What's going on in New York

Chef Scott Conant's new meatpacker Scarpetta, named after the small piece of bread used to scoop sauces, knocked us out, especially the agnolotti dal plin-irregular pasta pouches bulging with a purée of cabbage, truffles, and veal.

If you pass by the storefront on busy East Tremont Avenue, you're sure to be drawn in by the window display featuring several giant garlic-and-parsley-stuffed pork roasts, with the burnished copper skin shining under the heat lamps. El Nuevo Bohio...

There are plenty of variations of the live music-plus-movie equation available to enterprising New Yorkers: Morricone Youth jamming along to the late, great Jean Rollin's Fascination at Williamburg's newish Nitehawk, a deep talent pool of live pia...

There is chocolate cake, and then there is chocolate cake that would make a priest put his fist through a stained glass window. The devil's food cake that Kierin Baldwin makes at the Dutch falls squarely into the latter category. Baldwin's genius ...

There's still no topping Marie's Crisis, "where showtunes come to die—but you have a helluva time while they're doing it." The long-running West Village dive, complete with an always-smudged mirror behind the bar, is a zingy neighborhood party ful...

The East Village loves the hip mom-and-pop MUD, and vice versa. You can load up on their strong classic brew at the original orange trucks at Astor Place, Union Square, and Wall Street, or sip it from handmade ceramic mugs at their tiny, j'adorabl...

Like we said with actors, in a theater town as big as NYC, there's really no one single best actress. But you know who we've been thinking is pretty damn great these days? Well, the Voice gave her an Obie Award last year for her ensemble work in a...

Bagel With Cream Cheese and Lox: The bagel was brought to the U.S. in the late 19th century by Polish Jews. About the same time dairymen in Chester, New York, invented cream cheese, an unaged cheese made according to French methods, with a curious...

The sophomore project of Peter Hoffman -- New York's early answer to Alice Waters -- strikes all the expected local and sustainable notes, with a meatiness added that's absent from, say, Chez Panisse. The Sunday night pig roasts have become legend...

With the shrinking number of Gotham music venues-who're mostly worried about surviving-it's getting harder to find interesting places. That's why it's a relief to come across a locale like the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music. Situated within th...

We can't recall the last time we attended the Guggenheim during normal business hours, but we have reveled in many of the museum's after-hours soirees, flask in jacket pocket. It's not that their collections, as of late, haven't been stimulating—i...

Clothingline in the Garment District is the best-kept secret in sample sales, except for the twice-annual explosion when it's the absolute worst—you know, the handful of days when preppy young women line up five blocks deep for the Tory Burch blow...