BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Superachiever Judy Garland isn’t wasting one second of precious, pumpkin spice-infused time when the final day of September gives way to a month-long celebration of ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and things that go bump in the night. And in honor of that, the woman who once singlehandedly killed a wicked witch by […]
BY INGE IVCHENKO | The sun was out and shining and stayed that way all day, in the manner we’ve come to expect on the late September Saturdays that play host to the London Terrace Tenants Association Street Fair. The early autumn air was crisp but stopped short of brisk, and as September 24’s 30th […]
Participatory Budgeting Cycle 12 Kickoff Event: Tuesday, September 27, 6-8pm on the High Line’s 14th Street Passage (entrance on 14th St. & 10th Ave.) Participatory Budgeting is the volunteer-driven, voter-empowering process during which community members decide how to spend $1 a of their NYC Council Member’s discretionary capital funds on City property projects such as […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” 10th Precinct Build the Block Sector C Meeting / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / The West 400 Block Association Celebrates 70 Years / Events from Earlier in the Week: NYPL Story Time at Chelsea Green Park / Participatory Budgeting Kickoff / 10th Precinct Community Council RESCHEDULED for […]
CITY POETRY …words & images from the five boroughs & points beyond “To New York Street Fairs” BY MICHELLE TOKARCZYK In the spell of afternoon sun everything regenerates. Silver earrings shine. Spices scent the air. Bonsai thrive. Nothing hangs too high or forces for you to bend like a supplicant. You move from […]
NYC DANCE PREVIEWS BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER SOLEDAD BARRIO & NOCHE FLAMENCA: Renowned Repertory & New Works Led by Barrio & Artistic Director Martín Santangelo | The news here is not that Noche Flamenca—the Madrid-New York collaboration between flamenco star Soledad Barrio and her husband Martin Santangelo—is celebrating its 30th anniversary, although that is certainly true. […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | While much of the world spent the pandemic sheltering in place and binging on Netflix in an attempt to stave off madness, innovative (and already insane) Jackie Beat found herself pounding a different drum. The veteran drag queen known for belting out hilariously filthy song parodies while hurling cruel insults at […]
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK| Some minutes before Burn began, there was an epic river of a rainstorm, pelting leftward, seen on the back screen. Booming claps of thunder were heard, and lightning illuminated the sky, which gave just a hint of a mountainous backdrop. After it subsided, Alan Cumming appeared onstage dressed in black, dark eyeliner […]
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | St. Columba Roman Catholic Church has been a staple of the Chelsea neighborhood since 1845. Located at 343 West 25th Street (btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.), its considerable complex includes the Church and Rectory (at 343), the next-door school building (at 331), and the Convent (at 329), a residence for retired […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Worlds collide, sending fiction crashing into fate and creating a new reality so meta, it makes the Marvel Cinematic Universe seem utterly unambitious. That’s the sense you get when reading the timeline that accounts for this weekend’s stage presentation of David and Kate Get Re-Married. Written and performed by David Carl […]