Sharon Van Etten Finds Her Voice
The understated singer discusses her new album, Tramp, with Wye Oak singer Jenn Wasner.
Art
Remembering Mike Kelley with His 10 Funniest Artworks
The giant of contemporary American art took his own life yesterday.
Food & Drink
The Double Life Q&A: Nino Cirabisi, Actor and Bartender at the Bourgeois Pig
Yes, we would very much like to hear about the secret bottle you keep behind the bar.
Going On Today...
Target First Saturday's at the Brooklyn Museum
Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month from 5 to 11 p.m. FREE
Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Pkwy., at Washington Ave, Crown Heights
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
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.
Rep Pick: The Crime of Monsieur Lange
A "lesser" early Renoir film is a Popular Front polemic that also plays as an office sex comedy.
15-Hour Film School
Mark Cousins's The Story of Film is part travelogue, part argument, part introduction to film language.
Food & Drink
The 10 Best Breakfast Sandwiches in Brooklyn
They're fancier than they used to be, but then again so are you, yes?
Jan 27, 2012
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
Tony Perkins and the Psycho
A 60s artifact in which poor sweet-creepy Norman Bates meets Tuesday Weld's fresh young thing, who just happens to be a murderer.
Restaurant
Zito's: Who You Callin’ Goomba?
An old-school Italian sandwich shop with new-school style.
The Next High Line: The Tappan Zee Bridge?
It's a long shot, but the next elevated public green space could be floating 20 miles north of the city.
Royal Flush: At $250 Million, Cézanne's "Card Players" Becomes Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold
The Qatari royal family just bought the humble painting for a quarter of a billion dollars.
NYC Marijuana Arrests Up in 2011
Even though Ray Kelly was all like, "cool it, guys," back in September.
The Measure cont'd
The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types: Adam Gopnik
In which the longtime New Yorker staffer discusses his love for Keith Richards and Papaya King.
Your Big, Miraculous Weekend at the Movies
An array of genre fare, and the careers of Dan Radcliffe and John Krasinski considered.
Inside the Artist's Construction Site: Dustin Yellin's Huge Art Center in Red Hook
Though he hasn't settled on a name, his vast and utopian exhibition and studio space is quickly nearing completion.
