Munich

Spring's Awakening: The Return of Professor Sticky-Tongue and the Kids

Marvell Rep tackles the Frank Wedekind classic

OktoberfestNYC: 6000 Square Foot Beer Garden 16 Day Festival

We may be thousands of miles away from Munich, but that won't stop us from celebrating Oktoberfest. The 16-day Oktoberfest festival will be held from September 22 to October 7. Located at 1 Penn Plaza, OktoberfestNYC will feature almost 10,000 square feet of total festival space, including tented be ... More >>

The Bourgeois Pig's Frank Cisneros on Forgotten European Spirits

To create the sophisticated drink menu at the new Bourgeois Pig in Carroll Gardens, Frank Cisneros has been delving into the often mysterious world of European liquor. He told us about his adventures tracking down some of the forgotten spirits and liqueurs from the Continent and mixing them back int ... More >>

Beer For Beasts 2012: A Photo Diary

The calm before the storm: first session attendees line up outside Bell House around 1pm. Saturday, Bell House hosted the second annual Beer for Beasts, a charity event jointly sponsored by Brooklyn's Sixpoint Brewery and Boston's Beer Advocate. The event benefited The Humane Society of New York. ... More >>

Mitt Romney Wins Nevada Caucuses; Giants To Play In The Super Bowl Today; Russia And China Put Stop To U.N. Syria Resolution

Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucuses Saturday night. As of 9:20 a.m. with 71 percent reporting, Romney had 47.6 percent of the vote. Newt Gingrich trailed him with 22.7 percent. "This is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, and this time I'm going to take it to the White House," Ro ... More >>

Courtney Love In a Holocaust Movie?

She's working on it! I found that out in Maer Roshan's book Courtney Comes Clean: The High Life and Dark Depths of Music's Most Controversial Icon, a breezily arresting read full of snappy dialogue between himself and the woman he found both "exhilarating and exhausting." Among the dizzying highli ... More >>

The Limits of Free Love in Deep End

Time Magazine Names 'The Protester' Person of the Year

​For Time's annual "Person of the Year" issue, they've chosen "The Protester." The Awl announces, "Okay, yay, we won!" The spread features simple portraits of and interviews with protesters from around the world -- Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, and right here in the U.S. The attached cover ... More >>

Daylight Savings Ending (This Weekend!) Is Good for You, Claim Certain People

Your sunrises and sunsets, today through Tuesday.​It's that time of year again, the time that we are plunged into terrible darkness by 4 in the afternoon and the hours wile on, interminable and chilly, like vampire hands. Or, whatever, it's the end of daylight savings! No biggie! And apparentl ... More >>

Posts of the Week

It's the witching hour, that time when we anticipate the weekend to come by looking back at the week that was: Le Cirque's Craig Hopson discussed his favorite spring vegetables, his education, and designing a menu for cruise ships. Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants With Secret Gardens. Where can I get ... More >>

Hofbrau Bierhaus Is a Real Brew-haha

Noisy-ass beer garden blasts into Midtown from Munich

This Week in the Voice: Juan Cáceres, Villainous Community Hero

​This week in the Voice, Victoria Bekiempis tells the sordid tale of Juan Cáceres, founder of the Spanish Harlem nonprofit CECOMEX. Cáceres is revered by many in his community as an exemplary leader, even after "being convicted of second-degree rape -- of his own daughter, from the time she ... More >>

A Thumbnail History of Munich's Hofbrauhaus

kunstgymszbadde.comWatercolor of Hofbräuhaus around 1919 by fledgling Munich art student Adolf Hitler. He would soon be using the beer hall to stage Nazi rallies.​ When I was an elementary school student in Minneapolis, German was a required subject. It was a German part of the country, t ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Hofbräu Bierhaus; Lauren Shockey at La Silhouette

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema finds Munich in Midtown at Hofbräu Bierhaus; Lauren Shockey is charmed by old-fashioned La Silhouette. Sam Sifton awards three stars to the Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, raving, "What [César] Ramirez is doing at the Chef's Table is entirely his own p ... More >>

The Pretzel That Ate Manhattan

​The Hofbrau Bierhaus pretzel is almost a foot in width. Sure, pretzels come in a variety of sizes and styles - there are hard pretzels in a bag, small enough that you can probably eat the entire bag, and rock-salt-snowed street pretzels big enough that one's almost a satisfying meal, especi ... More >>

10 Postcards of Long-Forgotten NYC Restaurants

ioffer.com​1. Divan Parisien Restaurant, 33 East 48th Street - Even to its frequenters, the meaning of "Divan" was somewhat unclear. Some said it was French for "meeting place," others claimed it was Turkish and referred to the furniture of the Sultan's palace. Others took it to mean, as "div ... More >>

'Film Comment Selects': Where Klaus Kinski Dies for Your Sins

What's Happening This Week: Free Wine; World's Biggest Jerk-Off

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Beer Tasting Dinner Loreley Williamsburg Wednesday, January 19, 7 p.m. Join German beer expert Rudi Eilers for a three-course, nine-beer tasting menu of German brew ... More >>

'Weimar Cinema' at MOMA: The New German Problem? Too Many Great Films.

Tom Bonaty+Eric Cloutier

SKIN DEEP

Playboy centerfolds and a scary look at the beauty industry

Richard Bartz+Richard Hinge

What's Happening This Week: Wined-up Mondays at Gotham Bar & Grill; A Beer Pairing Menu at Loreley

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Mondays Uncorked Gotham Bar and Grill (12 East 12th Street) Mondays, starting today Here's one way to chase those Monday blues away: a $75 BYO wine-pairing dinner. Starting today, t ... More >>

Germany's Righteous Outlaws in The Baader Meinhof Complex

A Pussy For Only Four Euros!

Yes, that's what it costs to get some pussy in a Munich men's room these days. Alas, you don't get a real one--no, I swear! "Kunstliche" turns out to mean "artificial," even though it actually sounds like...oh, never mind. So run to a German john and get yourself a fake pussy. Then jet off to Cuba ... More >>

SCOPE IT OUT

The most interesting art pieces at your fingertips

Kurt Gutenbrunner's "Feeling Better" Soup

photo: kg-ny.comWith all the fun stuff taken out of Sudafed these days, the right soup can be (or at least seem) just as effective when fighting off this season's super bug. This week, Kurt Gutenbrunner, the chef and restauranteur behind Cafe Sabarsky, Blaue Gans, and the Michelin-starred Wallse, wa ... More >>

Swing and a Miss

Sometimes, it's one bad party after another

The 2008 Whitney Biennial and the Failure of an Empire

Low stakes and open rules dominate

Walking to Werner

Wurst in Show

New German pork-and-beer joint in Bay Ridge delivers a winner schnitzel

'Beerfest'

Bring on the Backlash

Flinging poo at the haters with the Arctic Monkeys

Best of the Wurst: Experience Germany Via This Bierhaus

Film

Letters

Spellbinder

Six years later, incorrigible hip-hop perfectionist Lyrics Born has his crowd-pleasing say

Apotheosis Now

Experiencing Dia:Beacon's Ashram of the Abstract

Horoscope

'Don't You Know Who I Am?'

Nothing Major

The Hole Truth

••• Vine-Swinging Scholar Meets Lovecraft, Ponders Puppets

Letters

Listings

Rip Her to Shreds

Boy Wonders

The Sound and The Führer

Bottlemania

Sunbaked

Recent Films From Germany