THEATER: The annual Soho Think Tank Ice Factory, arguably New York’s most impeccably curated theater festival, has been hosting an exhilarating array of new shows every weekend since July 4th . Starting tonight you can sink your teeth into Vampire University, in which “a struggling vampire family descends on an evangelical college in the Midwest, the dad’s mid-life crisis of immortality triggers a desire to come back to life and the gulf between first and......

New York mid-December always smells vaguely of pine and peppermint, despite our recent springtime temperatures. Bring that cozy holiday feeling with you into the cineplex for a couple of new feel-good holiday movies. Will Smith will tug at your heart strings big time as the struggling dad trying to become a stockbroker in The Pursuit of Happyness. Set in the '70s in San Francisco, Smith plays Chris Gardner, a door to door medical equipment salesman......

- Tonight, Brooklyn Bridge Park presents Mermaids, about a pre-shoplifting Wynona Ryder and Cher in an unusual mother-daughter relationship; Wynona resents her free-style, flirty mother and intends to become a nun (despite being a neurotic Jew), that is, until she meets the hunkster caretaker of the local convent. This pretty amusing chick-flick with one too many catchy sing-alongs ("If You Want to Be Happy" etc) begins at sunset. - Clearview’s Chelsea Cinema resurrects the......

The horror! We know that New Yorkers are desperate for great apartments and will put up with a lot for keep them. And we know that some landlords are worse than others. But this is too much: A Brooklyn woman claims her landlord offered her a rent break if she had sex with him, resulting in an altercation. The landlord, Robert Zapata, was arrested and charged with forcible touching and sexual abuse. Zapata's family claims......

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