Thomas Gibson was yelling at me.
“Hey! Are you going to sell these photos to the National Enquirer?”
The actor, formerly of Dharma & Greg and who currently plays Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner on Criminal Minds, shouted this question to me from down the alley behind House of Hayden, where he stood with series star (and one of [...]

The plan to create a pedestrian zone on one block of First Street in the East Village
A plan to close First Street to vehicle traffic between Elm and Linden Avenues in the East Village Arts District–creating a so-called pedestrian zone–got one of its first airings at Wednesday night’s East Village Association meeting, and the neighborhood [...]

Ex-Blue Cafe entertainment booker Vince Jordan, Texas nightclub kin Joe Irwin and former  King’s Fish House manager Paul St. Bernard serve their version of an open-faced club sandwich

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
Humans need tangibles, and so it’s tough to write about a subterranean blues club downtown that’s yet to open, as well as its adjoining Southern [...]

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
Tipped off about Vince’s Tokyo Tea by intrepid Long Beach photographer Daniel de Boom—and figuring, quite stupidly, that the drink would have some sort of tea component, or at least be served warm—I entered the House of Hayden battling the onslaught of a cold and walked out a champ. How could [...]