9 Hours of Game? Sit, Eat, Drink, Even Sleep for a ‘Night’.

The inspiration for “One Night,” a nine-hour theatrical event at the Target Margin Theater in Brooklyn, began nearly 3,000 nights ago. Or to put it another way, it began more than 1,000 years ago when some Middle Eastern and Indian folktales first appeared in Arab collections. “One Night” distills these intertwined tales known as “One …

The Perfect Girl Disappeared On Prom Night. The question is: Why?

I KISSED SHARA WHEELERby Casey McQuiston Teen crime or teen love – you guessed it, which has the potential to ruin more lives. Casey McQuiston has written two best-selling adult romances, but their YA debut “I Kissed Shara Wheeler” starts out as a thriller: Shara Wheeler, the principal of Willowgrove Christian Academy, disappears in the …

Review: ‘All the Lovers in the Night’ by Mieko Kawakami

But that sarcasm doesn’t prevent them from judging others privately based on their weight, age, clothing, and social norms. At the novel’s first major turning point, on a summer’s day, he sees his reflection in a sunken and disheveled window. “What I saw in the reflection was myself,” he observes, “a miserable woman who cannot …

One Night, Several String Quartets Premiere

On Thursday evening, two famous string quartets made their New York premieres. JACK Quartet at Merkin Hall Patricia Alessandrini’s “A Complete History of Music (Volume 1)”, Khyam Allami’s “Ma-a a-ba ud me-na-gin Ma-a di-di-in” introduced. and George Lewis’ String Quartet 4.5. At Zankel Hall not far away, the Danish String Quartet paired Schubert’s “Death and …

Late Night Celebrates Obama’s First White House Visit in Five Years

“Over the weekend, workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island were able to successfully unionize. This is the first Amazon union. And the new union president said something funny. The union president said, ‘We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going into space, because “We were signing people while he was there.” – …