Rome (Italy)

Porsena's Monday Night Abruzzi Menu

First course: local sardines A friend and I went to Porsena last week to check out the menu from Abruzzi being mounted there every Monday in February (including tonight and next Monday night) as part of a regular series of regional menus from Italy. Abruzzi is the remote region which lies on the o ... More >>

The Raunchy Fiesta Called The Black Party Is Coming Again

THE SAINT AT LARGE® presents RITES XXXIV: THE BLACK PARTY® "Rough Trade At Luna Park" 11PM - Saturday March 23, 2013 until Sunday Afternoon Roseland Ballroom, 239 West 52nd Street Featuring Strange Live Acts Dress: Heavy

Can't Decide Between Pizza and a Burger? Now You Don't Have To!

This slice is a gut bomb, par excellence. On the uncertain fault line between German-American and Italian-American cooking lies the bacon-cheeseburger slice. Formatted like a pizza pie, it showcases the essential elements of a dolled-up burger.

Woody's Roman Holiday

Woody Allen and co-stars talk movies, love, and death

Three Good Things: Rome, Pok Pok, Ice Cream

1 Layne Mosler of Taxi Gourmet writes about her experience with Italian taxi drivers and shares her top six cabbie-recommended restaurants in Rome. [The Guardian] 2 This great tour of Andy Ricker's pantry at Pok Pok (the Thai restaurant I reviewed last week) that includes dried flower pistils, sun- ... More >>

Paying Off Pervert Priests: Was Cardinal Timothy Dolan Just Being a Good Catholic?

Earlier today, the Voice brought you news that Cardinal Timothy Dolan paid pervert priests up to 20 grand as "incentive" to get them to leave their posts when he ran the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Here's the thing: Dolan, according to Catholic law, might not have been doing anything wrong in authori ... More >>

The Best Books of 2011

Voice writers pick their favorites of the year

This Week in the Voice: The Year in Film, 10 Best Live Shows

​This week in the Voice, out today: our new Year in Film poll along with criticism from J. Hoberman, Karina Longworth, and others. Winner of Best Film: The Tree of Life. Winner of Worst Film: I Melt With You. Maura Johnston rates the 10 best live shows she saw this year, including Beyoncé, ... More >>

Titus Andronicus Has Blood on Its Hands. A Lot of It.

The Public Theater mounts Shakespeare at his goriest

Q&A: Joe Lally On Moving To Rome, Wanting To Be In The Melvins And How Being In Fugazi Destroyed His Hearing

Antonia Tricarico​Mass hysteria took over the music web-o-sphere when Pitchfork blew its wad on the "breaking news" that Ian MacKaye revealed Fugazi might emerge from their self-imposed exile and "reunite one day." That's not to imply the members of D.C.'s most storied art-punk crew have been ... More >>

Tasting Events in Queens and Brooklyn; Has Bed-Stuy Gone Gourmet?

​A new bill requiring the Health Department to report the number of permits it issues each year to food trucks and carts was introduced yesterday. [NY Post] Manhattan isn't the only borough with fancy tasting events. Taste of Sunnyside kicks off tonight and A Taste of Sheepshead Bay will debu ... More >>

The RSC's (Julius) Caesar Salad

A Lincoln Center Festival show is no Roman holiday

Bus Driver Steers With Elbows While on Two Cell Phones, Could Not Give Less of a Shit

The good sir has been suspended from his job in Rome, so might we suggest a move to New York City? It's illegal here, too, but at least we appreciate a badass.

The New Amsterdam Market Will Invoke Pagan Revelry When It Returns This Sunday

Eat, drink, and don't trample the daisies.​The New Amsterdam Market's new season doesn't begin until June 4, but this Sunday, it will give us a taste of things to come when it returns with Floralia, a special one-day market.

Port of Memory: An Oblique Demi-Documentary With Surprisingly Vivid Images

'The Bunker Presents Optimo+Donato Dozzy+Derek Plaslaiko'

What's Happening This Week: A Japanese Holiday Special; Swedish Glögg & Julbord

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! $25 Holiday Special Akariba Through December This more than $50 value includes a half dozen fresh market oysters, a choice of donburi (jidori chicken, grilled salmo ... More >>

NYC NOISE

A look back at No Wave

Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets To See Phoenix At Madison Square Garden Next Week

​Oh, indeed. The gala Phoenix/Dirty Projectors/Wavves show hitting MSG Wednesday, October 20th is a big we-made-it moment for the maximalist, SOTC-beloved French pop-rockers; we think it'd be great if you got to see it in person. We have five pairs of tickets. And since is this is a bigger dea ... More >>

Testaccio Tackles the Taste of Rome

The Long Island City restaurant aims for modern trattoria

DIY NYC

A London arts fest goes transatlantic

Campo de'Fiori: New Roman Pizza in Park Slope

Pizza Rustica: potato, sweet onion, mortadella, chile oil​Campo de'Fiori, a new Roman-style pizza restaurant, opened just a week ago on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Italian owner and chef Andrea Dal Monte was a manager at Del Posto and is also reportedly an owner of Acquolina in Rome. Since the ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to The Original SoupMan; Goodbye to The Doghouse Saloon

Restaurants, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. The Doghouse Saloon, which tried to attract punters with free hot dogs and beer pong, has closed after just nine months in operation. [Bowery Boogie]​ It appear that the Qdoba on Sixth Avenue nea ... More >>

Tripe Cometh

​Tripe is perhaps the starter-gut of the offal universe. Aside from a very slight (and sometimes pleasant) wet-doggy undertone, it doesn't challenge the eater the way that an strongly iron-tasting liver might; cooked properly, it doesn't demand the crunchy mouth-workout that some intestines do ... More >>

The Gramercy Pork Hotel: Maialino

Danny Meyer pigs out at his latest restaurant

Miike Snow+Jack Penate

Óbiká Mozzarella Bar, Where Buffalo Roam

Surreal white blobs invade a midtown glass skyscraper

HOWLING AT THE MOON

Kiki Smith and Nico Muhly bring she-wolves to life

Ass-Baring Parties Conquer Nightlife!

These are hairy times, but you can still enjoy yourself, if Bingo is your game-o

Bocca: Skip the Secondi and Save Some Dough

In the Flatiron, comparing three generations of a Roman family

Screen Gems

Tivo alerts, anchors aweigh: Favorite moments from the year when TV went topsy-turvy

Is Dick Cheney a Real MOTU?

I, Doofus: The History Men Who Changed Rome

Dog Days

There's no place like ancient Rome—except for sweltering modern-day New York City

The Omen

What's in a name? A hell of a lot, if you're the new pope.

Follow your ears through the city’s premier public space

The New Poetry

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Film

Saints and sinners: Humanist portrait of a holy nightmare

Castellitto in the Big City: An Italian Star's Suave Seductions

Rome, Romance, Romano

Theater

Hot Tickets

Homeboy Shakespeare

Street-Fighting Man

Taking Cues from the Past

Invisible Cities