Here’s a little PSA for NYC residents: In an ongoing effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, the New York City Board of Elections is encouraging registered voters — all of them — to apply for an absentee ballot to vote

As it did all over the world, the pandemic forced the cancellation of live events on the famous stage of Harlem’s Apollo. To brighten its financial outlook — and to provide micro-grants to neighborhood merchants and small businesses around 125th

Need a quick break? Activate your ears and your eyes with Liza, a short film from French animator Bastien Dupriez. The two-minute piece commandeers George Gershwin’s song of the same name, played by jazz pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, and adds flashes of abstract

Somewhere between a concert, a comedy act, and a boozy singalong, the venerable piano bar was karaoke before they invented karaoke — and New York City’s long-running Shake, Rattle & Roll is one of the best. Locked down like the rest of us, the dueling-pianos act has gone

This may not be the time to go out in search of hard-to-find culinary ingredients, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t borrow some techniques — and equipment — from global cuisine. Condé Nast Traveler has assembled a list of the greatest

Foster and Partners, the British architecture juggernaut, has been keeping busy during the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to designing a highly effective open-source face mask, the firm put together the excellent #architecturefromhome series, which includes a pile of clever activities for design-inspired kids (and, if we’re

There are a lot of things we’re nostalgic for right now, but we have to admit that chalky Necco Wafers didn’t make the shortlist. Nevertheless, the much-maligned candy-like product is back on the shelves after disappearing in 2018. The wax-papered cylinders have

Scrubbed on Wednesday because of bad weather, NASA’s launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, carrying astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, has been rescheduled for Saturday. No ordinary rocket launch, this will be the first time in close to a decade that a