A&E

As the school year approaches, it’s likely that summer has taken a toll on your wardrobe. Jeans wear through and styles change. If you’re tired of Gap and Urban Outfitters, don’t fret. We’ve picked out three vintage stores close to school. With their extensive selections, you won’t have to worry about someone else having the [...]

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Paper bags, organic products and wholehearted customer service can only match the description of one grocery store: Whole Foods. This entirely green company, devoted to the preservation of the environment, opened its newest chain store, which is located at 270 Greenwich Street in Tribeca, on Wednesday, July 9. From its seven different departments—Meat, Grocery, Bakery, [...]

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It’s hard to imagine a moment in theater as exhilarating as the opening stanzas of “The Flesh Failures,” the show-stopping finale of the revival of “Hair,” currently finishing its run at the Delacorte Theater as part of “Shakespeare in the Park”’s summer season.
However, “revival” isn’t quite the right word. Director Diane Paulus has not merely [...]

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Whimsical both in its shops and décor, Chelsea Market is one of New York’s most noteworthy oddities.
Housed in the former National Biscuit Company (better known as Nabisco) factory, Chelsea Market retains the remnants of its old industrial ambiance—relics of the old Highline freight railway loom over the 10th Avenue entrance. Chelsea Market also possesses an [...]

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The music of the Austin, Texas based band Okkervil River violently and majestically seems to burst and come apart at the seams.
Their 2005 masterpiece “Black Sheep Boy” exemplifies this sound as frontman Will Sheff takes his band further from the floating, folksier sound on 2003’s “Down the River of Golden Dreams” into rougher territory, both [...]

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Why do we dance? The answer is simple: dancing is a universal, natural way to convey emotions. Really excited? Play the air guitar complete with rocker head-bobbing and hair shaking. Or bust out a few shuffles and time steps,

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“It puts you in a place where the planet’s poles reverse.” This line from Jim Carroll’s poem, “8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain,” and other poems by both Carroll and Edgar Allen Poe, complement the mood projected by director Amos Poe in his new film “Empire II.”
“Empire II” is based on Andy Warhol’s 1964 film, “Empire,” [...]

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For centuries, great philosophers and common men alike have pondered the question “What would you do if you knew you only had a week to live?” Would you run? Would you spend it with the people you love? Would you make amends for all of your transgressions? Would you party like [...]

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To some, color coded security warnings seem ridiculous—but they keep us safe, right? In an age of heightened security, it’s difficult to imagine a time when one did not have to remove one’s shoes before stepping on a plane—or a time when a group of foreigners could smuggle over a ton of equipment to [...]

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With his long hair, easy presence and Jamaican accent, junior Dimitri Wijisinghe could easily be mistaken for a native of the Caribbean. But this aspiring reggae artist hails from an island on the other side of the world—Sri Lanka.
Born to Sri Lankan parents in Brooklyn, New York, Wijisinghe was raised in Flatbush, a predominantly Caribbean [...]

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