Willy Wonka

Dirt Candy's Amanda Cohen Gets Down With Vegetables in the East Village

Dirty Pleasure

"Dieter Roth. Björn Roth" Explores Disorder and Decay

Sultans of rot

Best Buffet Of The Year: Boardwalk Empire Bash!

Just when I've gotten used to fighting for Triscuits in public, last night restored a hack journalist's faith that there's money out there somewhere and people will actually spend it on food for the comp-buffets-to-munch bunch. After a Ziegfeld screening of Boardwalk Empire's third season premiere, ... More >>

OK, I Finally Just Saw The Tourist!

You know, the bizarre costarring vehicle for lippy Angelina Jolie and owlish Johnny Depp, and I can't believe it not only didn't sweep the Razzie Awards for 2010, it wasn't even nominated! Someone had to have been paid off! (Which would also explain its Golden Globe nominations for Picture, Actor, ... More >>

Steve Lehman Trio w/ Vijay Iyer

The Single Best Food Item In American History

Better than the cocktail olive... Tastier than Baked Alaska... More satisfying than grilled cheese.... Healthier than hot dogs (which cause butt cancer)... It happens to be...

Long Island City Clubhouse Is Getting Serious About Comedy

​Let's face it -- Long Island City is just way cooler than your typical go-to trendy neighborhoods in New York City. It's got that great combo of not-yet-too-gentrified, still-a-safe-place-to-chill, not-as-hipster-as-Williamsburg, and very-friggin'-close-to-Manhattan-AND-Brooklyn. At the hea ... More >>

Best in Show: Aldo Tambellini at Chelsea Art Museum

Plus: Leandro Erlich at Sean Kelly; “Boundaries Obscured” at Haunch of Venison

Alexander McQueen Show: When's The Best Time To Go?

​Everyone on earth wants to see "Savage Beauty," the Metropolitan Museum of Art's show spanning Alexander McQueen's dark, bold invention. Well, if you want to get in with less of a wait, it's best to go Friday or Saturday at around 7 PM--or you can pay $50 and go on Monday, when the place is ... More >>

Candle Smells Like New York Times

via​Ah, the sweet smell of newsprint hot off the presses. That smell doesn't exist anymore, right? Hasn't it been replaced by the smell of an overheating laptop (vaguely metallic, slightly fiery, mostly disconcerting)? Not quite. Refinery29 reports that there is now a limited-edition candle av ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: May 25-31, 2011

The Brady Bunch, Loni Anderson and Jaws In The Same Room!

Sitcom stars of yore, starry-eyed autograph hounds collide in New Jersey

I Hung With Loni Anderson!

​And the Brady Bunch! And the Munsters! And Ernest Borgnine! And oodles and oodles more! Click here for my hilarious yet socially insightful column in which I detail my trip to the "Chiller Theatre" autograph convention in Parsippany, where Oscar winners, kitsch sitcom stars, and horror f ... More >>

Photos of "Chiller Theatre" Sexpots, Munsters, Bradys, Rockers, and An Oscar Winner

​ My column this week describes the riotous romp I had at "Chiller Theatre"--a New Jersey autograph convention--with pals Mickey Boardman and Angelo Pitillo. Well, here's the proof. Angelo Pitillo zoomed his loving lens in for some glorious interspecies moments between myself and the celebr ... More >>

Evil Walmart Might Get Bumped By ShopRite, But We Have Better Plans

​Walmart is still fighting to come to New York City, despite the fact that residents believe the store is run by a bunch of corporate soulless zombies who don't support unions? Still!? They set up a website and everything! Gothamist is reporting that "ShopRite is also interested in the 100,000 ... More >>

Our 10 Best Food-Themed Children's Books

Where on the list will Maurice Sendak's controversial classic fall?​If some of our earliest memories of food are shaped by eating it, then plenty more are informed by the act of reading about it. After devouring Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen, what child could look at a slice of toast w ... More >>

Fat Pants Fridays: Bee Desserts' Honey Cake

​ For last week's Fat Pants Friday, we ventured downtown to bask in the caramelized yellow glow of Locanda Verde's banana tart. It was a decadent specimen fully worthy of the fat pants designation, but this week, feeling a bit full from several evenings' worth of gastrointestinal exertion, we ... More >>

Roberta's and the Meat Hook Come Clean With Coffee Soap

Joe DiStefanoGoldie's: it will make you clean, and possibly wake you up.​Add another course to the clean-living regimen otherwise known as the Fork in the Road Diet: Goldie's Brooklyn Beef Tallow Soap. In a true Brooklyn locavore (or should that be "lavavore"?) spirit, the handmade soap is a ... More >>

Monster Magnet, Bourbon Eggnog, and Potty-Mouthed Kids at the Bell House's Cookie Takedown

Syd LondonThe spread at the Cookie Takedown​ The Cookie Takedown, brainchild of Matt Timms (he of the Bacon, Chili, Fondue and Cheese Takedowns), took place under the dangling chandeliers of Brooklyn's Bell House last night to the strains of stoner metal. "I bet people would prefer a DJ, but I ... More >>

Why Park Avenue Winter's Seasonal Change Is Far More Reliable Than Mother Nature's

​ Ever wondered how Park Avenue Winter changes seasons so quickly? Needless to say, it takes slightly more than a coat of paint. The restaurant, which switched its red-hued autumnal finery for wintry white right after Thanksgiving, undergoes a 48-hour transition that, says Allison Good, its di ... More >>

Recapping the Chocolate Show, Morsel by Morsel

One of William Dean's delectables.​Bowls of cacao beans, vats of liquid chocolate, and stacks of truffles invaded the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea this past weekend as the Chocolate Show touched down in New York. French event planners Sylvie Douce and Francoise Jeantet have taken their tra ... More >>

Is Anyone Sicker Than Phil Spector?

Let's have a belated hooray for the conviction of human chia pet Phil Spector and his Yahoo Serious hairdo. Can you believe a couple of jurors last time around actually thought Lana Clarkson had killed herself, even though a procession of other women came forth to describe the way Phil had ritualist ... More >>

Stephen Kijak Lets the Artist Speak For Himself in Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Journey To The Center of the Earth: Pretty Much a Demo Reel

Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole

NY Best Markets: Gold City

Hugs and Kisses: David Thomas Broughton and the End of the Road Festival

Going for the Gold

Hugs and Kisses, the Outbursts of Everett True: Antifolk, Part II

Justice's †

More knuckleheaded French party rock

Chappelle's Show

Comedian's Bed-Stuy bash serves up local flavor and a homestyle, utopian vibe

Table for Twelve

From bar mitzvah memories to video game worlds, this year's coffee-table books offers sentimental journeys

Rack Focus

The Unacknowledged Triumphs of Fashion Week

(And not one supermodel DJ in attendance . . .)

NY Mirror

A Fudge-Pop Cocktail for Fucked-Up Kids

Stranger With Candy

A decent Factory: Tim Burton's enjoyable Roald Dahl redux delves into Wonka weirdness

Why the King of Pop Will Moonwalk

Musto skips jury duty and judges the Michael Jackson trial

NY Mirror

Strangers on a Train: Wobbly Cartoon Spectacle Lacks Human Element

Never Been in a Riot

Hip-hoppers battle for identity and the right kind of mobility

Suitably Hep

Tipsy businessmen toast conflicted British cabaret star

Film

Prolific Brooklynites Repeat Themselves For a Long Time Once Again

Despite Star's Best Efforts, Corny Thriller Goes off the Depp End

Music

Getting the Shaft

Windows to the Soul

NY Mirror

Slags and Hags Invade NYC!

Music