An exciting new spot for broke-asses has turned up on the Lower East Side. The Lounge at Dixon Place is now open for business and celebrating its upcoming grand opening with free music nights and a special party. The official grand opening on Thursday, April 8th, will feature music by

Keeping up with new music can be an expensive and exhausting process. I love going to shows and hearing about new bands but sometimes it feels like you go out of town for a week and Pitchfork is predicting the second coming. Conversations morph into a bizarre form of one-up-man-ship

John Mayer has certainly made a name for himself as the Asshole Du Jour (that’s Asshole of the Day, for all you Dumb & Dumber fans) in the celebrity dating world of today.  As a reaction to these types of shenanigans (and even just prompted by nothing), the media sometimes

When I was a little mocoso, one of the best things ever was going over to my paternal grandparent’s, walking into my grandmother’s kitchen and raiding the giant paper bag from the panaderia accompanied by a glass of whole milk while she cooked me some sopa de fideos.  Needless to

As I sit here on my couch I am seeing the sunlight stream into my living room.  I am so happy that spring has sprung but I am also feeling something sinister’ something dark’ something that drove me to consume half a container of frosting.  It is the dread that

Finding a roommate or someone to share a practice space with can be a veritable minefield filled with awkward moments, money mix-ups, and sociopaths. New York likes to pride itself on our weirdo population, but sometimes you just want someone who is cool and pays the rent on time.  As

The thing that did me in, that thing that did me completely in, is really not surprising, considering that the suggestion on the table was to go to a bar where we were to be served shots with pickle juice. Not every original idea is a good idea, right? Only

I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the resurrection of the big JC than watching a bunch of adults riding big wheels down a crazy windy street. While I am not hardcore enough to throw myself down said hill on a child’s play thing, I am very much