Recommended shows

Fringe Binge 2008

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• Thoroughly Stupid Things 

• Montserrat Mendez’s follow-up to Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is the rare sequel that doesn’t disappoint.

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• Piccola Cosi

• The show paints a portrait of that special time in life when nascent adults go overseas to find themselves, and end up getting into cars with strangers.

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• R U Prime?

• This fun, toe-tapping experience would be perfect for Broadway—if its risqué, sardonic style could find space among the jukebox musicals.

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Tips & features

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• Drink up

• Bottle service

• Serving suggestion: Drink Dr. Fritz Briem's 13th Century Grut Bier while listening to Led Zeppelin’s “The Battle of Evermore.”

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• Art

• Buckminster Fuller

• Anyone with a speck of concern about the fate of the planet should see this show.

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• Flick pick

• Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

• There are plenty of high times and hard times in this satisfying portrait of "the Jezebel of Jazz."

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• Eat Out

• Meat wave

• For some of the city’s best porterhouses, strips and rib eyes, try thinking outside the steakhouse.

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• Read this now

• The Night of the Gun

• New York Times reporter David Carr deploys the tools of journalism to gather the facts about his drug-addled past.

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• Get outside

• 25 things to do before summer ends

• Don’t let the last weeks of sun pass you by without biking, hiking, camping, boating—and yes, relaxing.