Maybe you've received a flier to see a show at Radio City Music Hall called Chinese New Year Splendor, which is promoted as a holiday celebration of China’s diverse cultural riches. But mixed within the traditional Mongolian dancing, orchestral music and Buddhist parables are dramatizations of the Chinese government’s oppression of Falun Gong, a qigong-based spiritual practice that is banned in China. And the show’s political content is prompting audiences to walk out by......

We went to May May Food on Pell Street to pick up some steamed vegetable buns when this display caught our eye. Chinese-style tamales? According to The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, tamales are "an important feature of Mexican food and date back to pre-Columbian times. A specially prepared cornmeal dough, usually stuffed with something but something cooked 'blind', is steamed inside little (or not so little) package of carefully trimmed corn......

Last night, a Chinese food delivery man was first robbed and then shot in the eye at a Bronx apartment building. The delivery man for Triple A Chinese Restaurant was robbed somewhere on the second floor, and then went to the building's lobby, saying that he'd been robbed. A maintenance worker told him to call the police, and when the worker (who wouldn't tell the media his name, for fear of retribution) returned from the......

Okay, now that the link on how to hack an elevator has been on up kottke for a few hours, how many people have tried it? How many floors have you been able to bypass? Or have you noticed many more elevators passing your floor without stopping? Let us know the details and we'll compare notes. Ask Gothamist on elevator etiquette. A Chinese food deliveryman was trapped in an elevator for three days and some......

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