THEATER: Wolf Lane Productions presents Victims of the Zeitgeist (The Tragedy of Martin Luther King, Jr.), written & directed by Ellwoodson Williams. The production "offers an exciting and telling insight into just who Martin Luther King, Jr., was as leader and simply as a sensitive and intelligent human being who loved life and who had a sense of humor, a deep understanding of the human condition - its strengths and weaknesses - and a profound......

Morrissey x5 It was only a few years ago when Morrissey's run of 5 shows at the Apollo Theatre was the hottest ticket in town, and it's a bit sad to see Mozzer basically begging for people to buy tickets for his run at Hammerstein Ballroom this week. The $65 ticket appeared to be a bit too rich for the average fan's blood, despite these shows being his first in NYC since 2004. The ticket......

Mayor Bloomberg, eager to show that he does care about black people, denounced conservative William Bennett's remarks that abortionsin the black community would cause the crime rate to go down. Well, duh, of course the Mayor would do that: William Bennett is a complete idiot and the Mayor needs to shore up as many minority votes as possible. Mayoral opponent Fernando Ferrer and his most prominent African-American endorser, Reverend Al Sharpton, have been criitcizing the......

Morrissey is playing a few sold-out shows this week at the Apollo Theatre. I snagged a couple of tickets on eBay for about $20 above the box office price and had them sent to my dad’s office because I don’t have a doorman to receive packages.  One of my dad's associates signed for it, but when I went to pick up the tickets today, they had somehow disappeared.  We looked high and low, but they......

In honor of Morrissey's NY stand at the Apollo Theatre, Gothamist directs your attention the new book, Saint Morrissey, written by Mark Simpson, the brilliant man who unwittingly brought the world the word "metrosexual." There's an excerpt of the "psycho-bio" in Salon: Of all the attention Steven Patrick Morrissey has garnered, he is perhaps best known for not doing the nasty. His abstinence is seen as symbol, proof and cause of his eccentricity. After all,......