Nothing’s shocking in New York anymore, but a live male erotic massage demonstration is the kind of window display bound to catch someone’s attention. Or at least that’s what the visionaries behind Manworks.com hope will happen tonight when they take over the window space at The Blue Chelsea, transform it into a masseuse station and display their erotic massage techniques on willing volunteers.

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Dia Art Foundation's director, Philippe Vergne, announced today that Dia would construct a new space in Chelsea and finally have a more visible NYC presence. The new site in West Chelsea will be located at 545 W. 22nd Street. The address is currently the location of the large, versatile Pace Wildenstein space. Galleries such as D'Amelio Terras are across the street. This is the first time in the organization's 35 year history that it has elected to construct a new building.

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Not to get all Shakespearean on you, but: “Would Brooklyn Brewery beer brewed anywhere but Williamsburg smell as hoppy? Probably. But thankfully we won’t have to find out anytime soon. The brewery announced it’s staying put after successfully negotiating a new 15-year lease for its current digs.

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At a moment when DVD sales continue to decline and new releases can often be downloaded (legally or otherwise) days after their theatrical release, Matt Grady has taken a bit of a gamble. The 39-year-old founder of Factory 25, a new independent film and music label based out of Brooklyn, is betting that you’ll still shell out some money for a DVD—or even a vinyl record—so long as what you’re getting is more than just a disc in a plastic case. Read the full story here.

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This Halloween weekend, getting dressed up as "Sexy Nurse No. 22" shouldn't be your only option for getting some good treats. The New York Chocolate Show continues through Sunday and, after buying your Golden Ticket, you can fill your treat bag with some of the best chocolates from around the world and in the city.

Of the local chocolate makers, Roni Sue's Pig Candy (chocolate-covered bacon, which we featured in last year's gift guide) and new chile-themed chocolate truffles are amazingly good combinations, while Fika's Milk Chocolate with Baileys melts in your mouth in a perfect balance of creamy smoothness and whiskey undertones. Spicy chocolates are quite popular right now, and Pure Dark's rounds are exceptionally smooth with a not-so-subtle kick and finish, while Jacques Torres' Wicked cocoa is a perfect gift for staying warm in the winter. After about the 15th sample, portion control becomes a bit more important, and the Sweet Riot girls have chocolate covered cocoa nibs that are crunchy and rich, and come in great little tins. Finally, the chocolate bars of Madecasse are the best dark bars around, with a great fruity depth, especially the 67% bar. Even better, their company is the first to produce the chocolate IN Madagascar(!), keeping the profits with the local community. Nothing like virtue and chocolate in one delicious package.

Then there are the purveyors that don't have local shops. By going to the chocolate show, you get to try chocolates that otherwise have to be cold shipped here. As you buy product, you totally try to justify the costs, since it's much cheaper than flying to Italy, California and Florida just to get your chocolate fix. Top picks for justifying the ticket price of the show: Jer's Peanut Butter Cara Mello bars are perfect for candy bar lovers who need to step up to the real stuff with organic peanut butter, and Christopher Michael's truffle flavors are combinations like spicy pomegranate with lime, which will delight all sections of your taste buds—except the umami.

Those are just a few of the over 50 vendors and my personal favorites. The average American eats 10 pounds of chocolate a year. It's time to make sure that it's good chocolate.

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Directors at the Ali Forney Center had reason to thank Bea Arthur for being a friend today after receiving a $300,000 gift from the estate of the late actress (and Golden Girl).

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New York Press just honored musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark as the Best Backstage Broadway Drama honoree in our annual Best Of issue, and just to prove they really deserved it, the musical is continuing to be the biggest hot mess on the Great White Way.

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Sure, the New York Times might be getting rid of 100 newsroom jobs, but that doesn't mean that there's no good news coming from the paper these days.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist tops this year's Power 100 list published by Art Review magazine. That's a year after Mr. Formaldehyde, Damien Hirst, topped the list. He's now at number 48. And Obrist, the Swiss-born art critic and co-director of Exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery in London, tops the list. But No. 2 is MoMA's own director, Glenn D. Lowry, who didn't even make the list last year. The third man on the list (and it's a long list of mostly men), is the Tate's director. So it appears that it's curators and tastemakers who are now in power, not the artists themselves. Bruce Nauman is the only artist in the top 10 (at No. 10). The Independent talks to Mark Rappolt, who chaired the 20-strong panel of judges who compiled the list, who says:

"The people who are the top are the people who are kind of flexible and are able to cope with a world that is rapidly changing," said Mark Rappolt, editor of Art Review. "This is partly because of the recession, but partly because it was happening anyway, because you need to be flexible to work on a global level.

"People can nip to Berlin, or go to New York for a weekend, whereas before they had to rely on somebody else's report from those places. This has made the list less dominated by London and New York, with a lot more Germans and others coming in. Hans Ulrich Obrist, who is at the top, has all these different hats on as a curator and a critic. This is not true of Damien Hirst. There is no 'School of Damien Hirst'. His influence does not extend that far."

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The IFC Center is more than just midnight screenings of the Buffy musical episode and an outlet for the eponymous cable network to show off its wares to an adoring public. It's also a favorite date spot for the intelligentsia and arthouse film snob. And so it will soon, perhaps counterintuitively, expand to have two additional screening rooms at their Sixth Avenue spot. 

John Vanco, vice president and general manager of the IFC Center, told the NYTimes that the theaters would be used primarily to keep successful films for longer runs. "That’s been a frustration, that we’ve had some really successful small films that we’ve had on calendar for a week or two weeks, that will do huge business, but then have to go to make room for the next one,” Vanco told the Times.

This is at a time when the Film Society of Lincoln Center is still undergoing extensive renovation with the Elinor Bunin-Munroe Film Center, and we are seeing more and more niche programming. Perhaps that's the way to keep these small, indie cinemas afloat. Build it and they will come.

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