Clearview Cinemas Chelsea (CCC) 260 W. 23rd St., btw. 7th & 8th Aves. AMC Loews Village 7 (AV7) 66 Third Ave., at 11th St. SVA Theatre (SVA) 333 W. 23rd St., btw. 8th & 9th Aves. BMCC Tribeca PAC (BMCC) 199 Chambers St., btw. Greenwich & West Sts. Tribeca Cinemas (TV) 54 Varick St., at [...]
Continue reading …By KAITLYN MEADE | Remember those metal shells on every street corner; the ones mostly used now to shield cigarettes from the wind? Well those relics of 20 years ago are getting a new use thanks to the Bowery’s New Museum and independent advertising network Droga5. Dialing 1-855-FOR-1993 from any of 5,000 Manhattan payphones will [...]
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Monthly meetings a chance to forge friendships, build skills BY LAKSHMI GANDHI | On the second Saturday of each month, quilters from all over the Tri-State Area gather at the Church of the Holy Apostles to share tips, take classes and show off of their newly-completed pieces. Empire Quilters began in 1982 as a [...]
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Conscious Ego Actus explores technology, teen bullying and fighting back BY MARTIN DENTON (of nytheatre.com & indietheater.com) | Bullying is a hot topic these days, and with good reason. Most of the theater work I’ve come across that deals with this subject has been focused on victims. But what if a bullied teen found an [...]
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Eisenberg’s autobio a love letter to doing it before the I Do’s BY SCOTT STIFFLER | She may have a nice, seemingly normal second act existence — living in Brooklyn with her supportive husband and adorable dog — but don’t think for a minute that Ophira Eisenberg has gone soft or settled down. While the [...]
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HUDSON GUILD THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS: “FRANKENSTEIN” Like a good idea that refuses to die, Mary Shelley’s classic horror story has been reimagined countless times since her novel was first published in 1818. Now, Hudson Guild Theatre Company puts its stamp on “Frankenstein” with a new stage adaptation that draws on the wildly imaginative (and unexpectedly [...]
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Times change, but the song remembers when BY MICHAEL LYDON | “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now,” Bob Dylan sang in 1964. Back then, the 23-year-old was a two-year veteran of the rough-and-tumble folk music scene that flourished in dozens of little clubs dotted along Bleecker, MacDougal and Fourth Streets [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Like a stout ship that was buffeted by a severe ocean storm, the South Street Seaport Museum came through Superstorm Sandy battered but fundamentally intact. The museum’s elevator and escalator no longer work. To see the exhibits, it’s necessary to climb the stairs of the early 19th-century buildings on Schermerhorn [...]
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BY SCOTT STIFFLER | On St. Patrick’s Day, climb the deep and very narrow stairway of the Merchant’s House Museum — to find a faithfully restored fourth floor servant’ quarters and hear how its Irish inhabitants lived and worked. As it turns out, domestic life in New York City from 1835-1865 as lived by the [...]
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Horse Trade’s FRIGID is a fine cousin of CAFF BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Taking its cue from our always chilled and frequently cool neighbors to the north, the 30 shows featured in this year’s FRIGID New York Festival are — literally — random acts. Not as large in number of participants, or as physically sprawling [...]
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