De-grime the kitchen yourself? Outsource your shameful clutter to an expert? Either way, it’s time to organize, disinfect, air out, and otherwise improve your home (and yourself).

Hem plays pretty, country-inflected songs that are everything but cool.

$2 mil remake payday for NYC lit-boy, David Benioff?

Thirty years after Horses, the thin white duchess of CBGB talks about Callas, Oz, and not becoming Kiss.

"People think we’re assholes because we use a cello sometimes, and I think that’s funny."

Snotty suburban student musical a smash!

"You like Kenny G?" "Love, not like. I could play it all day."

Inexpensive dance performances abound this month. Below, a world-class, only–in–New York lineup of talent, with tickets that cost less than a Chinese takeout order.

The true tale of a young pregnant woman drowned by her boyfriend in an Adirondack lake in 1906.

But the ceiling will live on—if they can get it out of there. The artist left no preservation advice; “I don’t think Keith cared about forever.”