The Broadway stagehands strike may not be a hit with audiences, but it’s settling in for a long run anyway. Day eleven of the strike is dominated by the dashed hopes of children who’d been promised a visit to Whoville. Yesterday James Sanna, a producer of “The Grinch”, announced that because the show had a separate contract with the stagehands’ union, they’d reached an agreement that would let the kid-friendly musical continue its brief......

Just a week after making headlines for unveiling the world’s most expensive dessert – $25,000! – the popular Upper East Side restaurant Serendipity 3 has been shuttered by the New York City Department of Health. Could all the hoopla surrounding the Frrrozen [sic] Haute Chocolate have brought some unwanted attention to the establishment? The shutdown went into effect last night and calls to the restaurant have thus far not been serendipitous. We do know that......

An all-Brooklyn edition today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a car struck two pedestrians in Williamsburg, an all hands call in Greenpoint, and a big traffic accident on the Kosciusko Bridge. Tony at PFAW wrote in to say "More than 50% of New Yorkers failed a simulated 10-question naturalization exam—composed of questions recently released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services—according to a survey of nearly 250 people held in City Hall Park over a three-day......

So many long-hyped shows are in the giddy last throes of previews on Broadway, we’re a bit afraid it might just pop and cover everything in its surrounds with tiny microphones and flakes of pancake makeup. Better stay far away – philosophically if not physically. 61 Dead Men looks like a great way to do so. It’s the first show we’ve ever seen billed as an “improv tragedy,” and that alone piques our interest. Janus......

The coolest crime fighters around these days, the Powerpuff Girls, have a Christmas special tonight, 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas, on the Cartoon Network. Zap2it details the plot in a Clement Moore style poem: The villain in this cartoon is a brat named Princess Morbucks Whose sole unmet wish is to be a Powerpuff Girl -- shucks Spoiled to her marrow, she travels to the North Pole With thoughts of computer hacking poisoning her soul.......