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Some art galleries hibernate in summer, others organize some of the year's best exhibitions. These are some of the latter.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , BLT , Wiser Than God , The New Museum , Cheim & Read , Sue Scott Gallery , Galerie Lelong , Deitch , Jeff Koons , Cindy Sherman , Exit Art , David Zwirner , Harris Lieberman , On Stellar Rays , Jonas Mekas , Louise Bourgeois , Paul Chan , Josh Smith , Nick Cave , Yoko Ono , Marilyn Minter
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He's a warrior now, by the way, who doesn't want you to take him too seriously.
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But do you want it so badly that you will walk into a Banana Republic?
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New on DVD this week, an overdue reclamation of a silent star.
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Political allegory and (more) sci-fi transcendence from Andrei Tarkovsky.
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And you won't have to spend an hour in the bathroom line at Turkey's Nest tonight. Promise.
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It's transgressive cute, voyeuristic adorable, and better than crack chocolate.
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Or, why you should stop stealing so much music, honest.
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L Mag intern Jon Blistein investigates the David Arquette hunger strike that nobody is talking about.
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How aggressively is the new administration reducing regressive Bush-era sex ed policies?
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A new design for a space-saving ping pong table is knocking down your door.
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Oh dear god please no.
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A new MIT project will have us cyber-stalking our own refuse in no time.
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Nation of criminals and drunks sends its sailors to invade Manhattan.
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A gallery turns an unused parking lot into an outdoor movie theater. (With drinks and BBQ, obvs.)
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And we don't blame him, really.
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Two new mural projects take the semi-official route to keep New York street art alive and visible.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , murals , street art , Greenpoint , Bowery , Keith Haring , Os Gemeos , India Street Mural Project , Ali Aschman , Eve Biddle & Joshua Frankel , Joshua Abram Howard , Robert Seng , Skewville , Chris Soria , is legal street art still street art
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Featuring examples from Fleet Foxes, Frightened Rabbit and some other dude.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music , Neutral Milk Hotel , covers , Robin Pecknold , Fleet Foxes , Two-Headed Boy , In The Aeroplane Over The Sea , Frightened Rabbit , Scott Hutchison , Song Against Sex , Audio , Video
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Jerry Springer may be joining the Broadway cast of Chicago as early as next month.
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In which you will scroll and scroll and scroll in hopes of finding yourself or an attractive person.
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Whether you're going to Dubai or down the rabbit hole, you'll be going to Manhattan for art parties tonight.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Bose Pacia , Michael Vahrenwald , School of Visual Arts , Dubai , opening receptions , art parties , Apexart , After Color , Alice in Wonderland , Wondermare , photography , screening
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The device used in this headline is almost as annoying as the Wilco parenthesis thing.
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... And free speech was never curtailed again, The End.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Books , Politics , Sex , News , Lady Chatterley's Lover , D.H. Lawrence , Free Speech , Fred Kaplan , 1959 , anniversaries , Before the Beatles' first LP
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The washed-up rapper claims he's making a comeback, and he's got a vlog entry to prove it.
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When big shows don't get the honors the industry wants... purge the voting rolls!
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The Manhattan Airport Foundation wants to turn Central Park into an airport, and who are you to say they shouldn't?
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In which Bruno is anticipated.
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A lot of people have watched this movie over the last 65 years without paying very close attention, it seems.
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And I guess it's not really all that surprising.
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Will release his new album (aptly titled Before I Self-Destruct ) on the same day as Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 .
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Seriously, what is with this guy? Wasn't he just supposed to be a CPA in Ozone Park?
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Nadia Wagner is turning a Gowanus gallery into a mossy forest using nothing but your nose.
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Embedded video for the people.
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The downtown artist and self-destructive scion of wealth died of a heroin overdose last night at the Lafayette Hotel.
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Seriously, it's awful there. Horror upon icy horror... That's why I left.
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We don't understand it exactly, but you should probably donate money.
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George W. Bush spent eight years impregnating American teens with his hypocritical morality.
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Is it an ad for energy drinks, a Michel Gondry homage, or just a crazy trippy and totally fascinating short film?
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Tired of getting pushed around by power forwards who think Tom Robbins is "literature"?
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Simple: you just sell them all the same shit they already have.
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Get Your Reps: A program of abstract light-plays by Jim Davis (no relation).
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Talking like a grown-up never scored anyone any policy points.
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In which we send an intern to find out how many cheese sandwiches you can get for $45.
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Or maybe he just hates his jeans? Or his last album? Or possibly none of these things.
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Head to designer department store Bergdorf Goodman for the art (and implications of class conflict).
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And they wonder why they can't get the money to put an astronaut on Mars...
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Did we mention that you can drink anywhere you please at Summerscreen?
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Henry Stewart spends an evening in the park with Mozart and Beethoven.
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The dude from Mogwai thinks you should stop reading Pitchfork.
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We mean no disrespect in saying that Walter Cronkite and Frank McCourt left us as anachronisms.
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The Strokes? Less so, it would seem.
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And now we are going to listen to Paul's Boutique, just 'cause.
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Plus happy hour, live bands, and mid-90s nostalgia all over your face.
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The other night I was working late here at the high-class L Magazine offices. The phone rang.
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What's next, A CAT KISSING A DOG!!?
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Trying to understand the latest evolution of web advertising might break your brain.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Media , Transformers , G.I. Joe , Improv Everywhere , T-Mobile , viral advertising , web ads , Samsung , Jean Baudrillard , videos that are ads pretending to be videos that aren't ads , Video
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The L's short fiction competition and reading series achieves its fevered climax tonight, while you watch.
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Mike Conklin went to Chapel Hill for the Merge XX Festival because all his favorite bands from the 90s are playing.
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Dumbo and Chelsea are your go-to art party 'hoods tonight.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Dumbo Arts Center , Smack Mellon , powerHouse Arena , Invisible-Exports , Rental , Leo Kesting , Mixed Greens , Paul Kasmin Gallery , 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel , Schroeder Romero , Melanie Flood Projects , Mikael Kennedy , art parties , artists' talk , First Thursdays
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The crusty punks are here, and the yuppie drunks don't like it.
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If god intended for babies to dance, He would have given them tap shoes.
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Pretty much just your favorite kids book and your favorite indie-skewing actors, it's like Hollywood knows you down to your soul .
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I hear Winnipeg is nice this time of year.
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Loves: Cold choppin' down trees for fun and profit. Hates: The spotted owl.
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Is France really about berets, baguettes and bicycles? No, it is not.
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So what if the content of an article says exactly the opposite of what the headline says.
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Today's trip down memory lane is brought to you by the 1984 All-Star Game.
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Everyone's getting in on the moonstalgia, especially the History Channel.
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Producers of Lost drop some hints about the final season.
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In which the L dives headlong into the healthcare debate, ouch.
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Each and every profession of this fair city deserves its own nickname, don't you think?
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Yesterday, some politician painted the last bit of paint on NYC's 200 miles of bike lanes. Global warming is now solved.
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Franz West's new public art piece puts the "id" in kid-friendly structures.
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It can't be easy being the brother of Jack Donaghy. Or the Son of God.
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And Roman Catholic Bishops, but to a lesser extent.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: News
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And we're celebrating with a Timbits binge on Monday morning.
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Get Your Reps: Anthology Film Archives has a radical weekend.
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He's written another novel. And, surprise, he's a great reader of his own work.
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Tune out to this stunning video of a humongous fish tank.
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The world will be a much less idiotic place once we stop talking about Sonia Sotomayor's impartiality.
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Is mad science half way around the world effecting the lives of good, honest American dogs? (No.)
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With a new song out today and an album on the way, the Brooklyn band thinks their sound is in flux. We're not sure.
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The crowd at a recent concert in London was all too willing to chant "Fuck Jay-Z," but Game is still screwed.
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But at least Corey Feldman still has his creepy Michael Jackson outfits.
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What the hell is up with Slate these days and why must we fight them?
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60 black kids get booted from a pool. Pool is like, "Yeah, didn't want them here."
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One folksy populist Jesus-freak needs the other folksy populist Jesus-freak around so he'll seem like less of a folksy populist Jesus-freak.
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He's releasing The B.Q.E. as a comic book or something.
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If you missed Summerscreen last night, here's what you missed.
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How hard is it, really, to just google "twitter novel"?
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Still not as big a fool as Chris Anderson, though.
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Sutton and Stewart pass out laughing at Bruno 's insights and antics, and then Sacha Baron Cohen takes advantage of them.
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Also, we hear Saxby Chambliss is up to 100mg of Dextroamphetamine a day. Tom Coburn prescribes it for him! TRUE FACT.
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Plus other articles of note about The Great Gatsby , the ever-increasing human capacity for empathy, and the Sotomayor hearings.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Books , Politics , News , Maziar Bahari , Dahlia Lithwick , Sonia Sotomayor , Steven Pinker , Meghan McCain , Bunk 7 , The Great Gatsby , Alice Munro , Charlie Rose , Norman Mailer , Susan Sontag , Gay Talese
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I am going to watch the shit out of The Year Punk Broke tonight.
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Carrie Fisher is bringing her memoir to the New York stage, threatening to wear golden bikini from Star Wars .
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Bravo is doing a reality TV show about art, but can it muster the necessary balance of humiliation and sexiness?
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Jimmy Fallon's house band just released the first track off their new album.
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A new smartphone app takes all the style out of riding the subway like a seasoned pro.
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A young, self-destructive artist dies at the (obviously cursed) age of 27 and people can't get enough.
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"Honey, there is a dead frog in my beans."
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Or, you know, who clicks on the album covers to see the numerical score without ever reading any words.
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Forward-thinking in all things.
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We are sad to report, it's not really bothering us that much.
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... Wait? So it turns out he wasn't going to change the world? Meh.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Books , Politics , News , Sound Smart Read These , Obama , Detention , Torture , CIA , Healthcare , Hemingway , KGB , Jess Row , Kurt Vonnegut
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Street artists in Chelsea, huge group shows in Long Island City: has the art world gone bizarro?
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Make sure you watch the part where the guy who looks like MC Search sings "You Are Not Alone."
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Abby Denson hits up the Fancy Food Show, then draws fancy pictures.
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Jarvis Cocker's kid looks exactly like Jarvis Cocker.
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OMIGOD SRSLY WTF? ALL THAT IS GOOD ABOUT 'MERICA CAME FROM PERSONAL VALUES!!1!
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Remember when the Pool Parties used to be in a pool? Man, that was awesome.
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Andrei Tarkovsky breathtakingly stylized, improbably human sci-fi odyssey of the mind.
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And possibly straps a tortilla chip to his back.
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On television, in front of millions, ok, dozens of people.
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Australia's first bottled water-free town.
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The Emmy nominations have been announced, and a show no one has ever seen continues to get recognized.
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And we have the video to prove it.
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Unless your workplace frowns upon the word "beaver," which would be understandable.
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Undisputed visual evidence that last night was not but a crazy, hazy dream.
Features
Hey, it's Pop Scene! Our monthly feature in which Mike Conklin and Mike Dougherty climb out from under their indie-rockist, um, rock, to find out what regular people all over the country are listening to.
Album Reviews
I'm Going Away
Album Reviews
LP
"It was a hot day, even hotter in the suit of iron."
"Back then my mom only let me shave up to the knees so there were soft blond hairs across my upper thigh. You couldn't usually see them but just then they were standing straight up."
Film Reviews
Horny teenage wizards fight the forces of Evil in the new Harry Potter movie.
Film Reviews
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Funniest Home Videos takes potshots at a few sitting ducks, and breaks up the monotony with gay jokes.
Video Essays
Our latest video essay examines Nicholas Ray's doomed noir love story In a Lonely Place : romance, rage, the crushed creative spirit, and Humphrey Bogart's existential torment.
Film Reviews
Your indie crushes Zooey Deschanel and Joe Gordon-Levitt liven up the unremarkable (500) Days of Summer .
Film Reviews
Bromance-Mumblecore hybrid ("brumblecore"?) Humpday isn't the best of either world.
Film Reviews
Shane Meadows' Somers Town is a thin, sweet kids story.
Film Reviews
Lake Tahoe is an effective, sly coming-of-age from Mexico's answer to Jim Jarmusch.
Film Reviews
Damning with Faint Praise Dept.: A Woman in Berlin is one of the most interesting WWII flicks of recent years.
Film Reviews
This reviewer, to his complete embarrassment, twice leapt from his seat despite the fact that he had previously seen the film a dozen times.
Film Reviews
A damaged Humphrey Bogart mourns his ability to love in In a Lonely Place , Nick Ray's first masterpiece.
Film Reviews
Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid , an intimate neo-noir romance and globetrotting epic, provides a crucial mid-career link.
Film Reviews
Personal and cultural stagnation in the Brezhnev-era The Vanished Empire .
Film Reviews
Kurosawa's 1980 comeback Kagemusha is actually kinda... inert?
Film Reviews
Mischa Barton wages campy class warfare in middling guilty slasher pleasure Homecoming .
Film Reviews
I Love You, Beth Cooper , beloved high school novel turned un film de Chris Columbus, is pretty much a cartoonish travesty.
Features
The L Magazine's 2009 Summerscreen series kicked off at the McCarren Park ball fields on Wednesday with a screening of Reality Bites and performances from Brooklyn bands Kittens Ablaze and Wild Yaks. Photos by Adam Au .
Restaurant Reviews
Lillie's, once it loses the irritating frat clientele and the rude hostess, will be really good.
Bar Reviews
Alphabet City's Superdive ain't as divey as the name suggests.
The performatively self-destructive, willfully transgressive, often reluctant downtown artstar died last night of a heroin overdose, at the cursed age of 27.
Theater Reviews
Mother ’s story of a moneyed clan’s demise over dinner might sound old, but it comes off lively and spry.
Theater Reviews
The L 's Alexis Clements talks with Ohio Theatre Artistic Director Robert Lyons about the threatened space and its summer festival.
Theater Reviews
The drilling compaNY takes the Bard for a ride downtown only to get lost in the parking lot.
Theater Reviews
The religious couple in Sweet Storm struggles with their sexuality in an enjoyable yet comfortably retro way.
Theater Reviews
Playwright Lisa Ebersole discusses her new play, Mother , her love of photography and dislike of absurd acting exercises.
By J. Courtney Sullivan
Think guilt, think gore, think the faltering welfare state.
by Jason
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types talks to the author of the memoir We Did Porn . Get it? Good.
Is there anything sexier than video footage of people reading short fiction? No, obviously there is not.
A new photo book tries to capture its subjects before gentrification overtakes them.
The Power of My Proven System
Alexis Arguello, Arturo Gatti and Steve McNair were beloved, in life, for the beatings they took — but that doesn't make their violent deaths any less shocking.
Fashionville
Somebody's been drinking the Twilight Kool-Aid.
The Conscientious Objector
New York doesn't need more shiny super parks (ahem, High Line), we need neighborhood green space.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Indecent exposure on camera and in the Twittersphere.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Really, does it still matter how many people you've slept with? Ugh.
The Power of My Proven System
A progress report on America's fourth (maybe) favorite sport. Have we finally had a breakthrough?
Art Fag City
Everybody's making something, all the time, everywhere. Who gets to call it art?
by Paddy Johnson
Tags: Art Fag City , Chris Crocker , Shinique Smith , Jeff Koons , Dana Schutz , Henry Jenkins , Ivan Askwith , Claire Fontaine , Bruce Nauman , Paul McCarthy , Fan fiction
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Boobs are great, in all their different shapes and sizes. The end.
Features
These days, everyone seems to be chipping in to do his or her part to save the planet (in New York, at least), but these folks deserve extra credit.
Features
If the High Line worked, anything's possible for NYC's outer-boroughs (which could actually use some new parks).
Features
From green cemeteries to online memorials, the future of dying is more exciting than ever!
Features
L Magazine diarist Musa Gurnis puts her hair up pretty and heads for the Boardwalk of broken dreams.
Features
In which the lovely L.B. Wilkenson dresses up a like future-glam-hooker superhero and parades around town.
Features
Forty years ago it was a man on the moon. Will it take another four decades to get a man (or woman) on the Red Planet?
Features
In which sex-store correspondent L.B. Wilkenson contemplates working at the Gap.
