Billy Strayhorn

First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room

David Finkle | Posted 11.19.2011

David Finkle

In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wise enough to turn the paneled room over to her every Sunday brunch.

Stage Door: Driving Miss Daisy and The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Fern Siegel

A minimalist meditation on race relations and unlikely friendships, playwright Alfred Uhry transformed childhood memories into a global success.

Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Henry Adams

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

Black Elegance!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Henry Adams

Naturally, as the city's oldest, most fashionable African American congregation for two centuries, Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was bound to be 94 year old Mrs. Cunningham's parish.

Homo-Harlem Moves Downtown: How Malcolm Harris Hung Up on Angelina Jolie, Twice!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Henry Adams

Initially saddened that my glamorous friends had moved from uptown, I now realize that it's not so by Sarah Grossman much that K. Tyson Pere...

Happy 110th, Duke!

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Jane Levere

To celebrate the 110th birthday of Duke Ellington last week, his namesake orchestra played in a subway station in Harlem and, even more appropriately, on a 1930's-vintage, green A train.