks the arrival of the nieuwe maatjes, or new-catch herring, from Holland, and new-catch herring are to regular herring what a Bir ... More >>

Dave Holland Quintet

Our 10 Best Fish Dishes

Seattle Weekly​Today, in honor of Good Friday and Passover, we bring you a list of the 10 best fin fish dishes in the city. We've left shellfish and cephalopods for another day, and tried to choose plates in which fish star, rather than play in the ensemble--so you won't find your favorite as ... More >>

Jolie Holland+Rain Machine

Will Holshouser, Han Bennink & Michael Moore

New Catch Holland Herring at Russ and Daughters

Open wide: New catch Holland herring and chopped onion Today is the first day of the new catch Holland herring season at Russ and Daughters. The small, silvery fishes from the cold waters of the North Sea are at their peak once a year, starting now and lasting for approximately the next four weeks ... More >>

DOUBLE LIFE

Who is the real R.C. Baker?

Holland Bar Re-Opens For Real

After a celebrated reprieve, then an ominously long wait for resumption of operations, the Holland Bar has begun serving customers again. The Times says they started pouring last night. The place is still a mess, and "the cash register was perched on several cases of Bud Light," but it's open. "Gent ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World -- Mochi Croquettes

The sublime mochi croquette at EN (click to enlarge) While rarely seen in restaurants, the croquette is central to homestyle Japanese cooking, as seen at the East Village restaurant Chiyono. The croquette probably originated in the Netherlands, but as made by moms all across Japan, features ... More >>

Holland Bar Not Quite Open Yet

Like all bibulous New Yorkers, we hailed the return of the venerable Holland Bar to Ninth Avenue. But EV Grieve tells us today that, despite the New York Times' assurance that the place could be serving cold beer and hot sliders by mid-week, the Holland is still not open. EV says from the state of t ... More >>

Holland Bar Reopens

The Holland Bar -- a long, thin haunt on Ninth near 39th that had for years sold cheap drinks and White Castle burgers to seasoned regulars and, later, younger folks who approved its low-down charms, until its closing last summer -- will reopen, probably this week. Last week the rumor of the Hollan ... More >>

FESTISH FIX

When porn goes on-the-fringe

Jolie Holland Talks About Working With M. Ward, Yogi Bear

Un-Veiled

The controversial critic of Islam retraces her road to enlightenment

Fair Maidens

Notes from an Underground Herring Festival

Dutch Treat

Crawling toward Wall Street: Dehumanization in several guises

Vice City

Close Up On: Morningside Heights

The Politics of Pim

Being Gay Helped This Murdered Dutch Politician in Many Ways

Morningside Nights

Modern Lovers Troll Columbia’s Bars for Fun and Profit

Racism and Favoritism In Pataki Land

Lawsuit Exposes the Secret Albany World of a Disengaged Governor

Reel Life