Long Island City's Water Taxi Beach may not open this summer, the bikini dive bar Port 41 shuttered, and the East Village has 474 places licensed to sell hooch in the hood. Nur Khan remembers Don Hill, Lindsay Lohan forgets she is supposed to be sober, drunk drivers get arrested in the LES and more. Today's nightlife roundup is getting careless. More»

Sam Sifton bemoaned the state of theater district restaurants in his positive review of Mexican exception Toloache. But sometimes what you crave after two or three hours in a cramped Broadway seat is a stiff drink. Below are some great bars to hit post-show, or escape to at intermission. More»

I'm not sure which revelation in the Times' bowling trend piece is more disturbing: that Port Authority, that last vestige of seedy old Manhattan, now has a bowling "nightclub" complete with a bouncer-enforced dress code, or that the humble sport of bowling itself has gone irreversibly upscale across the city. More»