Ten Restaurants Brooklyn is Desperately Missing
Sometimes we have to acknowledge that other cities have things that we do not. Here, we list of them.
TV
This Week on 2 Broke Girls... The Worst Episode Yet!
Now with a list of 10 terrible jokes rather than the standard 5.
Music
Sharon Van Etten Finds Her Voice
The understated singer discusses her new album, Tramp, with Wye Oak singer Jenn Wasner.
News
Brooklyn Subculture Club: Inside the Idiotarod
A new series profiling the weird and wonderful subcultures of the borough.
Going On Today...
DUOX: DUOX4Larkin
This Baltimore-based duo, Malcolm Lomax and Daniel Wickerham, seems poised for big things. They're making their New York City debut with what will surely be an expansive installation including—but not limited to—digital video (possibly displayed on a cell phone), images and objects identified with contemporary gay culture placed in an unexpected context (possibly encased in ice, also) and, from what we read in the cryptic press release, the pair's newborn child (named BOY'D) and/or its surrogate mother.
Artists Space, 38 Greene St. 3rd Fl, between Broome and Grand Sts, Soho
Music
Sharon Van Etten Finds Her Voice
The understated singer discusses her new album, Tramp, with Wye Oak singer Jenn Wasner.
11 Brooklyn Buildings That Would Make Great DIY Music Venues
Real Estate did just play at a Chinese buffet in Queens, after all, so anything can happen.
Live: Cloud Nothings Attack the Studio at Webster Hall
Harder, better, faster, stronger.
Jan 27, 2012
Film
Rotterdam Report: On the Ground at the World's Weirdest Film Festival
Artisanal Brooklyn animation, a videogame adaptation-cum-legal satire from Takashi Miike, and Vincent Gallo playing two roles in an Italian Kaspar Hauser riff. For starters.
Meet the Family and Fate in 2012's Oscar-Nominated Shorts
Parsing the short films competing in the animated, live-action and documentary categories at this year's Academy Awards.
Why the Long Face?
Whether or not The Turin Horse is Bela Tarr's last film, it's a (sometimes ravishing, sometimes funny) work of exhaustion, negation, refusal.
Killing Is His Business...
... and the cryptic, gory, discombobulating Kill List looks at the psychic toll of a soldier-turned-hitman.
Food & Drink
Ten Restaurants Brooklyn is Desperately Missing
Sometimes we have to acknowledge that other cities have things that we do not. Here, we list of them.
In Praise of Simplicity
Booze it up with beer and hot dogs at this cozy Williamsburg spot.
Jan 4, 2012
Brooklyn's 10 Best New Bars
Here’s where you should get drunk, friend.
1.(Nameless Bar) 597 Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint The bar without a name stands out in delightfully unexpected ways.
Dec 21, 2011
Columns
Art Fag City
There's No Place Like Kansas
The new Tribeca gallery KANSAS's lovely space makes a strong sculpture show stronger.
Ask A Cabbie
Any Tips for Valentine’s Day?
These Cabbie Casanovas give us tips on how to woo our significant others.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Is It Safe? Is It Safe?
Dear Audrey, Lately, I’ve been really feeling the cam-whoring.
Reviews
Theater
Collapsed Bridge of Nightmares at La MaMa
John Jesurun's new multimedia psychodrama Stopped Bridge of Dreams stays stopped.
Art
Artists Imagine Inhabitable Habitats
Neither wholly utopian nor clearly post-apocalyptic, the organic forms in In-Habitat at Front Room offer a balance between natural and man-made.
Books
The Joker
Two novels by the late Egyptian author Albert Cossery reveal him to be a connoisseur of human folly.
Film
Excavation
With The Miners' Hymns, Bill Morrison euglogizes the textures of a different fading physical reality.
Restaurant
Zito's: Who You Callin’ Goomba?
An old-school Italian sandwich shop with new-school style.
Art Thief Mark Lugo Pleads Guilty to Art Theft in New York
Our favorite art-swiper (Legal dept.: The L in no way encourages stealing art.) faces up to three years in prison.
More Day Laborers on Fifth Avenue
Does that tell us something about the economy?
The Permanent Collection: 4 New Songs You Should Hold on To
On new music from Frankie Rose, Orbital, Prinzhorn Dance School, Mr, Dream, and more.
The Measure cont'd
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon Has A New Clothing Line
And it's not Rather Ripped. Oh puns, puns, puns.
Everybody Loves Birth Control
It's a weird world where there is a group of people whose political stance seems to be both anti-abortion and anti-birth control.
When Music Meets the Art World: 6 Multidisciplinary Works
After Nicolas Jaar's 5-hour piece at PS1 last weekend, we got to thinking...
