Monty Python

Cheap Laughs: The Best in Indie and Alt Comedy This Week

Don't say we never spoil you. This week we have a comedy show entirely based around Saved By the Bell, a deaf stand-up set relayed through ASL, and the comic cream of England's Cambridge University swinging through town with deeply intellectual dick jokes. Combine that with our usual selection of ne ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: March 27-April 2, 2013

All In The Timing Revival: My Review

All In The Timing is the 1993 collection of six shorts plays by David Ives, which is being done by Primary Stages, where it originated and helped seal Ives' career as a playwright to watch and listen to. It's a witty assortment of playlets about the challenges of communication amidst the constant h ... More >>

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

Fall Arts Guide 2012: Andrea Arnold Adapts Wuthering Heights

Forget Olivier

La Vara: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

This week's review is of La Vara, the new Spanish restaurant in Cobble Hill from chefs Alex Raij and Eder Montero, a husband-and-wife duo who take turns in the kitchen creating delicious, exciting food that's unlike most Spanish restaurants in the city. The restaurant plays with flavors establishe ... More >>

Vintage Pea Pushers

Need an afternoon break? Watch Englishmen race peas along the ground with their noses in this Monty Python-esque footage from 1969. The crowds go wild! We can't think of anything sillier to do with a handful of peas. (But maybe we're not using our imaginations?) For more food stories, head to For ... More >>

Live: The Secret Policeman's Ball Speaks Freely At Radio City Music Hall

The Secret Policeman's Ball: Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Russell Brand, Eddie Izzard, and many others Radio City Music Hall Sunday, March 4 Better than: Watching the Lohan Saturday Night Live on DVR. Going to a live show that's actually meant to be broadcast on television can be a deadly propositio ... More >>

Live: Yo La Tengo Light The Menorah At Maxwell's One More Time

Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley w/Yo La Tengo, "Mote" Yo La Tengo: Hanukkah Shows Maxwell's December 20-27 Better than: Christmas. Hanukkah doesn't technically end until sundown Wednesday, but Yo La Tengo unplugged their electric menorah at Maxwell's last night, just after a post-midnight sign-of ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: November 23-29, 2011

Best in Show: Color Scheming at Postmaster's Gallery

Rupert Murdoch, In Good Company: A Social History of Pieing

​The "woah" moment of Rupert Murdoch's appearance in the British parliament this morning wasn't a revelation in the hacking scandal, it was the attempted pie-attack on the News Corp. patriarch. The pie-thrower, Jonathan May-Bowles, identifies himself on Twitter not only as Jonnie Marbles, but ... More >>

Ernie Kovacs' Kitchen Symphony

In the 1950s, American comedian and television personality Ernie Kovacs invented many of the tropes that still prevail today in TV comedy, including sketch comedy, conceptual comic films, and a tendency to ad-lib nearly everything.

The Top 10 Crucifixion Scenes on YouTube: Happy Good Friday!

Happy Good Friday! Today we bring you the 10 most memorable crucifixion scenes we could find on YouTube. They range from the sublime to the sacrilegious, and include the best and bloodiest of various films, TV shows and commercials. Most are probably not suitable for work, unless you are a Roman cen ... More >>

Athina Rachel Tsangari Studies the Species in Attenberg

Peter Weir, Master and Commander of His Own Strange Trip

Try Harder: Here Is Ke$ha's "Your Love Is My Drug" Video, Starring An Elephant, A Couple Half-Assed Animators, And A Dude Who Is Not Devendra Banhart

She rides it, at least. The elephant, not not-Devendra Banhart. This threatens to turn into a Monty Python sketch a few times, but never quite does. Too bad.

Our 10 Best: Food Movies

Just one more wafer-thin mint...​ ​The human appetite, in all its voracious, messy, and metaphorical forms, is one of the cinema's more enduring themes. When food makes its way onto the screen, it's often less as a prop than as a narrative tool. How it's presented -- literally or symbol ... More >>

News Roundup: The Decemberists, Death Row Records, Neko Case, Monty Python

​ --The Decemberists have added a New York date to their "A Short Fazed Hovel" tour. The band hits Terminal 5 on September 19th. Colin Meloy and Co. will take a break from playing the epic Hazards of Love in its entirety, instead planning a "special lottery show." In an e-mail, the band said: ... More >>

Staten Island School Excludes, Scars Kids with Poor or Cheap Parents

It was the kind of scarring childhood experience that might be discussed at length in a therapist's office someday: When I was growing up on Staten Island and didn't have enough money to attend my school's end-of-the-year carnival, I pressed my face against the school-yard fence and watched all the ... More >>

ESS AND FRESS

Jews have Christmas traditions, too

Stan VanDerBeek at Guild & Greyshkul; Diana Al-Hadid's 'Reverse Collider'; Josef Koudelka at Pace MacGill

Stan VanDerBeek

The Month in Politics, from Madonna to Hillary

Retro Man

Erkka Nissinen

Out, Damned Fart

Macbeth and Ubu Roi combust

Going to the Chapel

The Blood of a Poem

Icelandic director gives Beowulf the Monty Python treatment

A Summer Diversion Katie Couric Would Love

Say No More: Python Set Delirious Treasure of Irrational Élan

Middle-Class Convention Gets Tweaked

Mostly Harmless

Galaxy quest: Disney waters down sci-fi classic, turning radical wit into not-so-deep space

NY Mirror

Fresh From the Can

Spamalot seeks the grail of Broadway triumph, but old jokes can only take a (k)night so far

A Community Centered in a Bare Frame Challenges Singularity

A Little Number Eric Idle Wrote While Out Duck Hunting With a Judge

Eat This

Hungry art-rapper from England serves himself up like the totally different animal he is

Music

Music

Breaking the Next Wave

Two European troupes offer smart ideas, deep thoughts, frisky feet, and irreverent play

NY Mirror

Listings

Film

Hystorical Fiction

The Lord Is a Girl

Academy Fight Songs

Seventeen Liar Bodies

Out of the Running