March rolled into New York like a fully grown, growling, rather unfriendly lion, with a blustery storm that left city dwellers tromping through knee-deep snow like prairie trappers. Like the stock market, temperatures seem lower on average than we’d like. And higher digits will bring puddles as deep as your knees at every intersection; dripping Read More
With almost three dozen new shows set to premiere in the next couple of months, spring has officially become the new fall. ABC has six brand-new shows, including Castle (Monday, March 9, 10 p.m.), which stars Nathan Fillion as the title character, a mystery writer who teams up with a detective (Stana Katic) to help Read More
When it comes to star power, the cineplex has got nothing on Broadway this spring. Let’s start with 33 Variations, the new play by Moisés Kaufman (The Laramie Project) that brings Jane Fonda back to the stage after 46 years, God bless her. In it, Ms. Fonda plays an academic who’s obsessed with Beethoven’s 33 Read More
You know what one sure sign of springy-like things to come is? Saying au revoir to crappy studio holdovers (cough, New in Town) and hellooo to big, big movie stars—Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck!—plus plenty of shiny high-tech action heroes to entertain us till the next Harry Potter installment (finally) comes out Read More
Last week, a visitor to my apartment told me the knickknacks on my mantel were “beautifully curated.” People, if it’s not art, and it’s not in a museum, it’s stuff you “chose” or maybe “picked,” or, if you must dress it up, “selected and arranged.” O.K.?
Good. Now onto this season’s exhibitions. MoMA’s got Read More
It was just confirmed that U2’s Bono and the Edge are scoring a Spider-Man musical that’s set to hit Broadway next February. A bit out of left field, no? But also not a bad PR boost for the Irish rockers’ 12th studio album, No Line on the Horizon, which is out this week on Interscope. Read More
As late winter’s doldrums penetrate the city, it’s becoming harder to find a reason to leave the house at night. But what if we told you Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds were headlining the Plug Independent Music Awards tomorrow at Terminal 5? And then what if we told you it was only $10? Well, Read More
Parisian-born sculptor Louise Bourgeois’ life and career have been remarkable. Born in 1911, four years after Picasso painted Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, Bourgeois came of age during a time when “avant-garde” had yet to become the empty boast of PR men. Influenced by the murkier tangents of Surrealism, Ms. Bourgeois, who studied at the École du Read More
The writers’ strike might be over, but we can still feel the afttershocks—just look at what’s gonna be on the tube this spring (i.e., not much). Sure, Lost (ABC, Thursday, 9 p.m.) returned a few weeks back, but it’s still a truncated season (13 episodes instead of 16, boo!). And How I Met Your Mother, Read More
On March 4, Mary-Louise Parker was sipping up some lobster bisque in a New York cafe when the man sitting in the seat next to her dropped dead. Or, shall we say, slumped dead at his table. His cell phone started to ring. Ms. Parker, playing a shy, retiring museum worker on the opening night Read More
