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The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 5/31/2013

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar.

Raúl Ruiz's Night Across the Street is an Arresting Puzzle

An Epitaph of Dreams

I Was So Good On CNN Yesterday

Pungent and informative and so cute I wanted to pinch my cheeks through the screen when I got home and watched it. On CNN International, I was the featured guest brought on to prognosticate about the Oscar nominations, which are coming this Thursday like a whole other Christmas morning.

COMING FULL CIRCLE

Experience the Last Work of Pina Bausch

NYFF: Pablo Larrain's No and the Marketing of Freedom

Today the tireless Nick Pinkerton is back with a look at the fascinating -- and hard-to-Google -- No. em>No Directed by Pablo Larrain Screens Friday, Oct. 12th at 9:00 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 13th at 3:00 p.m. Against Argo's opening weekend, the NYFF has (one imagines, unconsciously) counter-prog ... More >>

Live: Paul Shaffer And Others Pay Tribute To Gil Evans At Highline Ballroom

Gil Evans Centennial Celebration Highline Ballroom Monday, May 21 Better than: Never witnessing a world-class band in action. I'm actually fortunate enough to have caught the Gil Evans Orchestra in the '80s, before it became a ghost band. Back then, when the slew of clubs lining Seventh Avenue Sou ... More >>

Luciano+Ernesto Ferreyra

Falling Satellite Probably Won't Hit You Today

​Although we weren't sure about this earlier this week, NASA has said that UARS, a 6-ton bus-sized satellite expected to break into more than a hundred pieces, issuing forth a 500-mile debris footprint as it falls (which it is expected to do sometime Friday afternoon), will NOT be passing over ... More >>

Tales of the Cocktail Recap; Priciest White Wine Ever Sold

​If you couldn't make it down to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail this year, here's what you missed. [Metromix] You can now get a drink in Utah, but the state's liquor laws, which are heavily influenced by the Mormon Church headquartered there, are still pretty complicated. [NY Times] I ... More >>

Q&A: Ende Tymes Fest Organizer Bob Bellerue On The Apocalypse And The Evolution Of Noise

It's possible nobody told you, but the world will come to an abrupt, ear-rupturing end this weekend. If you're planning to be anywhere near Brooklyn, you'll probably hear it before you feel it; blame underground musician, teacher, and author Bob Bellerue, who's bringing the Ende Tymes Festival of N ... More >>

Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty is a Vegetarian Delight of a Cookbook

Plenty of tasty recipes​Selling a bounty of Mediterranean-inspired salads and delicious baked goods like muffins and meringues, London's Ottolenghi restaurants have garnered a cult following for fast, fresh, tasty food. Its chef, Yotam Ottolenghi, put out a cookbook of the restaurant's greate ... More >>

Coconut Oil Makes a Comeback; New Chile is World's Hottest

​Gabrielle Hamilton on Blood, Bones & Butter: ""I wrote a book in a way that I would like more people to write books. I'm not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls." [NY Times] Once maligned for its cholesterol and ... More >>

Q&A: French DJ Douster On Robyn, His Dislike Of Moombahton, And Why Music Makes Him See Colors

​Hugo Douster is all over the place, in terms of both the French DJ's schedule (which in the last week has taken him through Norway, Switzerland, France, and tonight Brooklyn, where he'll kick off his North American tour) and his sound. The traveling helps, as the producer's influences vary fr ... More >>

ARMY OF MANY

What's hanging above your sofa?

Where to Buy Wine for the Holidays

winescience.us​ With the season comes many a holiday party, which means plenty of opportunities for wassailing and even more for drinking. Showing up to a party empty handed is a surefire way to garner a "Scrooge" nickname, but with so many liquor stores to choose from, the selection can som ... More >>

New York Incomes Disparity Still Maddeningly Out of Control

​In case you were feeling a little too cheerful this holiday season, the Fiscal Policy Institute has a new report [pdf] to remind you about New York City's ever-widening income gap. According to the report, "if New York City were a nation, it would rank 15th worst among 134 countries with res ... More >>

The Lemmy Kilmister Documentary, Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch, Is Coming To New York City In January

​Now here's a fuckin' movie. The Lenny Kilmster documentary, wonderfully titled Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch and apparently a big hit on the international festival circuit ("Best Documentary" in Chile!), is finally hitting the U.S.A. in early 2011, including an engagement at Cin ... More >>

The U.S. Is More Corrupt Than 21 Other Countries, Which Is All Bernie Madoff's Fault

​The most and least corrupt nations have been "diagnosed" by Transparency International in their 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the "perceived levels of public sector corruption" in 178 countries around the world. Corruption levels go from "very clean" to "highly corrupt" an ... More >>

New York Film Festival: The Hype and the Substance

This year's NYFF manages both. Plus: Our best of the fest

Copenhagen Gets a Cocktail Culture; South Africa Hopes Wine Can Bridge a Racial Divide

​Beer-happy Copenhagen is getting its own cocktail culture, with several serious cocktail bars cropping up in recent years, and the debut of Copenhagen Cocktail Club, a group of bartenders dedicated to "promoting and developing the art of drink and bar and cocktail culture in Denmark and acros ... More >>

So, Are These the End Times? Signs Point to Maybe.

​Okay, people. There are some scary things going on in the world, things that make us an eensy bit concerned. I mean, hello ... Mayan Calendar? I Ching? Nostradamus? That Nicolas Cage movie? Nicolas Cage himself? We at Runnin' Scared have uncovered 10 reasons you may want to hold off on payi ... More >>

With Bodega, Bushwick Gets a Full-On Wine Bar

Joe Shlabotnik/FlickrBooze you can use.​Oh, the times they are a-changin': Just weeks after Bushwick got another cafe, it's now home to a full-fledged wine bar. Called Bodega, it opened last weekend on the somewhat barren corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and Troutman Street.

Recipe: Make Luis Arce Mota's Almejas en Salsa Verde con Chile Serrano

​Luis Arce Mota is the chef-owner behind the new homestyle Mexican, Ofrenda Cocina Mexicana (113 7th Avenue South), set to open this Wednesday. With this new venture, he hopes to demonstrate that Mexican cuisine goes beyond the realm of nachos, tacos, and quesadillas. His menu is built around ... More >>

Our 10 Best Wine Shops in NYC (and NJ)

​Some wine shops go crazy with the signage, as with this European vineyard vehicle parked in front of the Seaport's Pasanella & Son. But will it make our top 10? What does Fork in the Road look for in a wine store? A broad selection of wines, from France, Italy, Spain, and California; smaller ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: September 9 through 15

Weekend Special: Amazing Things I Ate in the Bay Area

​"Crab butter" featuring local crab at the Swan Oyster Depot, San Francisco (click to savor) A recent 10-day trip to San Francisco convinced me that, taken together, the California coastal strip from San Jose to Fort Bragg offers eating every bit as good as we have here in the NY metro area. T ... More >>

LATIN QUARTERS

Stage works from all of the Americas

What to 'B' to Dirty Bird

Every week or so in 'What to B When You BYOB' we ask a local wine shop to recommend a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, we talk to David Hunter, the general manager and wine buyer at Chelsea Wine Vault, about what to bring to nearby fried chicken ... More >>

I, Locavore -- Part One

Horoscope

The Whole World in Our Hands

Activist fest takes on global warming, suburban sprawl and, as if war weren't enough, AIDS in Iraq

The Vanishing

Torture, execution, disappearance-—grappling with the horrors of totalitarianism

Serious Scorch

Flay outflayed by Sonoran hash house east of Union Square

Can't Stand the Heat? Get it Out of the Kitchen

How to make dinner without turning on the stove

Books

Glitchy Glitchy Ya-Ya

Crackles and Whirrrs and Glubs-Oh Mi(crohouse)!

Our Rickety Nation-Building

The Neocon Job

Arms-Twisting

Security Council Countries Threatened With Loss of U.S. Aid

Listings

The Gnome of the Ring

Material Witnesses

World Citizen

Listings

Backlash

Pasta con Chile

Listings

Crossover Dreams

Latin Alternative Rock Sets Its Sights on New York

Sexism & the City

On the Bias

Dreaming in Cuba