Posted SLA Raids Bar for Selling Wisconsin Beer to Gothamist
An Upper East Side sports bar popular with Wisconsin transplants was slapped with two fines totaling $20,000 for selling a popular beer that's only licensed to sell in Wisconsin. The owners of Mad River Bar &...
Posted Sonic Youth Mesmerizes Music Hall of Williamsburg to Gothamist
Sarah Tew Photography Is there any band as old as Sonic Youth (nearly three decades!) still radiating such adventurousness and vitality? (The E-Street band, perhaps, but that's apples/oranges.) On Tuesday night the ever-fresh noise rock quintet...
Posted Suspects in Bronx Teen Shooting Enjoy Nice Thanksgiving Dinner to Gothamist
Vada Vasquez The family of Vada Vasquez, the 15-year-old Bronx girl who took a stray bullet to the skull last Monday, declined their usual Thanksgiving feast this year, postponing it until the teen can eat again....
Posted Middle Age Internet Lothario Accused of Conning Lovers to Gothamist
Ladies, meet Martin Berres, a 62-year-old single man who describes himself on his MySpace page (martynycforever!) as a "classy native New Yorker." His heroes include Niccolò Machiavelli, and he is "in better shape and health than...
Posted Hit And Run Driver Wanted Sister To Cover For Him to Gothamist
Our Lady Queen of Peace church On Wednesday afternoon, DOT officials had met with the pastor at Our Lady Queen of Peace church on Staten Island to discuss the problem of reckless drivers on the street...