'Patron Saint of Internet' is fast-tracked to sainthood

Carlo Acutis looked like an ordinary teenager. However, Catholics around the world and Pope Francis believe that, during his short life, what he did here on Earth was extraordinary.

A closer look inside St. Patrick's Cathedral | Finding Faith

If you want to fully appreciate the magnificence of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown Manhattan, you must look up to properly take in the majestic ceiling.

Bible podcast becomes most popular

Fr. Mike Schmitz, a Catholic priest, hosts a new podcast called  "The Bible in a Year".

Broadway stars come together to save landmark West Bank Cafe

A legendary Hell's Kitchen landmark, the West Bank Cafe is hoping that a star-studded telethon will help it stay open until the curtains raise on Broadway once again.

Holiday cookies by Stephanie Nass
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People love to bake lots of sweets for the holidays. Stephanie Nass, a caterer and the founder of Chefanie, shows how to decorate and create beautiful and tasty holiday cookies. Check out her website www.chefanie.com.

Tony Award-winner Ann Reinking dies at 71

Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress and Bob Fosse collaborator Ann Reinking has died.

Defying pandemic, theaters get creative to stage shows anyway

More than a hundred blocks north of Manhattan's theater district but on that same famed thoroughfare, Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays recently read his lines from a stage. But there was no applause. 

Struggling Broadway costume shop owners work to save their industry

John Kristiansen and Brian Blythe run a costume shop that has been hard-hit by the Broadway shutdown but they are innovating to survive and also help their competitors.

Thanksgiving meal hacks
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The Scotto family shares hacks they use to get Thanksgiving dinner on the table quicker and easier.

How Ben & Jerry’s in NYC’s heaviest tourist areas is finding new lifelines

The Ben & Jerry’s of Times Square once saw lines of tourists waiting for a scoop of Half Baked or Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream. Now the popular eatery is fighting to find visitors and business after months of coronavirus restrictions, riots, and a shuttered local economy.

2 restaurants find early success launching during pandemic

During a pandemic might not seem like the best time to open a restaurant. Thousands of restaurants have had to close over the past several months. But in September, two new spots opened just minutes from each other in Fort Lee. They're hoping to make it through the pandemic and beyond.

Jagged Little Pill earns 15 Tony nods in pandemic-shortened season

Broadway's coronavirus-shortened season is getting an awards process that reflects this tumultuous year — incomplete, seemingly unfair and filled with loss.

Broadway moves online with theater closures

Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall.