Vienna (Austria)

Have a Bruising Tropical-Tourism Anti-Daydream With Paradise: Faith

Museum Hours Makes Art of Waiting

Mini Hot Dogs Hit Manhattan

Yes, after 90 years, the mini hot dog has finally arrived at Union Square -- but without Zippy Sauce. I'm a big fan of the tiny hot dogs found almost exclusively in the Albany area, and have been known to travel to places like Troy, Cohoes, and Schenectady, New York just for a taste. These miniatu ... More >>

The Third Man's Wolfgang Ban Explores the 'Secret' East Village

January in New York is well-suited to a cloak and dagger mentality and these dark and stormy days can set the stage for some equally heady nights in our suddenly-eerie metropolis. Our advice? Embrace that film noir feeling and grab a drink at The Third Man, the new cocktail den on Avenue C from th ... More >>

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The USA Champion Barista on Her Signature Beverage

The past weekend at the United States Barista Championship in Portland, Katie Carguilo of Counter Culture Coffee defeated 54 other contestants to become the first New Yorker ever to win the competition. This summer, she'll travel to Vienna to represent the United States in the World Barista Champion ... More >>

My 5 Favorite NYC Hot Dogs

​At Shake Shack, our own approximation of the Chicago dog. Whether you call them frankfurters, wieners, tube steaks, or floaters, New York City is the hot dog capital of the world. And here are my five favorite local evocations of the silky sausage that came here from Frankfurt or Vienna, d ... More >>

Our 10 Best New York City Restaurant Cookbooks

Going out to dinner in New York City can be an expensive endeavor, with entrée prices clocking in at $30. But you can eat four-star food at a fraction of the price: Cook it yourself using the restaurant's cookbook. Now, cookbook love is like any other type of love -- wildly subjective. Yet some of ... More >>

Vienna Philharmonic

NYC Chefs and Cookbook Writers Take Center Stage in the Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks

The Piglet, Food52's tournament of cookbooks, which is modeled after The Morning News' Tournament of Books, has released this year's bracket, with many New York City chefs and cookbook authors in the mix. The Dutch chef Andrew Carmellini's American Flavor, New York Times writer Melissa Clark's Cook ... More >>

Time Magazine Names 'The Protester' Person of the Year

​For Time's annual "Person of the Year" issue, they've chosen "The Protester." The Awl announces, "Okay, yay, we won!" The spread features simple portraits of and interviews with protesters from around the world -- Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, and right here in the U.S. The attached cover ... More >>

Wallsé Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner on Neue Cuisine and the Rise of Austrian Food

Photo courtesy Kurt GutenbrunnerSample Kurt's food at the Neue Galerie or from Neue Cuisine​Kurt Gutenbrunner is a busy man. Not only does he run the show at acclaimed Austrian restaurants Wallsé, Café Sabarsky, and Blaue Gans, he just last week opened the beer garden at the Standard Hotel ... More >>

Rightbloggers Discover the Real Victims of Norway Mass Murderer Breivik: Themselves

As you probably heard, someone bombed downtown Oslo, Norway and shot up kids in nearby Utoya, killing 93 people. it turns out that the suspect is not a jihadist but an anti-jihadist -- Anders Behring Breivik, a real deport-them-all, Norway-for-the-Norwegians type who denounced "multiculturalism," "p ... More >>

Measure for Measure: Sex and the Citizens

David Esbjornson's Shakespeare production puts an urban hell in Central Park

Ooh, Snap! New York Is Getting Chicago-Style Wieners on Wheels

​"The Chicago-style hot dog," Zeph Courtney says, "is a classic piece of American food culture. It's a very, very specific thing. There's one way to do it right, and every other way is wrong." "And we're going to do it right," adds Liz Schroeter Courtney.

Lukas Ligeti & Hypercolor+Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa

Hofbrau Bierhaus Is a Real Brew-haha

Noisy-ass beer garden blasts into Midtown from Munich

The Nutcracker in 3D: Nathan Lane and Nazi Rats!

Music for a Russian Spy Swap in Vienna: "Third Man"

​The greatest spy swap since Rudolph Abel walked across a bridge between East and West Berlin back in 1962 in exchange for failed U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is pending, and if Moscow sources are correct, the perfect locale for the swap has been selected: Vienna. That's where the f ... More >>

A CRIMINAL MIND

Film Forum celebrates the 60th anniversary of The Third Man

Pamelia Kurstin

PAGING DR. FREUD

Exploring family, phone sex, and the Holocaust

Freak Folk

Opera Jawa is the Indonesian morality musical of the year

The Abjection Collection

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

MOMA's Best Week Ever

Innovator meets Image Maker in dueling retrospectives

Tone-Deaf

Not even Ed Harris can save this poorly composed period pic

Practical Magic

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

What's Up, Docs: MOMA's Sixth Annual Nonfiction Festival

Duked Out

A farewell tour pays fitting tribute to Mark Rylance's twin roles at Shakespeare’s Globe

Music

In a Bleak Hapsburg Autumn, Schnitzler's Artists Go It Alone

Revisiting the relics of Central European conceptualism

The Rosebud Express

The Martial Plan

Police State Tactics Transform a Nation—Our Own

Stylish Seriousness in Post-Techno Soundhound Country

Music

Fable Scraps

Daniel Mason Picks Up the Pieces and Writes a Novel

Festing on Forty Deuce

Sex and the Old World City

Nation

Lux et Veritas

Pleasure and Pain

Moretti Wins at Cannes

The Results Are In

Partly Renovated Loft in Former Knitting Factory

London Traffic

Seven U.K. Productions That May Be New York Bound

Promised Lands

Dark City

In the Clear

The Screens

All the World's a Cyber Stage: The State of Online Theater

Desperate Measures