Last week, The Knockturnal had the honor of attending the Secret Sauce Soiree at Carmine’s in Midtown Manhattan, a speakeasy-themed family-style dinner and benefit for the Mama Mare Breast Cancer Foundation, in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness and National Pasta Month.
Thursday night at Metrograph on the Lower East Side, A24 celebrated the New York premiere of TUESDAY, a masterpiece film written and directed by Daina O. Pusić. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Lola Petticrew, TUESDAY takes on the fear of death, the anxiety of identity, the prevalence of humor in darkness, and the incredible pain often accompanying the deepest love.
Last week, The Knockturnal enjoyed a reading of Our Hood, an adaptation of the Thornton Wilder play Our Town, at The Center at West Park, a not-for-profit community arts center based at the historic West Park Presbyterian Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Last week, we escaped the downtown bustle and stepped into Casa Bond NoHo‘s cool, Tulum-inspired embrace. With windows flung open on the hot spring day, the bar area and craft cocktails beckoned, but it was the art on the walls that satisfied our senses.
The band Puddle Splasher got its name from a 1998 Cap’n Jazz song of their plural – “Puddle Splashers” – and when drummer Dante Fotino and guitarist Andy Altadonna had to rush to pick a name for a gig, only one stood out on the list. The Cap’n Jazz song goes, “All I could say is, ‘I wish I had something to say.’”
The Coen Brothers’ most recent project, a six-part anthology film of Civil War-era American frontier life, has officially debuted at New York Film Festival after a successful run in Venice and Toronto.
Eccentric brand Athanasiou took the runway at the Mulberry Friday night to deliver one of the most unforgettable New York Fashion Week shows from the SS19 season.
Eleven Australian designers took New York Fashion Week by storm Friday afternoon at Industria Studios. Hosted by Fashion Palette, an organization designed to promote Australian collections to a panel of elite buyers in the Big Apple, the show featured pieces from crowned glittering gowns to soft activewear.
Pride Media, along with OUT, The Advocate, PRIDE, Out Traveler, and Chill, will come together to celebrate the intersection of community, culture, and LGBTQ+ pride at the opening of a five-day experiential pop-up in Manhattan.
Kate Novack knew at once that André Leon Talley was a “documentarist’s dream.”