Faithless Return It's been something like 9 years since the last time Faithless played in New York. Considering that the band is one of the largest in England and the rest of the world, selling out soccer stadiums and headlining major music festivals year after year, their return to the States is a pretty big deal. Hitting a couple club dates on their way to Coachella, they stopped by Webster Hall earlier in the week......

(AKA The It doesn't feel like Friday and we're still hungover from SXSW edition) NY indie institutions hold it down @ SXSW Last weekend wrapped up South By Southwest, and the final day of festivities focused around the NY2LON day party, which was the collaboration of +1 Management, Brooklyn Vegan and Le Tigre. The stacked lineup was unfortunately without top draw Amy Winehouse, who had to pull out of several recent performances, but featured sets......

Written by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Sound Bites is a thin volume of food-centric dispatches set against a backdrop of the band’s plodding world tour- there’s a lot of odd food and odder bistros, with several thousand frequent flyer miles in between. Growing up, Kapranos worked as an apprentice chef in some Glasgow restaurants, and a behind-the-scenes accessibility to all things edible suffuses his writing. For instance, as a young cook, Kapranos describes......

January 25: Beer & Cheese Pairing Affair Beer and cheese, a match made in heaven. Join Elizabeth Lyons of Dogfish Head Ale and Chef Monica Byrne of Tini as they guide you through their pairings. $25, 7 p.m., RSVP online. 414 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn. 718-855-4206. January 27 - February 4: Navarra Gastronomic Week From Saturday, January 27, through Sunday, February 4, the cuisine of the Navarra region (it's in the north of Spain and......

Wow. Last night's Gothamist-Slice Pizza Party was awesome. For those of you that came out last night, we hope you had as much fun that we did. A big thank you to Fornino, Michael Ayoub and his wonderful staff that helped make the night so fun (and tasty). At the end of the night, Ayoub told Gothamist and Adam from Slice that they made over 200 pies, running through almost all the dough they......