In the Heights

An explosion of dance and song in this vibrant stage-to-screen adaptation

"...clock ticks down to a blackout. After all, what's NYC in the summer without someone sweating on a stoop?..."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**cker

Inside the creativity and fury of the artist provocateur

"...the genuinely mean, pre-gentrified streets of Mayor Ed Koch-era NYC, surviving as a street hustler in Times Square while..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boogie

Love and basketball in Queens as a story of Asian-American integration

"...visually distinctive about his depiction of diverse working class NYC, and major events bubble up with surprisingly little impact...."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Speed Dating Sampler of All 69 Virtual SXSW Music Showcases

The sun always shines on TV

"...New label from NYC decibel pusher Oliver Ackermann showcases his A Place to..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Live Comedy Clubs Are Coming Back

NYC's the Creek & the Cave moves to ATX, Cap City gets revived

"...space at 611 E. Seventh. The original venue in NYC was a stalwart in the city's comedy scene for..."

Feb. 11, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...commuters have more of a negative climate impact than NYC commuters who use mass transit and do a lot..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Save Yourselves!

Affable alien invasion comedy is really a lightweight relationship story

"...of potshots at how ill-prepared the latest wave of NYC transplants is to face any kind of challenge, but..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

On the Rocks

Sofia Coppola heads to NYC for a slight but charming anti-rom-com

"...The bond this time is between Laura (Jones), an NYC mother of two who confides in her bon vivant..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Checking In: Guitar Heater Sue Foley Works on Her PhD

Ace stringer “spaced out for about three months” first

"...My last gig was at the Beacon Theatre in NYC on Mar 12, which was the exact moment the..."

Aug. 18, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Fourteen

Scenes from a collapsing friendship captured with astonishing empathy

"...of youth. If you’re privileged enough to move to NYC after college, movies suggest you will soon find yourself..."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Lucky Grandma

Tsai Chin is one bad grandma in this glorious, unconventional noir

"...her mouth, a dead husband (whose shrine in her NYC apartment barely merits a scowl), and an impressively foul..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Times of Bill Cunningham

The NYT fashion-lover revealed as really a lover of people

"...and was one of the first photographers to capture NYC's Pride Parades. And then, of course, there were his..."

April 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: No Place for Bigotry in Health Care

Plus lots of virtual events to remind y’all of yer queer magic

"...running an emergency field hospital for COVID-19 patients in NYC – defended his organization's anti-LGBTQIA "Statement of Faith" all..."

April 17, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

The Bon Appétit Test Kitchen Crew Has Answers

Nine pro chefs and YouTube personalities tackle our burning food Qs

"...Alex, we greatly enjoyed your guide on Twitter to NYC juice types. If you were to make a signature..."

March 20, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Life Is a Butt Dial: Tales From a Life Among the Tragically Hip

"...sublime (Jimi Hendrix auditioning at the Night Owl in NYC) to surreal (living across the street from the Manson..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Everyone's favorite web-slinger returns for a new era of Marvel

"...of some great architecture (if you've got tired of NYC getting the brunt of the beating, now see Prague..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Women of Hot Luck Fest Talk Food and Music

15 chefs share kitchen tunes & exclusive bites

"...to Celine Dion all day. Christina Tosi, Milk Bar (NYC, L.A., D.C.)..."

May 24, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

SXSW Unveils Third Artist List

Bedouine, Priests, Mystery Lights, Kokoko!, and 297 more

"...specialists Priests; increasingly experimental Swedish rapper Yung Lean; and NYC garage-punk hook mongers Mystery Lights, stars of Daptone subsidiary..."

Jan. 9, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

On the Basis of Sex

RBG biopic focuses on a single case, but blurs the details

"...key points – marriage, children, and a move to NYC where she attended Columbia – and then skips ahead..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Vox Lux

Pop star drama is all off-key

"...should be hopeful, like when Celeste first goes to NYC with her sister (Martin) and manager (Law) to shop..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Cam

Online sex worker drama massages authenticity into techno-thriller

"...group (in that case, undocumented Eastern European migrants in NYC) before adding some new and eerie elements. The use..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable

The great photographer's work reappraised and redeemed

"...John Szarkowski, famously – and unjustly – dismissed his post-NYC catalog as inferior, an assessment that branded his entire..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Playback: Waterloo Music Festival vs. Eastside Kings Festival

Austin music’s fall festival opens with a double-barrel bang

"...played a set of Grateful Dead covers at a NYC party. In the ensuing five years, Joe Russo's Almost..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2018: Picks

In the bounty of improv, sketch, & stand-up, some of our picks

"...(improvised Forties sci-fi radio drama by a troupe from NYC)..."

Aug. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Skate Kitchen

Hybrid narrative/doc gets to the heart of NYC skater life

"...The Wolfpack and it focuses on the real-life, all-female NYC skate crew of the title...."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hearts Beat Loud

Nick Offerman plays father in this thoroughly modern tale of growing up musical

"...Most shots get in close, mimicking the confines of NYC but maybe also the small-worldness of even a place..."

June 22, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Itzhak

Violin maestro Itzhak Perlman gets the biodoc treatment

"...restricted to the complexities of getting his scooter through NYC snow drifts. He’d much rather be cracking open a..."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Central Market + Maffei: Better Than a Halftime Show

We review the recent Chef’s Table class at the popular cooking school

"...Ransom Center, this Chef Maffei, this titan of a NYC-born-and-raised culinarista, he’s going to teach you and the night’s..."

Jan. 24, 2018 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sonic Transmissions Festival III

"...jazz sax titan Joe McPhee, contribute free range noise. NYC's Rodenticide, also with a new release on Self Sabotage,..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Margaret Moser Tribute: John Cale

Velvet Underground co-founder on first meet: “Up walks a petite blonde with all the swagger of someone 10 feet tall”

"...angry musicians and their gear – we still had NYC in our back pockets. This Welsh boy, now familiar..."

June 30, 2017 Music Feature by Ed Ward

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