BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Spoiler alert! Yes, the car flies! And it does so much more dexterously than in the lame 2005 Broadway adaptation of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In fact, the car is a DeLorean that lights up, turns, zooms, spins, and eventually levitates over the orchestra seats, then turns upside down. With people […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | What goes round and round, draws young and old with its distinctive calliope sound, and is capable of transporting grown adults back to a time when they couldn’t wait to ride a horse whose trajectory was more up and down than straight ahead? If you said, “A carousel,” you’re either good […]
BY JOANNE A. SINOVOI | The first thing I noticed when I walked inside La Chilaquería New York (139 W. 28th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) was the beautiful flowers. Although I live only a few blocks away, this is not a restaurant I found by myself—neighbors told me I must check it out, and […]
BY EILEEN STUKANE | A chartreuse T-shirted workman is unwrapping a sandwich lunch while sitting under a red umbrella-shaded table on cobblestoned Gansevoort Plaza, between Hudson Street and Ninth Ave. At another similarly shaded table, a man with the white sleeves of his shirt rolled up is working on a computer. At another, two women […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Finally, the sprinkling of good news we’ve been waiting for: After closing in October of 2022 due to danger posed by the partial collapse of a basement wall, the sugar sanctuary that stood near the corner of 14th and Seventh for almost six decades is about to come full circle. Granted, […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Who says the nightlife is dead? It’s alive and well and living in the form of a musical about Imelda Marcos. An immersive show about the onetime Filipina First Lady, with music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (based on their concept album) and additional music by Tom Gandey and J Pardo, Here Lies Love […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Not a week goes by where we don’t feature a public meeting accessible via Zoom, a local brick and mortar location, or both. Most of them are recorded for posterity and posted online for perpetual (usually free) access at your convenience. And so we come to this—the debut of an occasional […]
BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | The destruction of Penn Station in the 1960s came about through a cozy arrangement between two brothers, James and Irving Felt. One was a real estate developer and the head of City Planning, and the other was a financier. They replaced the station with Madison Square Garden, the ugly tower known […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS One of my most sacred obligations as Mayor is keeping our children safe from harm—and one of the leading risks to their health is nicotine-based products, including cigarettes and e-cigarettes, also known as vapes. We have made great progress, as a city and nation, keeping our youth safe from traditional cigarette smoking—bringing down youth smoking rates from 23% in 2000 to 2.3% in 2021. But with the […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Pilobolus—the mostly-male performance ensemble founded at Dartmouth College in 1971—had its 50th anniversary celebration derailed by the pandemic, but picked up the pieces and is touring now with two retrospective programs, each containing new works and repertory favorites. In residence at the Joyce through the end of July, the Connecticut-based troupe […]