Suggestions to help you make good use of bad weather.

From Thursday to Sunday, a lively crowd assembles at Spitzer’s gastropub. Friendly chatter, good food and drink, and a healthy dose of New York revelry beckon the attention of passers-by, curiosity forcing many of them into a line that often snakes around the corner of this Lower East …

    Tonight the 12th annual Mr. Lower East Side Pageant will be held at the Bowery Poetry club. Sections include swimsuit and evening wear contests, as well as a one minute (per person) talent show. Every gay man and straight woman in the audience are eligible to …

AfroCubism Town Hall (123 W. 43 Street) $35-$65   Fourteen years ago Nick Gold of World Circuit Records set out to record an album that would combine the best Mali and Cuba had to offer. The Malian musicians never made it to Cuba, purportedly because of passport …

Biutiful: Before the trailer even starts screening clips of Biutiful, the viewer is informed that Javier Bardem won Best Actor for the film at the Cannes Film Festival. This trailer is playing for keeps—putting its ass on the line. This being said, it’s not necessarily an easy trailer …

The Pack, co-written and directed by Alyssa Rallo Bennett, pushes viewers to question society’s social consciousness (or lack thereof). The drama centers on a twenty-year-old who requests that an NYC Assistant DA charge his mother with murder for the death of his father/her husband. The reason- the man …

    I do not frequent the theaters. I prefer movie viewings to take place in the comfort of my bed sheets in front of the computer screen. However, seeing as it was Thanksgiving this past weekend, my friend insisted we partake in the experience of going to …

Preface: I feel it is necessary to address all of the haters of Harry Potter out there. To all of you, the ones who call us losers, immature kiddies, dorks, nerds, etc.- grow up. You clearly have no soul and had a boring, unimaginative, unmagical and for lack …

A-list actors Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal are together again for the first time since 2005′s Brokeback Mountain, in the upcoming film Love And Other Drugs.   The film is a skewed romantic comedy directed by Edward Zwick, (Glory, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond)- a marked departure from …

The Next Iron Chef, on the Food Network, is the only kind of reality competition TV that I watch. Why? It’s cut or be cut. If you can’t take the heat, you’re out of the kitchen. (Although sometimes I wish they’d let the chefs go after each other …

        Charlie Sheen extends his reign of terror from the Plaza to LA, California decides whether or not we should embrace our inner pothead, and Demi Lovato goes to rehab… for being bullied by her back-up dancers. Yes, another week, another slew of hot messes. …

Wanna-be fashionista Blake Lively showed up at the opening of Soho’s RealmBotique last night wearing an elephantine blue button down over a glitteringblack skirt. A twisted brown belt completed the questionable ensemble.

  This saturday, December 11th, the NYU Child Study Center presents the second annual Asperger’s Benefit at the Chelsea Art Museum. If you’re into raffles (sure), really good DJs (who isn’t?), and open bars (hell yes), this is the place to be. Tickets are $65 and can be …

    Christmas time is for spreading joy and cheer. This friday, December 17th, New York Pudding is spreading it on The Strand Hotel, located In the heart of midtown westat 33 West 37th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. Doors open at 9 PM.Admission is free, …

  The Lower East Side got a shot of Moulin Rouge at the beginning of December with the opening of Hotel Chantelle. Named after a World War II-era French safe house, Hotel Chantelle is replete with dark wood and leather pricked banquettes meant to evoke 1940′s Paris. Order …

The James Hotel in SoHo hasn’t even opened it’s restaurant yet, but you can still enjoy amazing rooftop views from Jimmy, the new lounge space designed by Thomas Schlesser.