About the Author

Anthony's from Queens—Astoria, specifically—and he's been covering New York nightlife since before Brooklyn was the center of everything. That's twenty-two years of shows, parties, comedy nights, and food festivals in a city where something's always happening and most of it's overpriced. He started at the Village Voice when that still meant something, bounced around to whoever would pay him to review shows, and landed at AllEvents because he wanted to write about the whole city, not just Manhattan. The jazz clubs in Harlem. The comedy basements in the Village. The warehouse parties in Bushwick that technically aren't legal. The open mics in the Bronx that nobody covers but should. Anthony takes the subway everywhere. Hasn't owned a car in fifteen years, doesn't miss it. He knows which venues have good sound, which ones have bad sightlines, which doors have a guest list that actually works. He lives in Jackson Heights now—rent in Astoria got stupid—and files guides that assume you have too many options and need someone to narrow them down. That's the job. New York doesn't need hype. It needs a filter.