Wherever Kayvon Zand goes, spectacle seems to follow. Still, the 24-year-old singer and performer isn’t quite sure what all the fuss is about. more

Katherine Oliver became commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting in 2002. It was the beginning of Mayor Bloomberg’s administration, and a time when film footage of New York City was shot more often on a Hollywood (or Canadian) soundstage than on the actual streets of New York. more

A sit down at Clinton Street’s Donnybrook pub with Ghost Ghost guitarist Karl Ward and bassist Kevin Peckham is as much a lesson in literature as it was in lyrical composition. Over drinks around the corner from the band’s Lower East Side rehearsal space, the guys are as eager to discuss Kurt Vonnegut as they are their other more musical inspirations. more

Mix two parts alcohol and one part half-naked Brooklynites writhing around in a wrestling ring and what you wind up with is one hell of a Cinco De Mayo celebration, which is what I found at the Cinco De Mayo Party last Wednesday at Monster Island Basement. more

Michael Urie summed up this past season of Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Awards last Sunday with one sentence: “It’s been a gay year.” And while Urie, who won the Best Lead Actor award for his work in The Tempermentals, didn’t say if he meant happy or homosexual, they both work, because being gay, in either sense of the term, took top honors at the award ceremony Sunday night at Terminal 5. more

I arrived last Thursday right after the dead horse. Shrouded in over 1 million knotted horsehairs, it went up the elevator at the Museum of Art and Design to join the feathers, bones, cockroach wings and cocoons accumulating on the museum’s fourth floor as part of the new exhibit, Dead or Alive. more

MARK BRINDA AND Colin Ilgen needed an outlet for their obsession with Brooklyn’s music scene, and since they both lack the musical talent necessary to start a band, they settled for the next best thing: starting a radio station. more

The last time I was at Dixon Place, it was with a room full of lesbians being molested by a man in a bumblebee costume. My return visit Thursday night was decidedly more subdued. I was back under the guise of a grand opening; surprising at first, seeing as Dixon Place opened over 20 years ago in founder Ellie Covan’s East Village living room, and the small-theater institution and performance-art enclave moved to its current space on Chrystie Street in 2009. more

Cesar Padilla, owner of Cherry, a thrift store in Chelsea, spent more time on the Sunset Strip than any teen probably should. So, by the time he was 21, he was on the cusp of a rock T-shirt collection any rock fan would envy—until, while away on a trip to South America, his mother threw away his entire T-shirt collection. more

“We used to be obsessed with cocaine, supermodels and rare denim,” Shane Smith confessed. “But that was before we went around the world.” more