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Tavern29's First Anniversary Open Bar; Try Delta Airlines Food for $4

Wednesday, May 22 David Chang and Friends Momofuku chef and owner David Chang will take the stage at the New York Public Library on Wednesday at 7 p.m. for a discussion with Massimo Bottura and Daniel Patterson. Tickets are $25. 455 Fifth Avenue; 212-340-0833

PICKING SATIRE'S BRAIN

George Saunders spills it

Great Eats on 41st Street Near the NYPL

At Mai Sushi, the pigfoot (tonkotsu) ramen is about half the price of Ippudo's. This week Counter Culture breezes into four (now three) fast food spots on East 41st Street in Midtown, the block running east of the New York Public Library's main branch, constituting a kind of open-air Japanese food ... More >>

Pix Of The Hottest Male Models In Town This Week

And they were all in one room--working the Marlon Globel show at the NY Public Library. Rockabilly hair never looked so au courant. It's a whole new form of Globel warming! Thanks to WilsonModels for the photos.

10 Things You Should Know About Summer Reading

Summer reading is as beloved a seasonal tradition as splashing in broken fire hydrants, playing on sidewalk slip-and-slides, barbecuing on fire escapes, and watching Fourth of July fireworks from a tenement rooftop. Teachers and librarians say the practice is integral in preventing what's called "su ... More >>

I've Been Asked To Tour NYC With Topless Women! Should I Go?

An intriguing email invite just came my way while I was sitting around pinching my nippies: "I am a Women's and Gender Studies professor at the University of Miami and a Topfreedom activist since 1996. Quite simply, Topfreedom is the right for women to be bare-chested any time/place a man can take ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Cocktails and James Beard

James Beard Awards The James Beard Awards are tonight at 6pm. For those not attending, it seems that even New York landmarks are celebrating the national food awards. According to Zagat, the Empire State Building will be donning the colors orange and yellow to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the ... More >>

Ben Frost, In Bloom

Filling the Rose Reading Room with glorious noise

DEEP THOUGHTS

Joan Didion talks with Sloane Crosley

Little Girl Who Fought Library 'Bugget Cuts' Still Has Words for Mayor Bloomberg

​Rita Meade, the librarian behind the blog Screwy Decimal, who originally posted about one spunky little girl's vaguely threatening postcards to Mayor Bloomberg (an effort to scare him into keeping New York Public Library budgets intact) has followed up with the girl after budgets were, happil ... More >>

AIDS In Oral History - Looking Back at 30 Years of the Epidemic (VIDEO)

​This past Pride Week has marked some amazing events, from passage of Marriage Equality in New York, to a President ducking that issue while visiting the city, to that same President marking National HIV Testing Day and preparing to host a White House Pride reception. This Pride also marks ... More >>

Live: Jay-Z Talks Decoded and Ol' Dirty Bastard at the New York Public Library With Cornel West and Paul Holdengräber

Cornel West, Jay-Z, Paul Holdengräber. Photo by Jori Klein.​Jay-Z In Conversation With Cornel West and Paul Holdengräber New York Public Library Monday, November 15 Usually, says tonight's distinguished moderator, NYPL director Paul Holdengräber, "my goal at the library is to make the li ... More >>

Jay-Z Talked About Magic and Wizardry at the Box on Friday Night

​Tonight, he's at the New York Public Library, talking with Cornel West about his excellent new book, Decoded, but Jay-Z held a different sort of event on Friday night at the Box. Invitations sent out less than 24 hours in advance asked guests to something called "The Turn"; the email said som ... More >>

Live: Elvis Costello Invades The New York Public Library

No idea why he'd have cause to look so pissed last night.​Elvis Costello New York Public Library Tuesday, November 2 Better Than: Following election results, that's for goddamn sure. One corny joke ("I hope you've brought back all your overdue books"), two old songs ("Blame It on Cain" and t ... More >>

New York Landmarks Continue Social Media Revolution: The New York Public Library, Empire State Building

​It seems like everyone is "joining" Twitter or "getting" a Tumblr these days. Especially in the case of certain New York City landmarks, who are taking to social networking like digitized screen-saver fish to a watery stream of information.

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Riverpark, Goodbye to Johnny Rockets

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. The Johnny Rockets on 8th Street has shuttered as a result of having lost its lease. [Eater]​ Long Tan in Park Slope has closed for a complete renovation and conversion into a cocktail a ... More >>

Let's Just Give Up and Accept that the Bedbugs Have Won

​Bedbugs have now infested the AMC movie theater in Times Square. Yes, it's horrifying. But at this point, the idea that bedbugs are all over the damn place is not new. Let's look at all the places that have been infested by the little critters this summer:

New York City's Infamous "Tourist Lane" Graffiti: The Culprit, Unveiled

Photo by Mark Armstrong.Click to Enlarge.​Remember the infamous "Tourist Lane" sidewalk graffiti on the corner of 22nd and 5th that - despite Mayor Bloomberg not being fond of it -- many people like us absolutely loved? Well, the culprit behind one of the wittier pieces of conceptual street ar ... More >>

Duncan Campbell and the Bruce High Quality Foundation Take A Bumpy Ride to Utopia

Post-post-punk art crews buckle up for disenchantment

Author Julie Klam Picks New York's Best Bookstore and Best Reading Spot

This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow arbitrary awards like Best Public-Access Show and Best Alt-Museum. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. ​ Julie Klam is the author of Please Excuse My Daughter, a ... More >>

Booze News: Anheuser-Busch Launches Wheat Beer; Lonely Men Like Gin & Whiskey

​ Following in the footsteps of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, Zagat has launched its own wine club in collaboration with Direct Wines. The Zagat Wine Club will deliver a new specially selected mixed case every three months. [Zagat] With wineries being hit just as ... More >>

Daniel Craig at a Gay Club!

Fashion Week, Idol chatter, a gesture toward Liza. By Michael Musto

Fashion Week in Review: Carlos Miele, Jill Stuart, Tracy Reese, Erin Fetherston

​ From the Jill Stuart show. Photo by Graham Rayman. What makes the fashion industry such an elitist, exclusory world? Vogue's Anna Wintour attempted to explain it in the moderately sympathetic new documentary The September Issue; she insisted, with clipped British finality, that the unstyli ... More >>

Class Action Listings

Yankees 7-0 Loss to Sox Painful or Hilarious, Depending

We try not to indulge our blackhearted Mets-fan schadenfreude too much, especially so early in the season. Nonetheless, from the Boston Globe: Another night, another buffeting of the Bombers. It's just no fun beating these New York Yankees anymore. Too easy. The 7-0 fail at Fenway was the Yankees' ... More >>

Man Booker International Prize 2009 Nominees Announced; Jay McInerney, Jane Smiley Exchange Words

Daniel S. NeunerAmit Chaudhuri, Tina Brown, Andrey Kurkov, and Jane Smiley Last week brought the announcement of the Man Booker International Prize 2009 Judges' List, the official shortlist for the sixty thousand pound, every-other-year prize for "one writer's continued creativity, development and ... More >>

ART ATTACK

Is there hope for Fairey's 'Hope' poster?

Times Finds Its Own Plumbers, Some "Metrosexual"

MONDAY | 6.2

THE COCKETTE INVASION

Fleet Week for fags

Spring Art Preview: Kerry James Marshall's Black Whole

Battling art's blind spot

Soundboy Punishments

Dubstep that bypasses weed stupor and heads straight for Armageddon

Crossover Alley

Krazy Kat and Vegetable Sex to greet the fall season

The Politics of Eradication

Spring at Last

Art's top venues this season

Grεεk Lovε

More timely than ever, Athenian classics storm New York stages

Guantanamo on the Hudson

Judge orders immediate release of 470 protesters

Elephants in Our Living Room

Ignorance is not an option—here's a guide to get you primed for the convention

NY Mirror

Listings

Fall Books

Once Upon Another Time: Postmodern Takes on Kids' Stories

It's On: Where and How to Protest in New York

Go West, Young Author

Meghan Daum's Prairie Days

Bards Not Bombs in NYC

Bars

Too Hot to Think? Drink.

Last Train to Waffleville

Dream On

A Tenant's Home Is His Landlord's Castle

New Book Reviews the Origins of New York City's Famous Landlord-Tenant Trouble

Shelf life

Andrea Copeland (librarian)