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Bristol Palin's five-bedroom in Maricopa, Arizona—where she was supposed to live while attending Arizona State University, before she changed her mind and signed on to a Hollywood reality show—is now available as a rental. The price is $1400/month. Click on the image above to view full-size. [Realtor, photo of Bristol via Getty] More »
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According to new Census Bureau data, rent in the San Jose area is the most expensive in the country followed by the San Francisco, D.C., San Diego, and L.A. areas. That means New Yorkers must officially stop bitching about rent. More »
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Starting Tuesday, employed residents of New York City homeless shelters will be charged rent. A family of three making $25,000/year will have to pay $926/month. The worst part: Mike Bloomberg is your new landlord. Take that, homeless people! [NYDN] More »
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Many things are ending in New York these days. From where we sleep to where we bob across the water to Staten Island to where we place our bets to where we Do It, all of New York is disappearing. More »
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Now that long-running musical Rent has closed on Broadway, the inevitable, awful high school productions have begun. Which is ruffling parental and administrative feathers across the land. But, really, what's the big deal with Rent? More »
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When Rent first premiered on Broadway, the musical—a rock and roll mishmash polemic about New York City's poor bohemian youth, the AIDS epidemic, and the struggle and ultimate power of being oneself ("faggots, lezzies, dykes," whatever)—it seemed destined to get fabulous acclaim and burn out quickly. The acclaim most certainly arrived, Rent won a whole slew of Tonys and, indeed, the Pulitzer Prize for drama (so rarely awarded to musical works). But its longevity was a true surprise. The mythos surrounding its sexy young cast and the untimely death of the show's creator, Jonathan Larson, helped (along with crazed, devoted legions of "Rentheads") the show power through 12 years at the Nederlander on 41st street. It closed just last night. I managed to catch its penultimate performance on Saturday. More »
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When I was 14, I used to sleep on the street outside the Shubert Theatre in Boston to get front or second row rush seats for the bohemian "rock opera" Rent. My sister and I listened to the entirety of the original cast recording every night. I was a fan. Though, 10 years later, I wasn't really sad to hear that the show would be closing in June. It was about time. Some of the music, once so thrilling and new, now felt creaky. Plus, the dreadful film made a pretty convincing case that the material is painfully dated. I was OK. But then I read the new, lengthy retrospective on EW.com and that familiar, crazed Renthead swoon came creeping back. More »
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· Our favorite review of the week, courtesy of the LAT's Carina Chocano: "Rent is commodified faux bohemia on a platter, eliciting the same kind of numbing soul-sadness as children's beauty pageants, tiny dogs in expensive boots, Mahatma Gandhi in Apple ads. It's about art, activism and counterculture in the same way that a poster of a kitten hanging from a tree branch ("Hang in There!") is about commitment and heroic perseverance." More »
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