Man on wire and prankster extraordinaire Phillipe Petit (you may remember him as the man who walked between the Twin Towers on a tightrope in 1974, or who taught us to wire walk last summer) is putting two feet on the ground this weekend for his one-man show at the Abrons Art Center, Wireless! (exclamation point Petit's). more ›

Phillipe Petit (aka "Man on Wire") stopped into The Colbert Report last night and seemed to get off as easy as any Frenchman could expect facing down the man who has a "Freedom Sundae" named after him. Since Petit does not like to answer interviewer's queries as to why he participated in his death-defying feats, Colbert bucked the question by asking him why he didn't not do it. more ›