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West Side Story

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 22, 2012

    Linda Oh

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 23, 2011

    A Brighter Summer Day

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 10, 2010

    A Brighter Summer Day

    ​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 >>

  • Film

    November 3, 2010

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    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.

  • Columns

    March 30, 2010

    Green Day Was Influenced By Ethel Merman!

    Cruising for surreal NYC Housewives. Plus, high and low fashion, plus some new and old-fashioned on Broadway.

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2009

    Vijay Iyer Trio

    Cruising for surreal NYC Housewives. Plus, high and low fashion, plus some new and old-fashioned on Broadway.

  • Film

    December 11, 2007

    The District!

    Cruising for surreal NYC Housewives. Plus, high and low fashion, plus some new and old-fashioned on Broadway.

  • Dance

    May 1, 2007

    Wherefore Romeo?

    Those young lovers die in fifth position yet again

  • Film

    February 6, 2007

    '2006 Academy Award Nominated Shorts'

    Those young lovers die in fifth position yet again

  • Dance

    November 21, 2006

    Dancing With the Real Stars

    Balanchine's company shows its versatility in winter season opener

  • Dance

    September 19, 2006

    Take Me Out

    Two choreographers make the city their stage

  • Film

    June 13, 2006

    Skate or Die

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

  • Columns

    March 28, 2006

    Horoscope

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

  • Music

    March 7, 2006

    Beyond the Status Quo

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

  • Theater

    December 20, 2005

    Chita 10, Show 3

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

  • Music

    May 10, 2005

    Beyond the Melting Pot

    Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa sure are tough-minded—and also Indian Americans

  • Music

    February 22, 2005

    MCs Are Paid, Not Born

    Straight out the thug factory, rhyming for only a year, and ready for his cover story in Vibe

  • NYC Life

    January 4, 2005

    Wunderbar, Wunderbar

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

  • Music

    April 27, 2004

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

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

  • News

    January 6, 2004

    Picture This

    The Best Photo Books of 2003

  • NYC Life

    January 7, 2003

    Railroad Apartment in Tenement

    The Best Photo Books of 2003

  • Film

    December 3, 2002

    Film

    The Best Photo Books of 2003

  • Music

    September 3, 2002

    No Slack, Motherfucker

    The Best Photo Books of 2003

  • NYC Life

    August 27, 2002

    Close-Up on Clinton (Hell's Kitchen)

    The Best Photo Books of 2003

  • Dance

    May 28, 2002

    Full Carrafa

    Twice a Contender

  • Art

    August 28, 2001

    Breaking and Entering

    Twice a Contender

  • Music

    April 3, 2001

    Used Cars

    Twice a Contender

  • Theater

    March 13, 2001

    Pleased to Meat You

    Twice a Contender

  • Columns

    January 9, 2001

    NY Mirror

    Twice a Contender

  • Dance

    December 5, 2000

    Organization Man

    Listening to Dorfman, Whose Dream Came True

  • Dance

    November 28, 2000

    Groaning Board/Lean Cuisine

    New York City Ballet Shows Its All

  • Film

    October 24, 2000

    Furtive Desires and Faustian Bargains

    New York City Ballet Shows Its All

  • Music

    September 19, 2000

    Grammytanamera

    Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

  • Dance

    June 20, 2000

    Worldwide Dance

    Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

  • Dance

    January 18, 2000

    Moss Picks Pinto

    Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

  • Books

    August 24, 1999

    New York’s Mean Streets

    Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

  • Theater

    July 27, 1999

    Romeo and Juliet

    Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

  • Film

    July 20, 1999

    Tuned In

    Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

  • Theater

    June 22, 1999

    Love's Labour's Loud

    Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

  • Music

    March 23, 1999

    Sharks and Jets

    Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

  • Film

    February 9, 1999

    Tango

    Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

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