The summer days are getting shorter, and along with them so are the milkshakes at the famous Shake Shack in Madison Square Park.  I noticed this one day after singing the burger joint’s praises to an out of town guest. After describing what I deemed to be one of the best milkshakes around, we headed
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Going wrong with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is hard to do, though putting the story to dance might be the best way to make the audience wish they hadn’t fallen down the rabbit hole.  “Curiouser and curiouser,” played through my mind as @lice in www.onderland began in a confusing manner, with most of the
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The moody, self-involved and sickly artist Egon Schiele literally comes to life in Mark Lindberg’s Self Portrait as Schiele, premiering in this year’s Fringe Festival.  Set in modern times, the plot revolves around art and an incurable influenza—possibly the same one that killed Schiele in 1918. Mädchen is the heroin, a painter who somehow calls
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Controversial "designer" Doron Braunshtein, aka Apollo Braun, finally got slapped for putting out a T-shirt that read, “Obama is my Slave.”  OK, maybe he didn’t get slapped, but he did file a police report for harassment on Wednesday, which we confirmed with DCPI. According to a statement in a press release he sent out yesterday, two black men grabbed him and kicked him in the balls after shouting, “Who do you call a slave, you fucking Jew?!”
 
This isn’t Braunshtein’s first time in the limelight after the Obama shirt.  We first wrote about his "Who Killed Obama" shirt in March. When that didn't work, he decided to go further. In July he made his way to the cover of the free daily paper Metro after he issued a press release about a girl getting attacked for wearing the shirt.  It was never confirmed if the incident really happened or was just part of a publicity stunt.  The Metro article cited Braunshtein as their only source and claimed attempts to reach the victim were futile (and the editor was later fired).
 
Braun is clearly race baiting and attempting to be a provocateur in the name of free speech and artist entitlement...

Continue reading "Apollo Braun Slapped" here.
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For all those who never though Edgar Allan Poe’s gloomy prose would make a good musical, boy were you wrong.  Based on Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, the new play composed entirely by students at Yale University, Usher delivers more then your basic high school read of the story.  The two most
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Dirty mouthed, sexy, slutty,and seductive comedy is what makes 52 Man Pickup one of the best shows at the NYC Fringe Festival this year.  Not only does creator Desiree Burch hook you in with her sultry tales of lovers, both good and bad, but also she engages the audience in multiple card games like Mexican
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For any Project Runway fan, Jeffry Lependorf’s Tim Gunn’s Podcast is a riot of operatic satire.  This single man opera, sung by John Schenkel, who looks just like a portly Tim Gunn, is an hour long, drama filled, fashion crazy extravaganza.  Schenkel’s words and reactions as he performs are extremely dramatic, like a true fashion
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An hour-long monologue about how our image of the vagina has changed since Eve Ensler’s acclaimed play, The Vagina Monologues.  Well?!  What did you expect?  Written and performed by Lindsay Burns (pictured), The VaJayJay Monologues starts where Ensler stopped—with pop culture.  The problem is, Burns didn’t maintain enough focus on the cooch and today’s media. 
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The phone is ringing, the door is banging, which do you choose to respond to first?  In Timmy Wood and Greg Hundermer’s Choose Your Own Play, you decided for You, the main character of the show.  You are also pretty cute, very tall, and don’t seem that smart when the gunman comes to kill your
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Late last week, New York City went out on a limb, or a pier to be exact, to help a group of people in Queens.  For almost 100 years the 17 houses on Beach 84th Street Pier were owned by the state or city, and now, due to a measure signed into law by Governor
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