Janaya Williams

Armory Arts Week is officially underway. The annual city-wide week of arts events is expected to draw more than 60,000 attendees and generate more than $40 million in economic activity for the city.

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter may get most of the credit for fueling the recent uprisings in the Middle East and Africa, but a group of authors is making the case that con...

Paul McCartney is writing an original score for a world premiere ballet for the New York City Ballet company's 2011 season.

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria is paying tribute to the history of public access television with "TV Party: A Panorama of Public Access Television In New York." The series ...

Men don’t talk about love.  That’s one of the myths filmmaker Otis Kriegel set out to disprove when he spent three years asking men on the streets of New York the question:  “Why do you love your woman? He compiled the results into a 12-minute short film “I Love My Woman” showing at the New Jersey Film Festival this weekend, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Times Square has found a heart just in time for Valentine's Day.

Most New Yorkers are aware that Thursday is the start of the Chinese New Year, but fewer know that many other cultures throughout Asia also celebrate the start of the Lunar New Year...

Artists have been using food as a medium for many years. Now four artists, including performance artist Marina Abramović, are bringing their artistic visions to the table.

Colleges and universities in the area have been scrambling this week to bring students and faculty back from study abroad programs in Egypt after the State Department issued a travel advisory for U.S. citizens in the country.

If you’ve ever lost track of an embarrassing home video, you could find your antics projected on the big screen this weekend at the Anthology Film Archives.

Fresh on the heels of Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to Washington, the International Center of Photography (I.C.P.) in Manhattan is staging the first U.S. exhibition of on...

Most people head inside when the weather turns snowy and cold, but for serious photographers, wintry weather can be a dream come true.

Some of the hottest names in jazz are performing Friday night in the West Village at the seventh annual Winter Jazzfest.

For many New Yorkers with roots in Latin America or the Caribbean, the holiday season doesn’t end until 12 days after Christmas. On Thursday, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem is mar...

Snow-covered sidewalks may be an inconvenience for many New Yorkers, but they can pose a much bigger problem for people who are disabled or mobility-impaired.

For homeless New Yorkers, finding shelter from the elements can be a life or death situation.

For the last 20 years on Christmas Day, New York City historian Seth Kamil has been leading groups on a walking tour of the Jewish Lower East Side. On one recent holiday, almost 700 people showed up to take the tour.

Producers of the troubled Broadway show "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" told state and federal officials that they would hire an independent expert to review safety procedures, and increase the number of rehearsals for understudies.

Three thousand amateur and professional singers will gather at Lincoln Center on Tuesday night for the National Chorale’s 43rd annual sing-a-long of Handel’s Messiah. Seventeen cond...

The City's economy may have hit some rocky patches in the last few years, but enrollment at New York City’s culinary schools has seen steady growth. Many of the new students are m...