As the police try to reconstruct the events of Thursday night's mugging attack, a little more information is offered about some of those involved. Subway conductor Maurice Parks was walking home when he was attacked by a group of muggers in Harlem, at West 139th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue late Thursday night. When stabbed, Parks took out his own knife to defend himself. By the end, the police arrested a wounded attacker and another......

Last May a bunch of Brooklyn College MFA graduates exhibited their work at the War Memorial, only to have it banned by the Brooklyn Parks Department. In the process of hauling off the artwork the Parks Department deemed inappropriate, college officials managed to damange some of it. Two Trees Management (who is moving Galapagos to Dumbo) saved the day and exhibited their show at 70 Washington Street. Meanwhile, the students sued the Parks Department, the......

We cannot resist stories that involve superheroes wearing briefs or high school antics, even if they take place in Long Island. So: Three Long Beach High School seniors caught the ire of principal Nicholas Restivo yesterday when they celebrated "Superhero Day." In the tradition of many a high school, there's a Senior Week where seniors have dress up and do silly things, and Long Beach has a "Superhero Day," in addition to "Nerd Day" and......

THEATER: Playwright Tina Howe delivers the first play of Atlantic Theater’s fall season: “Birth and After Birth”. Though originally conceived in 1972, the comedy has yet to break water in New York City. It details the clash between Sandy and Bill, who were up all night preparing a birthday party for their four year-old son, and their guests Jeffrey and Mia, childless anthropologists who study primitive children in remote cultures. Be sure to capitalize on......

A few times a week, Gothamist publishes music reviews by our contributor Jeff Baum. The opinions below belong entirely to the author. Hard-Fi appears to have a bit of an identity crisis. They've found a bit of success in the UK and seem to be making a big push towards America. When I saw them back in July at Mercury Lounge, I was completely blown away by the energy and stage presence. To their credit,......

Gothamist just finished reading Please Kill Me and recently read that Lester Bangs book. Apparently there's nothing more punk rock than a book. So it's only fitting that another one deciphering the life and times of punk rock royalty has popped up. This one is called Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer [by Antonino D’ Ambrosio]. And it comes with a kick ass rockshow at CBGB's [details below]. The......

1994 was a big year for music. Green Day broke into the mainstream with "Dookie." Weezer appeared with "Weezer," Elliott Smith with "Roman Candle." Blur had "Park Life" and Beck had "Mellow Gold." Surely there were dozens, if not hundreds, of other notables in the the Alt-Rock/Rock 'n Roll/Singer-Songwriter categories, and then, of course, there were the punk bands. NOFX had "Punk in Drublic," The Clash B-sides album, "Super Black Market Clash," showed up. Rancid......

Jacob Kornbluth, Filmmaker...

Gothamist is getting old: At the Built to Spill concert last night, we were irked beyond belief by the white-hat type frat boys flailing around and yelling "Slayer!" or "Black Sabbath!" in the poorest ironic way possible (maybe irony should be dead), while their idiot girlfriends decided to emit ear-piercing screams for the hell of it. Gothamist is contemplating a cranky old man style letter to Irving Plaza ("In my day...") but we know......

100 Best Songs?
Gothamist takes aim at VH1's stupid new list (yes, an easy target, but still fun) with some of their and their readers' favorites....

The Clash's Joe Strummer dead at age 50. Another sad day for rock and/or roll.......