- Issue Archive for
- Apr 22 - May 5, 2009
- Vol. 7, No. 8
Blogs
Cream to Reunite! Oh Wait, You Said Creed, Didn't You? Fuck.
The second worst band of the 90s is back.
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.
Artsy Happenings: Thursday April 23
Benefits, bubble-shaped pop-up installations, exhibition openings and art events tonight in Dumbo, Williamsburg and Chelsea.
I Want to Fornicate with Steve Coogan's Saxondale
Is it wrong to miss a fictional television character more than your own estranged brother?
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.
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.
College Kids Cover Asher Roth
...In exactly the way you feared they would: with acoustic guitars.
Priced to Own: Alain Resnais Is Not Dead, or Even Resting
New on DVD: unknown theatrical, late-career larks from a New Wave master.
F Train Blind Item
In which Mike Conklin rides the subway with the original line-up of Jethro Tull. Maybe.
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.
Cool Kids Reading Good Poems
Birdsong parties are fun and glamorous and you would be an asshole to miss this.
Hitting the Stage
Planning your weekend at the theater? Be among the first to catch some of the newest shows in town.
The Met Sprouts a Steel Roof Garden
Artist Roxy Paine throws some branches up on the roof, trips up tourists.
If You Only Watch One Thing Tonight
It should be a hockey game. Honest.
At Last Week's Voice Story Meeting...
"So, Tribeca Film Festival." "That's the one with all the Christina Applegate types right?" "Right."
Your Weekend at the Movies: A Great Weekend for Terrible Dates
Girlfight! Fighting! Et cetera!
Your Week in Right-Wing Bitterz
We dig through the Free Republic comments to find one that will scare your liberal elitist pants off.
If You Only Watch One Thing Tonight...
Oooh! A new daily feature! About television!
Wicked Artsy: Chelsea’s Multiplying Robot Armies
Two artists want to show you their creepy cyborg comedians.
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).
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).
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.
Canadian Sets World Trampoline Record
Proud, confused nation asks how it is even possible to set a record in trampolining.
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).
One Mean-Ass Book Review
Why do we love scathing reviews so much? (Because they make us feel better about ourselves. Duh.)
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.
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.
Austin City Limits Announce 2009 Lineup
Yes, 2009. But you wouldn't know it from looking at the headliners.
Christopher Durang: Living Legend or Tortured Soul?
The famed playwright takes on war-time morals, lifetime achievements.
Hottest Cannes Jury Since 2004?
It is not wrong to objectify the arbiters of cinema when they are 60 yards from a TOPLESS BEACH
FREE BOOZE! Art Parties Tonight
Catch up with emerging Brooklyn artists at a Midtown showcase, or scour North Brooklyn to see them in their natural habitat.
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.
Green Villain of the Week: Michael Bloomberg
What'd he do this time?
FREE BOOZE! Art Parties Tonight
Visit a ton of artists and filmmakers in Prospect Heights condos, meet us a Deitch in LIC, or cruise virtually anywhere in between.
Swine Flu Pandemonium
One man's tale of what he assumes is city-wide paranoia.
FREE BOOZE! Play Reading Tonight
Playwrights throw parties too! Tonight, for instance, is the last free reading in MCC's Spring Playlab series.
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.
2009 Siren Festival Announced
You get the car, I'll get the night off.
Wicked Artsy: In Dark Humor
In an art market that rewards brash pomp, artists who show traces of modesty and humility offer refreshing moments.
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).
Obama's Brilliant Torture P.R.
Moving the center, one pragmatic non-decision at a time.
Music
Jadakiss Ain't No Radio Playa
Jadakiss tries to make a pop album and fails.
Hott Tickets!
Northside Festival details galore: Hold Steady, Sunset Rubdown, cheap booze, etc.
Why Everyone Should Listen to Micachu
Because she's the love child of Bjork, MIA and Shane MacGowan.
Sulking in the Sun
Camera Obscura's My Maudlin Career creates lovely despair.
Fiction
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Maximum Life
"In the course of his lifetime Warren had never passed through a revolving door without incident."
Film
Like a Prayer
Jean-Pierre Melville's 1961 Léon Morin, Priest
The Invisible Man
Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo is, somehow, an apolitical political biopic.
Nursery University
Horrible parents on parade in Marc H. Simon and Matthew Makar's Nursery University
Vienna Won't Wait
Mirjam Unger's Vienna's Lost Daughters aren't lost to history.
Sleep Dealer
Directed by Alex Rivera
Fairytales Can Come True
Tim "Yes That Disney" Disney's American Violet leaves reality behind.
Your Tribeca Film Fest Wheat-Chaff Special
At Tribeca: Martyred interpreters, frying corn, senile grannies and foul-mouthed Scots.
Played Out
Kevin Macdonald State of Play, um, doesn't.
Is There a Script Doctor in the House?
John Crowley almost gets the better of his own Is Anybody There?
The Kids Will Be Alright
...at least they will be in So Yong Kim's transcendent Treeless Mountain.
Erin Ghost, Brah
At Tribeca: Conor McPherson's The Eclipse would be a great horror movie, if it were a horror movie.
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).
Please Step Back, Kids, As the Stath Jump-Starts Hisself
Neveldine/Taylor's Crank: High Voltage: Now with 50% more cranking.
Runs Ok, But Sputters a Bit...
Eran Riklis' allegory Lemon Tree is too little tree, too much lemon.
Get Your War On
At Tribeca: Profane British and American comics plan an invasion, profanely, in In the Loop.
Mike Tyson Just Wants To Be Loved
James Toback's Tyson will bite off your ear and spit it down your throat.
The Bad Fight
Dito Montiel's Fighting goes down without... you know
Migrating Forms Festival
It hath returned, transfigured.
Fun with the Fallacy of Imitative Form
At least Gregor Jordan's Bret Easton Ellis riff The Informers gets itself off
Food & Drink
We Say Amen to Ramen
Drink, eat, and be very happy at Rockmeisha, a no-fuss Japanese tavern.
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
Trinity 5:29
The birth of a nuclear America... not pretty.
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?
The Bus Stop
Waiting for the bus is hard. Doing in an existentially fraught Chines theater work is also hard.
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.
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.
Columns
ATM? WTF?
Keep it Clean, Keep it Fun
The Clothes Have No Emperor
Fashion royalty is dying. And the barbarians are entering the city.
It’s You. Not Me.
Contemporary art often doesn’t look pretty, and the art world certainly enjoys a little mystery.
Special
The City Salvage Yard
How Easy is it to Furnish Your Apartment from the Street?
News & Features
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.
Get to Know Your Worldwide Plagues
Do you feel dumb when talking about global pandemics? Change that.
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.
