The wickets of West 9th Street may just be saved after all! After budget cuts led to shorter routes for parades, the Gay Pride Parade had to reroute this year's march down West 9th Street, a residential block that the likes of Uma Thurman and Barbara Bush (for now) call home. Locals were outraged, claiming the crowds would ruin their wickets and trees. And well below wicket-laded street, there are allegedly hollow vaults that used to store the city's coal—another worry was that the sidewalks weren't strong enough to withstand the crowds. more ›

The Gay Pride Parade will march on this year, just like every other year—except on June 27th the participants will not turn down 8th Street, which is filled with businesses, as it has in the past. Instead, it will turn down the residential 9th Street, where it will be met by angry residents and their wickets! The West 9th Street Block Association is angry, and here's why: more ›

There's always been a theatrical element to commuter air travel: flight attendants are actors pretending everything's simply delightful, passengers comprise a captive audience asked to suspend their disbelief in the airline industry, the pilot is the unseen director struggling to keep the evening aloft. Of course, one weak link in that analogy—as the passengers on flight 1549 were recently reminded—is that when the curtain rises on a flight, one hopes the show will be utterly devoid of drama. So it's a good thing that Wickets, a play performed for an audience seated inside a replica Boeing 747 cabin, gives its passengers exactly what they don't want at 35,000 feet: a little thrill, and something to think about. more ›