A Crash Course on the Brooklyn Art Scene

A Crash Course on the Brooklyn Art Scene

Everything you need to know to make it as an art-lover who doesn't ever want to go to Chelsea.

Art

Fred Valentine: Humorous Haunts

Fred Valentine: Humorous Haunts

A studio visit prior to the artist’s solo exhibition at Sometimes permits glimpses of fantastical horrors and humors alike.

Theater

Theater On A Park Slope Stoop

Theater On A Park Slope Stoop

Brave New World will perform Street Scene on the street.

Film

Brooklyn's Best Young Filmmakers

Brooklyn's Best Young Filmmakers

Meet the local writers, directors and producers showing in this year's BAMcinemaFest.

Jun 18, 2013


Going On Today...

Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical

After runs in London and D.C., this backstage musical about the creative and romantic relationship between Danny Faye and Sylvia Fine comes to New York. From their first meeting at an audition through their often tumultuous relationship to Faye's film stardom, this showbiz story is retold with many favorite Faye tunes. $56.50/$31.50

St. Luke's Theatre, 308 W 46th St, Between Eigth and Ninth Avenue, Midtown East


Music

Northside at McCarren: Get To Know Your Openers

Your Guide to the 2013 Northside Festival

You're going to hear us talk an awful lot about this over the next week. Just warning you now.

Jun 5, 2013


Film

Tropfest: Short Films Move to Brooklyn

Tropfest: Short Films Move to Brooklyn

Talking to the founder of the world's biggest short-film festival, which is in Prospect Park this year.

I'm So Excited!: Almodóvar's Airplane

The Spanish director returns to his roots with this sex farce.

#Wiening: Museum Hours

Jem Cohen's gorgeous ode to Vienna, museums, and art.

A Hijacking: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

This Somali-hijacking movie is tauter for its stretches of eerie calm.


Food & Drink

Piece of Cake: Dynaco

Piece of Cake: Dynaco

This Bed-Stuy spot serves a frosted slice of chocolate that goes surprisingly well with whiskey.

Reasons to Wine: Falansai

The food at this Bushwick Vietnamese place was great. But the food pairings were divine.

Columns

Bogus Journeys

Art Fag City

Bogus Journeys

Traveling for work in the art world isn't as glamorous as it might sound.

Ask A Cabbie

How Do You Keep Cool in the Summer?

"Sometimes I put all the ice cubes in my freezer in a big bag and then rub that all over myself."

Sex With the Natural Redhead

Polytechnicalities

Dear Audrey, my girlfriend says she's poly, but I don't believe you can love two people at once.

Nightlife

L Magazine 10th Anniversary Party

Event management for The L Magazine and Kanine Records 10th Anniversary Party powered by Eventbrite

Reviews

Theater

The Fundamental Things Apply: The Silver Cord

Peccadillo revives this 1926 smother-love expose with effective sincerity.

Art

Life and Death During Wartime: Käthe Kollwitz

The Brooklyn Museum is showing its complete holdings of her affecting woodblock prints.

Bar

Ours Is Morning Drinking: Achilles Heel

A new old bar in Greenpoint opens at 8am.

Books

McCann’s Troubles: TransAtlantic

Colum's problematic new novel looks at Ireland's tragedies through myriad eyes.

Film

Wild At Heart: The Rambler

Calvin Lee Reeder's surreal road movie through American grotesquerie.

Restaurant

Wake Me When The Check Comes: Brooklyn Southern

The food is so rich and the beer so good at this place that they might just put you to sleep.

The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week

Early Jackie Chan and perverted Cronenberg.

Jun 19, 2013

Northside Film Day 2: Picks from The L Mag Staff

Tonight, we've got a documentary about deceased pets, a love letter to New York City and more.

Jun 18, 2013

Brooklyn's Best Young Filmmakers

Meet the local writers, directors and producers showing in this year's BAMcinemaFest.

Jun 18, 2013

The Measure cont'd

Photos: Solange Asks 5,000 People to Grind Like They're at a Middle School Dance

And they obliged, thank goodness.

Jun 17, 2013

Northside Film Day 1: Picks from The L Mag Staff

Northside Film kicks off tonight across Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

Jun 17, 2013

Sex, Love, and Brooklyn: Best Friends and Boyfriends

What happens when we lose our best friends to love?

Jun 17, 2013

Stories from Around the Web

Classified Directory

CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY Gowanus, Brooklyn

Film Biz Recycling

Featured in NY Magazine's "Best of New York," Film Biz Recycling's Prop Shop is an 11,000 sq ft warehouse brimming with items hot off the set from NYC's film, television, commercial & Broadway productions that may have otherwise been...LANDFILLED. Prove that you can be a do-gooder and a consumer at the same time and help rescue antique, vintage and modern furniture, kitchenware, lighting, rugs, junktiques, oddities, mirrors, art, frames, and ephemera galore by buying or renting. Make sure to check out for the fake barbed wire, breakaway glass, and rubber broken beer bottles used in bar fights and then sit down in the comfy electric to take it all in! Open M-F 10-7, Sat & Sun 12-7

CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Le Barricou

Le Barricou is a bustling neighborhood French restaurant offering local artisanal organic fare amidst a savory selection of grass fed meats, hand-cut pastas, day boat fish and fresh oysters. Le Barricou takes pride in its freshest ingredients and uncompromised standards. The restaurant goes through a magical transformation on the weekends from high-energy, jazzy, fun place to meet your friends for brunch to candle-light, laid back, romantic date-spot during the dinner time. Cozy beautiful backroom with a wood burning fireplace accommodates private parties. Gift certificates are available. Open Lunch M-F:11am -4pm, Brunch Sa-Su:10am-4pm, Late Brunch: Sa-Su: 4pm-6pm, Dinner M-Su:6pm-12am, Late Nite F-Sa:12am-2am.

HOTELS & TRAVEL Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

Escape Guesthouse

SHOPPING Park Slope, Brooklyn

Pup Slope

Pup Slope has one of the best grooming and boarding services in the area, only for miniature dogs and their friends, never in cages, always free. We carry many different varieties of pet foods and products as well as organic and holistic foods. We also have a full line of pet carriers that can be used on all major airlines. Our puppies are registered with AKC, APR, ACA United, CKC and CFA. Visit our sister store: Groom -o- rama at 496 6th Ave. in Manhattan.

CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

Lunetta

CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY Gowanus, Brooklyn

Halyards

Draft beer, good wine, and old-school cocktails for the denizens of Gowanus, Brooklyn. A record player serves as the juke box; you’re welcome to choose from the vinyl on hand or bring your own. Pool and darts reign in the back. Come by on Fridays for our Art Lunch -- we serve up a bowl of chili or stew along with a draft beer or glass of wine for ten bucks. Oh and we're good for parties!

CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Bati

A traditional Ethiopian restaurant serving authentic delicacies that possess homemade quality flavors. The menu offers organic beef, poultry and a wide variety of delectable vegetable dishes, which also meet the western standards of vegan food preparation. Bati offers the option of individual or the traditional communal serving, features wine pairings, and displays talented Ethiopian artists' work on its walls.

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