A small update on the pit bull puppy that was discovered tied to the Williamsburg Bridge during a snowstorm last week... she's with her new family (in D.C.) and looks happy as can be. Her new humans named her Penelope, and Nick at Scouting NY (who helped save and deliver her to her new home) reports that "when she arrived at her new home, she was timid at first, and even refused to go anywhere near the bed due to some sort of past training. They quickly broke her of this, and she spent the night cuddled up with them until late the next morning." more ›

Over the course of the past three years, New York theatergoers have gotten well-acquainted with the darkly comic and surreal sensibilities of Irish playwright Enda Walsh, who first caught our eye with his memorable St. Ann's Warehouse debut The Walworth Farce, a deliriously farcical send-up of domestic dysfunction. Last year St. Ann's presented his equally haunting play The New Electric Ballroom, about three sisters channeling their traumatic childhood memories into an obsessive, theatrical reenactment that's probably not all that therapeutic. more ›

Another Will Ferrell sports flick will inflate this weekend, capping off a nationwide “Funny or Die” promotional tour that brought him to Radio City Music Hall Sunday night. The movie is Semi-Pro, which stars Ferrell as Jackie Moon, owner of the 1976 Flint Michigan Tropics, a team in the maverick ABA basketball league. To keep his career alive against all odds, Moon initiates off a series of increasingly desperate publicity stunts to attract fans – behavior that does sound awfully familiar. more ›