<i>Do the Right Thing</i> Is About More Than Just Race

Do the Right Thing Is About More Than Just Race

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.

Books

Blake Butler Just Wants Your Attention (and Your Money)

Blake Butler Just Wants Your Attention (and Your Money)

This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types gets to the heart of the matter.

News & Features

At a TV Cattle Call in the Hamptons

At a TV Cattle Call in the Hamptons

Let's be honest, the privileged few can't even play themselves anymore. But you probably could, right?

Film

Don't Believe the Hype

Don't Believe the Hype

Michael Mann's Public Enemies is a very personal art project posing as a summer blockbuster.


Going On Today...

Joe Mangrum: Chrysalis Stage

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


Music

Interview: The Dodos

Interview: The Dodos

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.

Fell For Noise, Fell For Beauty

First it was Animal Collective, then Grizzly Bear, and now Sunset Rubdown.

The Future of the Left

Travels with Myself and Another

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.

Hott Tickets!

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.


Film

Don't Believe the Hype

Don't Believe the Hype

Michael Mann's Public Enemies is a very personal art project posing as a summer blockbuster.

Print the Legend

How John Dillinger and Hollywood wrote and rewrote the gangster's life story.

Life's a Beach

First Lady of the French New Wave Agnès Varda titles her cineautobiography The Beaches of Agnès, writes headline for us.

Point Break Goes to Iraq

How well does Hurt Locker director and outlaw visionary Kathryn Bigelow understand her IED-defusing, bank-robbing, surfing-bird adrenaline junkie characters?


Food & Drink

The Royal Order of Iberians

The Royal Order of Iberians

George Mendes pens his love letter to the Iberian Peninsula in Aldea.

Are Fancy Cocktail Bars the New Starbucks?

Milk & Honey mastermind Sasha Petraske does Queens with new lounge Dutch Kills.

Tips for Tips: Where've You Been? Where'd You Like to Go?

We'd like to go the Faroe Islands.

Cheap Italian, Minus the Red Sauce

Maybe, just maybe, one of the good things to come out of this recession will be tasty, cheap Italian.

Jun 10, 2009

Columns

The Hair Down There

Sex With the Natural Redhead

The Hair Down There

How to depilate like a man.

The Conscientious Objector

Green Daytripping in the Hudson Valley

A few places upstate that will show you firsthand how people are making their communities a better place to be.

Art Fag City

The Quest for the New is Getting Old

Ezra Pound used to say, "Make it new." Maybe we'd all be better off if he'd said, "Make it good."

Fashionville

Meet Next Year's Really Expensive Designers

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.

Dissociated Press

Talking About Iran

Obama's less-than-tough talk has been fine with the European press, just fine...

The Power of My Proven System

The 2009 US Open: The Week That Wasn't

Rain-soaked reflections from a long, anticlimactic weekend.

Fare is Fair

What Do You Miss About Where You Grew Up?

We miss fried beaver tails and skating on rivers and free healthcare and strong beer and really, really big snowforts.

Reviews

Album

Fell For Noise, Fell For Beauty

First it was Animal Collective, then Grizzly Bear, and now Sunset Rubdown.

Theater

This Freaky Coraline Never Freaks Out

The new musical based on the children’s book gets everything right except the Other side’s seductive power.

Bar

Are Fancy Cocktail Bars the New Starbucks?

Milk & Honey mastermind Sasha Petraske does Queens with new lounge Dutch Kills.

Books

Fugitive Visions

The memoirist, born in Korea and adopted by Minnesotans, paints an impressionistic portrait of a life lost in translation.

Film

Japan Cuts Like a Knife

Death Row stoicism, art school confidentials, diva-offs and ruffled feathers at the Festival of New Japanese Film.

Restaurant

The Royal Order of Iberians

George Mendes pens his love letter to the Iberian Peninsula in Aldea.

Williamsburg Flea Market Carries On, Despite Nation's Patriotic Hangover

It is your patriotic duty to go to this thing and buy stuff. IT COULD SAVE THE COUNTRY!

Party at Newly Pelt-Covered PS1

Celebrate Independence Day in style (which is to say in animal fur) at PS1's first WarmUp summer show.

Summer Monster Mash

Celebrate July 4 with Kylin O'Brien, his monster murals, barbecue and free booze.

The Measure cont'd

FREE BOOZE! Art Events Tonight

A screening, an opening and a performance to get your long weekend off to an artsy start.

Summer Sessions Begin Tonight

Sculpture Center kicks off its amazing summer concert series in style.

Finally, I Have Figured Out This Year's Summer Jam

You can dance to it, you can make teh sex to it, and it's politically relevant. WHAT MORE DO YOU PEOPLE NEED?!?

Listicles

13 Photos of Balls Hitting People in the Face

Given that it's July 4th (a celebration of all things American, like drinking outdoors and playing sports), we expect the number of emergency room visits by people who've been hit...

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11 Videos of Irresponsible Fireworks Use

Sure, we could have posted this at the beginning of the long weekend as a preventive warning to would-be pyros, but then we would be hurting the chances of future...

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Top 12 Movies with Zeppelins

The first zeppelin (named after inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, seriously) took to the skies exactly 109 years ago, and though we're a little sad they didn't catch on as...

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Clover Club

Classified Directory

NIGHTLIFE Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Second Chance Saloon

Punk rock and roll vibe, cheap drinks and no pretense. 12 beers on tap, huge liquor selection. Backyard with free BBQ, amazing jukebox, pool and Buckhunter. Drink for FREE on your birthday! Happy hour Mon-Fri 2pm to 9pm.

SHOPPING Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Ombligo

Ombligo Computers sells Dell & IBM laptops, Mac G5s, LCD monitors at wholesale warehouse prices. Ombligo Computers have all the software you need to listen Pandora, e-mail, Skype, download Porn, watch DVDs, revise your resume. Stop by our warehouse between 9:30am-6:30pm to talk with our tech nerds.

SHOPPING Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Brooklyn Kitchen

Williamsburg’s finest Kitchenwares store, located two blocks from the Lorimer Street station on the L. Intimate classes, new and vintage cookware and tools, knives and books. Wedding registry available, in-store and online!

CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY Lower East Side, Manhattan

Dana's Loft

Located on the Lower East Side, dana's loft HAIR is a boutique hair salon that specializes in all hair textures. Services include: Hair cutting, hair coloring, relaxing, Brazilian Keratin treatment, extensions/weaves, highlights and much more. Owner Dana Gibbs has been based in New York for 10 years and has been a fixture in the fashion and entertainment industry ever since. At dana's loft, every client is treated with special attention and hair care is our main objective. We also offer our line of hair care products, to aid in keeping the hair in its best shape ever. Look to dana's loft Hair for trendy cuts, innovative hair color and all around healthy flowing locks.

CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Brooklyn Label

The best coffee and espresso drinks - from Stumptown Roasters - plus comfort food that has the neighborhood buzzing. Fresh ingredients, dishes made from scratch -- plus the friendliest servers and baristas. For dinner, great fish, ribs, etc. and a my-t fine vegan/vegetarian menu.

SHOPPING Murray Hill/Kips Bay, Manhattan

1-800-FLOWERS

NIGHTLIFE Lower East Side, Manhattan

R Bar

Strategically located under the BQE, R Bar features an attentive staff, diverse clientele, 13 draughts and a recession-busting 2-for-1 Beer Happy Hour ‘til 9 every day, pool, video games, darts, board games and jukebox offered for your enjoyment! There’s always something going on!

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