By: Sarah Mitchell With a new acoustic album and the stirring single “How American Is That?”, the Pittsburgh singer-songwriter explores the complicated beauty of national identity, the weight of history, and the personal stories that connect generations. There’s a difference between singing about America and attempting to understand what
By: Sarah Mitchell With a new acoustic album and the stirring single “How American Is That?”, the Pittsburgh singer-songwriter explores the complicated beauty of national identity, the weight of history, and the personal stories that connect generations. There’s a difference between singing about America and attempting to understand what
John Procario: Freeforms opened October 27, 2026, at the Museum of Arts and Design at 2 Columbus Circle, giving the American designer his first solo museum presentation. The show fills two galleries with hand-bent ash light sculptures, sconces and furniture lit from within, and runs through April 4, 2027.
The 53rd annual Village Halloween Parade steps off Saturday, October 31, 2026, at 7 p.m., marching north on Sixth Avenue from Canal Street to 15th Street under the theme “Body & Soul.” A new Firehorse puppet performance by Basil Twist leads the procession, Joey Arias serves as Grand Marshal,
New York’s exploratory committee for a 2042 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and New York City held its first full meeting on October 19 in Manhattan, with nearly 90 members now named. The state also committed $2.5 million to a Miracle on Ice monument. The yearlong study is not
How Steve Weinstein Turns a Lecture on Perception Into a Prank in Nuts To You A man in torn overalls sits outside the lecture hall with a cigar box marked “Tips.” When the professor fails to show, he walks to the podium and starts to undress. That is the
Winnie-the-Pooh turned 100 on October 14, 2026, marking a century since A.A. Milne’s book was first published. The New York Public Library is anchoring the celebration with free access to the original stuffed toys that inspired the stories and a centennial display running through November 30 at the Stephen
By: Ariana Chan There is a particular kind of life that looks, from the outside, like a series of exciting reinventions, each new country and each new chapter representing freedom and opportunity and the specific pleasure of a person who has refused to be confined by geography or circumstance.
By: Frank Baraldini There is an art to educational children’s literature that most educational children’s literature never quite masters, and it is the art of making the education invisible inside the entertainment. The books that children remember and return to are rarely the ones that announce their instructional purpose;
New York Comic Con opens today, October 8, at the Javits Center and runs through October 11, marking its 20th anniversary with a Coney Island theme. Nicolas Cage is guest of honor, and with Friday, Saturday and Sunday tickets already sold out, Thursday is the only remaining way in
By: Claire Whitmore There’s a road running through Alex Krawczyk’s Wonders Await. Sometimes it leads toward the Pacific, sometimes back through memory, and sometimes it doesn’t seem to lead anywhere at all. That last possibility may be the most important. Krawczyk’s second album is less concerned with destinations than
By: Dar Dowling The most interesting thing in K. Eric Crook’s author biography is not the forest management degree or the master’s in city and regional planning or the years of professional experience in technical writing, though all of those matter for the novel he has written. The most
By: Lucia Wilson The title of Rising Star refers to Dani Truehart’s emerging pop music career, but it also refers to something that matters considerably more to the quality of the novel and to its value for its YA audience: Dani’s emerging sense of herself as someone with her
By: Joe Carmen Contemporary worship music is a genre built, in part, on predictability. That isn’t necessarily a criticism. Music designed for communal participation benefits from recognizable structures: uncomplicated melodies, steady rhythms, choruses that reveal themselves quickly, and repetition generous enough that a congregation can join in without rehearsal.
By: Rachel Adler Long before he became a comedian and relationship strategist, Dante Nero was a Brooklyn kid learning what strength looked like from his father, the streets around him, and a life that rarely followed a straight line. Dante Nero’s story begins in Brooklyn, but not on a
By: Alexandra Quinn New York City knows something about fireworks. Every summer, millions of people squeeze onto rooftops, waterfront parks and whatever patch of pavement offers a glimpse of the sky, waiting for Manhattan to temporarily surrender its monopoly on illumination. Fireworks explode above the rivers while car horns
By: Simone Carter New York has never needed geography lessons to understand the blues. This is, after all, a city where heartbreak rides the subway at three in the morning, where gospel spills out of Harlem churches on Sunday and where generations of musicians have arrived carrying little more
There’s a specific illusion at AP Space’s last exhibit, South Korean artist Yoo Choong Mok’s solo exhibition, Tracing Light. It filled the Chelsea gallery with canvases that appear, at first glance, to be dripping. They aren’t. Every droplet is glass, individually hand-formed and fused onto raw canvas and wood,
By: Cole Harper There’s a dangerous moment in adulthood when the person you were at 25 stops feeling like you and starts feeling like some reckless bastard whose memories you somehow inherited. Jeremy Parsons lives inside that uncomfortable distance on “Who Was I,” a candid piece of Americana self-examination
By: Tessa Monroe New York has never needed a cowboy hat to understand a great country song. This is, after all, a city built on people chasing things: careers, relationships, rent money, recognition, the last train home, and occasionally somebody who probably isn’t worth all the trouble. So when
By Jordan Whitmore New York has always made room for artists with an unmistakable point of view. From the songwriters of the Brill Building and the provocateurs of CBGB to the innovators who shaped jazz, hip-hop, Broadway and beyond, the city’s musical history belongs to creators who refused to
By: Marcus Ellington ARGYRO understands that glamour has always been one of pop music’s greatest tricks. The lights, clothes, cameras, and carefully constructed personas lure an audience toward the stage, but the artists who endure are usually the ones who eventually reveal something more interesting underneath. On Glitterati, ARGYRO
There is something almost contrary about Shweta Harve’s approach to popular music. At a moment when songs are increasingly designed to seize attention within seconds, Harve keeps making records that ask the listener to stop, think, and occasionally reconsider the way they are living. That is not exactly the
Broadway in Bryant Park wraps its 26th annual summer season on August 13 with a free lunchtime concert on the Midtown Manhattan lawn, closing out a four-week run that brought casts from more than 20 current Broadway productions to a public stage at Sixth Avenue between 40th and 42nd
By: Nathaniel Cross There is something appropriately Pittsburgh about Patti Spadaro. She is grounded but adventurous, hardworking without making a spectacle of the work, and seemingly uninterested in following whichever direction the cultural wind happens to be blowing. Throughout a career encompassing rock and roll, improvisational music, education, yoga,
By: Rebecca Sloan There’s something almost suspicious about a song this happy. I mean, here comesElvira Kalnik with “Summer Time,” armed with rainbow bubbles, sunshine, unicorns, beach fires and a chorus telling everybody to move their bodies and feel free, and your first instinct, assuming you’ve spent sufficient time
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway begins preview performances on August 14 at the August Wilson Theatre in Midtown Manhattan, bringing the Olivier Award-nominated horror play to New York for a strictly limited 20-week engagement after sold-out runs across five North American cities and London’s West End.
By: Jonathan Reynolds For many artists, songwriting is an act of creativity. For CattSue, it is something more profound. It is an act of remembrance. The emerging singer-songwriter has built a growing audience by creating music that values honesty over spectacle and emotional truth over passing trends. Her songs,
By: Melissa Ross Some records are built to impress. Others are built to reveal. On Singing to Serpents, Cello has chosen revelation over spectacle, creating an album that feels less like a performance than an act of trust. For an artist living with autism and ADHD, that trust carries
By: Rebecca Sloan There are plenty of songs about rock stars. There are songs about fame, excess, fortune, and the endless pursuit of recognition. Noble Hops frontman Utah Burgess wasn’t interested in writing any of those songs. Instead, he wrote “Music Man,” a tribute to the people who keep
The 2026 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens is less than a month away, and the gap between face-value pricing and secondary market costs has become a growing frustration for New York City tennis fans. Grounds passes increased from $60 to $65
By: Kerry Espey Parents are often advised to set boundaries, as if boundaries were a product you could order, assemble, and install. In practice, boundaries are made out of language, repeated, negotiated, sometimes resented, often necessary. The phrases that do this work are rarely elegant. They are functional. They
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