- Issue Archive for the Week of
- Apr 22 - May 5, 2009
- Vol. 7, No. 8
Books
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Wells Tower paints a fragmented portrait of domestic upheaval and reconciliation, peopling his darkly humorous of the bungled and the botched.
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Ed Park Regrets This Interview
Introducing The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types, which makes famous authors feel a little weird.
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The Accordionist’s Son
Bernardo Atxaga's The Accordionist's Son follows, primarily, the childhood story of David, a boy growing up in Spanish portion of Basque Country shortly after the Spanish Civil War.
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The Will to Whatevs
Funny man is funny on the tv, but not in the book. On top of that, his advice, not so much.
Music
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Jadakiss Ain't No Radio Playa
Jadakiss tries to make a pop album and fails.
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Hott Tickets!
Northside Festival details galore: Hold Steady, Sunset Rubdown, cheap booze, etc.
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Why Everyone Should Listen to Micachu
Because she's the love child of Bjork, MIA and Shane MacGowan.
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Sulking in the Sun
Camera Obscura's My Maudlin Career creates lovely despair.
Film
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Like a Prayer
Jean-Pierre Melville's 1961 Léon Morin, Priest
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The Invisible Man
Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo is, somehow, an apolitical political biopic.
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Nursery University
Horrible parents on parade in Marc H. Simon and Matthew Makar's Nursery University
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Vienna Won't Wait
Mirjam Unger's Vienna's Lost Daughters aren't lost to history.
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Sleep Dealer
Directed by Alex Rivera
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Fairytales Can Come True
Tim "Yes That Disney" Disney's American Violet leaves reality behind.
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Played Out
Kevin Macdonald State of Play, um, doesn't.
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Is There a Script Doctor in the House?
John Crowley almost gets the better of his own Is Anybody There?
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Your Tribeca Film Fest Wheat-Chaff Special
At Tribeca: Martyred interpreters, frying corn, senile grannies and foul-mouthed Scots.
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Erin Ghost, Brah
At Tribeca: Conor McPherson's The Eclipse would be a great horror movie, if it were a horror movie.
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The Kids Will Be Alright
...at least they will be in So Yong Kim's transcendent Treeless Mountain.
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The Tribeca Film Fest Will Not Die
Tribeca Preview: Podgy men with baseball caps, twittering c-list celubtards, the occasional decent film, and 21-year-old porn stars (obvs).
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Please Step Back, Kids, As the Stath Jump-Starts Hisself
Neveldine/Taylor's Crank: High Voltage: Now with 50% more cranking.
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Runs Ok, But Sputters a Bit...
Eran Riklis' allegory Lemon Tree is too little tree, too much lemon.
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Mike Tyson Just Wants To Be Loved
James Toback's Tyson will bite off your ear and spit it down your throat.
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Get Your War On
At Tribeca: Profane British and American comics plan an invasion, profanely, in In the Loop.
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The Bad Fight
Dito Montiel's Fighting goes down without... you know
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Migrating Forms Festival
It hath returned, transfigured.
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Fun with the Fallacy of Imitative Form
At least Gregor Jordan's Bret Easton Ellis riff The Informers gets itself off
Food & Drink
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We Say Amen to Ramen
Drink, eat, and be very happy at Rockmeisha, a no-fuss Japanese tavern.
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Drunk in Public
Brooklyn Public House continues the gentle gentrification of Fort Greene.
Art
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Giving Old Spaces New Paint Jobs
Two painters indulge fantasies of destruction, utopia, and utopian destruction at Bowery galleries.
Theater
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Hair
The Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 W 45 St
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Trinity 5:29
The birth of a nuclear America... not pretty.
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Beowulf: "Grendel is Still a Scary-Ass Monster"
Is it because he has mother issues? Or is it because his story is being shoehorned into a musical?
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The Bus Stop
Waiting for the bus is hard. Doing in an existentially fraught Chines theater work is also hard.
Columns
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ATM? WTF?
Keep it Clean, Keep it Fun
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The Clothes Have No Emperor
Fashion royalty is dying. And the barbarians are entering the city.
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It’s You. Not Me.
Contemporary art often doesn’t look pretty, and the art world certainly enjoys a little mystery.
Special
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The City Salvage Yard
How Easy is it to Furnish Your Apartment from the Street?
News & Features
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The Young Brooklynite's Guide to Manhattan
A generation is coming of age now that has always thought Brooklyn was the coolest borough. For them (and you) we have this little guide.
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Get to Know Your Worldwide Plagues
Do you feel dumb when talking about global pandemics? Change that.
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Reverend Billy to Chase the Demons from City Hall
Green Party candidate Bill Talen's first L Mag campaign diary scares the crap out of Bloomberg.
Blogs
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Artsy Happenings: Thursday April 23
Benefits, bubble-shaped pop-up installations, exhibition openings and art events tonight in Dumbo, Williamsburg and Chelsea.
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I Want to Fornicate with Steve Coogan's Saxondale
Is it wrong to miss a fictional television character more than your own estranged brother?
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Go Fly a Kite, You Look Pale and Sickly
No really, take off the cape, get outside and go build a free kite at Socrates Sculpture Park.
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Cream to Reunite! Oh Wait, You Said Creed, Didn't You? Fuck.
The second worst band of the 90s is back.
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Arlen Specter Is Now a Democrat; What Do the Bitterz Think?
In which your humble Film Editor goes spelunking in the caves of conservatism, for laffs.
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F Train Blind Item
In which Mike Conklin rides the subway with the original line-up of Jethro Tull. Maybe.
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Oh hi there. Have a seat. Try our new website.
In which The L Magazine's editor-in-chief gets a little flustered and allows a younger staffer to explain things.
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Cool Kids Reading Good Poems
Birdsong parties are fun and glamorous and you would be an asshole to miss this.
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Hitting the Stage
Planning your weekend at the theater? Be among the first to catch some of the newest shows in town.
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Bill T. Jones: "We're our own boogiemen"
In The New Museum's first Visionaries Series lecture on Friday, the famous choreographer pondered the state of American art since the 70s.
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College Kids Cover Asher Roth
...In exactly the way you feared they would: with acoustic guitars.
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Priced to Own: Alain Resnais Is Not Dead, or Even Resting
New on DVD: unknown theatrical, late-career larks from a New Wave master.
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If You Only Watch One Thing Tonight
It should be a hockey game. Honest.
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At Last Week's Voice Story Meeting...
"So, Tribeca Film Festival." "That's the one with all the Christina Applegate types right?" "Right."
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Your Weekend at the Movies: A Great Weekend for Terrible Dates
Girlfight! Fighting! Et cetera!
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Your Week in Right-Wing Bitterz
We dig through the Free Republic comments to find one that will scare your liberal elitist pants off.
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The Met Sprouts a Steel Roof Garden
Artist Roxy Paine throws some branches up on the roof, trips up tourists.
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Wicked Artsy: Chelsea’s Multiplying Robot Armies
Two artists want to show you their creepy cyborg comedians.
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Green Hero of the Week: The Queens County Farm Museum
A country fair right here in NYC (except without the meth-heads and the obese Medievalists).
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W Hotel Sets Up in Jersey, World Awaits Punchline
W Hotels has a new outpost in Hoboken (you know, that city across the river. No, the other river).
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Free One-of-a-Kind, Unmastered, Unreleased Islands LP!
Frontman Nick Thorburn leaves a copy of their new record on the subway, then tells everyone about it.
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If You Only Watch One Thing Tonight...
Oooh! A new daily feature! About television!
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One Mean-Ass Book Review
Why do we love scathing reviews so much? (Because they make us feel better about ourselves. Duh.)
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Attention, Upper East Siders: Blair Waldorf Scored a Record Deal
The Gossip Girl star is going to make a fool of herself because no one loves her enough to stop her.
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END TIMES ALERT: Pigs to Kill Humans in Act of Worldwide Revenge
An outbreak of swine flu is looking dangerously ready to go global. Wash your hands.
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Canadian Sets World Trampoline Record
Proud, confused nation asks how it is even possible to set a record in trampolining.
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Gin Makes Your Sweat Smell Like Beauty Queens
Put down that cabernet sauvignon and get some ice in your veins. It's gin season at Silent(h).
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Christopher Durang: Living Legend or Tortured Soul?
The famed playwright takes on war-time morals, lifetime achievements.
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Hottest Cannes Jury Since 2004?
It is not wrong to objectify the arbiters of cinema when they are 60 yards from a TOPLESS BEACH
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FREE BOOZE!Art Parties TonightCatch up with emerging Brooklyn artists at a Midtown showcase, or scour North Brooklyn to see them in their natural habitat.
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Q: I heard about Swine Flu but I don't care to research its history or transmission. Can I eat bacon?
Sure, but you should stay away from pork tartare, probably.
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Austin City Limits Announce 2009 Lineup
Yes, 2009. But you wouldn't know it from looking at the headliners.
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Green Villain of the Week: Michael Bloomberg
What'd he do this time?
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FREE BOOZE!Art Parties TonightVisit a ton of artists and filmmakers in Prospect Heights condos, meet us a Deitch in LIC, or cruise virtually anywhere in between.
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Swine Flu Pandemonium
One man's tale of what he assumes is city-wide paranoia.
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Wicked Artsy: In Dark Humor
In an art market that rewards brash pomp, artists who show traces of modesty and humility offer refreshing moments.
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Killers Confirm Covers Album, We Tell Them What to Cover
It'll be more entertaining than an album full of originals (and twice as offensive).
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Obama's Brilliant Torture P.R.
Moving the center, one pragmatic non-decision at a time.
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FREE BOOZE!Play Reading TonightPlaywrights throw parties too! Tonight, for instance, is the last free reading in MCC's Spring Playlab series.
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The Fashion Show to Feature Audience Voting and Judges with No Credentials
It will not feature Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia or Michael Kors.
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2009 Siren Festival Announced
You get the car, I'll get the night off.
Fiction
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Maximum Life
"In the course of his lifetime Warren had never passed through a revolving door without incident."
