Apiary, in the East Village, is named for a collection of bee hives, but the restaurant is not devoted to honey the way S'Mac is to mac and cheese. Chef Neil Manacle's "New American" menu is eclectic, occasionally taking inspiration from Middle Eastern spices and fusing them with familiar edibles like chicken breast and pork tenderloin. A franchise of Ligne Roset, the luxury French design house, created and owns the place, which is sleek and......

Robert Prichard moved to NYC in 1983 and immediately found himself in the throws of the nightclub industry, working the door at Pyramid Nightclub on Avenue A. By 1993 he had opened his own arts space, Surf Reality’s House Of Urban Savages, in a loft on Allen and Stanton Streets. Another 10 years later, in 2003, he was priced out of the neighborhood--and he'll now rise from the ashes over in Long Island City. Along......

A few weeks ago Susannah Perlman brought her Obama Girls of Comedy on the road to hit the battleground states in an effort to turn them blue. Tonight she's back home for an Election Day special at Le Poisson Rouge, where the troupe will band together to watch the results come in (expect plenty of entertainment to go along with the coverage)! This week Susannah told us a little bit about what to expect tonight,......

Chef Ed Witt is a veteran of several acclaimed kitchens. He was part of Jardinière’s opening team, was also there for restaurant Daniel’s move to 65th Street, and he helped open Nicole’s at Nicole Fahri, which garnered two stars from the Times in 1999. Witt was executive chef of Varietal, the Chelsea wine bar/seasonal American number that ultimately closed in June of last year after a one star Bruni bedazzler, a few kitchen shakeups, and......

As a child of Hollywood, Harry Shearer portrayed the original Eddie Haskell on Leave It To Beaver, appeared in Abbott & Costello Go To Mars, and after a stint at Harvard, eventually wound up on Saturday Night Live, where you can spot him in that legendary synchronized swimming sketch with Martin Short. Many know him as the bassist in Spinal Tap; others recognize his voice from The Simpsons, where he portrays characters such as Montgomery......

Alain Allegretti is the 39 year-old chef-owner of Allegretti, awarded two stars by the New York Times last week. From Nice, and specializing in Niçois food, he's put squarely in the company of other French chefs in NY. Allegretti, who worked for Alain Chapel and Alain Ducasse in France, is representative of a kind of culinary old guard: a strange realm of butchers and cooks all named Alain. In the classic brigade style kitchen, apprentice......

Born out of the art school insularity of SUNY Purchase back in 2003, the New York-based quintet O'Death (MySpace) has cultivated an increasingly rabid fan base for their punk-inflected Appalachian caterwauling. Stray too close to the stage at one of their shows and you're liable to find yourself completely enveloped by a sweat-drenched crowd of dudes determined to make banjo moshing a reality in our lifetimes. It's a blast. Their newest album, released yesterday,......

Andrew Carmellini was most recently the chef at A Voce, which was awarded three stars by the Times. He left that restaurant in June, and is currently looking at spaces to house his next restaurant project. In the meantime, Carmellini and his wife Gwen Hyman have written a cookbook called Urban Italian, which features recipes created in a small city kitchen with a few pots and a flunky stove. Recipes are interspersed with Carmellini’s colorful......

After starting out in New York performing for years at the UCB Theater, both as an improviser and a member of the popular sketch group Naked Babies, Rob Corddry first made a name for himself in 2002 when he was brought on The Daily Show as a correspondent. He left the show in 2006 to do sitcoms and films and has been working steadily ever since, most recently playing former White House Press Secretary Ari......

For the record, The Queen's Hideaway has closed, following a reportedly raucous closing party Saturday night. Opened about four years ago, the seasonally-minded restaurant put an isolated little corner of Franklin Street in Greenpoint on the dining map, becoming kind of a big deal after a slam dunk review in the Times in 2005. Chef and owner Liza Queen took a break from dismantling her restaurant yesterday to tell us she has no idea what's......

The Physics of Meaning played our Gothamist House show on Wednesday, and have been one of our favorite bands this CMJ by far. They're a self-described "chamber rock band" from North Carolina headed up by Daniel Hart, a multi-instrumentalist who you may recognize from another lil band called St. Vincent. This week another band, Wild Sweet Orange, interviewed them for us--today you can check out the latter at our show (they play at 4:30 p.m.),......

Don't feel bad about mangling the pronunciation of Charlie Kaufman's new film, Synecdoche, New York; page three of the press kit is solely dedicated to the title's pronunciation [Sih-NECK-doh-kee] and various meanings, such as "A Part is used for the Whole, as in The Screen for Movies." Though Kaufman wrote such gems as Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, this is his directorial debut, and he certainly picked an ambitious project......

Speaking to Newsday from behind bars at a "private federal prison" in Queens, 20-year-old Steven Nobles says he "made a huge mistake" when, in a rush to catch his flight at MacArthur airport on Long Island last Thursday, he shoved a pipe bomb in his carry-on luggage. He must also be smacking his forehead for packing those fireworks, the 7-inch knife, the electrical circuit boards, and a dozen .22-caliber rounds used in a nailgun to......

Charlie Looker has created music under many names, and with some familiar names as well (you can hear him on the Dirty Projectors "Rise Above" album). Now, as Extra Life, Looker creates what Stereogum calls "a mesmerizing form of avant-rock raga." Today he plays at our Gothamist House show, and we highly recommend coming to check the set out. This week one of the artists showing work at our House, Paula DiGioia, interviewed Looker for......

George Zisiadis is currently attending Harvard, but the new film Frontrunners documents his time as Stuyvesant High School, and more specifically, his time campaigning to be president of the student council. The film is akin to Election, but true-to-life and filled with competitive New York teens, all attending one of the most competitive high schools in America. Currently at the Film Forum through the 28th, we highly recommend checking it out. George recently told us......

While Saturday Night Live spoofed her limited media interaction, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin did give one TV interview while in NYC: She sat down with My9's Brenda Blackmon for a segment that aired last night. My9 is sister station to Fox 5--both are owned by the News Corp....

Counter, hands-down one of the best vegetarian restaurants in the city (even carnivores would agree!), grew from Deborah Gavito's Union Square Greenmarket pastry stand called Body & Soul. Now, years later, she has a well-established (certified green) roof over her head, but still gives back to the market where her success took root. This Saturday Counter hosts NYC's second annual Organic Beer Bash, pouring over 30 organic beers and ciders from around the world. Admission......

Members of the sprawling Ontario art rock collective Broken Social Scene are on tour in support of founding member Brendan Canning's solo album Something For All of Us... It's the newest record in the "Broken Social Scene Presents" series, in which individual bandmates take charge to create their own set of songs, with varying degrees of collaboration from their fellow scenesters. (You'll recall that the first of these was Kevin Drew's Spirit If..., which established......

The 8th Street Winecellar is a cozy subterranean spot in Greenwich Village that opened up just over a year ago. But don't let the name fool you -- owners and longtime restaurant industry vets Michael Lagnese (left) and Jonny Cohen (right) want this to be your all-around neighborhood bar, even if you don't live in the 'hood. Where did the two of you meet? Michael Lagnese: Union Square Café. Jonny Cohen: Originally we met at......

Alexis Gambis is a French-Venezuelan New Yorker, who was raised to use both the left and right sides of his brain equally by engineer/painter Alexis Gorodine and sociology major-turned filmmaker Olga Gambis. Naturally, he went on to study both film and science in college, and eventualy started a lecture series at The Rockefeller University called "Science and Media". He's also part of the Secret Science Club, and now, he brings the first Science Film Festival......

Mark Bello wants to teach you how to make a perfect pizza at home. With fresh dough and carefully selected local and Italian ingredients, Bello makes delectable thin-crust pies using his standard home oven in Chinatown, or, through his catering and cooking class company, Pizza a Casa in your home oven as well. He spreads the pizza gospel throughout the city teaching classes at the likes of Murray's and Astor Center and at private events.......

Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg are the authors of eight bestselling books focusing on food and drink, many of which have been winners or finalists for James Beard and/or IACP Cookbook awards. They have been married since 1990, write a monthly wine column for The Washington Post, and blog at BecomingAChef.com. Their most recent book, The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs is an......

Michael Ian Black, David Wain and Michael Showalter met each other twenty years ago at NYU and have been performing comedy together ever since. Their college sketch group would go on to become the short-lived but widely-loved MTV show, The State. In 1997, the three of them began performing as Stella at Fez in Greenwich Village, a comedy show that would help define alternative comedy in New York throughout the decade to follow. That was......

Bowlmor Lanes has been a Village institution since it opened in 1938. One of the longest continuous running bowling alleys in the United States, Bowlmor is celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year and last night it had its anniversary party, with Michael Phelps hosting the event. In the 1950s, Bowlmor hosted the first televised bowling shows and in 1997, Tom Shannon bought Bowlmor and made significant changes to the bowling alley. Since then, Shannon and......

When Jennie Dundas and Alexis Miesen, founders of Blue Marble Ice Cream, discovered the lack of ice cream in Brooklyn, their shop was born. Just one year later they are now expanding their two organic, grass-fed ice cream parlors in the borough, and adding a third in Rwanda, naturally. With the launch of their non-profit organization Blue Marble Dreams, they'll "explore the transformative potential of ice cream not just as a source of fun and......

Department of Eagles, comprised of Fred Nicolaus and Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen, have been around for quite some time, yet are only just getting around to playing their first show. Prior to their highly-anticipated debut album release tomorrow, they'll be taking the Bell House stage tonight (and we hear Nat Baldwin will be joining the band for the set). Before checking them out tonight (or tomorrow night at Bookeaters), take a gander at their performance......

In 2002 Susan Brandt founded Rational Animal, an organization whose mission is to increase public awareness about at-risk animals in New York City. In continuing their mission to increase awareness about animals in need in NYC, they're hosting their 3rd Annual Gimme Shelter: Rock & Rescue benefit show on October 6th (tickets). Debbie Harry, Moby, Adrock, Gina Gershon, Earl Greyhound and many more will all be on hand in support of Brandt's cause. This week......

Kampuchea was one of two Cambodian restaurants recently profiled in the Times, where it was accurately pointed out that there is a dearth of Cambodian cuisine in New York. Chef/Owner Ratha Chau and Co-Executive Chef and Partner Scott Burnett are attempting to rectify that. Veering from a more traditional route, they base their menu on Cambodian street food, but add their own creative twists. Ratha and Scott took a break between lunch and dinner service......

There was a time when one might have been surprised to find an article about, say, Girl Talk nestled within the fussy pages of The New Yorker. But for years now Sasha Frere-Jones, the magazine's pop music critic, has been broadening the magazine's appeal with his perceptive and funny observations on everything from Radiohead to Coldplay. (Ha.) (See also: Miscegenation.) Jones is also that rare breed of critic who actually creates in his field......

Tao Rodriguez-Seeger is the grandson of Pete Seeger, and has been performing with the folk legend since the young age of 16. This weekend he and his grandad will be joined by Seeger's longtime friend, bluesman Guy Davis (son of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis). You can see the trio at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Chile Pepper Festival...but first, get to know them a little better. Can you tell us a little bit about your......