Staff Pick! Shelley (Technology): Soda is awesome for letting us host a weekly Work of Art screening party w/ the big TV. Come Weds at 10pm thru Aug 11 to watch reality TV w/ museum staff! En savoir plus .
4/1/13 - Michael Schulman profiles the funniest singer-comedian you may have never heard of, Tim Minchin, songwriter for Matilda: The Musical: En savoir plus .
Sarah Larson attends "Manilow on Broadway" (1/30/13): "Manilow is music, of course, and he writes the songs. Another sing-along, an explosion of confetti over our heads, and then home..." En savoir plus .
A waiter: “Rubirosa? I heard he was this man who used to be a playboy and he had sex with everyone, and then he became a librarian.” En savoir plus .
(3/25/13) Patricia Marx: The store "feels like a huge ski chalet-- that is, one in which O.C.D.-afflicted skiers have color-sorted their parkas before hanging them... from custom-made meat hooks." En savoir plus .
Silvia Killingsworth's review from the 4/1/13 issue: "It’s Le Pain Quotidien with a Scandinavian makeover." En savoir plus .
(3/20/13) SAVE 92Y TRIBECA -- A call for the 92Y to reconsider its decision and maintain 92Y Tribeca, from Richard Brody: En savoir plus .
The front of the vest-pocket space—a hybrid bodega, lunch counter, and raw bar—is stocked with groceries. In the back, a mere two dozen seats at the bar and around one communal table. En savoir plus .
A coquettish and vintagey take on bohemia selling cardigans embellished with jewels, clear beading, rope trim, hot-pink stitching, and pompoms. En savoir plus .
Be sure to catch the concert of remounted 'New Dance Group'-- founded in NY in 1932-- dances, incl. works by Anna Sokolow, Sophie Maslow, and others. Performance on 2/1/2013. Joan Acocella has more: En savoir plus .
Are people paying to see calamity? Theatregoers suffer a case of Spider-Man Schadenfreude, as injured actors spur ticket sales for the new Broadway musical. En savoir plus .
The Italian restaurant’s twist on potato chips and P.B. & J. may seem out of place, but “skip the scoffing and order.” Next, try one of their fresh pastas, and be sure to save room for secondi! En savoir plus .
This sleek bistro offers “haute-cuisine versions of home-cooking favorites.” Their theatrical and legendary DB Burger is “rich, well travelled, charred in the right places, and a little bit jaded.” En savoir plus .
When Radio City first opened in 1932, it was the world’s largest enclosed theatre. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. once remarked to a New Yorker reporter, “Don’t you think that it’s a lovely room?” En savoir plus .
Architect Daniel Libeskind’s plan strikes “a careful balance between commemorating the lives lost and reëstablishing the life of the site itself.” En savoir plus .
The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around 11:00 on a Friday night in October, 1999. He spent forty-one hours trapped in elevator car No. 30. Watch the video. En savoir plus .
Didier Pawlicki, the chef and owner of one of the tiniest, least pretentious, more pleasurable French bistros in the city, is a sensitive and adaptable—not to mention Internet-savvy—soul. En savoir plus .
Investment banks recently banned employees from entertaining clients in front of bikini-clad waitresses. Owner Dennis Riese defends himself. En savoir plus .
Before this became a discount clothing spot with communal dressing rooms, in 2007, it was a gay bathhouse, then the swingers’ club Plato’s Retreat. En savoir plus .
The owner, Evan Blum, sells all types of “vintage doors.” In a 2007 Talk of the Town piece, Blum says, “They don’t look special, but more people have a need for ordinary doors than you could imagine.” En savoir plus .
At 5:30 P.M. on Wednesdays, people gather in Suite 1107 for Laughter Yoga. En savoir plus .
The team behind the Spotted Pig brings this new gastropub that projects a certain swagger. Chef April Bloomfield’s knack for unusual meats is evident, and the menu reads a bit like Dickens. En savoir plus .
Designed by the Japanese architects SANAA: “The visual signals this building sends—it is at once crisp and pliable, solid and permeable—seem deliberately ambiguous.” En savoir plus .
In 1938, workmen laid down a new 2,295-square-foot rug in the lobby, “stopping only to extricate a workman who had fallen into its folds.” En savoir plus .