Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'TONY'
September 30, 2008
It's not easy maintaining a healthy relationship when you're fully immersed in the not-so-healthy restaurant and bar industry. So Time Out NY has come to the rescue this week, highlighting personal ads from local chefs, bartenders and club owners who are on the prowl. Anita Lo (pictured), chef and co-owner of Bar Q, is attracted "to pretty girls" and wants "someone who eats everything." Alex Day, a bartender at fussy cocktail lounge Death & Company,......
Continue Reading "Would You Date These Desperate Chefs and Barkeeps?"September 18, 2008
Ever wish you could have the best of all the boroughs? TONY takes a look at their ideal neighborhood, with features culled from various areas in the city. The urban utopia looks a little something like this: the affordability of Inwood, the architecture of lower Manhattan, the design of the West Village, the shopping of Williamsburg, the food of Hell’s Kitchen, the bar scene of the East Village, the arts community of the LES, the......
Continue Reading "What's Your Urban Utopia?"June 16, 2008
Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrates his win for In the Heights; Patti LuPone accepts her Tony award for best leading actress in a musical. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen) The 62nd Annual Tony Awards were presented last night at Radio City Musical Hall; the biggest winners were a musical first staged in 1949 and a Pulitzer Prize winning pot boiler from Chicago. The acclaimed Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific won the most awards, besting Sunday......
Continue Reading "August: Osage County, In the Heights, Gypsy, and South Pacific Win Big at 2008 Tony Awards "June 11, 2008
The Tony Awards are happening Sunday night, people! Who’s excited? Pretty much nobody, right? No surprise there, especially considering that a phenomenal show like Passing Strange has been playing to half-full houses. But what’s really ridiculous is that even the people who are tasked with voting for the Tony winners can’t be bothered to sit through these shows! As Jeremy Gerard reports on Bloomberg.com, a spectacular number of the 797 voters will cast votes without......
Continue Reading "Many Tony Award Voters Don't Bother Seeing Shows"May 22, 2008
Fellow vendors and loyal customers are rallying to the defense of Antonios Dragonas, the 50-year-old pushcart food vendor who may soon be put out of business. For the past 25 years, Vendy runner-up Antonios Dragonas, has been serving his famous lamb shish kebab from the corner of Madison Avenue and East 62nd Street, but now the Department of Health is refusing to renew his license and permit. The Times has it that during a twelve......
Continue Reading "Beloved Food Vendor Owes $16,865 for Violations"May 14, 2008
It says a lot about Harvey Fierstein's distinctiveness that it's almost impossible to even say the name 'Harvey' without thinking of that endearingly gravelly voice. Whether you know him as Homer Simpson's assistant Karl, Robin Williams's brother in Mrs. Doubtfire, or Hairspray's Edna Turnblad, the Brooklyn-born actor's uninhibited, self-assured persona is thoroughly his own. Now the four-time Tony winner is back on Broadway with A Catered Affair, the musical adaptation of the 1956 film......
Continue Reading "Harvey Fierstein, Actor"March 8, 2008
Police have rounded up 38 people accused of running a credit card fraud ring out of Queens for almost a decade. Officials say hackers in China and Ukraine have been breaking into the databases of major U.S. department stores, and then sending the credit card information of thousands of shoppers to the ringleader, Kwok Chow, 36, a Flushing resident known as “Tony.” The scam hit approximately 3,000 consumers and may have cost as much as......
Continue Reading "Cops Break Up Major Identity Theft Ring in Queens"January 5, 2008
The mice at The Mermaid Inn’s East Village location picked a mischievous moment to scurry out into the dining room a few nights ago – as luck would have it a writer for Time Out New York was there waiting for a table! The immodest mice must have been looking for their 15 minutes of fame, because they timed their appearance perfectly with TONY staffer Jordana Rothman’s emergence from the bathroom. As she made her......
Continue Reading "Mice Timing at Mermaid Inn"
