On the twentieth anniversary of its release, a video-essay look at the all-too-human human conflicts behind fireworks of Spike Lee's American masterpiece.
This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types gets to the heart of the matter.
Let's be honest, the privileged few can't even play themselves anymore. But you probably could, right?
Michael Mann's Public Enemies is a very personal art project posing as a summer blockbuster.
Mangrum's installations and street art tend toward kaleidoscopic palettes and floral patterns, covering spaces and creating new forms with unusual materials like plants.
Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art, 293 Grand St., between Havemeyer and Roebling Sts, Williamsburg
With a new album scheduled for release this fall, Meric Long and Logan Kroeber spoke with us about living up to hype, working with Phil Ek, and Wavves. Always Wavves.
First it was Animal Collective, then Grizzly Bear, and now Sunset Rubdown.
Travels With Myself and Another is not the record for orchestral pop apologists who fall back on nebulous descriptors like "texture" to compensate for the lack of a pulse.
It is with a heavy heart that I write this installment of Hott Tickets, for it turns out it is also the last installment of Hott Tickets you will ever find in these pages.
Michael Mann's Public Enemies is a very personal art project posing as a summer blockbuster.
How John Dillinger and Hollywood wrote and rewrote the gangster's life story.
First Lady of the French New Wave Agnès Varda titles her cineautobiography The Beaches of Agnès, writes headline for us.
How well does Hurt Locker director and outlaw visionary Kathryn Bigelow understand her IED-defusing, bank-robbing, surfing-bird adrenaline junkie characters?
George Mendes pens his love letter to the Iberian Peninsula in Aldea.
Milk & Honey mastermind Sasha Petraske does Queens with new lounge Dutch Kills.
We'd like to go the Faroe Islands.
Maybe, just maybe, one of the good things to come out of this recession will be tasty, cheap Italian.
Jun 10, 2009
A few places upstate that will show you firsthand how people are making their communities a better place to be.
Ezra Pound used to say, "Make it new." Maybe we'd all be better off if he'd said, "Make it good."
The annual CFDA awards ceremony is a little bit like going to see your favorite indie rock band perform at Radio City, if they served champagne instead of humongous cups of Bud Light.
Obama's less-than-tough talk has been fine with the European press, just fine...
Rain-soaked reflections from a long, anticlimactic weekend.
We miss fried beaver tails and skating on rivers and free healthcare and strong beer and really, really big snowforts.
First it was Animal Collective, then Grizzly Bear, and now Sunset Rubdown.
The new musical based on the children’s book gets everything right except the Other side’s seductive power.
Milk & Honey mastermind Sasha Petraske does Queens with new lounge Dutch Kills.
The memoirist, born in Korea and adopted by Minnesotans, paints an impressionistic portrait of a life lost in translation.
Death Row stoicism, art school confidentials, diva-offs and ruffled feathers at the Festival of New Japanese Film.
George Mendes pens his love letter to the Iberian Peninsula in Aldea.
CreepyAlluring Art of the Follow Shot