Fairs and Carnivals

Meet World's Fair, the Rap Kids From Queens

Tonight, the World's Fair hip-hop collective will be bringing their brand of ruggedly charming rap to the Knitting Factory. Broadcasting from Queens, the crew caught a profile bump last year with the release of Children Of The Night's stellar Queens... Revisited mixtape and are set to build on that ... More >>

Big Tex, Icon of Texas State Fair, Burns to the Ground

Burn, baby, burn Big Tex, the 52-foot-tall symbol of the Texas State Fair, smoldered, caught fire, and was finally engulfed in flames late last week at the fairgrounds in Dallas before firefighters could arrive and put it out. As the above video demonstrates, the process took only six minutes. The ... More >>

Five Questions To Ask About An MLS Soccer Stadium In Flushing Meadows Park

The week before last, rumors began cropping up that Major League Soccer's long-running search for a place to put a new New York City team -- a search that had circumnavigated the boroughs from Pier 40 in the West Village to Randall's Island and Willets Point -- had settled on a site: the northeast c ... More >>

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Howl! Festival Swoops Into East Village This Weekend

The weekend gathering celebrates the seminal poem with readings, art, dance, and more.

SHOP AROUND

BUST's Craftacular is back

Langos Will Fry You in a Good Hungarian Way

Lauren BloombergA handful of Budapest​ Everything is better fried. Case in point...cheese. Sure, it's one of the most amazing foods, well, ever. Now dip it in a little batter and fry it--voila! A crisp crust yielding to oozing, molten curds. Brilliant. Now, for a little pop quiz: What's bette ... More >>

LIFE IS A CARNIVAL

Someone have a feather headpiece we can borrow?

Lady Gaga's "Yoü And I" Video: Ten Pounds Of NEBRASKAAAAAAAA! In A Five-Pound Sack Of Corn

​The video for "Yoü And I," the big, gooshy ballad on Lady Gaga's Born This Way, has leaked two days in advance of its scheduled Thursday premiere on MTV and Logo. The clip was shot in Nebraska—which gets copious shoutouts in the song, and which is the ancestral land of her "friend" Lu ... More >>

A Look at the Great Art of Norma Lyon, the Butter-Cow Lady

iowastatefair.orgAmerican Gothic, in butter​Of all the culinary arts that exist, none is greater than the fine craft of butter sculpture carving. And, to that extent, the greatest artist was Norma Lyon, the dairy farmer's wife who carved pounds of salted butter each year into life-size figure ... More >>

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DIY STYLE

Shop for cool crafts and make some yourself

Live: Bamboozle Stimulates Every Sense (And Then Some)

So much to see, everywhere. ​The Bamboozle Meadowlands April 29-May 1, 2011 Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter. In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running time over three days totals ... More >>

Carnival Workers Mad at Obama; Nation's Political Discourse To Be Taken Off Life Support

​A subset of nomadic amusement park workers have issued grievance towards President Obama for remarks he made during yesterday's birth certificate press conference. During the press conference, which was held to disprove a bunch of lunatics, Obama said, "We're not going to be able to solve our ... More >>

The Tremendous Tremendous Parties Like It's 1939

The Mad Ones head off to the New York World's Fair

I Wish I Knew

FAIR IS FAIR

Texas without Bush

Rocky Mountain High

Celebrate all things Colorado

The Short, Sad History of the Corn Dog

​What's the mustard hiding? Read on to find out. When I was a little kid in Minnesota and went to the state fair, one of the main gastronomic attractions were corn dogs, and my brothers and I would beg to have one the minute we hit the fairgrounds on Snelling Avenue in St. Paul. Except they ... More >>

Hester Street Fair and the New Amsterdam Market Celebrate Halloween This Sunday

Dan Haskell​Sunday marks the end of the Hester Street Fair -- at least until next April -- and to mark the occasion, its organizers will be taking part in the Seward Park Halloween carnival, which kicks off at 2 p.m. with a parade. Admission to the carnival is $9, but the fair is free -- and w ... More >>

Deep-Fried Margaritas: Coming Soon to the State Fair of Texas?

Straight up, on the rocks, or fried?​Dallas's State Fair of Texas is officially the Fried Food Capitol of Texas (TM!), and every year it throws the Big Tex Choice Awards to determine what new batter-dipped concoction will join the fried peaches and cream, fried pecan pie, and fried butter that ... More >>

A WHOLE NEW WORLD

Prepare to have your mind blown

The Queens Zoo and Art Museum Are Worth a Trip

Julie Larson Maher​I'm always so relentlessly Manhattan-centric, as if nothing else exists in New York, but a recent train voyage to Queens proved my self-imposed limitations have been a bit silly.

BOARDER PATROL

Skaters compete for the big cash in Queens

Where Should I Go for an Old-Fashioned French Meal That's Not Too Expensive?

Robert Tréboux, owner of Le Veau D'or​ Welcome to this week's installment of Ask the Critics. Rob wrote in to ask: Where can I get an old-fashioned French meal without it costing me an arm and a leg? Preferably in Manhattan, but I'm willing to travel.

WHAT'S COOKIN'?

The Kitchen dishes up a free party

This Weekend, A County Fair In the City

Faye Pini/flickr​ The 27th Annual Queens County Fair takes place this Saturday and Sunday. Queens County Farm is the only working stand-alone farm within the city limits, and its annual fair is a traditional affair, complete with blue ribbons for livestock, produce, and home crafts, as well as ... More >>

Vendor crisis averted at Richmond County Fair

The Staten Island Advance reported yesterday that health inspectors were shutting down food vendors at the Richmond County Fair (warning: blinking type), and that a local politician on the scene was not happy with the situationIn a telephone interview direct from the fair, State Senator Andrew Lanza ... More >>

New Additions to the MN State Fair Food Canon

Fry dog, photo courtesy Knox News​Ahhh, August, when our thoughts turn to state fairs and their attendant foods. The Minnesota State Fair opens this Thursday, and already there are reports out about this year's new, mindbendingly caloric dishes. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal repo ... More >>

Weekend Special: State Fair Windows at Cowgirl Hall of Fame

​ I feel the same irrational glee whenever I find a corn dog in my mitts. They were called "pronto pups" at the Minnesota State Fair. For the sultry month of August, the West Village old-timer Cowgirl Hall of Fame commemorates state fairs via a series of over-the-top window displays, featurin ... More >>

JE T'AIME, N.Y. ET  PARIS

Making a French connection

Paul McCarthy At The Whitney

Asking the Cheese Whiz

The melting point of dairy products, and other border disputes

Craft Fairs and Cuddle Rooms

Christmas is upon us, so enjoy yourselves—but don't go around grabbing people's lips

1964

Happy Days

Coney Island's former specialty takes hold in the Midwest

Trick and Treat

A creepy diptych showcases McCormack's Canadian gothic

Hello, Dalí!

Art, Commerce, and the Persistence of Mammaries

Open City

Parades, Beaches, Festivals: What's Out There

Route 110: The Boulevard of Dreams

Crash Rash

Learning From the Demolition Derby