Ed Sullivan

Masters of Sex on Showtime: They Revolutionized Sex Before the Sexual Revolution

Let It Be: The (Un)Fab Four

A sanitized Beatles tribute could use "Help!"

Motown and The Rascals: Jukebox Mausoleum

Boomers Turn Broadway into a Pop-Music Scrapbook

Chaplin On Broadway: My Review

The new musical about Charlie Chaplin is nicely designed, affectionate, and fairly well played, but kind of dull. Being fascinated by the magical artistry of Chaplin--as we all are--doesn't necessarily mean you'd thrill to recreations of fragments from his personal life, interspersed with a handful ... More >>

Lower East Side Neo-Burlesque Palace Is Returning!

The Slipper Room opened in 1999 and quickly became the hub of the neo-burlesque movement, pulsing with saucy strippers and drag king comics bringing back an old-time vaudeville feeling with more modern, knowing attitudes towards gender and sexuality. Well, the joint closed for renovations two years ... More >>

Closing The Colony: A Visit To Times Square's Shuttering Sheet Music Outpost

In some ways, the Friday before last looked like business as usual at Colony Records, the venerable Theater District music-and-sheet-music retailer that recently announced its impending closing after 64 years of operation. At the counter, Warren Tesoro, an employee for 25 years, asked a middle-aged ... More >>

Phyllis Diller's Best Jokes!

Conveniently, they're all in one monologue (below the jump) which the self-deprecating Phyllis performed on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969. "You think I'm overdressed? This is just my slip." "I got a figure that just won't start."

Live: David Johansen, Marianne Faithfull, And An All-Star Cast Pay Tribute To The Rolling Stones At Carnegie Hall

The Music of the Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 Carnegie Hall Tuesday, March 13 Better than: Paying $300 to see The Stones. Okay, so maybe most of the audience was old enough to remember the first time they saw Mick Jagger shake his hips and lips on The Ed Sullivan Show. And a sea of salt-an ... More >>

Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, on the Living Wage Bill

When Speaker Christine Quinn presented her compromised version of the Living Wage Bill last week, we immediately wondered how it would affect retail-clothing workers, #47 on the Voice's list of the 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers. We got in touch with Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Whol ... More >>

Greil Marcus Revisits Some Strange Days...

...in his latest book, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years

Things Were Better When There Were Fewer TV Shows

Let me go into my Grandma Moses mode and bitch about something relatively newfangled and shit. Back when I was growing up in the Civil War, there were only a handful of TV stations on the dial. And that meant that every single human with a TV set watched the very same things.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Recalls Past Lives; Car 54 Answers the Call

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #5: How Many Members Of The Doors Can You Name?

Left to right: Val Kilmer, Crosby, Stills, and Nash ​After having shown a stunning lack of muscle regarding the Clash and Bob Dylan, I figured I'd give our trusty panel of rock critics one last chance to embarrass themselves in front of whatever baby boomers have figured out the Internet. The ... More >>

Photos: Japanther (And/Or Their Crazed Fans) Shut Down Night One Of The Rock And Roll Circus at Lincoln Center

Clownsurfing is a real thing. Pics by Rebecca, more below.​The Rock and Roll Circus, a two-night spectacle at Lincoln Center that started Monday, was billed as a homage to the Rolling Stones' 1968 event by the same name, a multi-ring extravaganza scattering big-top attractions among sets in th ... More >>

Jerome Robbins's Classic NY Export: Opuz Jazz, Remade and Renewed

NYC Cultural Institutions Pay Homage to Kim Kardashian's Ass, Ringo Starr's Drum

via kimkardashian.celebuzz.com​Last week, Kardashian toyed with viewers of her website: "Hmm ... why would I be getting measured ... Curiosity? Dress fitting? Can you guess?" (Is that a caliper the woman is using to size up her buns?) Yesterday, she posted a photo of a cast of her head. Turns ... More >>

New York City Ballet Dancers Take to the Streets—on Film

Michael Jackson and the Endless Summer of Death

What the King of Pop left behind, and what he took with him

All-star benefit for proto-Fug Tuli Kupferberg in Brooklyn

​On January 22, St. Ann's Warehouse will be hosting a benefit concert to help pay medical expenses for Tuli Kupferberg, the anti-war poet and all around wiseass who co-founded local heroes the Fugs. Whether because of their political activism (Kupferberg was arrested trying to levitate the P ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Food-Themed Pop Songs

Alternative link here. ​The answer to the third of the three questions in yesterday's teaser quiz was The Newbeats, whose song "Bread and Butter" easily made it onto either the 10 Best or Runners-Up lists, but which one? Listen to this Youtube clip and see if can figure out in which position ... More >>

I Met Marcia Rodd!

Beauregard Houston-Montgomery​I love esoteric stars who are troupers in need of more appreciation. That's where I step in. Recently I went to see an off-Broadway revue called Don't Leave It All To Your Children!, which costars seasoned performers like Marcia Rodd and Steve Rossi.

Jimmy Fallon/Roots Watch Continues: My God Rappers Sound Good on This Show

It did not occur until just now that the Roots on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon makes this particular 30 Rock soundstage into absolute ground zero for live rap. You now have arguably hip-hop's best live act, in residence: willing and able support for anybody with an album out. Jay-Z. Nas. T.I. Blac ... More >>

Liz Smith Leaves the Post

It's not something we look for, but something we always expected to be there, and soon it will be gone. Liz Smith's column is leaving the New York Post, her only and probably last local newspaper outlet, and with it goes an old-fashioned kind of gossip journalism, less rude, less crude, and more obv ... More >>

The W Premiere and a Hustler Ball!

There's no business like Gaynor's show business; under the big top at Hustlaball

Hugs and Kisses 56: Robert Forster, formerly of the Go-Betweens

Advice to Madonna, Lindsay, Katie, and Meth Addicts

Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

Clip Job: Steve Allen on Jack O'Brian

Talking Dancing: Works & Process at the Guggenheim

A ballet veteran looks back; young dancers gaze into the future

When the Bop Gun Jams

Plainfield's Tyrone Ashley once rivaled George Clinton. He may get his doo-wop due yet.

Japanther's Animatronic Robot Dinosaur @ PS 122

Hairspray, Get Back to Your Roots!

Movie musical of the musical of the movie is nowhere near divine

NBC Makes Jamie Foxx Look Stupid

1964

1967

1971

Fire Music

Lincoln Center Thaws Its Cold War on Jazz Activism

Hobo Ken

Silence = Life

John Kelly Represents in Mime

The Medieval Mob Squad

Time, Worn

The Lure of Vintage Clothes

Serfs Up

Peasant Blouses, Vreeland, and Mickey Mouse

Laughter and Tears

Loft in Former Brewery

Rock in a Hard Place

Style Slumps at the Met

Big Guns on Campus

City University's Alarming Arms Purchases

Bubble Economy

From Hair to Eternity

Eminent Domain

Scavenging for funds in the age of for-profit education

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NY Mirror

Springer loves playing Ed Sullivan to all those lesbian stripper nuns and their disgruntled drug dealers. 'These people don't have