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2012 Stories by Angela Ashman

• ENJOY THE SILENCE

  published November 21, 2012

  Most of us merely fantasize about being able to take off for a gorgeous land far from our many pinging devices. But for their latest residency,... More >>

• SWEET TREATS

  published November 21, 2012

  What starts the day after Thanksgiving? Why holiday shopping, of course. But don’t get your relatives in the ’burbs something they can... More >>

• PUT A BIRD ON IT

  published November 14, 2012

  Since its debut on IFC last year, the satiric sketch-comedy show Portlandia has skewered just about every absurd yuppie, hippie, and hipster... More >>

• SERIOUSLY FUNNY

  published November 14, 2012

  When comedian Tig Notaro performed at the Largo in L.A. earlier this year, she warmed up the crowd with this opening line: “Thank you. I... More >>

• EVERYBODY LOVES GARY

  published November 14, 2012

  Perhaps the most beloved literary personality in town, Gary Shteyngart, the author, professor, and book-blurbing extraordinaire, has made more... More >>

• HOOKED

  published November 7, 2012

  Have you ever been ice fishing with Willem Dafoe? Traveled to Jamaica with Tom Waits? Searched for the elusive giant squid with Dennis Hopper? No?... More >>

• PLAYTIME

  published November 7, 2012

  From Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night to Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, MOMA's painting and sculpture galleries are incredible to look at. But... More >>

• Brooklyn Vintage Crawl

  published November 7, 2012

  Need a new winter wardrobe? Skip all the standard fare and head to the Brooklyn Vintage Crawl. Kathryn Irby, a former fashion editor at Lucky... More >>

• New York Comedy Festival

  published November 7, 2012

  In case you were wondering when your favorite comedian was coming to town, chances are high that the time is now. The ninth annual New York... More >>

• POWER PLAY

  published November 7, 2012

  Kicking off its first season in its brand-new theater, St. Ann's Warehouse opens with the acclaimed production of Mies Julie, a winner of the... More >>

• LONE STAR

  published October 31, 2012

  When the composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa was approached with the idea to do a musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s Giant by... More >>

• FEAR FACTOR

  published October 24, 2012

  What’s better than one scary story? Four scary stories, of course. Tonight, as a part of their series “Scary Movies 2012,” the... More >>

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  BEST OF NYC™
  Sartorial Disobedience: Order Up Your Own NYC Fashion

  published October 17, 2012

  When we think of fashion rebels, Henry David Thoreau is hardly the first person who comes to mind. But in a journal entry from 1857, he... More >>

• LEADER OF 
THE PACK

  published October 17, 2012

  “I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear,” the sartorially liberated Katharine Hepburn once... More >>

• COVER YOUR EYES

  published October 17, 2012

  Most of us try to avoid bad theater whenever possible, but the Bad Theater Fest hopes to be the exception to the rule. Serving up six nights of... More >>

• RISING UP

  published October 17, 2012

  Since 1992, the theater director, choreographer, and activist Ping Chong has been shining a light on issues of gender, class, race, and religion... More >>

• THE PLAYERS’ CLUB

  published October 10, 2012

  With SketchFest NYC on hiatus from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater this year, the Peoples Improv Theater saw it as the perfect time to launch... More >>

• GET HAPPY

  published October 10, 2012

  Actor-playwright-director Colman Domingo certainly has no problem staying busy. A part of the Obie-winning ensemble of Passing Strange and a Tony... More >>

• Jack White Discusses Citizen Kane

  published September 26, 2012

  As any good Jack White fan will tell you, the man is obsessed with the films of Orson Welles. Exhibit A: He named his Third Man Records for... More >>

• ISN’T SHE LOVELY?

  published September 26, 2012

  Although some might still be holding their breaths for Wigstock, that bawdy drag extraganza of the ’80s, ’90s, and early ’00s,... More >>

• OFF WITH THEIR HEADS

  published September 26, 2012

  Who says adults can’t play with toys? For his exhibition Dark Peculiar Toys: The Mechanics of Joy, Viktor Koen, who works with mixed... More >>

• SPY GAMES

  published September 26, 2012

  On October 5, 1962, James Bond came blazing onto the big screen with the famous gun barrel sequence in Dr. No, and the world’s worst... More >>

• UNDER PRESSURE

  published September 19, 2012

  Pop quiz: What’s the oldest organized sport in the United States? Sure, baseball is a good guess. But just ask a fireman, and he’ll... More >>

• THE GLAMOROUS LIFE

  published September 19, 2012

  She dazzled us with her debut story collection, Other People We Married. Now the Brooklyn-based Emma Straub is launching her first... More >>

• NEW CHAPTERS

  published September 19, 2012

  Looking for a good book or two or 20? Allow us to direct you to the Brooklyn Book Festival, where authors of all varieties (novelists,... More >>