Email Author Angela Ashman

2013 Stories by Angela Ashman

• SUN AND SUDS

  published September 18, 2013

  How much beer can you drink in an afternoon? Test your limits at the New York Beer Festival, where dozens of breweries will be giving out... More >>

• APOCALYPSE NOW

  published September 11, 2013

  Water jugs? Check. Emergency lantern? Check. Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses? No? What else are you going to read... More >>

• FASHIONABLY LOUD

  published September 11, 2013

  Don’t think that New York Fashion Week is over just because the tents are coming down at Lincoln Center. Find new designers and clothes that... More >>

• MATING CALL

  published September 11, 2013

  “Genitals have their own lives, his beloved Nina had said at the close of an argument over whether even the most besotted husband could be... More >>

• SCREEN GEM

  published September 11, 2013

  Two years ago, Bill McKibben was arrested in front of the White House and thrown into jail for leading a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline.... More >>

• LIGHT RAIL

  published September 4, 2013

  Not the kind of artist who’s satisfied with a simple gallery show (last year, he turned the face of the cylindrical Hirshhorn Museum in D.C.... More >>

• WAR STORIES

  published September 4, 2013

  Twelve years ago, New York Times 
reporter C.J. Chivers was working at 
police headquarters in Lower Manhattan when the Twin Towers... More >>

• FAILURE TO LAUNCH

  published September 4, 2013

  Before they were Saul Goodman and Tobias Fünke, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross were co-creators of the wonderfully bizarre ’90s... More >>

• TAKING FLIGHT

  published August 21, 2013

  Earlier this year, Kurt Braunohler, known for such bizarre projects as the comedy series Penelope Princess of Pets with Kristen Schaal, had... More >>

• ECO-LOVE

  published August 14, 2013

  Think Fuck for Forest, a charity that makes amateur porn and sells it to save
the rainforest, is a joke? Well, filmmaker 
Michal... More >>

• Fringe-O-Rama

  published August 7, 2013

  The numbers from this year’s FringeNYC are in, and they’re daunting: 185 shows from 13 countries and 17 U.S. states playing at 20... More >>

• FULL STEAM AHEAD

  published August 7, 2013

  Hop aboard a time machine today and travel back to the era when people dressed like Edward Gorey characters and rode in paddleboats along the... More >>

• THE OUTSIDERS

  published July 31, 2013

  During her 2010 piece The Artist Is Present, performance artist Marina Abramovic stared at MOMA visitors for a whopping 736 hours and 30 minutes.... More >>

• OLD SOULS

  published July 31, 2013

  When asked if he could name a movie that was “entirely devoid of clichés,” Roger Ebert said it would have to be the... More >>

• FINE ROMANCE

  published July 17, 2013

  ’Tis the season of class reunions, and the Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park production of Love’s Labour’s... More >>

• BIG TIME SENSUALITY

  published July 10, 2013

  Get ready for what might be one of the steamiest literary events of the summer when Susan Choi reads from her fourth novel, My Education. Her... More >>

• SHOUT IT OUT

  published July 10, 2013

  Celebrating queer culture downtown for the past 22 years, the Hot! Festival is a whole month of burlesque, circus arts, comedy, dance, cabaret,... More >>

• SCI-FI SHAKESEARE

  published July 10, 2013

  Can’t score tickets to Shakespeare in the Park? Head downtown to Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, the Drilling Company’s delightful... More >>

• Q&A: Susan Choi Talks My Education and Getting a Little Help From Her Friends Jennifer Egan and Jhumpa Lahiri

  published July 3, 2013

  Susan Choi’s fourth novel, My Education, is an erotic, sharply written tale of a young graduate student, Regina Gottlieb, who... More >>

• PATRIOT GAMES

  published July 3, 2013

  Taking the film festival out of the movie theater, Dirty Looks: On Location is a free month-long queer screening series featuring a different... More >>

• BATTLE OF THE SEXES

  published July 3, 2013

  A new black-and-white comics anthology, The Big Feminist BUT: Comics about Women, Men, and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism, addresses the... More >>

• FREAKS & GEEKS

  published July 3, 2013

  Though British comedian and master storyteller Daniel Kitson is in town performing Something Like a Stand Up Show over at the Barrow Street... More >>

• HIS GENERATION

  published June 26, 2013

  Adderall, Ambien, LSD, MDMA, Xanax—those are just a few of the substances tried by the young capricious couple in Tao Lin’s new book,... More >>

• KILLER INSTINCT

  published June 26, 2013

  After a few box-office misses (Marnie, Torn Curtain, and Topaz), Alfred Hitchcock finally had a hit with his penultimate movie, Frenzy (1972).... More >>

• DISCO CHIC

  published June 26, 2013

  In 1977, the New York Times called Stephen Burrows the “brightest star of American fashion,” and, even today, his clothes are... More >>