Calcutta

The Hot Yoga War

Two yogis battle over the fate of a tradition (and a pile of money)

Short and… Sweet, Sincere, Cloying, Beautiful: Oscar Nominees, in Brief

Animal Drink Coasters at Broadway Panhandler, Gift Suggestion #5

​Aren't they unspeakably cute? -- and they protect the finish on your fine furniture, too. Drink coasters are something of a retro-phenomenon. While our moms had several sets with different themes in neat stacks under the bar -- to protect her good finish from dad's sloppy drinking habits -- ... More >>

Our 10 Best Things to Eat on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, NYC

​The four-cheese mac-and-cheese at Macaroni, Macaroni is engagingly crunchy. If you haven't been on the stretch of MacDougal Street between Houston and West 4th in a while, you need to pay a visit. This student haunt and historic refuge of Bohos from John Reed to Bob Dylan has lately become ... More >>

To Save and Project Fest: Long Live Cinema!

For a month at MOMA, digital is not the savior of cinema

The Early Word: Thelewala

Lauren ShockeyOutside Thelewala​MacDougal Street has seen a bunch of new cheap eats recently, first with Saigon Shack and then Artichoke Pizza and, most recently, Macaroni Macaroni. Now comes Thelewala, a tiny cubby selling Indian street foods. A bit of a gamble since Kati Roll Company is lo ... More >>

Tulsi, Mehtaphor, Junoon, and East India Tea Co: Four Fall Openings From Indian Chefs

Amol MhatreToasting chiles in Mumbai​ I've often wondered why there aren't more successful high-end Indian restaurants in New York--legit Indian or Indian-influenced places that are not better than the best down-home spots, but which show subcontinental cooking from a different perspective. (N ... More >>

"Marguerite Duras on Film" at Anthology

The doyenne of French letters and her own industry of trance-y movies

Our 10 Best: Cookbooks

​Above all, a cookbook should be useful and accurate, but that's not why we love them. A great cookbook isn't just a compendium of recipes; it takes you somewhere--into a cook's kitchen, to the South of France, or the South Pacific, or back in time. Following a 1961 recipe for Chateaubriand do ... More >>

Pyaasa/Thirst

The Sex Mag For Perv-Hating Real Americans: Studies in Crap Toasts Male Annual

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ Male Annual Date: 1971 Discovered at: Antique mall The Cover Promises: ... More >>

Born Into Brothels

Middleman

First Light: Satyajit Ray From the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy

Cock Teases Are Neither Tricks Nor a Treat

Brooklyn Bangladeshi

Horoscope

Horoscope

Culture Clash

The immigrant experience meets generation gap in Mira Nair's The Namesake

The Future is Now

Mike Judge's much ballyhooed but rarely seen Idiocracy—coming soon to your idiot box!

Horoscope

Wok That Way

Stir fries and gutter lollipops at new Curry Hill Chinese

Missionary Style

A former Mother Teresa volunteer brings us her sister act

Born Into Brothels, Children Make Art From Squalor

Remote Patrol

Foreign Agents

Too Much Time, Too Much Whiskey in the Northeast of India

Photo Finish

Brothel doc makes a difference for Calcutta's red-light kids

Film

Cover Charged: A Nameless Girl Haunts Jha's Second Novel

Photo Ops

Docs about Calcutta slums, 9-11 detainees, and gay marriage evoke the power of images

Film

Quartet

Film

Film

More Is More

Listings

Listings

Listings

Listings

The Birds

Out of India

Oh Calcutta!

Show World

Original Sins and Future Shock

Proscenium Dreams

Seven Troupes Rise to the Occasion

How to Hear a Face

We are the World

The Hothouse

The atrocity that inspired Tennessee Williams's Not About Nightingales

Island Hopping