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Indochine , the iconic East Village restaurant that for many New Yorkers first revealed the "French connection" - the link, that is, between the cuisines of Vietnam and France - has turned 25.

Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December.

Need a break from all the flying sleighs and tra-la-la-ing cherubs that mark the onslaught of the fast-approaching holiday season - but still need to be humming a good song and entertaining family members? Rent, one of the brightest stars of the musical firmament of recent years, is getting a full-court-press treatment at Vassar College in ...

Living in New York can be very stressful on your wallet. If you moved to New York recently and are looking for ways to decorate your apartment or if you are just sick of how your place looks and want to redo the whole thing, you might want to check out the 10 places listed below.

Ahh, the holiday season is upon us, and with it comes thigh-widening snacks, spicy mulled cider, and that most decadent of winter indulgences-- shopping .

Just when it seemed that NYC's Bleecker Street couldn't squeeze in another stylish boutique, it has.

I do this thing when people ask me where they should go for a great pulled pork sandwich in NYC or a super-chill beer without any finance dudes around guffawing and hitting on moms: I blank.

BRT + bike: East Side avenues have enough space for physically separated busways and protected bike lanes.

SOME of the first-night audience wore Indian feathers and beads. A man at the back cried 'rubbish!' throughout the show but at the finale several dozen playgoers - including the Duke of Bedford, Terence Stamp and Zsa Zsa Gabor - accepted the cast's invitation to dance on stage.

From left: Superdry at Broadway and Washington Place, Bruno Ravioli at Broadway between 78th and 79th streets On the Lower East Side, a secret speakeasy bar has opened in an undisclosed location a "little farther east than weekend revelers usually go." In Soho, Shecky's Media company has moved from its offices at 678 Broadway to a larger space at ...

"People tell me it's the longest-running show for any actor, but I'm always suspicious of records - there could always be someone hiding out there who's been doing a role longer," he said with a chuckle.

Cleaner days : Far East Village, namely 10th Street and Avenue D, in a 1937 photograph by the always reliable Berenice Abbott [link: NYPL ] Some neighborhoods change slowly but consistently throughout the decades.

Sigmund Pretzel Shop, a brand-new bakery in the East Village, offers fat, crusty pretzels in either salted or seeded varieties, as well as unorthodox flavors like cheddar-jalapeno, caramel-pecan, and cinnamon raisin.

Marc Jancou Contemporary East Village / Lower East Side Great Jones Alley, 212-473-2100 November 4 - November 28, 2009 Opening: Wednesday, November 4, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Marc Jancou Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of You are What You Look At a solo show by Jacques Louis Vidal.

The Scandinavian East Coast Museum will sponsor a "Five Dutch Days" event at 7:00 PM on Thursday, November 12 at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, 4th Avenue @ 80th Street in Bay Ridge.

It's been a dozen years since "Rent" opened on Broadway and five since it last came to Des Moines.

It's said that in New York City the right address is a sure sign of status. Don't tell that to "Avenue Q," the award-winning "little show that could." After a six-year run on Broadway, and racking up more performances than "The Producers," "Annie" and even "Oklahoma!," the producers of the show have moved it to the intimate off-Broadway, New World ...

Roses cover the mosaic of inlaid stones with the title of John Lennon 's famous song "Imagine" in Central Park's Strawberry Fields in New York.

With over fifty purely vegetarian restaurants in Manhattan alone, New York City is a great place to be a vegetarian.

The crown of the Statue of Liberty reopened in July after being closed since shortly after the Sept.