A Tiny Tavern for Three: Brooklyn’s Threesome Tollbooth

Roughly the size of a tollbooth, Brooklyn’s aptly-named Threesome Tollbooth tavern has enough space for a bartender and two guests. It also happens to be tucked into the supply closet of a former Italian restaurant. The whole unmarked operation is legal and the latest project from artist N.D. Austin and his partner Jesse Sheidlower. The drinks within are born of “esoteric liquors and liqueurs” including …

Madison Reed’s Color Bar in NYC

Not only satisfied with revamping at-home hair color, the start-up is making quick touch-ups as easy as possible

For decades, at-home hair color has largely remained the same: making your decision at the drugstore largely based on the model’s unnaturally shiny hair color on the box. The salon experience isn’t too much more transparent: what shade you get at the end is often a surprise. SF-based start-up Madison Reed is taking as much guesswork out of the DIY process as possible, first by …

Ai Weiwei’s New NYC Project “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”

Ai Weiwei’s latest NYC art installation is made up of some 300 pieces all over the city and makes a strong point about immigration and refugees. With a fence circling the Unisphere in Queens, a cage in Washington Square Park, and more “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” encourages New Yorkers to take a moment and think about the problematic nature of borders—metaphorical and physical. He …