Scenes from the opening night of Eugene Mirman's Comedy Festival at the Bell House, with Kirsten Schaal, Jon Benjamin, Larry Murphy, Jon Auer, and Daniel Kitson kicking off a week of events.
How else to celebrate the late King of Pop's big five-one than rapping about wearin' tight pants, gettin' pregnant and maybe catching some burlesque along the way.
With the Lower East Side club Annex soon to close, Friday, September 11 was the last Ruff Club ever. And it was most definitely epic: A.R.E. Weapons played, M.E.N. DJ'd, and the party didn't end until seven in the morning. The end of an era, indeed.
The Exxxotica Expo returned to Edison, New Jersey this past weekend, despite the city's attempts to stop it. Nate "Igor" Smith went and found it very, very interesting.
An impressive roster of rising local artists filled C.R.E.A.M. Projects Gallery in Greenpoint for 'Whitney's Biennial' a celebration of "the proverbial every artist, the flesh-and-bone actor laboring under the shadows of giants." There were free limo rides.
Tuesday evening, September 15, in the opulent ballroom of the Plaza Hotel, Johnson lined her models along a makeshift riser as Norwegian rocker Ida Maria howled nearby. The cheeky party borrowed from the zany counterculture of Johnson's formative years. Photos by David Wentworth; more about the...
More than 35 of indie music's heaviest hitters, alt-comics, and card-shark cult heroes—along with at least one Flaming Lip in a plastic bubble—descended on the Borscht Belt resort, a vintage vacation spot (roughly a 90-minute drive from NYC) that is more Dirty Dancing than Dirty Projectors....
Before a massive storm forced an event-wide evacuation on Saturday, August 4th, Lollapalooza was like any festival marred by a little rain: mud-soaked and fun. Check out these shots of the action before the authorities shut the party down.
ALL PHOTOS BY LAURA JUNE KIRSCH
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