We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness - we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts......

It's always interesting talking to mascots or spokespeople dressed up in outfits, especially when they don't seem to know too much about the products they are representing. It makes you wonder what they say to people all day. Yesterday we met the Miller Lite girls who claim to be in town to help support live music, but when asked which bands they recommend, have an interesting response. We also met the Podcast Pickle who......

Hometown rock stars I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness have finished two quick jaunts to Europe, are working on a new album, put together a terrifyingly beautiful music video for "The Owl" with Emmanuel Ho, and will be playing at SXSW. If you aren't already familiar with their unique brand of Peter Murphy meets Nick Cave inspired minimalist (but fist-flinging urban) post-rock, change your ways: you don't want to miss them live. Recently......

Tire-wielding bass-quackers, teddy bears, Kung Fu, rock music and a little Hamlet. This makes up the world of The Assumption—a super-fun, playfully random, wholly modern deviation on the Bard’s most famous tragedy from Refraction Arts. The show starts from the moment you arrive, greeted by box office staff with Yosemite Sam Southern accents and a tendency to drop “fuck” into most of their sentences. You’re not allowed into the theatre, but one of these......

The hipster digirati were rolling up in their white, stretch-suburbans (complete with WiFi and Instant Bloggerfication), decked out in their designer square-toed shoes and ironic glasses. That, or they were stumbling in from the pre-party from the dauntingly long, but surprisingly fast-moving beer lines across the street at Brush Square Park, laden with laptop bags and the heavy burden of a SxSW badge around their necks - a noosed reminder of a profession with a......