’90s Knicks Culture Is Making Up for 30 Lost Years

'Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders' Is Not a True Crime Movie

'Girl, Interrupted' Is a Pretty Good Musical—Really

Thanks in part to Aimee Mann, who wrote the songs.

I Was a Fan of Doug Shaw

Remembering the multi-genre musician, who was adored by New York's independent music scene.

The Off-Broadway 'Heated Rivalry' Musical Is Fucking Awesome

'Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody' sends up the HBO surprise megahit—and its horned-up female fandom—with love and laughter.

An Interview With a DJ Who Was Supposed to Play Ginger's Before Noise Complaints Shut Down Pride Events

NYC Will Never Forsake Drake

I Love the Bowery's Newest, Nudest Resident

'San Juan Hill' Documentary Shows Us What Lincoln Center Destroyed

The arts institution's ignominious origin story, courtesy of itself.

A 90-Year-Old NYC Printmaker Finally Gets His Hometown Due

Mohammad Omer Khalil is an art star everywhere but here—but a new retrospective should change that.

Alexa, Show Me a Shitty Ass Met Gala

Jeff Bezos's party sucked.

'Bustopher Jones' Is the Cat's Meow

"The Jellicle Ball"'s Nora Schell has transformed a semi-disposable "Cats" character into a newfound Broadway icon.

An Outsider Artist Is Fronted $1,000 for His MoMA Debut and Drops $80 on Groceries

Aluminium foil sculptor Dean Millien kicks off Hell Gate's newest column, Creative Accounting.

What a NYC Trans Art Fest in 2026 Means

"Trans art is the preservation of joy, not merely the celebration of it."

Searching for the East Village of 'No Picnic'

A wide-ranging conversation with Philip Hartman, filmmaker and Two Boots proprietor, about the bygone characters and haunts of his 1986 film.