The plucky tale of a sitcom actress who wanted so badly to play Charity on Broadway that nothing would stand in her way.
The four thirtysomethings behind AvroKO have two James Beard Awards, a hot streak of restaurant openings, and total control of the design process.
As “Bed-Stuy” turns from a synonym for “slum” into a synonym for “Fort Greene,” the working families of Jefferson Avenue are slowly being edged out.
Guggenheim Museum, Catskills?
As abundant sunshine coaxed into bloom the Bradford-pear trees lining the city’s sidewalks, change and renewal seemed to be in the air.
Gifford Miller gets out the youth vote with “Generation G.”
The deep thought behind mini-bank placement.
Boutique synagogue to open in Soho.
Bloomberg’s stadium ignores every single lesson of New York development.
Does it matter whom Al Sharpton endorses in 2005?
Multipurpose anoraks, plus Lacoste women’s swimwear and the skin cream of the stars.
Online dating has given formerly lonely men so many sexual options they’ve turned pathological.
Cynthia Rowley.
Store openings this week.
Ashley Bigelow of Screaming Mimi’s.
Hand drills.
Including the six best sandwiches in town and where to have a noontime tryst.
Lassi’s Indian food is cooked fast but tastes great.
The best the city has to offer.
Duck eggs.
Matzo brei.
Another New Barbecue Joint? Is it the Real Deal?
Week of April 18, 2005: Bar Americain, Radha, Providence, Partage.
They might not be kosher, but these no-fuss Passover dinners can easily become a new tradition.
The Tribeca Film Festival runs through May 1. Where to eat between screenings?
Sky-high prices hit Yorkville.
Ellen Barkin on the transition from sex symbol to character actor (and billionaire’s wife).
An engrossing documentary argues that Enron was not an exception to the rules of capitalism.
How to avoid the turkeys.
The Pillowman is perfectly executed but offensively cruel.
Thoughts on the possible revival of the Jesus.
What the audience really thought about “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Michel Houellebecq’s odd projection of an H. P. Lovecraft biography.
A conversation with the author of Towelhead.
Three quirky operas are revived: one a failure, one a success, and one odd one in between.
This week, as he does every spring, the shaggy dance provocateur Mark Morris returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
A documentary on boxer Emile Griffith is well made but has a questionable political worldview.
New Order is back to compete with the bands spawned by its classic early work.
