50 Avenue B
between 3rd & 4th Streets
in the East Village!

Join The Bitchy Waiter for a screening of his movie We're So Dead. He's working on having it screened at bars and restaurants in all 50 states. We are super excited to host his first NYC screening! With a personal appearance!

Doors at 6 to meet the man himself!
Free screening at 7.
Hang out after to "network" with fellow industry humans.
Reserve your ticket HERE!

Darron Cardosa is The Bitchy Waiter.

In 2008, he started a blog as a way to release the frustrations that come with being in the world of food service. Writing stories on the Internet about annoying customers was better than poking the annoying customers in their eyes with forks.

Today, he is the voice for restaurant workers around the world, saying out loud what most people in the restaurant industry are only allowed to think.

He lives and works in New York City and enjoys The Brady Bunch, The Facts of Life and cocktails almost as much as he hates your baby.

Ken MacLaughlin | Director / Content Creator

Ken MacLaughlin is a self-made filmmaker and storyteller who began creating short films and comedy content in 2009. With no formal film school training, he learned by doing, writing, directing, and producing his own projects that combined humor, honesty, and character-driven storytelling.

As one half of the creative duo Decent Humans, Ken developed original series and sketches that explored the awkward edges of everyday life. He created Shift Drinks Comedy, a project dedicated to the absurdities of nightlife and socializing, and The Worst Couple, a series that mined relationship chaos for laughs and insight. Ken also co-manages the Bitchy Waiter Facebook page, helping shape it into a sharp, irreverent voice for service industry life.

After nearly two decades waiting tables, he draws heavily from that experience in his writing and direction. The unpredictability, emotion, and human connection of restaurant work continue to shape his storytelling.

His approach to filmmaking is very collaborative. He invites people to experiment and to fail and to find the humor and human moments in both. His work focuses on flawed characters, honest humor, and the moments where ordinary people reveal something true about themselves.

We’re So Dead is his feature film debut.

THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS! APOLOGIES!

Never-before seen footage from 90's NYC Drag Kings followed by a filmmakers panel with Samantha Wilson of First Run Features, Lucia Davis, and Lucas Hasten. See unseen footage from Mitch del Monico, short documentaries from Lucia Davis formerly of Dyke TV, outtakes from Venus Boys by Gabriel Baur.

Doors at 7

8 - Voodini

9 - Bang Bang Band Girl

10 - Florida Mans

11 - Bobcat

It's the second Friday of the month so that means it's time to SHAKE RATTLE & ROLL! Come on down to B SCENE, put on your best Glad Rags, knock back a few Cold Ones and Groove to the Rockingest sounds around! It's the place to be baby!! Here's this month's line up:

8:00- BAND OF OTHERS (Hot Snotty Surf-Punk Groove) https://www.instagram.com/bandofothers/

9:00- SOULCAKE (Blues Garage Soul) https://www.facebook.com/SoulCakeNYC https://www.instagram.com/soulcakenyc/

10:00- SLUTBURGER (Tasty Garage Punk) https://www.instagram.com/slutburgernyc/

Doors 7:30 First Band 8:00
As Always NO COVER!

Join us to celebrate the release of Delphine Le Goff’s 2027 East Village Calendar!
Buy your copy!
We’re proud to be September 2027!

Join us tonight for B Scene Sundays, our free weekly music series. Tonight we welcome E.W. Harris, who delivers futuristic, eclectic folktronica, while Apollo Flowerchild crafts soulful, intricately layered indie-folk. Virginia Marcs rounds out the triple bill, commanding the stage with raw, emotionally exhilarating goth-rock and indie-pop storytelling. Tip your barmaid and the musicians with zeal.
Video @ronherczig @ewharrismusic @apolloflowerchild @jeannieskelley @virginiamarcsmusic

The Drag King History Show is a unique live fundraiser where current Drag Kings bring historical performers featured on dragkinghistory.com to life on stage. It is both a celebration of queer performance history and a vital fundraiser dedicated to supporting the ongoing maintenance, expansion, and research of the Drag King History project, a community funded digital archive which is being archived in The U.S. Library of Congress.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/dragkinghistory/2321825

Meet the OG Club Casanova Kings in person followed by a panel discussion with drag kings who paved the way for the modern-day drag king scene. They became global superstars well before the internet & social media

Doors at 7:30
Bikini Car Wash at 8
Monte at 9
Coachez at 10

Only $10!

To mark the 30th anniversary of the world’s first weekly drag king party, Drag King History presents Club Casanova: 90’s NYC Drag King Revolution, running September 27 through October 16, 2026. Founded in 1996 by drag performer, producer, and historian Mo B. Dick, Club Casanova became a pivotal launchpad for modern drag king culture, sparking global media attention, books (The Drag King Book), award-winning films (Venus Boyz), and international performance tours. At a time of increasing national restrictions on drag and trans performers, this retrospective offers a timely look at queer nightlife resilience.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER. STAY TUNED FOR A RESCHEDULE!

Art of Darkness: Writing the Weird (In Person)

Please join us for a day celebrating the art of capturing the odd on paper with a panel that covers the odd and unusual in fiction and nonfiction. Ranging from the horrifically chilling to high camp, fans and artists are encouraged to emerge from the shadows and share their love of literary oddities. Authors Ilise S. Carter, Leanna Renee Hieber, Leila Taylor, Andrea Janes, and J.R. Pepper will appear and discuss their inspirations and writing process.

Time: 12:00PM - FREE

More books by Ilise:
When Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave Women Their Voice
The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History

Join Lady Rhea and Damon Stang
as they conjure the Gods and Spirits of Place
in one of the East Village's most exciting new venues!

This Ritual marks the turning of The Wheel
from light into shadow and
is the second of the three harvest festivals.
Think of it as prequel to All Hallows.

The focus in this ritual will be
a consecration of new space and a reinvigoration friendships
and community, both old new.

Pagan/Harvest looks encouraged!
Bring your friends, but most importantly, bring your heart!

Doors at 6:00
From 6-8 The Enchanted Card Party will be offering readings
$30 for 15 minutes
Ritual at 8:30

The ritual will be followed by a fabulous Goth dance party,
Fainting Couch. We shall twirl!

Organically Programmed presents
Can’t Catch Wind With A Net
Alice Cohen

Doors 7:30
Music 8:30
$12

This Wednesday, we're throwing a big Welcome Back party at Abby's new venture: B Scene, 50 Avenue B. Come check out the new space! This will be a special one!

The Man has burned and Resto has started out there on playa. (A hearty cheer to the people still out there!) We're all busy putting our lives back into some semblance of order. Come by and tell everyone about your burn—what you built, what broke, what you'd do differently, who you expected to meet and didn't, and the one you met that you never expected at all. Bring your sunburn reds, and your reentry blues. What was your favorite art piece and least favorite weather event? Let us see your pix!

357 days till the Man burns!

Also, FIGMENT NYC is happening Saturday, October 3rd at El Barrio Artspace PS 109, and they're still looking for projects and volunteers. There's still time to put in the project you think you wanna do!

Submit your project: https://forms.gle/huHKSuyTZJBwY3R69
Sign up to join the team: https://forms.gle/d3u5MR2niTtvRQmL6
More on FIGMENT NYC: https://newyork.figmentproject.org

Hope to see you there,

Where: B Scene, 50 Avenue B, between 3rd and 4th street. We're upstairs.
What: Beer, Burners, (welcome) Backs

Upcoming Events:

Saturday, October 3rd - FIGMENT NYC 2026 - El Barrio Artspace PS 109 - https://newyork.figmentproject.org

Join us for three nights of "soft openings" while we figure everything out! Tonight you'll find Lucky's Wednesday and Saturuda night bartender, Gene, behind the bar, serving a drink special, cheap well drinks, four draft beers, and a handful of canned stuff. Do NOT expect all the same stuff (or prices) once we're officially up and running! This is for our long-time fans and supporters! Come get a sneak peek at the new place!

Join us for three nights of "soft openings" while we figure everything out! Tonight you'll find Lucky's Monday and Tuesday night barmaid, Emily, behind the bar, serving a drink special, cheap well drinks, four draft beers, and a handful of canned stuff. Do NOT expect all the same stuff (or prices) once we're officially up and running! This is for our long-time fans and supporters! Come get a sneak peek at the new place!

Join us for three nights of "soft openings" while we figure everything out! Tonight you'll find Lucky's Friday night barmaid, Kristen, behind the bar, serving a drink special, cheap well drinks, four draft beers, and a handful of canned stuff. Do NOT expect all the same stuff (or prices) once we're officially up and running! This is for our long-time fans and supporters! Come get a sneak peek at the new place!

Join us for a little trip down memory lane with the premiere of two classic videos torn from the East Village's storied past: The Look of Love and Night at Downtown Beirut. Created by Mike Enright, who has also contributed a bunch of CDs to our eclectic jukebox, these shorts were shot at the old Downtown Beirut, one of the best bars in history! We'll let people gather for a few drinks between 6 and 6:30, screen one film, take another drink break, and then screen the second film. They're each about a half hour long and while everyone's drinking, Mike will be showing some of his other video art. We are super excited to show these and to see Mike (and Carolyn)!

Join us to celebrate Pat with a fabulous flower power themed fete! There will be tasty snacks, delicious beverages, yummy birthday cake, fantastical floral decor, and fun music! Fingers crossed for nice weather so we can party al fresco! Cards welcome, no gifts! Pat's costumes take up ALL her space! Please dress up!!

Join your host, Jeffrey Wengrofsky, for an evening of avant-garde text and music, featuring Free Jazz, Angular Atonality, Surrealist Storytelling, Poetry, Glitter, and the Absurd.

Text/Vocal Performance: JENNIFER ROBIN, NIKOLA PEPERA, JEFFREY WENGROFSKY, and CHRIS TANNER

Music: REG BLOOR, AYUMI ISHITO with DANIEL CARTER

The Musicians:

Legendary New York Avant-Metal guitarist Reg Bloor has released three instrumental solo records: “Viewer Discretion Is Not Advised,” “Sensory Irritation Chamber,” and “Theme from an Imaginary Slasher.” Bloor has performed at the Red Bull Music Academy New York Festival, the OFF Festival, and Basilica Drone. She has been a long-time member of the Glenn Branca Ensemble and founder of the Paranoid Critical Revolution. Bloor’s work features an innovative mix of frantic No Wave, Out Jazz, and screechy Metal. Her inventive chords, angular atonality, and groundbreaking techniques—not to mention her impish sense of humor—have been an unsung influence on two generations of New York experimental guitarists. Her work can be explored at https://regbloor.com/

Ayumi Ishito was born and raised in Ishikawa, Japan. At the age of 19, she began playing tenor saxophone in a college big band at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. She went on to study performance and composition at Berkee College of Music in Boston and moved to New York in 2010. Ishito’s project, The Spacemen, was selected for the “Best Jazz of 2021” on Bandcamp. As a composer, Ishito has been leading her quintet since 2011 and performing her compositions. The band released two albums, “View From A Little Cave” in 2016, and “Midnite Cinema” in 2019.

Daniel Carter is an American Free Jazz musician who plays saxophone, trumpet, and flute. He has recorded and performed with William Parker, Federico Ughi, DJ Logic, The Negatones, Thurston Moore, Yo La Tengo, Soul-Junk, Anne Waldman, Cooper-Moore, Matthew Shipp and scientist/musician Matthew Putman, among others. He is a member of the groups Test, Other Dimensions In Music, odon, Ghost Moth and Dissipated Face. In 2007, the Pendu Sound compilation album, “Getting Rid of the Glue,” with Excepter and Daniel Carter, was listed as number 70 in Thurston Moore’s “Top 80 of 2006.” In 2015, the New York Forward Festival was created to celebrate Carter’s 70th birthday.

WORD MANIA AND THE UNCLASSIFIABLE:

Jennifer Robin is RAW POWER. She has been performing at open mics and with experimental musicians since she was 17, including collaborations with the Dead Air Fresheners and Spirit Duplicator. Her work has been published by PLAZM, Hobart, Five2One, Vlad Mag, Counterpunch, Ladybox, and King Shot. She is author of the ‘stand-up tragedy’ Death Confetti (Feral House), a book of American self-immolation, Earthquakes in Candyland (Fungasm), and the dream reportage of You Only Bend Once with a Spoonful of Mercury (Far West). Vignettes about nuns, French swingers, and her mother feature in There Must Be an Invisible Leash, out on Future Tense in late 2024. Robin’s 2025 Oblique Strategies release—The Ballad of Ecto-Five—is an ‘erotic novel of mad science’ featuring Mother Earth’s Avenger and his girl gang.

Nikola Pepera, the last of the Haight Ashbury Butterflies. A former peach farmer and a former lithium dealer. A degenerate beatnik who once smoked tree moss. A notorious recluse who hid her surrealist paintings of psychedelic prostitutes and acid poetry under her bed until last summer. After hitchhiking her way down the Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Cruz, she landed in Hollywood around the corner from Jim Morrison's last American home. She is the singer and lyricist of her ‘supergroupe’ Chippy & Thee Psychedelic Dirtbags. Lay Down & Get Lost is her first book.

Jeffrey Wengrofsky is the author of The Wolfboy of Rego Park (Far West) and is the host of The Metropolis Literary Salon, a monthly event at TV Eye. He is curator of the Secrets Film Festivals, an annual, thematic festival at Film Noir Cinema in Brooklyn. Wengrofsky’s short documentaries have screened at many festivals and will next be on exhibit at the Eastside Cinema in Austin, Texas.

New antics: http://www.humansyndicate.com/futurology/

Chris Tanner is a New York City-based artist and performer, best known for his assemblages made from glitter, palettes, jewels, sterling silver leaf and found objects. Tanner’s work is a celebration of beauty and remembrance, expressed through all that sparkles, shimmers, or flickers. Covering surfaces with materials that clash, crash, and finally cohere, creating a glamorous order out of chaos. This process embodies layers of meaning: The magnificence of a powerful feminine, cascading, dream-like impulses of shame, desire, ecstasy, defiant optimism in dark times. Tanner’s visual art and storytelling can be seen here: https://www.instagram.com/christannerart/

Rock ‘n’ Roll Bingo is back, with your hosts Tiffany Leigh and Holly DeRito, with DJ Twig the Wonderkid spinning the rock, new wave, and glam. It's free to hang out, free to play, but Holly will be accepting donations to @waggytailrescue. Win prizes and free drinks! Minnie Dee is behind the bar for all your adult refreshment needs.
#freenyc #nycevents #adoptdontshop #bingo #bingonyc #fun #newwave @raygunpromotion @mxtiffanyleigh @rocknrollbingo

Three Wednesdays a month, New York City people headed to Black Rock City gather for the longest running weekly burner event in the world. As the event looms closer, the Happy Hours get bigger. With only a month to go, everyone is in full on panic mode, gathering up costumes and camping gear and packing their bins to ship out on the Container. Tonight is our annual Costume Swap & Sale so people can grab last minute pieces or complete ensembles.

Bring your gently worn whatevers to sell or swap. Pick up a fuzzy coat or a pair of goggles, drop off extra blinkies or space boots. And if you've got something you'd like to sell, we'll have a separate area for that stuff. Anything leftover will either be donated to Kostume Kult or House of Good Deeds.

And yes, it will be like other Burner Happy Hours, with Zero behind the bar serving up the bargains all evening long. Ask questions, find tickets, talk about rideshares, or just listen in. The Man burns in 38 days!