Story by Kari Jensen
The Lower East Side kicked off New York Fashion Week (NYFW) in high style recently with shows, pop-ups, after-parties, and more. This season (the Spring 2026 collections) featured top draws coming to the neighborhood, such as...
Chinatown Night Market, photo credit: Francis Wu
Think!Chinatown has announced it will end its “Chinatown Night Market” event series at Forsyth Plaza this Friday, August 15th from *:00 - 11:30pm. The summer series started in 2021 as a project for pandemic...
Our friends at the Lower East Side Film Festival are kicking off their summer Movies in the Park series with a screening of MISTRESS AMERICA at 8:30pm on Thursday, August 14, in Tompkins Square Park (Bandshell).
The screening celebrates the...
An interesting photo and video show -- inspired by The Artist's Way -- is currently running at Filmshop House 2025, which is one of the organizations in residence in the houses on Governors Island this summer. The show, titled "Artists' Ways," curated by filmmaker...
Ali Rosa-Salas is a curator whose approach is rooted in the belief that curatorial practice must serve the public good. She talked with host Traven Rice about the history of the Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement and...
Lower East Side artist and activist Laura Nova spoke with The Lo-Down Culture Cast host Traven Rice about creating inter-generational projects with a wide array of people from the Lower East Side neighborhood.
Nova is an artist, educator, and...
On the latest episode of The Lo-Down Culture Cast, photographer Whitney Browne talks with Host Traven Rice about her debut Book, "Candy Store - A Behind-the-Counter Look at Ray’s Candy Store, One of NYC’s Most Beloved Sweets Slinging Stalwarts."...
The Lower East Side Film Festival returns to the neighborhood for it's 15th year on Thursday, May 1st - Monday, May 5th.
Touting "5 Days of Cinema, Culture and Chaos in the Lower East Side," this year's jury members...
This year's Lillian Wald Symposium at Abrons Playhouse Theater will focus on a question we've all been asking for a while now - "Can artists survive in New York City?" As the costs of living here keep going up,...
Host Traven Rice talked with Immanual Oni and Debra Jeffreys-Glass about the Chrystie Street African Burial Ground's new memorial installation, HALO. The work is located at the entrance to the M'Finda Kalunga Garden, on Rivington Street, between Forsythe and...
