Peter Pan

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Peter and the Starcatcher

Wicked's Record Breaking Week: What's Behind It?

The long running Broadway smash Wicked posted a weekly gross of almost three million dollars for the week between Christmas and New Year's, edging out the previous record by Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark. Having seen the show, you might well wonder: "Why is the musical with the green lady still rac ... More >>

A New Map of 35 NYC Doughnuts

My fondness for fried dough aside, I love this old-school design from new independent print shop, All You Can Eat Press -- a Brooklyn-based, food-loving company run by Yuki Matsuo, Jim Datz, and Naomi Reis. Their first print is this fold-out doughnut map of Matsuo's picks from 35 great spots in New ... More >>

A $1 Doughnut so Good, We Made a Haiku Comic

Bike ride through Greenpoint

E-Sarn Sausage at Center Point

E-sarn sausage, $6.50, Dish #37 Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Burrata From Faicco's | Honey Dip Donut from Peter Pan Bakery] Thai ... More >>

Honey Dip Donut from Peter Pan Bakery, Dish #39

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in each day (weekends too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team.

10 Best Doughnuts in New York

[See More 10 Bests: Gelatos | Pastry Shops] Doughnuts may just be bits of dough, dropped into hot oil, but a fine piece of fried dough can be a truly beautiful thing. From classic cake doughnuts and glorious yeasted beasts, to creamy stuffed buns, here are our 10 favorites in NYC right now. Don't ... More >>

Peter And The Starcatcher: My Review

Just as Wicked provided the Oz backstory for new generations, Peter and the Starcatcher serves as a prequel to Peter Pan, but it uses a whole other tone. In showing how a mopey orphan boy became the arrested youth known as Peter Pan and a creepy pirate named Black Stache evolved into the taunting, ... More >>

Q&A: Ninjasonik On Tight Pants, Skating, And Coming For The Throne

If you're really "in the streets" of New York City, then most of the people in your circle should be street urchins and guttersnipes also using the asphalt lawns of the Big Apple as their playground. They're your closest friends, even though you didn't go to school together; you're not from the sam ... More >>

New York's Last Line of Defense From Zombies Arrested at Port Authority

​A man who describes himself as a "zombie enthusiast" (the correct term is "zombie aficionado") was arrested at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Tuesday. The Post reports that 25-year-old Christopher Rodger had a camouflage bag full of "swords, knives, burglar tools, night-vision goggles and ... More >>

NEVER GROW UP

Disney goes downtown

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #11: NeverShoutNever, "cheatercheaterbestfriendeater"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​The concept of "twee" reached a nadir in 2010, the inevitable result of a swaddling culture that seems hell-bent on keeping people in Peter Pan mode until they're sent six feet under. But even more disheartening tha ... More >>

Urban Sharecropping All the Rage; The City's Best Doughnuts

​Urban sharecropping is the latest twist to the farm-to-table movement, in which homeowners get matched with would-be farmers who don't themselves have gardening space. [Wall Street Journal] Mayor Bloomberg's favorite diner, Viand Café, was slapped with 36 violation points in its latest ins ... More >>

Spreading Idea? East Broadway Restaurant Inc.'s Noodles With Peanut Butter

Victoria BekiempisCourtesy Skippy? Peter Pan?​ Ever the staple of school children's lunch boxes and cash-strapped college kids, peanut butter typically evokes culinary nostalgia and routine more than kitchen innovation. But at East Broadway Restaurant Inc., a small, often crowded eatery on the ... More >>

Anal Beads Can't Save It Must Be Him

Kenny Solms's play is a sketchy comedy

New York's Cheap Eats Issue

Out today is New York's Cheap Eats issue, wherein Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite round up the year's myriad developments in (mostly) affordable eating. They've got your burgers, your new-wave Asian (Fatty 'Cue, Baohaus, Umi Nom, et al.), your vegetarian, your noodles, fried chicken, and so on. B ... More >>

Donut Shoppe on Avenue U: An Independent Survives in Brooklyn

​The perfect neighborhood glazed donut Fork in the Road has bitched before about how Dunkin' Donuts has invaded Brooklyn, and the deleterious effects suffered by the borough as a result: independent coffee shops forestalled or even closed; the gobbling up of choice food-permitted retail prope ... More >>

On Janelle Monáe's "Make The Bus," Featuring Of Montreal, Though Really It's The Other Way Around

​Listen to it here. No "Tightrope," but pretty lithe and groovy and weird. Super-weird. Topics: terrible fixations, androids dreaming of electric sheep, Peter Pan, Juicy Fruit. Great drum sound. (It's no "California Gurls," but what is?) Also: This is a straight-up Of Montreal song in which Ja ... More >>

On Green Day's Vivid, Lurid, Somewhat Vapid American Idiot Musical

West African Buffet at Fatima in Crown Heights

​Served with polished white rice, sauce de feuilles is the national dish of Guinea. When Fatima opened in Crown Heights six years ago, it was the city's best Guinean restaurant, offering two or three home-style dishes per day, served with a massive plate of polished white rice. But in common ... More >>

If Tina Fey Had a Penis, She'd Stick It in One of Peter Pan's Doughnuts

​In an interview in this month's Esquire, Tina Fey has an American Pie kind of moment, courtesy of a certain doughnut shop on Greenpoint's Manhattan Avenue.

Art Brut

Anamanaguchi Avoid the Perils of Cheap Nostalgia

Q&A With Playwright Craig Lucas, the Man Who Would Have Written Peter Pan

Peter Bellamy It's been a big theater season for playwright Craig Lucas. In November, his Prayer for My Enemy made its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons, and now comes The Singing Forest, currently in previews at the Public Theater. The new piece--directed by Mark Wing-Davey and featuring O ... More >>

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B?

Click to make this beautiful pastry life size! Nothing compares with the old-world goodness of Teutonic pastries--well, nothing I can think of at this moment. This $1.75 morsel from Greenpoint's distinguished Peter Pan Bakery features a thick white pudding poised between custard and cheesecake, ... More >>

Clip Job: Bob Newhart, Sick?

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 30, 1961, Vol. VII, No. 6Sick Comic for the MiddlebrowsBy Martin WilliamI wish everybody would come off it about Bob Newhart. He is a pleasant comedian. But surely the fact that his fairly affable jibes at business and politics have been ... More >>

Disney's Creepiest Sexy Animated Female Leads Awards

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Looking for that upper-crust watch on the Lower East Side

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Beat on the Brat

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend to not be trying

Urban Fairy Tales

Mary Poppins makes little magic; Julie White gets big laughs

Alan Moore's Girls Gone Wilde

Watchmen creator's decades-in-the-making (porno)graphic opus sees release

A Hard Day's Night

Rodrigo Fresán's ambitious novel mashes up a J.M. Barrie bio with warped Beatlemania

Back to the Future, With Better FX: A New Doctor Is In

Ongoing

A Cross Between Courtney Love and Peter Pan

Long Island Dolls Next Door Opt for Midnight Snack Over Fix and Kiss

NY Mirror

Final Fantasy

Magic and loss: Bereaved wonder boys help J.M. Barrie pen his immortal masterpiece

Second Spin to the Right

Best way out of Neverland? Survey says: If you believe in Kerry, clap your hands!

Screen Siege

Cinematic campaigning: This fall, filmmakers assault the status quo at a theater near you

NY Mirror

Stearns & Foster, R.I.P.

Michael Atkinson's Top Ten

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I Think I Need a New Heart

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