BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | After three quiescent years, the Manhattan dance scene is picking up speed. There’s almost too much to do, too much to see. Here are two offerings not to be missed. (A new column with more must-sees will publish soon.) MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY: April 18-30 | This venerable modern company, now 97 […]
In This Week’s This Week In & Around Chelsea: Storytime at the Cell Theatre / The 13th Precinct Community Council / Pop-Up Rigging Academy at Pier 57 / Closing Celebration at the Whitney / Earth Day in Clement Clarke Moore Park / The Return of Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Paint Touch-Up Day […]
TEXT, QUESTIONS & PHOTOS BY JOANNE ADLER SINOVOI Last year I was on my way to Whole Foods market in Manhattan West when I noticed OPR Eyewear (click here to visit their website). The outside window caught my eye, so to speak, and I walked in to take a look, as I knew I needed […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Anyone craving a straightforward modern interpretation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet should get themselves to a nunnery instead. Fat Ham—James Ijames’ Pulitzer-winning new play, which has come to Broadway after a run produced by the Public Theater and National Black Theatre—is much more ambitious than that. Using the basic plot themes […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Friday, March 31 through Sunday, April 2, Flatiron North Plaza (Broadway & 23rd St.) was the setting for the first-ever Flatiron NoMad Plant-Based Food Fair, hosted by the Flatiron NoMad Partnership and Eleven Madison Home (from the team and kitchen behind Eleven Madison Park). Timed to celebrate the start of April’s […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Like the guest at a party who wouldn’t leave—and was never on the invite list—the scaffolding and shedding mandated by the city to shield passersby from debris during building construction has long been the bane of those it intends to protect. “Ask New Yorkers what gets on their nerves, and a […]
In This Week’s This Week In & Around Chelsea: Storytime at the Cell Theatre / The 13th Precinct Community Council / Pop-Up Rigging Academy at Pier 57 / Closing Celebration at the Whitney / Earth Day in Clement Clarke Moore Park / The Return of Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Community Cleanups / […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | New Yorkers work hard 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They should expect their city government to work at their pace—not the other way around. New Yorkers shouldn’t have to navigate layers of government bureaucracy or fill out pages of paper forms to have access to the […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Don’t let the elbow-length gloves, the cat-eye glasses, or the bouffant hairdos pull focus from what’s really going on when The Kinsey Sicks take the stage. Their look may evoke Eisenhower-era cocktail culture throwbacks—but get their liberal dander up, and these ladies are more than ready for a throwdown. And throwdown […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Every New Yorker has strong women in their life. The women who birthed and nurtured them. Our mothers, sisters, aunties, and grandmas. Our teachers, our doctors, nurses, engineers, scientists. The hardworking women who make life in this city possible and inspire us. We owe so much to women. Yet […]