Three downtown restaurants vie to get their claws into you — by getting you into their claws. Mitchell Martin reviews all three, and finds much to savor amidst New York’s crustacean nation. In 1997, Rebecca Charles had the inspired idea to bring a New England clam shack to Manhattan. So the New York native, who had [...]
Is the carnivore the new face of social consciousness in the culinary world? Elizabeth Nolan Brown learns that even the hippest of the hip are turning their taste buds back to meat. Picture a restaurant in Williamsburg, or maybe the East Village. The decor is eclectic and artfully bohemian. The clients are youngish, thin, disheveled, and artfully [...]
Society’s greatest minds have wrestled with the problem of how to make our planet more environmentally sound. And so have minds that are…not quite as great. Comedian Sean Crespo tackles the problem with solutions that are nothing if not creative. You know how they say, “climate change ain’t just a river in Egypt.” Well, as it [...]
…would be equally confusing, as Bruce Cherry discovers in his look at New York’s honorary street names. Want to confuse a New Yorker? Ask him to meet you at Sixth Avenue and Henny Youngman Way. It’s easy to find, since it’s just three blocks north of W.C. Handy Place. Even the most experienced cabbie would probably be [...]
When Leslie Goshko describes the struggles of her youth in her new solo show Vodka Shoes (directed by Kyle Erickson), it helps for the sake of a compelling tale that she grew up in a wacky family where everyone battled a different set of problems. But what sets this show apart from others is how [...]
We Are Plastic Ono Band BAM Howard Gilman Opera House February 16, 2010 Yoko Ono was accused of splitting up the Beatles, but at the Brooklyn Academy of Music she brought together an incredible array of disparate musicians, playing in styles ranging from 1920’s jazz to 1960’s blues to 2010 techno to undefinable sounds that show she is [...]
Ultra-Orthodox Jews. You see them all around New York City. Walking around with their black hats, black coats, beards and peyot (curly sidelocks of hair by their ears). You may often wonder what they’re like as people. Yisrael Campbell is not one of them, but he’s the closest most people outside the fold [...]
A year ago this month, Barack Obama was inaugurated President of the United States. Over the past 12 months, the celebratory fervor for this country’s first black President has ebbed and flowed along with the ripples from the stock market, the unemployment rate, and the endless political mud-slinging that has perhaps become most symbolically visible [...]
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POETIC LICENSE: The Academy of American Poets "Poetry & The Creative Mind" Benefit
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