Shel Silverstein, who died in 1999 and has a posthumous book coming out in September entitled Every Thing On It, is getting a Central Park celebration this weekend. The author, mostly known for his children's books, also worked Off Broadway, wrote columns for Playboy, and even wrote Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue"! In fact, here is he talking to his pal, the Man in Black: more ›

THEATER: The Scene, a black comedy by Theresa Rebeck that premiered at this year’s Humana Festival in Louisville, is now in previews at Second Stage. The satire is about an out-of-work New York actor (Spenser: For Hire’s Tony Shalhoub) — married to a news producer (Alien Nation veteran Patricia Heaton) — who has an affair with a fresh-faced Ohioan ingénue. Rebeck’s stated intent with The Scene is to skewer America’s “cultural collapse into narcissism”. - John Del Signore more ›

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Can Gothamist help it when, after seeing this picture of Mayor Bloomberg, we think of Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann character from Laugh-In? more ›