Email Author Angela Ashman

2013 Stories by Angela Ashman

• MIRROR, MIRROR

  published March 13, 2013

  Narcissister, a performance artist never seen without her mannequin mask, has been arm candy for Marilyn Manson, danced on America’s Got... More >>

• GOOD & GOOEY

  published March 13, 2013

  Who makes the best grilled cheese (a/k/a the world’s most perfect food) in New York City? Find out this weekend when the two-day Big Cheesy... More >>

• LOST BOYS

  published March 13, 2013

  It was 2006 when we last saw Alec Baldwin on the New York stage in the Off-Broadway production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane. Now, with 30 Rock... More >>

• URBAN LEGEND

  published March 13, 2013

  Jean-Michel Basquiat was only 27 when he died of a drug overdose in 1988, and the art world has never seen anything like him since. See what made... More >>

• Q&A: Jessica Francis Kane Talks This Close and How Kindles Aren't Dumb

  published March 6, 2013

  “Authors are just notoriously difficult,” says the publicity director in Jessica Francis Kane’s story “How to Become a... More >>

• PRINT MATTERS

  published March 6, 2013

  In a piece in the New Statesman last year, Believer editor Heidi Julavits laughs at an essay she wrote in The... More >>

• OFF THE WALL

  published March 6, 2013

  “There is more life in a skateboarder skating down the street than in a hundred Hollywood actors,” Larry Clark once said. So,... More >>

• SO LONG, FAREWELL

  published March 6, 2013

  If you’ve never seen a performance in Horse Trade’s intimate 32-seat theater the Red Room, this month will likely be your last chance.... More >>

• BLANK GENERATION

  published March 6, 2013

  "Being a rock and roll musician was like being a pimp,” Richard Hell writes in his new 
autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean... More >>

• FEELING LUCKY?

  published March 6, 2013

  Madame Rosebud, Nasty Canasta, and Foxy Vermouth don’t sound like especially Irish names to us. But given that they’re all talented,... More >>

• The Rise and Fall of a Teenage Cyberqueen

  published March 6, 2013

  Being a teenager has never been easy, but in the age of cyberbullying it can be a nightmare. Inspired by true events, Lindsay Joy Murphy's drama... More >>

• SHAKESPEARE SPECIALISTS

  published March 6, 2013

  Anytime there’s an opportunity to see John Douglas Thompson on stage, it should never be passed up. And it especially shouldn’t be... More >>

• SKETCH ARTIST

  published March 6, 2013

  As an intrepid young man, Demetri Martin, the comedian with the Beatles moptop and penchant for writing long palindrome poems, dropped out of NYU... More >>

• THE MAN INSIDE HIM

  published March 6, 2013

  Since that cold, dark day in 2006 when Arrested Development was cancelled by Fox, David Cross, one of the show’s most endearing stars, has... More >>

• WALK THE LINE

  published February 27, 2013

  Even when Johnny Cash was a boy, it was evident he had something special. As the legend goes, after taking a few voice lessons, his teacher told... More >>

• GIRLS POWER

  published February 27, 2013

  The long-running improv show ASSSSCAT 3000 is often the place to catch comedic talents from Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, and The Colbert Report.... More >>

• BOY WONDER

  published February 20, 2013

  Rising comedian John Mulaney may be a 30-year-old full-fledged adult, but he’s blessed (or, in his opinion, cursed) with one of those sweet,... More >>

• !OGNIB YALP S‘TEL

  published February 20, 2013

  AGENT COOPER: Diane, 8:30 p.m., February 27th, entering the town of Williamsburg. I’ve never seen so many stylish young people in my life.... More >>

• THIS LAND

  published February 20, 2013

  The Obie-winning Metropolitan Playhouse is well-known for bringing back great American plays you never knew existed. For instance, have you ever... More >>

• DOWN WITH LOVE

  published February 13, 2013

  Laugh your troubles away at The Rejection Show Valentine’s Day Heartbreak Haven, where comics including Lizz Winstead, Tom Shillue, and Dave... More >>

• GET LUCKY

  published February 13, 2013

  Have some cash to spare for a worthy cause? ISSUE Project Room, the avant-garde performance center, is raising funds by putting on an art lottery.... More >>

• FREE SPIRITS

  published February 13, 2013

  One of the most well-known images of the Gutai movement in Japan is that of Saburo Murakami tearing through a row of large frames covered in... More >>

• YOU RANG?

  published January 30, 2013

  If you’re like us, Wednesdays have been absolutely unbearable lately because that means Sunday night with the Crawley family is still so far... More >>

• DOUBLE-CROSSED

  published January 30, 2013

  Granta, the British literary magazine, returns to New York for the launch of its latest issue on a subject that’s ripe for good drama:... More >>

• DRAUGHT CHOICE

  published January 30, 2013

  Will Beyoncé be lip-synching during the Super Bowl halftime show? Some say yes; some say no. But one person who definitely won’t be... More >>