MOVIE: Get a little more in depth on the whole border crossing controversy with Woodstock in the City's screening of Crossing Arizona at +Art%2C+Dance%2C+Music+and+Film888The+Arts+%2D+Events888Makor+%2D +Film888Makor+Film+August888&productid=T%2DMM5FA06">Makor. There's a Q&A with the filmmakers Joseph Mathew and Dan DeVivo and a reception following the screening hosted by Indiepix.net. Roger Ebert said after the film screened at Sundance, “On the last day or two (of Sundance) you hurry between screenings, trying to catch films everybody tells you not to......

-The FDA has again delayed making a decision over making Plan B (the morning-after pill) available over the counter. In Gothamist's humble opinion this latest delay is BS. -August Wilson, the two-time Pulizer Prize winning playwright, has inoperable liver cancer. Our prayers go out to him and his family. -You know that an election is heating up when candidates start sending spies to their competitors' events. -Another sign the election is coming? Bloomberg gave his......

Appropriately in this sticky heat, it’s kind of a slow week for theater, at least openings-wise. So for a change of pace, instead of a show roundup, here are a few recent theater-world tidbits that struck Gothamist as interesting. The Times reported last week that the Signature Theatre is going to offer $15 tickets to its next season (its fifteenth). Every seat. This is thrilling news, and everyone should flock there to see three plays......

Gothamist always finds it fascinating how some truly non-commercial playwrights will always get their new shows produced on Broadway. It's as if some producers and investors genuinely don't care about making money with some of the works they are essentially subsidizing. One such writer that falls in this category is two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson, whose new play Gem of the Ocean, was scheduled to begin previews Nov. 4, but was delayed when the......