Shrek

Closing The Colony: A Visit To Times Square's Shuttering Sheet Music Outpost

In some ways, the Friday before last looked like business as usual at Colony Records, the venerable Theater District music-and-sheet-music retailer that recently announced its impending closing after 64 years of operation. At the counter, Warren Tesoro, an employee for 25 years, asked a middle-aged ... More >>

THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Katy Perry comes to Madison Square Garden

Eat the Eggs Please, Smash Mouth! Twitter Joke Turns to Charity (and Comic) Gold

​Back on June 3, one man on Twitter started what would soon become an internet phenomenon when he tweeted at the legendary alternative-rock group Smash Mouth (best known for their work on the soundtrack of Shrek and their brief appearance in Rat Race) offering the lead singer, Steve Harwell, $ ... More >>

'Beautiful People' Dating Website Culls Ugly People to Better Serve Humanity, Themselves

​Denmark-based website BeautifulPeople.com, which recently stoked the ire of an entire country by saying that Irish men were the world's ugliest, has upped the ante, dumping 30,000 people from the site for being "too ugly." Last month the site fell to a cyber attack that allowed a bunch of ugl ... More >>

Gnomeo & Juliet: Garden Variety Charm

Paul Weitz's Trust Is a Lame Game

The playwright serves up another savorless meringue

The Spider Man Broadway Musical is Finally On The Way

​After way too many delays and hold-ups and people not believing this thing is going to work at all, the Spider Man musical (entitled Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark) with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge of U2 and with a book by Julie Taymor (who did The Lion King which is AMAZING) finally ... More >>

Froot Loops Recalled; Kids Say Food in Shrek Packaging Tastes Better

​Kellogg's has voluntarily recalled millions of boxes of Apple Jacks, Corn Pops, Froot Loops, and Honey Smacks breakfast cereals following reports of "an uncharacteristic off-flavor and smell" from the box liners. [Reuters] A number of New Yorkers have started ordering their bagels with the i ... More >>

McDonald's May Get Slapped With a Happy Meals Lawsuit

​Having taken on everything from nutrition labeling to restaurant calorie postings, the Center for Science in the Public Interest is now stepping into the ring to do battle with perhaps its most fearsome opponent to date: children who harass their parents to buy them Happy Meals.

DEATH AND THE CITY

Does this mean the term 'fabulous' has to go, too?

DEATH AND THE CITY

Does this mean the term 'fabulous' has to go, too?

DEATH AND THE CITY

Does this mean the term 'fabulous' has to go, too?

Tonight! Ava Luna, Holly Miranda, Class Actress, And Deluxx Fluxx

No one shall lay their unworthy eyes upon Holly Miranda without Shrek 3D goggles.​Ava Luna, the band that Christopher R. Weingarten boldly praised as post-every-band-you-like ("post-TVOTR, Dirty Projectors-inflected bedroom soul," to be exact) is headlining Silent Barn, bracketed by a similar ... More >>

Shrek Forever After, Fourth and Final in the Series

Tonight! Andrew W.K. With Angel Deradoorian (She Of Dirty Projectors), Fester (He Of The Addams Family), And Peter Gabriel

​This is your Monday night: Choose from Andrew W.K., Fester from the Addams Family, and Peter Gabriel, a confluence slightly more random than M.I.A. provoking ginger genocide last week. At Santos Party House, W.K. and friends (including Angel Deradoorian of Dirty Projectors) are uniting for th ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Live-Blogging the Top 6 Results

Frank Micelotta / FOXShakira goes country, kind of​"Picture this:" says Ryan Seacrest. "Rascal Flatts and Shakira." I'm picturing it, I'm getting up, I'm turning off my TV. Sigh. If only that were an option. Instead, I can't actually look away from the trainwreck that is another results show ... More >>

Is Elvis Rolling in his Grave?

The Addams Family: ghoulish turns into goulash. Get it?At least other nightlife isn't such torture.

THE OFFSPRING

Savage parenting inspires a musical

Things to Do This Weekend for (Mostly) Free

​Tartan Week finishes up with the Tartan Day Parade up 6th Avenue today, or take in the all-day J-Cation food festival at the Japan Society. Both days, New York Classical Theater presents traveling performances of Hamlet at the World Financial Center.

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 4: Blue October, "Jump Rope"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. As in "Blue October, I want to fucking strangle you with this jump rope right now."

Movie Stars Who Are Only In It For a Paycheck

​Let's be kind and entertain the possibility that some stars are only offered big budget pablum and that's why their reel is filled with so many Golden Razzie winners. But even if that's the case, it's disheartening that these actors have become known mainly for cashing the check and cranking ... More >>

Soggy Post Grad Misses More than One Mark

No Breathing Life into Third Ice Ages

5 Ways to Maybe Get People to Watch the Tony Awards

Another year, another unwatched Tony Awards show. Let's face it: this Sunday's prize party isn't even getting you excited, is it? Sure, the Tonys provide the MDR of greasepaint 'n' glamour we learned to love as lonely, introverted children. But as a quick look back at, say, the justly famous 25th An ... More >>

Tony Award Nominees Announced

The Tony Award nominees have just been announced. The best musical nominees are Billy Elliot, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, and Shrek the Musical. (Rock of Ages being a jukebox musical, its place in the Best Score category was taken by 9 to 5; [title of show] replaced it in the Best Book list.) Best ... More >>

The Toxic Avenger Actually Kind of Good

Matt Drudge Gay? Zooey Deschanel Sane?

LaBute's stimulating latest; Jill Hennessy in the Lymelife.

A Holiday Trek through Shrek, Pal Joey, and ReWrite.

Season's greetings?

BLOW-BY-BLOW

Pre-Thanksgiving never looked so inflated

Fall Preview: Sarah Kane's Notorious Blasted Finally Receives its New York Premiere

Eating up baby

Camping it up with Cate Blanchett

Queen Hard with a Vengeance's golden age and porcelain throne

Summer Lovin'

A week before his Ten Commandments comedy opens, David Wain's cult fave hits the midnight circuit

Stuff You Need To Know This Week To Avoid Cultural Ostracism

'Happily N'Ever After'

Zoo Story

Talking animals make sales pitches—for everything

Déjà Vu

Sexual mismatches and menopausal horror in French series

A Soccer Mom's Worst Nightmare

Tales From the Hood: Boredom Abounds in Fairy-Tale Pastiche

Trapped in the Closet: Robust Rendering of a Fantasy Classic

'Saint Ralph'

Escape From Zoo York

The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie

The Machinists: Autopilot Plot Needs New Parts

Greenbacks

Fluorescent foam-rubber gargantua gets another consumerist howl

New Belsen

Win, Lose, or Draw

Split Decisions: the Critics Speak

Befores and Afters

Where the Mild Things Are

Letters

Manic Regression