Feature

The Bard Comes to Park Avenue

By Samuel Chamberlain

February 9, 2010 · Comments 

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a six-week, five-play residency at the Park Avenue Armory for summer 2011. The run, part of the Lincoln Center Festival, is scheduled to last from July 6 to Aug. 14, 2011, and will feature 45 performances of five Shakespeare plays, which will be selected from the company’s 2009 and 2010 repertoire:  Antony and Cleopatra,  As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and The Winter’s Tale. [Read more]

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Politics

Saujani Launches Congress Campaign

By Dan Rivoli

February 4, 2010 · Comments 

In the back of a packed East Village coffee shop, about five miles away from Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s Upper East Side base, Reshma Saujani kicked off her campaign to unseat the nine-term incumbent.

Saujani, 34, held the event at Everyman Espresso, across the street from an NYU career development center on East 13th Street, between Third and Fourth avenues. Standing on a bench to get a better view of the caffeinated young urban professionals who gathered to support her, Saujani spoke about her recent conversations with district voters. [Read more]

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Education

McCourt High School Recruiting Students

By Dan Rivoli

February 4, 2010 · Comments 

With Frank McCourt High School slated to open in September, administrators are starting the recruiting and application phase to assemble the first class of freshmen.

The high school, housed on the Brandeis High School campus at 145 W. 84th St. between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, will be open to students in all five boroughs. Named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author who spent 29 years as a teacher, the new school will focus on communications and civic engagement. [Read more]

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Film

Diplomatic Sense

Luc Besson and Pierre Morel revise the action movie genre and trump Tarantino in the process

By Armond White

February 4, 2010 · Comments 

Do you know how to read action movies or do you simply obey advertising hype? From Paris With Love delivers the minimal spills and thrills to those who like action movies for escapist release, yet beyond its hype, it is also politically aware filmmaking—without the sanctimoniousness of Syriana, United 93 or The Messenger. Those films pretend to address the post-9/11 crisis while From Paris With Love gets all up in the mess, making it personal and exciting. [Read more]

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Dining

Blossomed Anew

Where seitan worshippers gather over vegan-friendly fare

By Linnea Covington

February 4, 2010 · Comments 

Despite the influx of taco joints and pork-saturated dishes flooding restaurants these days, there is still a place for those seeking respite from animal proteins. Situated on the restaurant-heavy First Avenue, between East 79th and 80th streets, Café Blossom recently opened up its third location at what used to be a chicken shop (Eastside Poultry Inc., which moved to 1564 Second Ave.). Now, the food is all vegan, all the time. [Read more]

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Sports

Ride ’Em, Cowboy

The Garden gets a little bit country at bull riding invitational

By Adam Bloch

January 27, 2010 · Comments 

Any time bulls come to Madison Square Garden, you usually know what to expect: A walking advertisement for big-and-tall clothing purveyors, some intense above-the-rim athleticism, a healthy dose of Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah and, if the past decade is any indication, a loss for the Knicks.

The bulls came to the Garden the weekend of January 8, but they had nothing to do with basketball. And instead of seven-footers, the half-filled arenas got to see 1,600-pounders. The athletes weren’t the Chicago Bulls but rather the bucking bulls of Professional Bull Riding’s fifth annual New York Invitational. [Read more]

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Blog

No Gaga for East Side Man

By Dan Rivoli

January 22, 2010 · Comments 

One dedicated Lady Gaga fan missed out on her sold out, four-night concert at Radio City Music Hall after a scuffle with a scalper. Police say the 25-year-old Upper East Side man tried to score tickets off Craigslist.org to the Lady Gaga show. He met with the scalper Jan. 19 at 7:10 p.m. on the corner of Third Avenue and East 87th Street. The victim handed over $450 to the scalper, who gave him the tickets, police said. The Gaga fan, unsure if the tickets were real, followed the scalper for two blocks and confronted him. The scalper allegedly punched the fan in the face and ran off with the tickets and cash. The jilted fan sustained a minor injury, cops said, but refused medical attention.

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