Ransom Riggs compiles pictures that tell a story
Ransom Riggs has always enjoyed collecting vintage photographs.?This curious habit shaped his 2011 novel “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” which featured his writing melded with unusual...
View ArticleTere O’Connor Dance: Window on a world
When Tere O’Connor wrote in the latest issue of Movement Research Performance Journal that he imagined assembling Merce Cunningham’s followers into the “Hudson Movement,” he couldn’t have guessed that,...
View ArticleThe best books for your music lover
‘How Music Works’ By David Byrne Talking Heads frontman David Byrne spends the bulk of his writing exploring, not explaining, music. To juggle his personal and professional commitments, the tone leaps...
View ArticleGet to know: Ballerina Sarah Lane
Dancing as Clara in this year’s “The Nutcracker” with American Ballet Theater, 28-year-old Sarah Lane has come a long way since she first donned a tutu at age 4. You may have already seen her en pointe...
View ArticleTheater review: ‘Dead Accounts’
Norbert Leo Butz easily steals the show with his turn in “Dead Accounts,” a dark comedy that follows his character’s sudden return from NYC to the Midwest — an appearance shrouded in mystery, wads of...
View ArticleRicardo Cortes explores the forbidden virtues of the coca leaf
Ricardo Cortes has made a name for himself with controversial books. In 2005, he published a children’s book called “It’s Just a Plant,” which set out to be the “Heather has Two Mommies” for...
View ArticleDolly Parton shares wisdom in ‘Dream More’
If there’s an expert in dreaming big and achieving your heart’s greatest desires, it’s Dolly Parton. Growing up the fourth of 12 children to a poor tobacco farmer in Tennessee, Parton realized her...
View ArticleWorlds of pleasure at City Center
A Saturday matinee at Ailey is a marvelous mix of kids and adults in holiday finery and some of the best dancers on the planet going all out to give their guests a good time. In the one brand-new work...
View ArticleBooks for the randoms on your gift list
Gifts for close family members and friends are easy to buy. But what about that weird cousin you haven’t seen in three years? Or your brother’s latest flame? There’s a book out there for every...
View ArticleRalphie hits the stage
Instead of getting shot in the eye, Peter Billingsley is calling the shots. The 41-year-old actor and director — who portrayed the bespectacled Ralphie in 1983′s “A Christmas Story” — is now producing...
View ArticleThe best of 2012: Culture and nightlife
All week long, Metro will be highlighting our selections of the city’s best — from dining spots to health and beauty oases — of 2012. Check back tomorrow for our picks in retail and fashion. Best new...
View ArticleNow onstage: Thinking vs. feeling plays
Two of the most hotly anticipated plays to open in recent weeks — “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Bare: The Musical” — have been garnering incredible attention for very different reasons. Here, we compare...
View ArticleBenjamin Lorr for ‘Hell-Bent’
Benjamin Lorr’s memoir on Bikram Yoga, “Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga” is a fascinating romp through the yoga world’s most bizarre...
View ArticleFavorite authors reveal their favorite books of 2012
Some of our favorite authors discuss their favorite books of 2012. John Irving: “Jack Holmes and His Friend” by Edmund White “What I admire most about ‘Jack Holmes and His Friend’ is the seamlessness...
View ArticleTheater review: ‘The Great God Pan’ is begging to get panned
“The Great God Pan” at Playwrights Horizons is conceptually sound. Jamie (Jeremy Strong) is a young man with a seemingly perfect life with a blossoming journalism career and beautiful girlfriend Paige...
View ArticleMusical theater outlook: 2013
‘Cinderella’ (Opens March 3, www.cinderellaonbroadway.com) This classic started as a TV movie and has been staged many times, but never on Broadway — before now. Featuring Rodgers and Hammerstein songs...
View ArticleTheater review: 2ST doles out drama in ‘Water by the Spoonful’
The trick to “Water by the Spoonful” — the Pulitzer-winning second play in a trilogy by Quiara Alegria Hudes — is that there isn’t one major climax; instead, there’s a rivulet of small reveals that...
View ArticleNo final settlement yet over Broadway’s ‘Spider-Man’
Producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” have for now resumed litigation with the Broadway musical’s ousted director Julie Taymor after failing to reach a final settlement of their litigation,...
View ArticleTheater review: Life’s not always a ‘Picnic’
You might say that “Picnic,” William Inge’s 1953 drama in which nascent love trumps prim practicality, waxes somewhat sentimental — but the stunning production at the American Airlines Theatre is...
View Article13 reasons to get out of hibernation
Learn how to grow tomatoes: Classes at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1000 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, 718-623-7200, www.bbg.org Exercise your green thumb (and artistic side)...
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