Cathy Guisewite announced this week that she’ll be ending her “Cathy” comic strip on October 3. The creator described her decision to kill off Cathy (the character) as an “excruciating” one. Is it the end of an era? Or a victory for women everywhere?

Singer Patti LaBelle is joining the cast of the Broadway play Fela!

New York City is the kind of place where you can witness a mariachi love song, beat-boxing acrobats or an African drum circle on your morning commute.  But if you want to catch even more of this kind of performance, on stage, the New York International Fringe Festival kicks off this Friday. It features nearly 200 staged off-Broadway plays over the next two weeks.

New York City's colorful characters make it “the show that never stops,” according to the television writers behind Manhattan's newest tour bus.

“Bringing Back Glamour to New York.”  That’s the motto of the eight-day New York City International Film Festival, which kicks off tonight in Times Square.

Like many Mezzo-sopranos, Vivica Genaux has played her share of male roles. But she says growing up in Fairbanks, Alaska, the bigger challenge was learning how to walk in heels on stage!

Public displays of unbridled smooching are now being encouraged in Times Square. Standing beneath a 26-foot sculpture modeled on the iconic photo of the American sailor kissing a nurse on the day known as V-J Day in 1945, visitors are already practicing the art of the kiss.

From the Marcy projects to Flatbush to Coney Island, there's no question that Brooklyn has grown some of the world's finest musical talent. But what's an homage to Brooklyn's best without a mixtape? Here are some of my favorite songs from Brooklynites, born and raised.

The American Folk Art Museam is struggling to pay a $32 million dollar bond. They're not the only museum flailing in the downturn. Find out what's going on with NYC museum finances.

The largest arts festival in the world is the biggest it has ever been this year, and some skinny, bitchy New Yorkers are in on the action.

Composer and performer Elliott Sharp teams up with the New York-based Dither guitar quartet to perform at the Whitney Museum tonight at 7 p.m. to perform Christian Marclay’s Chalk Board. Learn more about the performance and watch WQXR's video about the project.

A casino resort owned by the Eastern Connecticut Mashantucket Pequot tribe bought a stake in one of Broadway's biggest theaters this week.

The Body Music Festival showcases the capabilities of the human instrument. Take Keith Terry's crash course in body music.

Gary Shteyngart says the characters in his new novel "Super Sad True Love Story" are the first ones he has written that he has really loved. The novel is set in the near future, which for Shteyngart is the easiest thing to write about. "To write about the present now is impossible," he says. 

"Quagmire!" "Flabbergasted!" “ Doldrums!"

He was one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Maybe now the world will finally believe it when novelist David Mitchell says Star Trek is cool. 

What does it sound like when an outfit comes together? 

With her site RetailDJ, Wendi Muse lays out a soundtrack to the most mundane of rituals, commanding readers to "get dressed to this."

Jovanotti performed at Summerstage in Central Park, Chromeo played a sold-out show at the Bowery Ballroom, and The National rocked the Prospect Park Bandshell. 

Twelve year old Alex Boukis has never seen Scarface, or The Godfather. But the film he wrote and directed, Tick Tock Paisan, is about loan sharks and ruthless gangsters.