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Antarctica

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    The Wall Street Journal Gets Africa Wrong

    There's an interesting story in The Wall Street Journal about how we should get ready for a "Nigerian P.F. Chang's" because African food is the next big thing.There is only one largely unexplored continent left -- and it isn't Antarctica. With the exception of North African and Ethiopian cuisine, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Roving Armadillos Are Heading for the East Coast

    This just in to add to your terrifying end-times-esque tales of animal takeover (see also: Crabs in Antarctica! Mountain lions in Connecticut! Ladybugs on Long Island!). Thanks to climate change, so say the scientists, the ole armadillo, 'dillo for short, is moving on from his Texas home, where he a ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 21, 2011

    Free Will Astrology: September 21-27, 2011

    This just in to add to your terrifying end-times-esque tales of animal takeover (see also: Crabs in Antarctica! Mountain lions in Connecticut! Ladybugs on Long Island!). Thanks to climate change, so say the scientists, the ole armadillo, 'dillo for short, is moving on from his Texas home, where he a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Antarctica Has a Bad Case of Crabs

    ​Pay the hurricanes and earthquakes no mind, what we really need to worry about are the giant crabs set to take over Antarctica. They have arrived, with their "crushing claws and ecosystem-altering habits," in a deep basin in the Antarctic continental shelf, and oceanographers are worried not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Alex Stupak to Do Even More Mexican; April Bloomfield Goes to France

    ​Alex Stupak has confirmed that he will open a second location of Empellon, in the space currently occupied by Counter. [Eater] April Bloomfield on her first-ever trip to Paris and Lyon: "I wasn't expecting it to be so peasant-like, so that was a nice surprise, and Paris is not as anal as I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Tour-Bus Sized Asteroid Will Just Miss Earth Today

    Don't worry!​An asteroid named 2011 MD will pass by Earth today at about 1 p.m. According to Space.com, the rock, which is "the size of a tour bus," and between 29 to 98 feet wide, will zoom past earth about 7,500 miles above, which is close enough that it will be beneath some of the planet's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2011

    Ailing Penguin Stuck in New Zealand Offered Ride Home Or Spot At SeaWorld

    ​Happy Feet, a young emperor penguin, is stranded in New Zealand. It (scientists haven't determined if the bird is male or female) arrived there last Monday, its appearance being the first time in 44 years that an emperor penguin has been spotted in New Zealand. All is not well. Happy Feet fel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Coney Island in Winter: Our Own Antarctica

    ​Things may be looking grim for Coney Island's future. Old haunts like Ruby's have poured their last beer, and although Central Amusements International and Sodexo plan to make the neighborhood into a 'year-round' destination, it's worth mentioning it's a pretty magical one right now. Take a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Download: Beauclerk's Ice-Machine-Inspired Ambient Daydream "Dance Of The Stars"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Low-resonance, high-discomfort ambient drifter Beauclerk is a one-man drone menace, mixing glory and danger via saxophone and a Line 6 pedal. The seismic side gig of James Bradley, owner of trusty W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2011

    More Lunatics Headed to Antarctica

    Robert F. Scott and his doomed 1912 crew. ​What is so great about barren, uninhabitable Antarctica? First people are chomping at the bit to run marathons there, now they're racing to the South Pole to celebrate the 100th anniversaries next year of Roald Amundsen's and Robert Scott's expedition ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2011

    Lunatics to Run Marathon in Antarctica

    ​This has been a banner weekend for extreme exercise. As the Post puts it, "Ninety-nine maniacal marathoners" (it's like a Lewis Carroll poem), including several New Yorkers, will travel to Antarctica next month to compete in the Antarctica Marathon. For the privilege of trying to survive 26.2 ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 20, 2010

    OVER THE MOON

    Modest Mouse play your old favorites

  • Columns

    March 24, 2010

    Free Will Astrology: March 24-30, 2010

    Modest Mouse play your old favorites

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    High-Stakes Adventure at United Bamboo, Rag & Bone, and Zero Maria Cornejo; Plus Anna Wintour Spotting

    Photo by David Wentworth​ Discussed: United Bamboo, Rag & Bone, Zero Maria Cornejo Ladies, this fall, it's time to book that trip to Greenland! Or climb Mount Everest! Or fly around the world solo! Yes, more than a few designers are preparing us for thrilling adventure (think Amelia Earhart) ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 8, 2009

    YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

    Santas take over the city

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Tonight! Phoenix/Passion Pit, DJ Spooky, Phish, And Jaguar Love

    SOTC-beloved French pop doggs Phoenix and hyperactive aggro-twee synth-bashers Passion Pit love each other so much they can't stop playing shows together -- fresh off a stint at Central Park a couple months back, they reunite this evening at Hammerstein Ballroom for 101.9 RXP DJ Matt Pinfield's Ho ... More >>

  • Music

    December 1, 2009

    DJ Spooky Goes Glacial

    BAM unveils a new Antarctic symphony

  • Columns

    November 24, 2009

    Free Will Astrology: November 25 to December 1

    BAM unveils a new Antarctic symphony

  • Voice Choices

    November 24, 2009

    SOUND OF MELTING ICE

    DJ Spooky gives a voice to Arctic glaciers

  • Film

    August 25, 2009

    At the Edge of the World

    A documentary about the Sea Shepherds, an under-funded, unprotected volunteer group of nautical vigilantes

  • Film

    June 10, 2009

    Blast! Too Flat For Its Own Good

    A documentary about the Sea Shepherds, an under-funded, unprotected volunteer group of nautical vigilantes

  • Film

    April 29, 2009
  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Interview: Ladyhawke On New Zealand, Gay Pride Parades in Paris

    Ladyhawke makes her New York debut tonight at the Bowery Ballroom and at Studio B on Thursday, March 26. Taking her name from the 1985 Richard Donner film, New Zealand's Ladyhawke is next in a line of dance-wave acts that've recently surfaced. Although she's played "dirty rock and roll" with he ... More >>

  • Film

    November 26, 2008

    Antarctica Takes Israeli Gay Film to Daring New Level

    Ladyhawke makes her New York debut tonight at the Bowery Ballroom and at Studio B on Thursday, March 26. Taking her name from the 1985 Richard Donner film, New Zealand's Ladyhawke is next in a line of dance-wave acts that've recently surfaced. Although she's played "dirty rock and roll" with he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World Now On View

    Ladyhawke makes her New York debut tonight at the Bowery Ballroom and at Studio B on Thursday, March 26. Taking her name from the 1985 Richard Donner film, New Zealand's Ladyhawke is next in a line of dance-wave acts that've recently surfaced. Although she's played "dirty rock and roll" with he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Jumping Through Hoops

    Ladyhawke makes her New York debut tonight at the Bowery Ballroom and at Studio B on Thursday, March 26. Taking her name from the 1985 Richard Donner film, New Zealand's Ladyhawke is next in a line of dance-wave acts that've recently surfaced. Although she's played "dirty rock and roll" with he ... More >>

  • Film

    June 10, 2008

    Werner Herzog and Guy Maddin Go Into Deep Freeze

    Lessons from the darkness: Herzog treks to Antarctica, and Maddin to the tundra of his youth

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2008

    Freeze Frame

    Werner Herzog travels to the South Pole

  • Film

    September 11, 2007

    So Close, and Yet So Far

    The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

  • Theater

    August 14, 2007

    Fringe Cringe

    Another year of weak work at NYC's biggest theater fest

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2007

    NBC's Live Earth Special: A Running Diary

    Another year of weak work at NYC's biggest theater fest

  • Theater

    June 5, 2007

    Take Five

    A fistful of one-acts at EST's annual marathon

  • Columns

    December 5, 2006

    Horoscope

    A fistful of one-acts at EST's annual marathon

  • Film

    February 14, 2006

    'Eight Below'

    A fistful of one-acts at EST's annual marathon

  • Dance

    October 18, 2005

    Eye Appeal

    Artful choreography that makes audiences feel very very good

  • Columns

    September 13, 2005

    Horoscope

    Artful choreography that makes audiences feel very very good

  • Film

    July 12, 2005

    Sweaty Bottoms Hit Rock Bottom in New Winterbottom

    Artful choreography that makes audiences feel very very good

  • Columns

    April 5, 2005

    Horoscope

    Artful choreography that makes audiences feel very very good

  • Columns

    January 25, 2005

    Horoscope

    Artful choreography that makes audiences feel very very good

  • Film

    August 10, 2004

    Slime Pickings

    Latex vaginas + Boba Fetts on steroids = choreographed black-on-black-in-blackness

  • Columns

    July 1, 2003

    Horoscope

    Latex vaginas + Boba Fetts on steroids = choreographed black-on-black-in-blackness

  • Columns

    May 20, 2003

    Horoscope

    Latex vaginas + Boba Fetts on steroids = choreographed black-on-black-in-blackness

  • Film

    February 13, 2001

    Southern Cross

    The Importance of Ernest

  • Film

    January 2, 2001

    The Knobbies '00

    The Year in Princely Cock-Ups

  • Film

    November 7, 2000

    A Terrible Beauty

    Test of Endurance

  • Film

    August 8, 2000

    The Edge of the World

    Test of Endurance

  • Music

    May 16, 2000

    Think About Pavement

    Test of Endurance

  • Music

    January 4, 2000

    Time Bandits

    Test of Endurance

  • Art

    March 2, 1999

    Double Vision

    Test of Endurance

  • Dance

    February 9, 1999

    How Many Stories?

    The Temperature Changes From Uptown to Down

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