South Pacific

Culturefix's Ari Stern on Craft Beer and Not Getting Bored

Culturefix is a unique fixture on the Lower East Side's Clinton Street: Part bar, gallery, poetry forum, theater stage, catering business, and event space, the venue hosts a number of far-ranging parties, including comedy nights, tastings, and tech entrepreneur meetups. But what's always on the menu ... More >>

Paulo Szot

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 7/12/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

Ron Morelli

Matthew Morrison

Free Will Astrology: April 3-9, 2013

The Energy Industry Gets Needled In Greedy Lying Bastards

BBC's One Life Unveils (and Anthropomorphizes) Nature's Wonders

Cloud Atlas Under Attack From Asian Group

I don't agree with the protest, mind you. This isn't like that production I just criticized for trying to put a white person in blackface for a black role. Cloud Atlas is expressly a movie that has various races and genders playing each other. That's one of its main points. So I didn't find it j ... More >>

Laura Osnes

100 & Single: Of Monkees, Michael, and "Maria"—The History Of The Chart-Dominating, Lifestyle-Accessory Album

Cassandra (Tia Carrere): You've heard it? Wayne (Mike Myers): Exqueeze me? Have I seen this one before? Frampton Comes Alive?! Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide. —Wayne's World 2 (1993) Fo ... More >>

The Weirdest Portrayals of Asians In Movie History

Hollywood used to have a habit of putting slanty-eye makeup on non-Asian stars and passing them off as from "the Orient." Here are some of the more egregious examples:

Paulo Szot

Newt Gingrich: Pay for Your Next Vacation with Food Stamps

If you are too poor to buy food but have always dreamed of visiting the South Pacific, don't worry: You can pay for your groceries -- and your next Hawaiian vacation -- with food stamps. Actually, that's not true -- not even close to being true -- but Newt Gingrich, who wants to rep the GOP in the ... More >>

Best in Show: 'The Atomic Explosion' at Peter Blum

Plus: 'New Prints 2011/Summer' at the International Print Center; Luca Pizzaroni at Fred Torres Collaborations

Kelli O'Hara

Brief Encounters in Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2011

Paolo Szot

French-Accented Cocktail Bar, 1534, Debuts in Nolita Tonight

Jacques, looking thirsty.​For those who don't know the significance of the year 1534, it marks the date French explorer Jacques Cartier set out to discover a Western passage to Asia and instead landed in Canada -- specifically, in what is now known as the province Quebec. A new cocktail bar, l ... More >>

The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual

More thoughts on Broadway and the state of theater in New York

Glee Star Completely Unspoiled By Fame

​I was traipsing with friends around the Village the other night when we came upon a handsome young gentleman leaving a restaurant after a business-related dinner. It was Matthew Morrison from Glee! Who I'd tracked all those years on Broadway when he was making waves in Hairspray, Light in t ... More >>

Jazz Consumer Guide: Adapt, Improvise, Party

A cross-section of young/old and avant/traditional gets drunk on everything

KEEP THE PEACE

Wooster Group revive North Atlantic

Drank Gets Some Company: Anti-Energy Drinks Supposedly One of 2010's Next Food Trends

Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda provides: sugary sedation in a bottle.​ About a year and a half ago, Drank came along to teach us all a thing or two about achieving a stress-free state of mind through a lulling combination of melatonin, valerian root, rose hips, and carbonation. Now, it looks like t ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Cookbooks

​Above all, a cookbook should be useful and accurate, but that's not why we love them. A great cookbook isn't just a compendium of recipes; it takes you somewhere--into a cook's kitchen, to the South of France, or the South Pacific, or back in time. Following a 1961 recipe for Chateaubriand do ... More >>

American Idol Utah: David Archuleta's Hometown a/k/a the Land of the Osmonds

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. On Tuesday, Judge Kara showed some cleavage, last night, we visited Utah, the "the friendliest place on earth." Only if you're white and sad. Poor Tara. Are those tap shoes? "Welcome to Utah," announces Ryan Seacrest, "the friendliest ... More >>

Hammerstein's Complete Lyrics Tells the Story of One Man's Struggle

The W Premiere and a Hustler Ball!

There's no business like Gaynor's show business; under the big top at Hustlaball

Will Rihanna Go Hollywood?

Uptown Saturday nights are more fabulous all the time. Meanwhile, back at the Tonys . . .

Marc Jacobs' Brazilian Bombshell Boyfriend!

A review of the Broadway season's best leg-breaking, plus some arm-twisting

When Musicals Matured: Three Revivals Recall Another Age

South Pacific, Gypsy, and Juno show how 1950s Broadway got 'serious'

Siegfried, Roy, and Glory Holes!

Yeah, my hot list, compared with the others, which aren't so hot

It's Rose's Turn: Soldier's Wife Shows That Playwright Rose Franken Had the Stuff

Claire Denis's Change of Heart

Diversity, Equality

Jackson heights was very exclusive. Not only did it exclude Jews ...

Nations, Building: Indigenous Fest Offers Hope

Only Connect . . . and Connect . . .

A journal within a series of letters within a mystery novel—and that's just the beginning

Film

Books

Ugly Americans

Accidental Tourists Stumble Abroad

Fear and Loving

Choreography Unspools in Two Downtown Series

The Climes They Are A-Changin'

The Indisputable Science of Global Warming

Escaping the Hell of the Holy Land

Israelis Contemplate the Unthinkable—Moving Out

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Theater

I Dream of Genius

The Dark Side of the Moon Landing

Fiennes and Hawke Get the Cold Shoulder

Private Eyes

Forget the Government—You Could Be Big Brother

Island Hopping