Joycians and drinking enthusiasts, prepare yourselves! The brains behind San Francisco's Litquake will be bringing their literary bar crawl to book-and-beer loving Brooklyn! Manhattan has had its own event since 2008, but this year the city's getting not one but two booze heavy fests, one of which will take crawlers to about a dozen different venues in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill. Next month, lovers of the written word can get their drink on at Lit Crawl Brooklyn, which will feature over thirty authors and offer up fourteen separate events, like literary-themed trivia, Taboo, and a cabaret. more ›

Tonight, former Velvet Underground frontman and current old, whispering frontman of Loutallica, Lou Reed, will be reading Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven in Brooklyn. more ›

MOVIE: Woody Allen's '77 classic, Annie Hall, makes a week long appearance at the Film Forum. Catch a screening of the anxiety-ridden romance that "defined New York" sometime before the end of the run next Tuesday. More details on times, here. more ›

, she'll take you on an amusing tour of her New York, one you've most likely seen glimpses of in the subway, the vestibule to your apartment building and while staring in the face of a locksmith who's let you back into two separate apartments on moving day. more ›