Max Fish was not supposed to make it into February. The much-loved Lower East Side bar — known for its patronage by everyone from Johnny Depp and Courtney Love to the downtown crowd of junkies, artists and junky-artists — lost a battle with skyrocketing rent and announced that it would vacate the space on Ludlow Read More
Back in September, Brandon Holley replaced Kim France as editor in chief of Lucky. Today The New York Times wonders what Holley’s background in alt women’s magazines (Jane) and corporate women’s blogs (Yahoo’s Shine) means for the watery shopping mag. Probably good things!
But the most interesting line in Holley’s resume Read More
Since December, walking out of Max Fish — the classic Lower East Side haunt that’s kept artists, rock stars, and downtown lushes wasted since the nineties — meant possibly never walking back in again. Word got out that the property taxes and sky-high Ludlow Street rents were forcing Max Fish out of its location. Read More
Beloved grungy downtown bars are dropping like flies. Last week saw the news that Mars Bar, Max Fish, and Pink Pony would all close within the next two months. If your past life was that of the bassist in a nineties hardcore band that gigged at Luna Lounge, a February homecoming may Read More
Late Singer-Songwriter Elliott Smith walked into Max Fish for the first time in May 1997. The bar then was about eight years old, and it had already begun to foster a relationship with the artists and musicians of the Lower East Side — Max Fish is on Ludlow Street, right above Stanton, and perennially flanked Read More
