The Villager Newspaper

01/07/2026

Playing last weekend at The Cutting Room in Kips Bay, the two powerful singers had a great time, singing together and separately, with a repertoire of fab tunes that were hits for a number of swinging British gals.

12/30/2025

Turning a corner on the fourth floor at the Museum of Modern Art, it appeared: “Dogs of Cythera” by Dorothea Tanning.

Turning a corner on the fourth floor at the Museum of Modern Art, it appeared: "Dogs of Cythera" by Dorothea Tanning. Suddenly, the tempo of my visit

12/23/2025

Sometimes it’s the simplest things that resonate the deepest, such as “Bell by Bell,” a free event presented annually on the Winter Solstice by the non-profit Make Music New York (MMNY) organization.

Sometimes it’s the simplest things that resonate the deepest, such as “Bell by Bell," a free event presented annually on the Winter Solstice by the non-profit

12/17/2025

This year, Katie Curley, Stephanie Marie (The Tennessee MC) and their crew can go on record as having raised some solid cash for the non-profit charity City Harvest and as having had a darn good time doing it.

The country rock “Holiday Spectacular” at Lucinda’s in the East Village last week featured an excellent band led by Curley that was comprised of Brendan

12/17/2025

Marcarson’s work arrives with an openness that feels intentional.

12/10/2025

Balaboosta in the Village is a restaurant that wears its lineage like a silk shawl—warm, textured, and steeped in meaning.

Balaboosta restaurant in Manhattan features food where diners taste ancestry, vitality, memory and joy in their dishes.

12/10/2025

If you consider the word oddball a compliment, you’re going to want to check out the brand new East Village spot with that very name at 188 Avenue B, where Hi-Note recently stood.

If you consider the word oddball a compliment, you’re going to want to check out the brand new East Village spot with that very name at 188 Avenue B, where

12/10/2025

New York entertains many glamorous nights, although only a select few feel both meaningful and beautifully made. Music for Medicine, hosted by The American Austrian Foundation for The Open Medical Institute (OMI), was exactly that kind of evening.

The setting of Music for Medicine was a private Manhattan club that practically hums with old-world discretion.

12/03/2025

Police are on the hunt for six people responsible for the firebombing of a West Village smoke shop on Wednesday morning.

12/03/2025

A homeless man who was allegedly caught on video sexually abusing an NYU student in a random attack on Monday was cuffed Tuesday for purportedly breaking into a Greenwich Village apartment building.

A homeless man who was allegedly caught on video sexually abusing an NYU student in a random attack on Monday was cuffed Tuesday for purportedly breaking into

11/26/2025

Two hero cops working in two of the NYPD’s most dangerous and harrowing units were promoted on Tuesday.

11/26/2025

The holiday season is here — and you can find quite a few things on your shopping list underground.

Did your subway get delayed again, and you missed getting to 34th St-Herald Square? Did you take the wrong train because you were scrolling too much on your