If you thought Persepolis was the only work of Iranian culture to make waves in recent years, Emruz Festival is hoping to change that. Happening…
Natural History Museum Catches Heat as ‘Trump of the Tropics’ Is Honored
Drama gripped Museum Mile this month with heightened debates about the Sackler family’s contributions to the Met, Guggenheim…and the opioid epidemic. This weekend, the American…
With a New Exhibit, Women’s Work Is in the Art Gallery
Definitions around gender have shifted dramatically in recent years. Grammar aficionados have duked it out over the singular they and dictionaries have made space for…
Watch What Happens When Filmmakers and Poets Turn Stanzas into Cinema
A good poem is a small slice of life. Loud music, a gentle gaze, raucous laughter, a brisk winter breeze. Poetry moves sensation to the…
Queens Night Market Returns With Cheese Donuts and International Delicacies
This past weekend’s warm weather welcomed back a new season of Smorgasburg, the much-loved outdoor market held Saturdays in Williamsburg and Sundays in Prospect Park…
Bedtime Stories Get Woke at This Library and Exhibit of Radical Kids Books
Children’s books have a way of teaching lessons without coming across as preachy or insistent. They teach you to eat your vegetables and take care…
Political Cartoons On the Wall at This Year’s MoCCA Arts Festival
The Society of Illustrators expects to draw crowds to Hudson Yards this weekend for the annual MoCCA Arts Festival. Hundreds of New York- and Brooklyn-based…
A Kerouac Fest, a Translation Slam, and More Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month
Aside from being April Fool’s, today was also the first day of National Poetry Month. If you forgot, that’s all right. There are plenty of…
Trans-Pecos Closes Trans Am Cafe, Launches Vegan Pop-Up With Seitan’s Helper
The Ridgewood-Bushwick cafe scene saw some dramatic changes this weekend with the closing of the TransAm Cafe on Wyckoff Avenue. (Never fear, the Trans-Pecos performance…
Performance Picks: Compact Comedy, 1970s Focus Groups, And More
THURSDAY (image via Hypokrit Theater Company) Eh Dah? Questions For My Father Now through April 14 at NYTW Next Door, 7:30 pm (some shows other…