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The most important quality in a date bar: really great lighting.

Conan O’Brien may have left us for L.A. but New York screwball comedy lives on at the monthly screenings hosted by the web comedy network Channel 101.

Ethan Lipton looks less like a silken-throated lounge lizard than he does a beaten-down ad salesman.

Located in a formerly deserted strip of warehouses in Gowanus, the Bell House’s performance space rivals the Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg in both size and ambition.

No disrespect to jazz, but as a musical genre bluegrass simply suits brunch better.

A small sign outside an unassuming Flatiron office building is the lone indication that ammo is flying in the basement.

LPR, as frequenters call it, has surmounted its high-gloss insides to become the best place to hear genre-less music south of Joe’s Pub.

A bar-café that links a former bodega and two other Boerum Hill storefronts.

This tiny, extremely low-budget Maysles Cinema has the pedigree of an art-film palace.

If you’re looking to expand your own social circle and not just your canine’s, McCarren is rife with opportunities.