Last night at the Rubin Museum of Art, we attended a screening of Prince of the Himalayas, a retelling of Hamlet set in pre-Buddhist Tibet. In their introductions, director of programming Tim McHenry and philosopher Simon Critchley lamented Time Out's ... »
China's wealthy and rising middle classes are doing a lot of traveling to the US: "In the first 10 months of 2011, visits from mainland Chinese rose 36% year-over-year to 940,000." To better accommodate them, Starwood, which owns Sheraton, Westin... »
JG: ready to slurp. Even the great French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten remembers the first time he had soup dumplings, those fatty, porky, mouth-size morsels with steaming-hot broth inside. It was during a trip to China in 1982, JG (as friends call h... »
Crab Rangoon from Dang Lai Palace (180 Third Avenue, 212-505-2000) »
Are you good enough to make Sam's Choice? Let’s say you’ve got some awesome handmade product or clever new invention and you’ve been trying to figure out which Brooklyn craft market is the best place to introduce it. That’s a lot of work, right? Wouldn... »
The weather cooperated quite a bit earlier today and the celebrations started at 11 o'clock on schedule. This year we had the usual gang of politicians including the Boro President and our senator Chuckie Schumer. There was a crew from Brooklyn Indepen... »
#thebigpicture Dancers with the Chinese Cultural Center perform the Handkerchief Dance in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 at at the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) More » »
Avon Products Inc. has fired its vice chairman and former chief financial officer in the latest move related to its long-running investigation involving possible bribes overseas and its disclosures to Wall Street analysts.The beauty products seller sai... »
