Jimmie Johnson and his team have been so dominant in Nascar that some fans and drivers claim he is responsible for a dip in attendance and TV ratings.
Representative Charles B. Rangel distributed groceries in Harlem while awaiting a vote on ethics violations.
Recently, American Jews have been pouring their energy into old Ashkenazic dishes that had traveled so far they had lost much of their flavor.
The Local Ocean fish farm in Hudson, N.Y., may be an aquaculture game-changer, raising saltwater fish in tanks on land.
Increasingly, the ingredients that chefs are seeking out are not the ones everyone can order; they’re the ones few have ever heard of.
Even more well-provisioned neighborhoods might envy the well-stocked 4,500-square-foot Battery Place Market.
An Italian wine for a classic Italian dish.
The well-known sushi chef Naomichi Yasuda says he is making way for the next generation.
An Upper East Side restaurant attempts to hoist the basic Manhattan-Italian menu to something approximating a modern urban trattoria.
The panel tasted 20 bottles of the 2005 Barbaresco, an aromatic wine whose flavors bloom with age.
From Japan comes a sauce with a touch of sweetness to flavor all sorts of foods, hot or cold, cooked or raw.
Food and wine events from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5.
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Cariño is a genial place to spend an evening, its version of Mexican food reliable, if a trifle subdued — not unlike Bonita, where its owners and staff members toiled.
Andrei Konchalovsky’s “Nutcracker in 3D,” with Elle Fanning, contains no ballet, but its Christmas-in-Vienna setting is the backdrop for a dystopian fantasy about the Nazis.
The most impressive stunt in “One Night With Joan” is gymnastic: a down-to-floor split. Not bad for 77, or any age, for that matter.
Frederic Lilien chronicles close to two decades in a famous red-tailed hawk’s — and its fan club’s — eventful life.
Betrayal, a revolution and the unknowability of the past, as well as its immediacy, are concerns in this drama from the Czech director Jan Hrebejk.
The Moscow Virtuosi played Boccherini, Mozart, Schnittke and Shostakvoich at Avery Fisher Hall, led by Vladimir Spivakov and with the pianist Alexander Ghindin as soloist.
For Dwayne Johnson, “Faster” is a total about-face after the family-friendly baby food of “The Tooth Fairy.”
The Albanian author Ismail Kadare’s new novel begins like a thriller and then turns into something else entirely.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway star in a romantic comedy set in the dawning of the age of Viagra.
The Kneehigh Theater’s adaptation of “The Red Shoes” presents a raw view of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale.
