50 Great Outdoor Events in Brooklyn This Summer
How to get a season's worth of culture without ever stepping inside a building.
Art
Bushwick Open Studios 2013
Insider information on what to expect from the ever-expanding event this year. In short: more than ever.
Film
Ode to Joy: Talking with Noah Baumbach
The director of Frances Ha on how much fun it was to make.
Going On Today...
Then She Fell
Based on the life and work of Lewis Carroll and his disturbing relationship with Alice Liddell, the young girl he loved and for whom he wrote Alice in Wonderland, this is the opposite of passive theatergoing: it's a real adventure through the proverbial looking-glass. Performed in a 100-year-old institutional building that has been dressed to look and feel like an old asylum, crammed with all kinds of creepy Carroll ephemera, it viscerally arrives at is the awful standoff between a little girl and an older man who loved her inappropriately and made something beautiful for her to salve his pain—and also to ensnare her forever. It gets across the full horror of what that meant for her, and also what that means for us. $95-$125
The Kingsland Ward at St. Johns, 195 Maujer Street, Williamsburg
Music
When Did Synth-Pop Get So Sincere?
Is the laptop the new acoustic guitar?
The Knife and the New Politics of Synth-Punk
It's impossible to overstate the influence of this band in creating a whole new language for the genre.
Apr 12, 2013
The So So Glos Were Banned from CBGBs
Part One of an in-depth interview with the Brooklyn natives on the eve of the release of their latest album, Blowout.
Apr 10, 2013
Film
Ode to Joy: Talking with Noah Baumbach
The director of Frances Ha on how much fun it was to make.
This Is 40: Before Midnight
Richard Linklater revisits classic characters in this trenchant depiction of committed relationships.
Yale Breakdown: Nancy, Please
A horrifying comedy about an adjunct professor who won't take responsibility for his failures.
Unexamined Suburban Privilege: The Kings of Summer
Boys build their own home in the woods in this American indie comedy.
Food & Drink
Whiskeyed Away to Isle of Skye
Williamsburg has a Mecca for Scotch drinkers.
Veggie Burger Paradise: Root Hill Burger
Gowanus has a great new place for meatless patties. Also for meat.
Columns
Ask A Cabbie
Did You Go to Your Prom?
"Who the fuck wants to hang out at school when you don’t have to?"
Art Fag City
Punk Couture: An Oxymoron?
The Met's latest fashion exhibit tells visitors nothing about its subject.
Nightlife
L Magazine 10th Anniversary Party
Event management for The L Magazine and Kanine Records 10th Anniversary Party powered by Eventbrite
Reviews
Theater
Russian, But Unrushed: Nikolai and the Others
If you care at all about art, you ought to adore this great play.
Art
Bushwick Open Studios 2013
Insider information on what to expect from the ever-expanding event this year. In short: more than ever.
Books
An Enquiry Concerning Zombie Understanding: A Questionable Shape
Bennett Sims's brilliant zombie novel is as much philosophical treatise as narrative.
Film
Grease-Monkey Melodrama: Fast & Furious 6
Safeguarding country and family justifies any kind of violence.
Restaurant
Spring, Chicken: Sweet Chik
The best vegetarian fried chicken in Brooklyn. Plus, real chicken!
That's It, I'm Done With Facebook
It's become the virtual equivalent of your aunt's slides from her trip to the Pencil Museum.
More Bands Added to the Northside Festival Lineup: Chance the Rapper, A Place to Bury Strangers, Bleached, Weekend and More
No sleep til June, you guys.
Frances Ha, Friendship, Wankers, and the Oboe: Talking with Greta Gerwig and Mickey Sumner
"I feel like the American equivalent of the word 'wanker' is 'douche.'"
The Measure cont'd
The Best Old Movies On a Big Screen This Week
From Vittorio de Sica to a Burt Lancaster retrospective.
May 22, 2013
Dispatch from Cannes: The Movies that Left Audiences Confused
A Touch of Sin and Jimmy P divided viewers.
May 22, 2013
Which 90's Nostalgia Tour Is Right For You?
It's time to decide where your loyalties lie.
May 21, 2013
