Denmark

How to Take a Roman Candle to the Face: Our Conversation With Iceage

Hurling beers and spitting on bands while they perform is, generally speaking, frowned upon. Shows have been stopped for less. Pfft. Kid's stuff. Doug Smith Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, singer and guitarist of Copenhagen's Iceage, didn't even flinch when a fan decided to let off a Roman Candle in hi ... More >>

The City's Best New Rugelach Is at Breads Bakery Near Union Square

Go right this second to Breads Bakery and chances are a tray of warm chocolate rugelach ($2.50 each) has just been set out -- Israeli baker Uri Scheft pops a new batch in the oven every hour. They're tender pastries, soft as layer cake, tasting of browned butter and dark chocolate. Nothing like the ... More >>

Aamanns-Copenhagen's Wildly Creative Smorrebrod

Pate of pork with parsley, aquavit, fresh hazelnuts, pickled apples, celery, and watercress Smorrebrod are little Danish open-face sandwiches made on a dark nutty rye bread. At Aamanns-Copenhagen -- New York's first Danish restaurant -- the bread is homemade twice daily, and the sandwiches have be ... More >>

A Royal Affair

Live: Holograms Take Command At 285 Kent

Holograms w/Herzog Rising, ERAAS, Heavenly Beat, The Dreebs 285 Kent Saturday, September 8 Better than: Fashion Week. Holograms haven't had the easiest time. They're unemployed. They're broke. They've struggled to acquire work visas. They are in need of new equipment. Only one of the members has a ... More >>

The Year in Film: Team Margaret

The best movie of the year (that you haven't been able to see). And 9 more picks.

Chill EB and Me: Rappin' About Scientology

Last night, rapper Chill EB showed up in the comments to the story we had written about his interesting career as a 1990s Bay Area up-and-comer who today is Scientology's in-house hip hop act. What ensued was several hours of interaction, as the rapper dangled the possibility of an interview with t ... More >>

Jennifer Yee 'In' at SHO; Dave Martin 'In' at The Meatball Factory

​SHO Shaun Hergatt has a new pastry chef. Jennifer Yee, who has worked at Aureole and The Breslin, has already put her touch on the dessert menu. [Zagat Buzz] Scott Conant has denied that he will bring his Vegas D.O.C.G. concept to New York. If anything, he is looking into opening a fine-dini ... More >>

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Isa Chef Ignacio Mattos Explains Why New York City Isn't the Culinary Capital of the World: Interview Part 2

Yesterday we spoke with Isa (348 Wythe Avenue, 347-689-3594) chef Ignacio Mattos about how he's trying to change the language of food and further culinary innovation. Today, he explains why New York City is behind the times and he reveals what he cooks on his days off. What are your thoughts on Ne ... More >>

'Beautiful People' Dating Website Culls Ugly People to Better Serve Humanity, Themselves

​Denmark-based website BeautifulPeople.com, which recently stoked the ire of an entire country by saying that Irish men were the world's ugliest, has upped the ante, dumping 30,000 people from the site for being "too ugly." Last month the site fell to a cyber attack that allowed a bunch of ugl ... More >>

At War With the Danes and On the Frontline in Armadillo

The Red Chapel Crashes North Korea

Circus clowns: source of mortal terror, or just deeply, deeply unsettling?

​ 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. Miscellaneous clown and circus-related ephemera Discovered at: Crap shops across th ... 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 >>

Make Marcus Jernmark's Crayfish Skagen, From Aquavit

So, that's what Crayfish Skagen is.​Aquavit is celebrating its annual Crayfish Festival starting today. To get you excited for the event, executive chef Marcus Jernmark shares his recipe for something called Crayfish Skagen, essentially a crayfish salad you'll want to smear all over toasted br ... More >>

Eataly Debuts Training Program for Career Changers; Lincoln Center Becomes New Culinary Hotspot

​Mario Batali gains a TV show, a 50,000-square-foot food emporium, and a new restaurant in Singapore, and loses 35 pounds by eating less meat and more vegetables. [Wall Street Journal] Meanwhile, after receiving so many applications form career changers, the team behind Eataly has launched a ... More >>

Sanitation Department Proposes Removal of Memorial Ghost Bikes

via BrownstonerGhost bike memorial for Liz Padilla on 5th Avenue and Prospect Place in Brooklyn​The painted white ghost bikes stationed on street corners around the city in memory of riders who've lost their lives are an eerie reminder of our mortality, but the idea of someone removing these s ... More >>

Sears Stocks Your Fridge; Burger King Runs Out of Ribs

​You know it for fridges. Now Sears is looking to sell food, too. The company quietly launched MyGofer on Memorial Day in Manhattan and the Hamptons, which delivers groceries and other goods from its Kmart stores. [Chicago Tribune] Since being voted the best restaurant in the world by San Pel ... More >>

No Reservations at a New Breed of Hip Resto; Finding Manna in Manhattan

​New Jersey has banned research-related oyster-farming projects in the state's polluted coastal waters in order to protect the shellfish industry in light of the BP oil spill and avoid having contaminated oysters end up on dinner tables. [NJ] A number of trendy restaurants, like Má Pêche i ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: The NYPD Tapes

​Who knows what goes on behind the closed doors, locked file cabinets, and day-to-day routines of the NYPD? Other than them, nobody. Which is one of the reasons why one of New York's Finest saw fit to record his life among their ranks, and shed light on some of the darker aspects of those who ... More >>

About Those Girly Men...

​The biggest aha moment regarding the Wall Street Journal's recent piece on girly men seems to have thus far focused on a portion of Arthur Sulzberger's ear and whether that snippet of ear was intended as a personal attack by Rupert Murdoch upon Sulzberger, as discussed by Michael Wolff in Van ... More >>

THE BARD GOES SHOPPING

A Hamlet for our consumer culture

Post's "Ask Ashley" Will Take On Job Issues: Excerpts Leaked

​As you probably know, the New York Post has brought aboard Spitzer scandal centerpiece Ashley Dupre as an advice columnist. So far she has limited her counsel to relationship matters ("Are there telltale signs a man isn't happy in his marriage?"), but we have learned that in future columns s ... More >>

Lunch, Garden of Dreams, Come to Vue

Vue, the restaurant and lounge perched atop Gowanus's very own Hotel Le Bleu, has just debuted a lunch and brunch menu. Chef Chris Cheung will offer such apps as a Samurai spiked crab cake and chilled butternut squash soup, and such entrees as Denmark baby back ribs with macaroni and bleu cheese and ... More >>

Sleeping Beauty

Grim before the storm

Wedding Crashers

What comes after the nuptials in Susanne Bier's Danish melodrama? A hell of a lot more than the reception

Model Behavior

Talking with Molly Crabapple, founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School

Danes at Sea

Festen: Proof that, in the theater, you can teach a new Dogme old tricks

Paint It Black

La Garçonniere

The bachelor's quarters were in the back where the men smoked and . . .

A Danish Treasure Trove

Bournonville's worlds of realism and romantic fantasy seen in new light

Dance

Brand-New Lag

Late as usual, labels learn that downloading is their friend

Wanna Bag a Handsome Prince? Be Yourself! Play Hard to Get!

No Longer Enfant, Still Terrible

European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

Northern Lights, Black Visions

A Soloist From Denmark and a Company From Norway Make U.S. Debuts in the Woods

A Better Mousetrap

Feet-Moving Danes Make Their Intentions Clear

Blue Crush

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Girl

Whirled Dance

Cold Fever

Capital Danes

Living Large

Thinking About Museums Thinking About Themselves

Theater

True to Formula

Are We The World?

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

There Is Nothing Like a Dane

Hotel Pro Forma and the Odin Teatret

Master of His Craft

Taking on the World

The U.S. Team Begins Another Hard Road To Glory

The Long Way Home

Women's World Cup '99: the latest stop on the U.S.'s road to glory