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If the atomic bomb forever burdened Japan with apocalyptic visions, and if the postwar prohibition of armed forces repressed martial pride, then the country's wild, often...
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Easy enough to find all manner of thoughtful eulogy in the pages of Endpoint, John Updike's final suite of poems, mostly written on the occasion of one late March birthday or...
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The road leading to Bagram Air Base is a mess. Car-sized craters dot the lane, interspersed with ruts deep enough to get lost in. For stretches, it's hard even to know where...
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Adamantine, the title of Susan Marshall’s thrilling new work, means hard, impenetrable, and brilliant in the way that a diamond is brilliant. The behavior of the six...
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Every time I see Keely Garfield’s choreography, I wish I could get inside her mind and rummage around for a while. I might not understand the work any better, but...
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Born in 1972, the MOMA/Lincoln Center co-production "New Directors/New Films" (March 25 through April 5) nudges a fresh flock of hatchling auteurs into the cold, cold world....
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When a fellow noodle fancier sent me the city's ramen rankings according to the obsessive website rameniac.com, I was incredulous. Not because I disagreed with the list...
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"What's the last good joke I heard?" There's a long pause, and then DOOM—a/k/a Daniel Dumile, a/k/a nefarious rapper MF Doom, who's graced himself with a shorter,...
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Detroit sextet Tyvek play frenetic, noisy, punky garage rock like the Germs slowed down or early Kinks sped up, instead of anything similar to their hometown&'s garage-rock...
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You can do it when you're hungover. You can do it when you're still drunk. And now, you can do it singing. It's Brunch the Musical, an ode to the delightful midday melding of...
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If there were more students like Shulamit Izen, maybe high school wouldn't be such torture for gay kids. The lesbian ninth-grader worked tirelessly to form a gay-straight...
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The inaugural NCAA Men's Lacrosse Big City Classic is the first time that lacrosse has been played at Giants Stadium. And the action promises to be top-notch. The six teams...
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The name of this all-star benefit concert isn't just a vague nod to better-living-through-betterment: Proceeds from Change Begins Within will go to support the David Lynch...
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Veteran choreographer Larry Keigwin takes the best Downtown performance artists Uptown for a three-week run of his zany Keigwin Kabaret at Symphony Space. Fusing dance,...
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In his two years as a Daily Show correspondent, brawny actor-comedian Rob Riggle did everything from hassle Wolf Blitzer to give "real Americans" a tour of NYC. Now, he has...
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The films and videos of stop-motion animators the Brothers Quay, identical twins and professional partners Stephen and Timothy Quay, may be obscure to some, but surely you can...
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Puppets! Casios! Synchronized swimming! Now this is art punk we can believe in. Japanther is cheekily off-kilter as only two Pratt alumni can be; members Ian Vanek and Matt...
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Olà, Garotas Suecas. Welcome back to Brooklyn. You brought your São Paolo–bred jazz-funk this-a-way a few months ago, but there are some cultural updates...
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The Irish Repertory will take a thorough inventory of the foul rag-and-bone shop of William Butler Yeats's heart in its latest The Yeats Project. Though better known for his...
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The New Museum's mission has always been to exhibit work created by young artists, many of whom have never exhibited before. In their latest exploration of the "new" comes...
