West Side Story

Kick-Ass 2: Superheroes vs. Meaning

Buzzfeed Was Invented by This 1952 Magazine That Asked "How Anthropomorphic Are You?"

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Pageant Magazine Date: October 1952 Publisher: Hillman Publication Discovered at: Los Angeles thrift store The Cover Promises: "Why Our Boys Are Afraid to Fly" ... More >>

Our 10 Best Upper West Side Restaurants

Topped with bacon, slaw, and fried green tomatoes and sided with cheese grits, the fried chicken biscuit sandwich at Jacob's Pickles A score of years ago the Upper West Side was known as one of the worst dining neighborhoods in the city. Well, what happened? You may trace the transformation back t ... More >>

The Upper West Side's Strangest Sandwich?

Wrap your lips around this meaty strangeness. A fixture right on Broadway on the Upper West Side, Big Nick's Burger Joint has been around since 1962 -- just about the time West Side Story came out as a movie, immortalizing the neighborhood for the nation. Big Nick's is a product of that merging of ... More >>

Les Misérables Doesn't Dream Daringly

The Follies of 1832

Dee Snider Is Doing A Cabaret Act!

And you're gonna take it! Because it's gonna be good! The singer--best known as the big-haired, large-lunged Twisted Sister frontman--met with me yesterday at 54 Below, where he'll be doing an act of Broadway numbers and holiday standards. (True story.) He even explained to me why that's not so s ... More >>

Watch a Piglet Sing the Factory-Farming Blues

In a new campaign from Animals Australia, a video addresses animal welfare and factory farming in song. A cute piglet sings "Somewhere" from West Side Story, and is joined by a chorus of caged pigs and chickens. Watch the video below: [See More Clips of the Day: Pun Hunting in the Kitchen | How to ... More >>

YouTube Treasure: Cher Plays All The Parts In West Side Story

It turns out Cher was the original gender outlaw. In a segment of her TV show in the 1970s, the superstar portrayed all--and I mean all--the roles in a mini version of West Side Story, including Maria, Anita, and the Jets!

The 10 Best Theater Duets In History

I just performed a little conversational duet with myself and picked the best of the musical twosomes. We both agreed that these are the finest: (10) "Bosom Buddies" from Mame Such a zippy campfest between two drag queens! I mean two women! The fun of this Jerry Herman number is that in pretendi ... More >>

I Had A Tres Gay Weekend In Atlantic City

Resorts casino sent me down for a gayola night of lavender luxury. All on the lucky 13th floor of their Ocean Tower, I got to drop by: *Pro Bar, the only gay bar in an Atlantic City casino. Potted palms dot the dance floor, where lesbians flail around, mixed with some gay guys, and a few slummin ... More >>

The 18 Best Rapper Movies

Since the days of Wild Style and Krush Groove, rappers have put their music on hold and delved into the film world. A bunch of these efforts were pretty bad—remember Ice-T in Leprechaun in the Hood—while others were so bad they were good. Cam crying in Killa Season or KRS fleeing the sce ... More >>

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 >>

Linda Oh

A Brighter Summer Day

Hugh Jackman's Sexuality! Discuss

Broadwayworld.com​Hugh Jackman was great as gay performer Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, but on the Tony Awards the other night, he was still swishing around. As himself! Hugh and host Neil Patrick Harris performed a very funny Tony host showdown, which resulted in them camping it up to tun ... More >>

Sikh Sword Attack in Queens Captured in Chaotic Video

The New York Daily News provides the above video from a sword fight on Sunday at the Baba Makhan Shah Lubana Sikh Center in Queens, where a rival gang enters during prayer and seemingly starts a scuffle, "like a scene out of West Side Story," according to the New York Post.

Christie Brinkley Singing and Dancing?

​When it was announced last week that model-turned-divorcee Christie Brinkley was going to play Roxie Hart in Broadway's Chicago revival, someone on "All That Chat" posted the immortal comment, "World to end. Story at 11." But the woman can kinda sorta dance right? After all, she strutted aro ... More >>

A Brighter Summer Day

Jerome Robbins's Classic NY Export: Opuz Jazz, Remade and Renewed

The Gaslight Anthem And My Chemical Romance, Together At Last, At Roseland

Not My Chemical Romance​'Tis the season for super-goofy, radio-station-helmed holiday shows that corral together often wildly disparate acts in the name of yuletide cheer and forced promotion, and while Z100's Jingle Ball is the mother of them all (could a preview of the Dream/Kardashian music ... More >>

Richard M. Nixon, Cinephile

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 20, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 34 Film in Focus By Andrew Sarris President Richard M. Nixon may not be quite the cinephile his recent press notices would seem to suggest. Or so we are led to believe by a recent Variety follow-up to the ... More >>

NEWSPAPER WARS, The Movie: NYT and WSJ Battle It Out in Simulated Taiwanese Melodrama

​Some things you see on the internet, and you look at them, and you stare at them, thinking that maybe at some point along the lines of all this staring, it will begin to resemble something that will make sense. Try as you might, this is absolutely not one of those things.

Vijay Iyer Trio

The District!

'2006 Academy Award Nominated Shorts'

Dancing With the Real Stars

Balanchine's company shows its versatility in winter season opener

Skate or Die

A kinder, gentler Larry Clark delves into South Central's boarding subculture

Horoscope

Beyond the Status Quo

Smash tween soundtrack starts something new, clues in Disney to the digital component

Chita 10, Show 3

Chita Rivera has a vivid presence, but her material all seems to be in the past tense

Wunderbar, Wunderbar

Man and his voice live inside his apartment with large cereal collection

Wynton's Older Sibling Hunts For, and Finds, His Own Sound

Railroad Apartment in Tenement

Film

No Slack, Motherfucker

Close-Up on Clinton (Hell's Kitchen)

Full Carrafa

Twice a Contender

Breaking and Entering

NY Mirror

Organization Man

Listening to Dorfman, Whose Dream Came True

Furtive Desires and Faustian Bargains

Grammytanamera

Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

Worldwide Dance

Moss Picks Pinto

New York’s Mean Streets

Romeo and Juliet

Tuned In

Love's Labour's Loud

Sharks and Jets

Tango