Poland

Ashes and Diamonds

Guido van der Werve: Boom Goes Chopin

Plus: Kelly Heaton: 'The Parallel Series'

The Story of Kolaches

The apricot version at Brooklyn Kolache Co. After high school in Dallas I went to college in Austin, so for the first couple of years I hitched rides between the two places several times a year. For UT students, there were several popular stopovers on the four-hour ride, including a little bakery ... More >>

The Limits of Free Love in Deep End

Ghetto Bards: Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish and Sholem Aleichem

RIP New York Times Osama Bin Laden Obituary Writer, 1938-2010

Michael T. Kaufman, 1938-2010​The world is ringing right now with news of Osama Bin Laden's death, the terrorist mastermind having been killed by the United States almost 10 years after the September 11 attacks he planned. But as an interesting footnote, it's worth pointing out, as FishbowlNY ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Featuring Opening Parties And The Unsound Festival

​Spring is upon us, and it's only right that we revel in it. Start your weekend off with a taco in hand at Annabelle's opening party. The boutique's two-part celebration starts off with tacos and margaritas (in to-go cups!) at the store, and is followed by an afterparty in the back room of the ... More >>

A Couple of Poor Polish-Speaking Romanians Talk (and Talk) Eastern Europe

Dorota Maslowska debuts at Abrons Arts Center

Camouflage

World Faces Totally Unfunny Helium Shortage

​In disturbing news for clowns, people who like to do that annoying high-pitched voice at parties, and, oh yeah, people who get MRIs, the U.S. is about to sell its last stockpile of helium -- currently stored underground somewhere near Amarillo, Texas -- and allow the private sector to start t ... More >>

Jerry Robinson, Creator of the Joker, Dishes on Superman

​By R.C. Baker It turns out that the Joker -- pop culture's pre-eminent villain -- was created by one of the good guys. N.C. Christopher Couch's new book, Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics (Abrams ComicArts, 224 pp., $35.00), recounts how, in 1939, Robinson, then a 17-year-old preparing t ... More >>

The Venice Film Festival -- That's a Wrap

​Back from the Lido, I learned that Somewhere, Sofia Coppola's slight, stringent, not-quite sentimental tale of a movie star on the edge of a nervous breakdown and the 11-year-old daughter that loves him, had won the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice Film Festival--the "unanimous choice" per jury ... More >>

Live: Summer Slaughter Brings Hours And Hours Of Death Metal To Irving Plaza, Including The Polish And Their Goddamn Strobe Lights

Veil of Maya, thankfully not causing epilepsy. Summer Slaughter Irving Plaza Sunday, August 1 The fourth-annual traveling circus known as Summer Slaughter rolled through town last night, offering NYC an overview of the modern extreme-metal scene. This year's lineup tilted heavily toward the 'core ... More >>

Andrew W.K. Has The Best Idea for a Restaurant Ever.

Mike LumAndrew W.K.​Most people know Andrew W.K. from the hit singles off his first album, 2001's I Get Wet, which included "Party Hard," "She is Beautiful" and "I Like to Party." If you sense that he's a fun guy who likes to party, then you, sir or madam, are correct. He parlayed his passion ... More >>

Bronx Soda Buyback Event Not Exactly a Hit

​On Saturday, the Alliance for a Healthier New York and SEIU 1199's Healthcare Education Project held a soda buyback event at Richard R. Green Middle School in the Bronx to support the soda tax. "We will be disposing any of the sodas we get," said Andy King, an AHNY organizer. "We are not re ... More >>

Lech Kaczynski, Polish President, Killed in Plane Crash

​Ninety-seven people, including Polish president Lech Kaczynski and his wife, were killed this morning when the Tupolev-154 plane they were flying to Russia to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the massacre in Katyn, in which 22,000 polish prisoners of war were killed by Russian soldiers. Th ... More >>

Live: Pere Ubu's One Night Only Performance of "Long Live Père Ubu!" at Le Poisson Rouge

David Thomas tries somebody else's face on for size. Photo by Richard Gehr.​ Pere Ubu Le Poisson Rouge Sunday March 29 We can't read most of the notes we scribbled during Pere Ubu's rendering of Alfred Jarry's 1896 Absurdist masterpiece "Ubu Roi" at (le) Poisson Rouge last night. But that t ... More >>

Battle of the Dishes: Blood Sausage Smackdown

Buenos Aires's blood sausage with pickled chile​ Maybe it's the English breakfast boom, with its accompanying black pudding, but it seems that you can't walk a block these days without bumping into some kind of blood sausage. The Vanderbilt plates it with shaved apple and celery root puree; Bl ... More >>

Quick hits

A pajama-clad Manhattan woman who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday is recovering from hypothermia in Bellevue today after Police Department divers jumped from a helicopter and pulled her out of the East River. The Times has an interview with the divers -- The Arbeit Macht Frei (Work wil ... More >>

Chewing Over the $25 Cookie

Before they opened Cookie Road in Greenpoint earlier this month, owners Jerzy and Aneta Szot were artists -- both earned their MFAs from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland. "I was a painter, and she was a graphic designer," Jerzy Szot tells Fork in the Road. But Aneta "baked all her life -- it was h ... More >>

Blintzkrieg in Gaza; Madoff covers up family jewels

"Gaza medics in the line of fire," from Al Jazeera Congratulations to the New York Times. The word "war" made it into a front-page story this morning about Israel's war on Gaza. Ethan Bronner's piece even sports the word in its headline: "Gaza War Role Is Political Lift for Ex-Premier." As I ... More >>

A Lonely Woman

Ashes and Diamonds

'Disaffected' Snail Hunters Cause Shortage

Beyond Polanski

Polish cinema, rare and robust, at Anthology

The Year in Experimental Cinema

Pole Explorers

TR Warszawa brings their alluring Krum to BAM

Trade

"Are You Ready For Some Futbol?"

For the second week, New York watches the World Cup

Film

Family Plots

Mysterious moms, unwed women, and devout lesbians at 15th annual Jewish survey

screens

Bazaar on Aisle Nine

Target gives shoppers the world

Home on the Range

A family of man shares its stored snapshots in words, images, and motion

Let Libeskind be Libeskind

Full of ghosts, ground zero's like that hotel in The Shining—and maybe that's OK

Here and Over There

Seeing across borders—between countries, idioms, and dancers—with eyes wide open

Out of Control

Mel's Dad May Think That 'Oscar' Is a Jewish Name

Film

An Eclectic Polish Filmmaker Explores Fate and Fanaticism

Film

Listings

Who Will Replace Our Old European Allies?

Inside the New U.S. Coalition

The War Wanker

Good Intentions

Horoscope

World Citizen

Britney’s School for Aliens

The Really World Wide Web

A Guide to Finding News From Far-Flung Places

Our Theatrical Century

After 100 Years of Experiment, What'll the Theater Do for an Encore?

Machine Age