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Tibet House Benefit

What's Happening This Week: Aki Matsuri, An Apple Festival

It's the first week of October and we have for you a round-up of a lot of great restaurant deals and specials. Check it out: Tuesday, October 2 Pulled Pork @ City Grit. City Grit will be hosting a pulled pork dinner. Tickets are $55 and there will be a slow roasted bo ssäm snack, some fried chick ... More >>

Tibetan Hunger Strikers Enter Day 23 Of Fast Outside United Nations

Today brings Day 23 of the fast outside the United Nations by three Tibetan monks protesting Chinese occupation of their homeland. Protesters will gather at Times Square this morning at 8, the Chinese Embassy at 11, and then meet with the hunger strikers at 3 p.m., organizers say. People close to ... More >>

United Nations Hunger Strike By Tibetan Monks Enters 17th Day

Today marks the start of the 17th day of a hunger strike outside the United Nations building in midtown for three Tibetan monks who are protesting China's repression of Tibet, and demanding that the UN recognize their homeland as an independent country and address Chinese human rights abuses. Wrapp ... More >>

Live: Das Racist, Rahzel, Laurie Anderson And Many Others Play Philip Glass's Tibet House Benefit At Carnegie Hall

Philip Glass and Friends Tibet House U.S. Benefit w/Laurie Anderson, Tim Fain, Das Racist, Antony, Lou Reed, Stephin Merritt, and Rahzel Carnegie Hall Monday, February 13 Better than: Seeing how most ethnic Tibetans live. Last night's all-star benefit at Carnegie Hall began with a performance by ... More >>

Q&A: Das Racist's Dapwell On Tibetan Independence And Playing Carnegie Hall

Every day this month, Sound of the City has been publishing pieces about Philip Glass turning 75 years old, in conjunction with the Voice's cover story on the composer. Naturally, of course, this has led to an interview with Dapwell (Ashok Kondabolu) of Das Racist, who's performing Monday night at t ... More >>

STARRY NIGHT

Philip Glass curates the Tibet House jam

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos

A List of Easily Achievable New Year's Resolutions

After midnight tonight, as you are finishing your seventh screwdriver and fishing your phone out of the toilet, you are expected to make a promise to yourself, a resolution. These often turn out to be hollow gestures; the unused gym membership, the Rosetta Stone disc gathering dust on your desk, the ... More >>

NYE Guide: Wild Card

Something different

LAMA VS. YETI

Visit Tibet on the comics page

Not Your Mama's Momos

We trek on out to two Nepalese cafés in Queens' Little Himalayas

Fork in the Road Guide to Dining in Himalayan Jackson Heights

​Carved wooden doors at Himalayan Yak Over the last 10 years, Central Jackson Heights (the blocks around the subway/bus station) has turned into a concentrated Himalayan business zone, as immigrants from Tibet and Nepal have moved into the neighborhood, turning the area into a Himalayan hub ... More >>

Phayul: Up You Go!

A new Tibetan place scales the Heights of Jackson

TROPIC THUNDER

Blues alchemist comes to BK Bowl

Live: The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Michael Stipe, And Patti Smith Dominate Carnegie Hall's Tibet House Benefit

Patti Smith, leading the charge as always. Pic by Tracy Ketcher.​21st-Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert Starring The Flaming Lips, the Roots, Taj Mahal, Michael Stipe, etc. Carnegie Hall Thursday, March 3 Better Than: "Auld Lang Syne" "Beauty is power -- violence is weak," we are told ... More >>

Week In Review: "This Was A Weird One, Folks."

​Charlie Sheen dominated the wild and weird this week but the rest of the world proved able keep pace. Lady Gaga birthed some sort of goey monster-baby while blood-covered panda bears danced with leather-bound vampires at the Cradle of Filth show. Suffice it to say we felt the stirrings of a t ... More >>

New Year's Eve: Wild Card

And now for something completely different

Imprisoned Without a Trial, Filmmaker Still Gets the Story in Tibet in Song

Somebody Hacked the Dalai Lama

Can you guess this man's password?​Let's say you're part of a gang of infamous, powerful Chinese hackers with a really cool name, say, "the Shadow Network." You've busted through the fortified security systems of sensitive targets "including foreign ministries, embassies, and even a computer a ... More >>

The Sun Behind the Clouds Charts Impasse of Tibet's Struggle

TIBET FOREVER

Rock and experimental voices keep the fire alive

Bad Wine Bar Music Backs the Big Questions in Oh My God?

Spring Guide: Slurp Through the Recession

Mustang Thakali Kitchen Scales the Heights of Nepalese Cuisine

Jump on your yak now, baby, and ride, in Jackson Heights

Pix from Mustang Thakali Kitchen

This week, Counter Culture rolls into Mustang Thakali Kitchen in Jackson Heights, an amazing new restaurant with a pan-Himalayan menu, though one also specializing in the Mustang region of Nepal, up near the border with Tibet. Though there's plenty of lamb and chicken, and many vegetarian dishe ... More >>

Choice Eats Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

On Tuesday March 31st, the Village Voice will throw the second annual Choice Eats event at the 69th Street Armory. Those of you who loved last year's event (it was awesome) will be happy to know that this year's Choice Eats is basically the same deal, only with more restaurants and more space. Also ... More >>

Fork on the Road Eats Momos in Ditmas Park

Top Café Tibet Is Stuffed With Good Food

A delicious new restaurant in Ditmas Park

Brooklyn Artist, 5 Others Detained in Beijing for Protest

China's Blood-Splattered Olympics

The butcher of Tibet, and America's sporting president

Blindsight

Adventure doc looks at blindness in Tibet

Under the Influence

Was it the free love, the politics, or the acid that made films of the '60s so trippy?

'Dreaming Lhasa'

'Vajra Sky Over Tibet'

A Chinese Adventure Eco-Saga

Schoolhouse Lock

On Dangerous Ground

Extreme landscapes engulf eco-warriors in visceral Chinese adventure saga

'The Shaggy Dog'

Chinese Series Wraps Up With a Spotty Post-1949 Sample

Flops and Monks

Philip Glass's handpicked humanitarians keep it unstuffy

Classical Music

Film

Tibet or Not Tibet

Trig Your Own Hole

One-bedroom apartment with sleeping loft in renovated tenement

Spirits in the Sky

Worlds Apart

Wrap Sheet

The bloody trail of this year's fashion must