Mark Machado thinks some men should step up and be honest for once. “Guys just get tattoos to get laid,” he says. “There’s not always a story behind it.They’re just trying to get some.” Portraits, names of moms and dads, song lyrics that tell a life story, insane back pieces or his own street art-inspired work, Machado (better known as Mister Cartoon in the tattoo world) doesn&rsq...

Her name is widely known and revered in dance and theater circles; her work and ideas were deeply influential for many decades. Anna Sokolow was a seminal figure in American modern dance—a deeply individual, strongly committed artist who connected profoundly with the issues, conflicts and sensibilities of her times. For Jim May, who danced in her company starting in 1966 and now directs the Sokolow Theatre Danc...

Victor Garber, as the Noel Coward manqué Garry Essendine in Coward’s Present Laughter, is giving exactly the performance one imagined when his casting was announced last summer. Which is not to say that his sparkling performance is a bad one, just unsurprising. The element of suspense is instead focused on Brooks Ashmanskas as a deranged “young” playwright (the script says 25; Ashmanskas&rsqu...

Wanna know what will happen to you in 2010? No problem, I can tell you about it after attending astrologer Susan Miller’s all-day seminar “The Year Ahead 2010.” If you’re a Pisces or an Aries, you’re in luck, thanks to Jupiter being in your sign. (Pssssssst! Little secret: set your alarm for Feb. 28 as the most fantabulous 24 hours this year). Everyone will have some good days and some n...

This debut collection follows a single narrator through nine stories and 30 years as the world worsens and deteriorates..

Most of us with a Jewish mother have had a delightful sentimental education in the ways of hypochondria, but we probably haven't been schooled in it by a panel of well-educated hipsters. Tonight, this too will change. Brian Dillon, U.K. editor of Cabinet.