Above, The Flaming Lips perform one of their signature wild shows in Central Park on Monday.  The benefit show for SummerStage included plenty of what Flaming Lips fans love, from massive quantities of confetti to the now-famous plastic hamster ball that front man Wayne Coyne uses to crowd surf.  Photo courtesy of Prefix, which also [...]

The Beacon Theatre (Broadway at 74th) has been off the list of gig spaces for artists for months now, as the Cirque du Soleil show, Banana Shpeel, had exclusively booked the venue for months.  The Beacon officially went dark in January for the production to get ready for opening, with an initial opening date set [...]