“We called it Peoples for a reason.” peoples.wine. “The idea is to highlight connections and personalities,” says Stone, who wants the store to embody the tight-knit spirit of the global natural wine community. Just as exciting is the adjoining shop, punctuated by carefully stocked cubbies devoted to different themes, from an importer’s favorite bottles to releases from winemakers who have influenced one another. Stay a while, though, and you can sample von Hauske and Stone’s clever takes on bar food, like an interpretation of the classic Basque skewer called gilda they use umeboshi-marinated beef instead of anchovies. Hidden in the basement of the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side, Peoples is reminiscent of the standing bars of Paris and Barcelona: You can just drop in for a glass and nothing more. There’s no shortage of worthy places to drink natural wine in New York City, but Peoples, a new wine bar and store from the rising wine-world talent Daryl Nuhn and the chefs Fabián von Hauske and Jeremiah Stone (of the buzzy restaurants Contra and Wildair) doesn’t strike me as more of the same. As part of the show, Davis will give a lecture at the museum on Feb. 1 through April 26 at the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago,. “Vaginal Davis: The White to Be Angry,” is on view Feb. To say that “The White to Be Angry” has become more relevant as it has aged is both too easy an interpretation and true. A mishmash of styles and stories, it plays not unlike a compilation of music videos with divergent aesthetics and includes a disturbing segment that features a skinhead discussing the sexual longing he feels for the people he also terrorizes.
I am a social threat.” One of her greatest pieces is the 1999 video “The White to Be Angry,” which will soon go on view at the Art Institute of Chicago and shares a name with the full-length album by her hard-core punk band, Pedro, Muriel & Esther. As the artist, whose moniker is a riff on the political activist Angela Davis’s name, put it to The New Yorker in 2015: “I was always too gay for the punks and too punk for the gays. And it’s as good a term as any for her work. The output of Vaginal Davis - part video art, part music video, part punk rock legacy act, part intersectional cultural critique - has been called “terrorist drag,” a term coined by the critic José Esteban Muñoz. This trifecta is nearly enticing enough for me to move there, as if I needed another reason. It’s run, in part, by the musician Liam Singer, who also owns the nearby HiLo cafe, a coffee shop that functions as a gallery. Finally, there’s the Avalon Lounge, a new music venue outfitted with crushed-velvet furniture, a dance floor and a kitchen that serves mandu (Korean dumplings). There’s also the event space Bills, which took over an erstwhile bank and regularly hosts poetry readings it’s set to open as a full-fledged bar in the spring.
Among them is the bar Sunshine Colony from the owners of the liquor store Upstream Wine and Spirits in nearby Livingston Manor, who wanted a community hangout to drink with regulars and weekenders alike.
Now, a new wave of businesses is focusing on enriching the late-night scene. Spending time in Phoenicia, N.Y., as a child, I watched as boutique hotels, revamped diners and so-called glamping sites opened their doors in the Catskills, an area known as the home of borscht belt comedy and Woodstock.