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This was Williamsburg

By Tom McGeveran

Matthew Weiner: 'Mad Men' has to end, because people try too hard to 'perceive the machinery'

By Jesse Sposato

Politics by other means with Anthony Bourdain

At the Tribeca Film Festival: Filmmaker Mira Nair on our 'world of misunderstanding'

By Gillian Reagan

art & design

At the New Museum, a time capsule from the garbagey, abstract, political New York art scene of 1993

By Whitney Kimball

For Charles Clough, a solo show that raises the question: What was the 'Pictures Generation' really?

By Melissa Smith

Victorian time travelers McDermott & McGough fast-forward to 1967 in new exhibition

By Yevgeniya Traps

Chelsea galleries emerge from Sandy devastation

By Whitney Kimball

White Columns mounts its annual survey of the year in art, and curator Richard Birkett explains

By Whitney Kimball

Ann Hamilton's Armory show takes flight on swings

By Melissa Smith

'An experimental moment': performance as music, film, poetry, and pickle-lighting at the Whitney

By Melissa Smith

Martha Rosler and others on women, household labor, and their giant MoMA garage sale

By Whitney Kimball

Conspicuous consumption: Rob Walker takes his consumer critique into the art gallery

By Yevgeniya Traps

food

Lost Foods of New York City: Vichyssoise

After the harvest: on a stretch of Route 22, farmers find ways to adapt to a post-dairy economy

By Joel Lobenthal

Ups and downs of the Great New York City Chicken Frenzy

By Jed Lipinski

'Exceptional apple cake' and other ingredients of a non-redundant food-blogger cookbook

By Sarah Laskow

Brooklyn restaurateurs swap epic food-failure tales for Red Hook small-business relief

By Jed Lipinski

theater

Nathan Lane runs away with 'The Nance'

By Mark Sullivan

Tabloid vets to 'Lucky Guy' Tom Hanks: 'Thanks for letting me see all my friends again'

Vincent D'Onofrio and Ethan Hawke star in a mostly gassy Brechtian exercise

By Mark Sullivan

The Brooklyn roller-derby craze of the '50s gets a send-up in 'Jammer'

By Wayne Hoffman

Holmes holds her own, but Butz does the heavy lifting in sometimes funny, sometimes leaden 'Dead Accounts'

By Mark Sullivan

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