Labor Day

Oscar Movie Guide: What's Worth Seeing, From "Pi" to "Zero"

For a grim slog, the Oscar movies are pretty fun

Milk Bar Now Serving Crack Pie Beachside

The Momofuku Milk Bar team opened its newest spot in Montauk this past weekend, a sweet, makeshift shop that's up and running for the summer.

Coney Island Brewing Company Returns for the Summer Season

Shmaltz Brewing Company is launching the second official season of Coney Island Brewing Company -- a/k/a the World's Smallest Brewery -- located, yep, in the heart of Coney Island. Last summer saw the launch of the brewery, which produces a whopping one gallon of beer per batch. For the upcoming re ... More >>

NYPD Investigated for Excessive Use of Dance at the West Indian Day Parade

A video originally posted to WorldStarHipHop.com -- the title of the clip is "NY Cops Wilding Out On Labor Day 2011: Daggering On The Parkway! (Grinding And All)" -- shows several uniformed NYPD officers, er, dirty dancing against scantily clad costumed performers in the West Indian Day Parade.

Posts of the Week

Rebecca Marx​ C'est la fin de la semaine. Et alors, les histoires de la semaine ... A goodly gallery of a garden herbs. Our 10 Best Hotel Restaurants. Sunset Park's Schnitzel Bar is one of the city's most obscure restaurants.

Feeling Stabby? Smile! You Have Post Vacation Syndrome.

​Why does your life suck? Let us count the ways. It is raining, and you wore jeans, which are now damp, but forgot to wear a jacket, because who knew you needed to wear a jacket, given that it's only early September and last Friday -- long ago, far away last Friday -- was simply gorgeous. Also ... More >>

Waverly Inn Robbed, Sorella Pelted With Coors Light

Brewing trouble.​Although plenty of folks fled the city for Labor Day Weekend, a few miscreants remained to make trouble for the Waverly Inn and Sorella.

Live: Stevie Nicks Closes Out The Season At Jones Beach

Stevie Nicks w/Michael Grimm Nikon Theater At Jones Beach Sunday, September 4 Better than: A radio stuck on the classic rock station. "Welcome, Jones Beach," Stevie Nicks said before her second song on Sunday night, the last night for both her current mini-tour and the Long Island oceanfront amp ... More >>

Live: Electric Zoo Brings PLUR (And Snoop Dogg's DJ Alter Ego) To New York City

The up-and-coming artist known as DJ Snoopadelic. Electric Zoo Randall's Island Sunday, September 4 Better than: Did someone already reference the Labor Day shootings? Eesh. Electric Zoo—the dance music festival that's parts techno, house, trance, disco, bass, "electro," and any other somew ... More >>

2011 Caribbean-American Labor Day Parade in Brooklyn, the Food and the Spectacle

​Scantily clad dude toasts the crowd from atop one of the semis that pulls the floats in the parade. Though its antecedents can be traced to Carnival parties in Harlem in the 1920s, the Caribbean-American Labor Day Parade (there is no official name) began in the mid-'60s. It resembles in alm ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Blueberry Desserts, Liquid Courage and Macarons

This week in food blogs... Lauren ShockeyMmmmmmacarons!​ Eater rounded up the 10 best lines from the Times profile on Taavo Somer. "The beard that launched a thousand beards ..." Classic. Grub Street listed where to eat and drink this Labor Day. Midtown Lunch noticed that Mad for Chicken re ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: Your Labor Day Weekend Guide To New York's Best Nightlife (And Daytime Parties, Too)

​There are a few things we can expect from Labor Day weekend, and the annual Electric Zoo festival is one of them. The massive three-day rave takes over Randall's Island with twelve-hour days that boast a million DJs over four separate stages; you'll hear trance, techno, deep house, electro, d ... More >>

LIFE IS A CARNIVAL

Someone have a feather headpiece we can borrow?

Our 10 Best Last Sips of Summer

Lauren ShockeyOne of ABC Kitchen's fine homemade sodas​Oh, how quickly Labor Day, signaler of summer's end, approaches. The back to school commercials are airing repeatedly on television, and mannequins are donning fall clothes in store windows. And while the temperatures may be beginning to ... More >>

Zach Braff Summers on 43rd with All New People

Second Stage mounts the actor's new comedy

Noémie Lafrance’s Melt Ends the Summer, DanceNow Heralds the Fall

Gooey doings under the Manhattan Bridge, plus a choreography sampler at DTW

Fashion Week vs. Kindergarten Admittance: Both Really Hard

via PoshLittleTutus.com​If you have a young child and you're involved in the fashion industry, you probably want to scream and pull your hair out this week, both Fashion Week and the first week of school. Realizing what a bitch these two yearly milestones can be, the New York Times wrote about bo ... More >>

Live: Armin Van Buuren, Diplo, And Aeroplane Regale The Ravers At Electric Zoo

​Just an example of the clientele here. Pics by Puja, more below.​Electric Zoo Day II Randall's Island Sunday, September 5 Not only did this Labor Day weekend mark the last day to wear white without glares of disapproval, it also brought Made Event's second-annual Electric Zoo festival ... More >>

Moobs, or Man-Boobs, Are the Scourge of Today's Man...But There Is Hope!

​Today, Metro New York tackles the hard questions. Whatever is a man with moobs to do? (Moobs, for the uninformed, are man-boobs.) Boldly, the editors of Metro devote the lion's share of their cover to the issue, promising that men ashamed of their moobs are not alone, and that moobs are "a pr ... More >>

Your End of Summer End Times Watch: Hurricanes, Monkeypox, and Bieber Hair

via iVillage​In case you hadn't noticed: It's the last day of August, which means that "the silly season" of ridiculous news stories is, maybe, taking its last gasps. (See ya, Slater!) In the meantime, there is suddenly a wealth of news indicating that an End Times Watch is in order for all of ... 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 >>

Bon Appétit May Love Marea, But Steve Cuozzo Doesn't Love Much of Anything

Here's proof that something once made Steve Cuozzo sort of smile.​Marea may have made Bon Appétit's Best New Restaurants in America list, but technically, it's not all that new. It's more than a year old, a detail that would no doubt add fuel to the fire of Steve Cuozzo's latest rant.

Make Bryan Calvert of James's Corn Soup with Heirloom Grape Tomatoes and Grilled Shrimp

Corn soup, works hot or cold.​James in Brooklyn is battling the summer heat with its Summer Supper menu, a $30 three-course prix-fixe available nightly from 5:30-7 p.m. through Labor Day. Chef Bryan Calvert hopes to tempt you into visiting with his recipe for Corn Soup with Heirloom Grape Toma ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Mexican Soup Tasting; a Sandwich Cookie Class

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Sabores Autenticos de Mexico: Authentic Mexican Soups Mesa Coyocan Thursday, August 5, 5:30 p.m. At this three-course soup cooking class and tasting, there will def ... More >>

Alex Guarnaschelli and Butter Partners Will Open the Darby

Charles PayneNo ripped t-shirts and jeans here, either.​Another day, another swank supper club: following months of speculation, Flo Fab confirms that Alex Guarnaschelli and her partners at Butter, Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano, will convert the former Nell's into the Darby, a place that Aki ... More >>

THE BREAKFAST CLUB

West Indian Day Parade madness starts here

Arcade Fire/LCD Soundsystem at Randall's Island

Two budding stadium-rock titans salute a summer that refuses to end

August 31 through September 6

Let's Take This Outside

Al fresco shows for real New Yorkers (and their houseguests)

Ready or Not

Razing and rising in Chelsea

Rockie Weekly Horoscope August 11-17

La Dolce Musto

Your Labor Day Gonna Suck, Too?

Recreating a vacation, while never leaving the city

Sleepwalking in Washington

Katrina looting, despair no match for holiday weekend

Rockie Weekly Horoscope August 5 - 11

Film

Swimming

Wet Dreams

The Lead-Meisters

Sampling the Latest Crop of Mag Stories

Upcoming

City of Night

Fun Under 21

Latinas!

'Motherfuckers!'

'Don't You Know Who I Am?'

Taking the Lead, Again

Feature Writers Rely on Old Tricks

Bush’s New Best Friend

Republicans’ Oily Courtship of the Teamsters

Listings

Between Mott and Mulberry

Little Italy Has Official Edge in Neighborhood Turf War

Comidas con Fusión

Salts of the Earth

Finding North