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Masked killers, demons from another world, Beasts of Unusual Size: these are the things that go bump in the night, the denizens of horror films. Terrifyingly unknowable and unknowably terrifying, these monsters live in the dark, emerging only when least expected to destroy whichever horny teens disturbed their slumber. As evidenced by the recent box office success of “It,” “Halloween,” […]
Peninsula Art Space’s current show, “Wildernesses”, marks the 5th collaboration between gallery owner/director Eric Fallen and curator Johnny Mullen, formerly director of Chelsea’s Edward Thorp Gallery. The group show, exploring fragmentation and disorder, features paintings and sculptures in a variety of media from eight artists residing in New York and the surrounding area. See it now until August 18! On […]
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-prize winning play “Fairview” shines a light on white spaces Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-prize winning play “Fairview” will run until Aug 11, 2019 at Theater for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center after a successful production at Soho Repertory Theatre in 2018. The 95-minute play may technically be one act with no intermission, but it is divided […]
If you take Hollywood at its word — and you absolutely shouldn’t — the last few years have been really good for female filmmakers. Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins, was the third-biggest film of 2017, earning more than $412 million at the box office. That same year, Greta Gerwig set the zeitgeist ablaze with her exceptional Lady Bird. Ava Duvernay has […]
Téa Obreht’s former student reviews her long-awaited followup Téa Obreht’s new novel Inland is a triumphant sweeping epic that sets out across the American West following two narrators: Lurie, a stateless orphan turned outlaw trying to claim his place in the world, and Nora, a frontierswoman clinging to the community she helped build as her husband and oldest sons go missing. Thrown together by […]
Peninsula Art Space’s current show, “Wildernesses”, marks the 5th collaboration between gallery owner/director Eric Fallen and curator Johnny Mullen, formerly director of Chelsea’s Edward Thorp Gallery. The group show, exploring fragmentation and disorder, features paintings and sculptures in a variety of media from eight artists residing in New York and the surrounding area. See it now until August 18! […]
Comedy Every Tuesday in Williamsburg enjoy some free beer from 8-8:30pm as Ambush Comedy (hosted by Lucas Connolly and David Piccolomini) performs in the back of a Two Boots Pizza joint. Free. 558 Driggs Ave. The Bell House hosts “Oh, Such a Huge Show, Oh!” The Comedy/Variety show returns July 6 for a benefit performance for The Young Center for […]
The plays are some of the greatest ever written in the English language. The venue is a product of necessity, opportunism, and the quirks of New York real estate. This July marks the 25th anniversary of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, the annual production of the Bard’s plays that is exactly what it sounds like. Produced by local theater group […]
We’re all familiar with the “One Crazy Night” format immortalized by classics such as “Dazed and Confused” and “American Graffiti.” The teen movie canon welcomed the newest member of the Class of 2019 this summer, “Booksmart.” Olivia Wilde’s (you know her from “The O.C.”, “Tron,” or a number of semi-forgettable romcom-adjacent films of the 2000s) directorial debut kicks into gear […]
Did somebody say High Concept? After a conk on the head (during a mysterious global blackout, no less), Jack Malik, played by th talented Himesh Patel, awakens to a world that never knew The Beatles. He alone, it seems, is aware of their very existence. He even Googles them. Nothing! Jack’s a musician, can play a few Beatles numbers, and […]