Arts

Host Traven Rice spoke with Hester Street Fair's manager and producer Janine Ciccone for this week’s episode of The Lo-Down Culture Cast. Hester Street Fair kicks off its 15th year next weekend down at the Seaport. Formerly located alongside Seward...

Host Traven Rice spoke with Author-Illustrator Ellen Weinstein for this week's episode of The Lo-Down Culture Cast. Ellen's vibrant picture book, Five Stories (for children and adults alike) is being released this month. The story features five children, from five different cultures (Russian,...

Here are some upcoming local events that are on our radar: Take a free lesson from Artist & Tai Chi Master, Daniel Rosenbaum in front of his current solo exhibition, Inner Guardians, Outer Explorers at the Woodward Gallery. The artist will...

This week's episode features Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, PhD, the Abbot and co-founder of The Village Zendo, a contemporary Zen center based in downtown Manhattan. A Soto Zen priest and modern day American Zen Teacher, O'Hara integrates traditional meditation...

Here are some upcoming local events that are on our radar: Celebrate Purim at the Museum at Eldridge on Monday, March 25th at 6pm, with Paul Shapiro’s Purim Shpil! Take a trip back in time and sing, dance, and laugh...

Here are some upcoming events that are on our radar: James Fuentes presents Elsa Rensaa’s paintings at 55 Delancey St., with a reception on Wednesday, March 20, from 6p-8p. Presented in two parts, Out of the Wilderness and Into the Blue marked Rensaa’s...

This week on The Lo-Down Culture Cast we spoke the trio behind the new documentary, Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World. Filmmaker Michael Fiore, who wrote, directed and produced the film, joined host...

By: Sasha Linden Cohen The scene last weekend at Metrograph, a Lower East Side shrine to serious cinema, was a bit of paradise for New York's downtown independent filmmakers and fanatics. They had come to celebrate one of their longtime...

Here are some upcoming events that are on our radar: There's still time to catch the Veselka movie, “Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World,” from Writer/Director Michael Fiore. It's screening at Village East Cinema...

This week on the Culture Cast we spoke with Steven Matrick, Co-Founder of The New Colossus Festival, which is happening at eight different venues on the Lower East Side from March 6 - 10. Over 130 bands from all...