Charleston (Staten Island)

Mamma Mia! Is Ruining Broadway

Talking with all-around Broadway fanatic Seth Rudetsky! Plus Charles Busch.

Hardcore Southern Grub Meets Williamsburg Punk Bar at Honeychiles'

This Week in the Voice: Subprime Candidate - Inside Rick Lazio's Biggest Wall Street Deals

​In 2007, current New York gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio was a JPMorgan Chase executive, one who sent emails like all the other JPMorgan executives. The difference, though? Some of Lazio's emails -- which the Village Voice has now obtained and published -- show the details of just how inv ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Yee Kee H.K. Style and East Ocean Palace; Sarah DiGregorio at Honeychiles'

This week in The Voice, Robert Sietsema finds true Hong Kong cuisine at Yee Kee H.K. Style in Brooklyn and East Ocean Palace in Queens, while Sarah DiGregorio discovers Louisiana fare at Honeychiles' in the Williamsburg punk rock bar The Charleston that is "far, far better than you'd expect to get a ... More >>

GOVERNORS ISLAND GETS CLASSY

Kick up your heels Great Gatsby–style

Honeychiles' Cajun Cooking, A New Restaurant Inside Williamsburg Dive Charleston

Fried shrimp po'boy​Charleston, the dive bar/music venue on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, used to offer free pizza with each drink. It was a good deal, but not nearly as tasty as what's going on in the kitchen now. Honeychiles' is a new restaurant within the bar, opened by Jesse Crawford and ... More >>

Make Sean Brock's Molecular Shrimp and Grits, From the Guest Chef Menu at Aldea

Jason MillerShrimp and grits gone molecular.​George Mendes's Aldea has earned praise not only for what he does in the kitchen, but also for when he steps out of the limelight and lets a visiting chef take over his space. The latest special guest in the guest chef series at the restaurant is Se ... More >>

Chopped's Mario Tolentino 'In' at Juliet Supperclub; David Burke 'In' at James New York Hotel

​Mario Tolentino, who recently won the latest season of Food Network's Chopped, has taken over the kitchen at Juliet Supperclub, and overhauled the menu to focus on street foods from across the globe. [The Strong Buzz] David Burke is rumored to be cooking at the forthcoming James New York bou ... More >>

More Northside Festival Pics, Starring Les Savy Fav And Some, Uh, Very Short Shorts

Yikes. Pics by Rebecca Smeyne.​L Magazine's four-day Northside Fest had something for everyone, including those of you with a vested interest in seeing Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington's genitals. Georgia Kral's travels are here; now, let's move on to a summary of our own Rebecca Smeyne's ... More >>

Bros Icing Bros: In Which the New York Times Gets 'Iced'

​Have you been made aware of the masochistic alcoholism pandemic known as Bros Icing Bros? It's a "game" that turns all of your friends into sadistic, binge-drinking, paranoid terrorists. The kind who will stop at nothing to peer pressure you into drinking The Worst Malt Liquor Beverage on Ear ... More >>

Local Big Black Acolytes Austerity Program On The Virtues of Pranking Your Own Label and Their New EP, Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Astoria duo Austerity Program take the lunging acrimony of classic pigfuck and subvert it through the evil scrunch of modern extreme metal. They've always sounded a little like Big Black--what with ... More >>

Lee Tracy and 'The Newspaper Picture' Series at Film Forum

Scoops and booze and front-page news

Sam Mason to Take Over the Kitchen at Aldea (For One Night Only)

Miss this face?​For those of you who have been going into pork belly-with-miso-butterscotch withdrawal since Tailor closed, take heart: Sam Mason will be taking over the kitchen at Aldea for one night only. George Mendes, who opened his kitchen to Mike Lata of the Charleston's FIG last Decembe ... More >>

Kreator

Download MiniBoone's New-Waving, Arcade Fire-Vibing "Devil In Your Eyes"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Marielle Solan​Taut New York five-piece MiniBoone are an enchanting mesh of old-school energy and new-school melody. The band mixes the dervish energy of '78-era post-punk with the super-hooks of mod ... More >>

New App Finds Happy Hours Near You, Calls Cab

​The Baby-Shaking app didn't do it for us, but this one looks promising: L magazine announces a partnership with Cocktail Compass, with which we are told we can find "the nearest happy hour... its location, distance, and how long you'll have before happy hour is over." It also features an "all ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Kitchen Swap & a Latke Cook-off

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Yes In My Backyard: Download Naam's "Skyling Slip"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Diane Suarez​Brooklyn kraut-metal crushers Naam take the trippiest part of your favorite Hawkwind song and stretch it like space-taffy into hypnotic, riff-driven mush. Recorded at an abandoned dairy ... More >>

Battlefields+Overmars

Cow-Pony (or Pony-Cow) Sighted in Staten Island

A lot of animals seem to be making a break for it these days -- from Molly the Cow, who bolted from a Queens slaughterhouse, to that walleroo that has been bouncing around fields upstate after escaping from a petting zoo. Yesterday, a stray pony joined the club after it was spotted galloping around ... More >>

The Ecstatic Violence of Villains

Jovially brutal metalheads actually say the mean things you're thinking

Pate vs Dog Food: The Taste Test & Where Your Fave Top Chef is Now

A new study tested 18 volunteers on their ability to distinguish pate from other less fancy foods, like Spam and even dog food. [LA Times] In other (more useful) study news, Toronto researchers have confirmed that a group of chemicals used in food wrapper coatings has been found in human blood. [Ch ... More >>

Playing Around

And where do we go from here?

Still On the Waterfront

Long plagued by Johnny Friendlys, dockworkers fight to take back a mob-infested union

An American in Paris

Superstar expat's centennial retro

A Subversive Soviet Treasure

The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee

Aide spent a quarter of a million dollars on food, fun, and travel

Dance History 101Z

An imaginary family and its teeny, telling contributions to American dance

The Cotton Club

Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience

The Life Erotic

Scandalize everyone at least once

No Password Required: A Subterranean Noho Haven Awaits

Oldness but Goodness

Some old pieces of theater can be amazingly up to date; others are just an amazing up

Urbane Legends

The Importance of Being Ernst

Flaming Youth

Flappers and Feminism at the Museum of the City of New York

Music

Graham Redivivus

Stories That Make the Heart Quake

Laughter and Forgetting

Animal Crackers

The Numbers Game

New-School Baseball Stats From A to Z

Bad Haircut, Good Ragtime

Brun Campbell Takes Scott Joplin’s Lessons to the Wild Bunch

All Around the Town

Uri Caine at the Turn of Another Century

Minstrels All

Return to Whenever

Retro Girls Go Gore Crazy

Darkness Into Light

Modern Dance Titans Jump-Start ABT’s Spring Season

From the Field To A Garden

The Fascination of What’s Difficult

The Players Club

The Fall of Man

Border Crossings

Swing Shift

A new generation, mostly white, appropriates the lindy hop