Email Author Angela Ashman

2010 Stories by Angela Ashman

• BEAUTY AND THE BUNNYMAN

  published September 22, 2010

  As a former fashion designer and rock musician, French choreographer Christian Rizzo knows how to do dance for a hip, style-savvy audience,... More >>

• GET NAKED

  published September 22, 2010

  Do you ever have those dreams in which you’re giving a speech and suddenly you realize you have no clothes on? Exposing too much of yourself... More >>

• A-W-E-S-O-M-E

  published September 22, 2010

  Watching little kids sweat bullets in the Scripps National Spelling Bee is certainly entertaining. But to see celebrities turn red-faced for not... More >>

• SHAKE IT

  published September 22, 2010

  The 8th Annual Burlesque Festival, which kicked off Thursday, has its grand finale tonight with the Golden Pastie Awards to honor... More >>

• HAPPY HOUR

  published September 15, 2010

  If you've never seen the cinematic weirdness that is The Beaver Trilogy, tonight's special screening at the new indie movie theater reRun... More >>

• COME OUT AND PLAY

  published September 15, 2010

  Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara's colorful images of little children and animals have created what is known as the "Nara phenomenon," a... More >>

• MADONNA'S FINEST

  published September 15, 2010

  It was 1985 and, oh, how badly we wanted to order a replica of Madonna’s leather jacket from Desperately Seeking Susan through a... More >>

• ON THE FRONTLINE

  published September 15, 2010

  Back for a return engagement after an extended sold-out run this spring, Donald Margulies's Tony-nominated drama Time Stands Still looks at... More >>

• MOONSHADOW

  published September 15, 2010

  Though the iconic German choreographer Pina Bausch, whose work famously appeared in Pedro Almodovar’s Talk to Her, died last year at... More >>

• LAUGH TRACK

  published September 8, 2010

  Eugene Mirman has certainly had a busy year. He headlined the Pitchfork Festival’s first-ever comedy stage, returned to Jon Glaser’s... More >>

• A NEW CHAPTER

  published September 8, 2010

  Recently included on The New Yorker’s exclusive list of the best 20 writers under 40, the 35-year-old Joshua Ferris earned... More >>

• QUICK THINKING

  published September 8, 2010

  Today is the start of the SketchProv 2010 quarterfinals and the point that the annual comedy tournament really starts to get interesting:... More >>

• VELVET ROPE

  published September 8, 2010

  Nick Zinner was studying to be a photographer until he met Karen O and happily agreed to a life of beer-soaked nights as the lead guitarist... More >>

• Fall Guide: Karen O's Style Guru Takes Us Shopping

  published September 1, 2010

  The moment that designer Christiane Joy Hultquist (a/k/a Christian Joy) opens the door of the Williamsburg vintage store Amarcord, we know why... More >>

• WELCOME TO BOOK-LYN

  published September 1, 2010

  Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the Brooklyn Book Festival has grown into something that even Manhattan has to be more than a little jealous... More >>

• THIS AMERICAN LIFE

  published September 1, 2010

  What does America sound like? For his latest experimental work Border Towns, composer and co-director Nick Brooke of the production company the... More >>

• AMERICAN REBEL

  published September 1, 2010

  Over the past two decades, contemporary artist/scenemaker/painter of glittery pandas Rob Pruitt has been known to create a few scandals... More >>

• SCHOOL DAZE

  published September 1, 2010

  The phrase “back to school” still makes us feel a little queasy, and we don’t even have any classes to go to. If you’re a... More >>

• FULL STEAM AHEAD

  published August 25, 2010

  Pity the poor author who has to release his or her book during what some are calling “Franzen Frenzy.” Even before Jonathan... More >>

• DEATH BECOMES HER

  published August 25, 2010

  A member of the Obie-winning playwrights’ collective 13P and resident of the New Dramatists, 37-year-old playwright Sheila Callaghan is not... More >>

• ACES WILD

  published August 18, 2010

  As we enter the 2010 U.S. Open, things don’t look so hot for America’s stars: Andy Roddick is just getting over mono, Venus Williams is... More >>

• OH, BOY!

  published August 18, 2010

  When you see Kansas City–based art rocker Cody Critcheloe and his Fu Manchu mustache coming, you’d be wise to step aside. Leader of the... More >>

• HAPPY COOKERS

  published August 11, 2010

  Food and comedy have long gone hand-in-hand—take, for instance, the old slip-on-a-banana-peel gag or the classic pie-in-the-face routine.... More >>

• JUST LIKE HONEY

  published August 11, 2010

  When not choreographing music videos (such as Feist’s “1234”) or David Byrne’s world tour, the New York-based Noémie... More >>

• DETROIT ROCK CITY

  published August 11, 2010

  When you think of the look and sound of ’80s hardcore, New York, D.C., Boston, and Southern California automatically come to mind. But... More >>