Niagara Falls

What To Do About The End of the World Tomorrow!

Harold Camping--I mean the Mayan calendar--says the world be will as over as the macarena as of tomorrow, and here's what it's urgent that you do: Nothing! Don't take out your money and spend it. Don't tell your loved ones of your warm feelings for them, and conversely, don't tell off those you d ... More >>

One Man, Two Guvnors: How Funny, Really?

Richard Bean versus Carlo Goldoni in director Nicholas Hytner's British import

Annie Leibovitz Presents Pilgrimage

Queen of the Mist's Barrel of Tunes

Michael John LaChiusa's new musical goes for a ride over Niagara Falls

Billionaire's March Occupies the Upper East Side

​Yesterday at noon, protesters gathered at 59th Street and 5th Avenue (just across the street from the Plaza Hotel) for the Billionaire's March, a picket of the homes of five of New York's richest men: Rupert Murdoch, David Koch, Howard Milstein, Jamie Dimon, and John Paulson. Separate from ye ... More >>

Kitty Lambert, First Wed New York Lesbian, Will Join Former NOM Operative Louis Marinelli on Marriage Equality Tour

​This just in: if politics makes strange bed fellows, same-sex marriage makes them all the stranger. Kitty Lambert, one half of the first same-sex couple married in New York State just after midnight Sunday, will be joining Louis Marinelli on the National Organization for Marriage Equality Tou ... More >>

Same-Sex Marriage Is Now Officially Legal in New York State [Breaking]

Goodbye to this graphic, retiring today. We'll miss you! (Not really.)​Happy Same-Sex Sunday! As of this moment, same-sex marriage is legal in New York State. Right about now Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd just said "I do!" in front of Niagara Falls. In the next 24 hours, the City of New York ... More >>

Kitty Lambert Chats About Marrying Cheryle Rudd in First Legal New York Same-Sex Wedding

Kitty Lambert (left) with fiancé Cheryle Rudd​On Monday, we reported that Kitty Lambert and her fiancé Cheryle Rudd will be the first same-sex couple to wed in New York State. The grandmothers of 12 will tie the knot before a crowd of thousands, in front of the specially rainbow lit Niagara ... More >>

National Organization for Marriage to Protest Same-Sex Weddings Statewide this Sunday

C.S. MuncyBrian Brown (right), the President of NOM, marching with Sen. Ruben Diaz ​This whole week, we at Runnin' Scared are happy to bring you stories in our "Countdown to SSM" series, as we talk to New Yorkers leading up to the big day when marriage equality comes to all. Yesterday we share ... More >>

Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd, Two Grandmothers, to be First Same-Sex Couple Legally Wed in New York State

​When the New York State Senate was torturing gay rights activists last month by putting issues dealing with Niagara Falls on their agenda before marriage equality, it seemed pointless. But maybe the two were connected after all! According to a press release from New Yorkers United for Marria ... More >>

Top 10 Literary Wedding Toasts

​"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?" --Groucho Marx You've all heard horrible stories about rambling, disconnected, unrehearsed, and even madly embarrassing toasts given at wedding banquets, sometimes ruining friendships and causing brides and gr ... More >>

Nik Wallenda, Brave Soul, Approved to Cross Niagara Falls by Tightrope

Last time around​As the legislation session in Albany grinds on, and with the gay marriage vote still undecided, New York lawmakers approved Nik Wallenda of the storied Flying Wallendas to traverse Niagara Falls via tightrope. "I'm thrilled to death ... It is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportu ... More >>

State Senate Takes Up Horse Racing, Memorial Flag Before Gay Marriage Equality

​It was a late night yesterday for advocates both for and against same-sex marriage equality, as the New York State Senate failed to bring the issue up for debate. However, before the Senate convened shortly after midnight, they did manage to bring up numerous important issues of the day, includin ... More >>

Nik Wallenda Wants to Tightrope-Walk Niagara Falls; Lawmakers to Vote Shortly

​Last week, a bill that would allow Nik Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas to traverse Niagara Falls on a tightrope passed the Senate. The bill still has to pass the Assembly and then receive Governor Cuomo's approval. The Assembly could vote on the measure as early as today. If Wallenda is allo ... More >>

Live: Deadmau5 Lights Up An Already Lit-Up Crowd At Roseland

Clearly reaching for Daft Punk-ian heights. Pics by Chris, more below.​Deadmau5/Erol Alkan/Afrojack Roseland Ballroom Friday, October 29 In the 1920s, the Roseland Ballroom was known as "the home of refined dancing," playing host to the likes of Louis Armstrong and Count Basie. These days, De ... More >>

See Rock City and The Battle of Stalingrad Think Small

The Transport Group and the Lincoln Center Festival mount shows that could use bigger aspirations

Summer Guide: Hit the Arts Road!

Weekend trips to cultured places

Fabolous: The Twitterview

Fabolous, the Brooklyn rapper whose Loso's Way is forthcoming in June, maintains a Twitter feed of such complicated brilliance and wisdom that we felt the need to interview it. What up Fab? Morning my twiggas. As the rooster crows. What's on the docket? hav a show n Niagara Falls 2day.. Ah, ... More >>

Like the Sun, New York Unemployment Rises Again

We know you're getting tired of hearing it, but knowledge is power, they tell us, so be aware that the state Department of Labor just put out new figures and guess what, everything's worse. New York City's unemployment rose from 6.9 in January to 8.1 in February. We seem to be tracking the national ... More >>

Did Tourist Dollars Flow from Falls, or Just Hype and Death?

The New Dealer

With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight

Homewrecker

Quantum Leaps

Streb's action heroes explode the physics of motion

Can't Stop Won't Stop

Joyce Carol Oates's 'Professional Fascination With Evil'

Upstate Video Blackjackers Pop a Metalcore Boner

If the Morning After Never Comes

The Bush administration is set to keep emergency contraception out of reach

Have It All

Producers help pious country sexpot meet her many needs

Stirring Up the Toxic Dust

They turned Uncle Sam's uranium into atom bombs, and the work made them sick. Now they've got a new champion—Hillary Clinton

Screen Gems

The year in TV: Another season, a smattering of reasons for tuning in amid all the mediocrity

Horoscope

Soldiers Choose Canada

Facing Iraq duty, two U.S. G.I.'s head north to seek asylum

Guided by Voices

Freaks and mystiques: Not just another drama about a girl who talks to stuffed animals

No-Sweat Gift Guide

Letters

Love and War

Gay Americans Won a Court Victory. Now Comes the Fight to Wed.

Listings

Grave Occasions

Two-Bedroom Apartment in Renovated Tenement

The First Annual Cryogenic Baseball Quiz

Figure Out These Freeze Frames of History and Win a Prize or Two

Greeks and Geeks

Parlez-Vous Français?

French Tries, by Romanian Eugene Ionesco, Come Alive

Follow the Reader

Around the Word in 90 Days

Everyone Says I Love You

Strindberg Man

Where Genius And Problem Case Meet

See Me, Feel Me

Efficient or Deficient?

Tenant Cases Snagged on Court's Calendar

Fish and Chips

Sports

Joystick Nation

E-Commerce Stimulates the Vibrator Market

The Art of the Schlemiel