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<em>Space Jam 2</em> just sucksSo I saw Space Jam: A New Legacy over the weekend, and it’s just awful. Just an atrocious piece of cinema, and a blatant attempt to capture nostalgia money from fans of the original ‘90s film starring Michael Jordan. I wanted to wait until today to write anything about it though in order to get the ...

Drive-in Theater To Open At Yankee Stadium … Parking LotYou may have heard on Thursday that Yankee Stadium is becoming a drive-in movie theater this summer, as that was the headline at Travel & Leisure and Cosmopolitan, and even the content of a tweet from the Yankees’ flagship radio station, WFAN....

Go To The Movies In The MorningTwo of the better movie theater experiences I’ve had in the last few years were when I saw Hereditary in June 2018, and when I saw Avengers: Endgame in April. Hereditary was weird and terrifying and I loved it; Endgame was overlong and mostly bored me to death. What those theater-going experiences h...

Someone Has To Clean Up After Broadway's Creative Destruction

If you are familiar with the still boyishly handsome but extremely serious actor Ethan Hawke, you know that when stage directions state that a character he’s portraying onstage wields a golf club and then is “seen smashing typewriter methodically,” Hawke will absolutely be smashing the shit out of a...

Darren Rovell, Theater Major, Is Actually Kind Of Likable

It has always seemed like Darren Rovell cherished nothing more than farting out press releases to Twitter, writing embarrassing columns, and owning himself while trying and failing to explain economics to people. But no, it appears that Darren has another, perhaps even greater, passion: Musical thea...

Dodgers And Giants Delay Game, Have One At-Bat, Delay For Nearly Three Hours More, Finally Decide To Play

The Dodgers are having a miserable three weeks. The Giants are having a miserable year. Tonight, together, they had a fairly miserable evening....

Cubs' And Diamondbacks' Rain Delay Theater Activities, Ranked

The Cubs and Diamondbacks had to sit through several delays waiting for rain to pass tonight before Arizona could out-slug Chicago, 10-8. Here are the rain delay activities of the two bullpens, ranked:...

Washington Nationals Maintain Need For Rain Delay Through Two Hours With No Rain [UPDATED]

The Nationals and Braves were scheduled to begin play in D.C. tonight at 7:05 p.m. ET. It was not raining. But there was rain in the forecast, so they went ahead and called a rain delay anyway—just in case, right? They didn’t need to put a tarp on the field, since, you know, it wasn’t actually raini...

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There Should Be Movie Theaters In Airports

I have a good idea that you can NOT steal, but which you may hear. Are you ready? Here it goes: ...

by Hamilton Nolan|

|Tue Jul 19 2016

Rain Delay Theater Features Jousting

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Feb 24 2016

College Baseball Rain Delay Theater, WWE-Style

UNC Wilmington and Tulane kept themselves busy during a lengthy rain delay in their NCAA regional matchup, with Wilmington outfielder Joe Bertone taking individual honors with this Rock Bottom/People’s Elbow finish....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 01 2015

Sean Avery's Theater Debut Derailed By Pizza-Related Rehearsal Meltdown

That's a good headline. Really tells a story. Are you sure you even want the details, or should we just leave it at that?...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Nov 05 2014

The Phillies Spent Their Rain Delay Playing Bullpen Bocce

The Phillies waited out a one-hour, 39-minute rain delay in Atlanta yesterday, and some bored souls out in the visitors' bullpen managed to pass the time with a few games of baseball bocce. God bless whoever invented the sphere....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jul 21 2014

Padres Turn Tarp Into Slip 'N Slide

The infield was covered up before last night's Padres-Phillies game (it got underway on time), so Yasmani Grandal and Everth Cabrera did what any self-respecting adult should do in that situation. ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Jun 11 2014

Kazan: An Appreciation

A few years ago there was a nice appreciation of Elia Kazan by John Lahr over at The New Yorker:...

by Alex Belth|

|Wed Feb 26 2014

Tyson Vs. Ali

A performance piece at PS122 reviewed in the Times and also featured in the Wall Street Journal. ...

by Alex Belth|

|Wed Jan 08 2014

The Talented Mr. Tynan

"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."...

by Alex Belth|

|Mon Jul 22 2013

Omar Vizquel Busts A Move

The Blue Jays sat through a 2-hour rain delay in Boston, and Omar Vizquel is 45 years old. So...chalk these dance floor moves up to boredom, or just a little physical activity to keep those old joints from locking up?...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

The New Best Place For An Outdoor Hockey Game: A Roman Amphitheater

Yes, yes, the next Winter Classic will be at the Big House, and it'll look great with 120,000 freezing and screaming fans. Do you realize we're falling desperately behind the Europeans in the all-important "playing sports where sports aren't meant to be played" race? Why, just last month, a Russian ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Rain Delay Theater, Human Toilet Edition

We're closer to living in a just world, a world where college baseball rain delay antics are front page news and lead SportsCenter. Edgewood College knows what's up: their athletics office put together this video and sent it along. That's the D-III Eagles and the Rockford College Regents engaging ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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