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Today's Park(ing) Day festivities have car-sized pop-up parks sprouting all over the city.
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A new concept gadget has whetted our appetite for a more odorous cinema.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Film , Food & Drink , TV , Media , Smellit , design , technology , Nuno Teixeira , gadget , olfactory torture , smelling movies , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Dan Tobin Smith specializes in beautiful forms made up of innumerable smaller forms.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Music , Dan Tobin Smith , cover art , Blueprint 3 , photography , set design , Nicole Yeoman , Jay-Z , design , Times Magazine , Kanye West , pretty pictures
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Finally, the contemporary art world is getting the flashy award show it so badly needs.
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Didn't everyone move here to get away from people like this? Ugh.
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This weekend's rep film is a documentary-fiction drag triptych two decades in the making.
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I think I may have a crush on new online lit journal Electric Literature.
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Separate lands blend in their similar universal scenes but never permanently conjoin in the Joseph Cornell-indebted experimental films of Hisham M. Bizri, screening tonight.
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Competition from Netflix and Redbox is forcing Blockbuster to close hundreds of stores. Which is both good and bad.
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Featuring Tilda Swinton, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Rachel Weisz as an Alexandrian scholar who has some very vocal problems with Ptolemy's astronomical models.
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With live musical accompaniment at the FIAF.
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In which we watch Chris Brown clear brush under court order.
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The musical's Twitter campaign earned it a prize for creative online marketing.
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The ladies go crazy to "In Da Club" while Fitty wins them all a ¢50 steak dinner.
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An unhappily married Indiana couple is now effectively trapped in their marriage.
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Williamsburg and Downtown Manhattan are your best bets for artsy boozing tonight.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Parker's Box , Momenta Art , Metaphor Contemporary , apexart , Gallery Nine 5 , The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness , Joshua Stern , Mountain Fold Gallery , Leo Koenig Inc. , Magnan Projects , Naomi Fisher , Clive Murphy , Jungil Hong , Steve Ellis
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When very attractive people drink and talk in Williamsburg, we will be there to film it.
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The evil, moronic, hateful idiots from the Westboro Baptist Church are coming to Brooklyn to protest the existence of Jews.
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Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City comes out Tuesday, but it's already online (and pretty good).
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Much like its misidentified hero, the mad-cap adventure comedy is heading on the road.
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The impossibly rich collection of an impossibly rich Greek industrialist comes to the LES in February.
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Everybody's favorite head-tripping Polish cult film is new on DVD this week.
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Nothing goes better with pulled pork than a pulled trigger. (You think you can do better?)
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Julie Taymor (and Alan Cumming) says the forthcoming superhero super-musical is still forthcoming.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Theater , Julie Taymor , The Lion King , Bono , The Edge , U2 , Spider-Man , Stan Lee , Disney , Marvel , Broadway musicals , money trouble , Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
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The star of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Interviews with Hideous Men takes over the lead in This .
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And they've got a new single available as a free download right now. You should get it.
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Martinis are delicious, being gay is a character flaw... you know, the usual.
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Bruce Springsteent to play three albums from start to finish at upcoming Giants Stadium shows.
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Local opponents already planning their next lawsuit.
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A rollback of one of the Bush/Cheney administration's scarier tactics.
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Your favorite high school musical (sorry, High School Musical ) may be Broadway-bound.
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On the occasion of a new Holopaw record, which we're actually really excited about, we focus instead on one stupid quote from the Modest Mouse frontman.
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Number six, in cast you were wondering, is January Jones' dress.
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They would eat steak, get drunk, go to strip clubs, cheat on their wives, all while mourning the loss of innocence--in advertising and the mafia.
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Are you familiar with Williamsburg? How 'bout Park Slope? No? The Lower East Side? Neither were we!
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The art world's most resilient empire continues its policy of expansionism.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Books , X-Initiative , Gagosian , Larry Gagosian , Gagosian Bookstore , art books will make me go broke , Tom Friedman , Damien Hirst , Jeff Koons , Richard Prince , Ed Ruscha , Tom Sachs , Franz West
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And yea they worshiped the Gloved One, and it was good.
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Nothing raises money quicker than "artfully" done, sepia-toned images of matronly types in the buff. Shit is gold.
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A new public art installation has strange animals running wild on the Park Avenue median.
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Hear clips from his new Christmas album. At your own risk. Seriously, don't.
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A Times op-ed suggests a radical (and totally rad) solution to cyclist-pedestrian tensions on the bridge.
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And for his next trick, he'll release a track-by-track remake of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot .
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Their flashy new video for "Forever" is essentially a six minute preview of the Lebron James documentary.
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According to one YouTube commenter, Sufjan Stevens has christened a new genre.
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For the next three years the empty lot at Varick and Canal will be filled with public art.
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The Danish provocateur at today's live-via-Skype New York Film Festival press conference: "There were no walkouts? Then I have failed."
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Lots of interesting movies this weekend, and also Jennifer's Body , in re: which a gauntlet is most definitely thrown.
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A downtown sculpture park was visited by some harsh art critics armed with spray paint.
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It's called "11th Dimension" and, get this, it's fun .
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New on DVD this week, The Czech miniseries Private Century .
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Atlanta-based producer Alex Goose has released a solid album's worth of unused beats that he submitted for Jay's latest.
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Thieves reportedly yelled "Ceci n'est pas une joke!" at terrified tourists.
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Luke Jerram's pretty glass virus spreading to Tokyo then back to London.
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Two YouTube Videos and a Motherfucking Crossfader will keep you entertained forever.
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And we assume he's going to tell us all about it for a very long time.
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But he's technically not allowed to be like, "Oh, yeah, totally... people are super fucking racist."
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Wolverine uses his words like adamantium to take down cell phone interrupter.
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Let yourself be manipulated by the adorable bunny, it's for a good cause.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: News , Media , George Lucas , Choose Cruelty Free , Ewoks , Stormtroopers , Star Wars , bunnies , animal cruelty , PSA , manipulation is okay when it's for a good cause , Video
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation must not read The Measure.
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Tough week for Roman Polanski... and now his murdered wife has died in prison. (WTF?)
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Ernie Anastos tells the dopey weatherman to fuck a chicken. Seriously.
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We survived the Great Database Slave revolt of 2009 and lived to blog about it. Hiccup.
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Check back in tomorrow, when news will break that Yngwie Malmsteen has been named lead guitarist.
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Also hates women and wants to die.
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Seriously, we're going to be bigger than the Akron Actionists.
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So, I guess this is what I'll listen to all day today.
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What can "bring the hammer down" possibly be a euphemism for?
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Tonight, NYFF '09 kicks off with its weirdest Opening Night selection in recent memory.
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Why don't the people who write pop songs ever listen to other pop songs?
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And every song is a collaboration between Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar.
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The new Soderbergh movie is actually a stealth satire of 90s kitsch.
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Old Southern gentleman plays race card, says what we've all been thinking.
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Monty's got big plans for Williamsburg and Staten Island.
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A grim masterpiece from the Romanian New Wave.
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Well, it's unlikely that anything better than this will happen all day today.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: News
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The newbie and the vet co-star in another production of the Bergman-inspired musical.
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A day late, yes, but forgive us... we were at a motel watching a young couple do it.
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And if he hogs the spotlight, so help us god, we will murder.
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Also, how have we not bought the Daniel Johnston video game yet?
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The drama about a gay couple's difficult relationship is something new for Broadway audiences.
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Oh yeah, there was a second one, but that's already sold out.
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Two sites have helpful guides to the city based on the movements of that paranormal police force.
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Abby Denson takes a trip to Dumbo for some ice cream, then draws a picture about it.
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A new app brings flash fiction to your little black box, and an L Mag intern ponders the implications.
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Oh, did we mention print is dying yet today?
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We don't care where they play, exactly, only that they play "Flux = Rad."
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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When her record comes out, let's count the amount of times you have to read the words "Chan," "Marshall" and "chanteuse."
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So stupid, all of it.
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(This is the part where we all wait to see if Michelle Obama shows up.)
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Spike Lee and Robert De Niro to produce show about the East Village during the 1980s; L Magazine editors to pretend they wouldn't have been too scared to leave their apartments had they lived there at the time.
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We're not too big on the moral complexities inherent in notions of justice over time... So we're going to go with silly nicknames.
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And we thought the highlight of our day was going to be the President with a lightsaber.
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A brilliant bit of programming marks a quiet triumph for the New York Philharmonic.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Music , brahms , schoenberg , alan gilbert , new york philharmonic , frank peter zimmerman , there will be blood , bramwell tovey , beethoven , stravinsky , steeped in the classicals
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Make your own customizable Internet interruption by the presidential jackass.
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Certain behaviors defy regulation, as Tufts seems about ready to discover.
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Coming to rep screens this weekend: Louis Malle's sexy, savvy Damage
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Tonight's screening of Leos Carax's Mauvais Sang will also feature arguably the greatest use of a David Bowie song in the history of cinema.
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Watch the acting debuts from members of the Shins and Sleater Kinney.
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Now there are four shows, and seriously, fucking everyone is going to have a ticket. So lame.
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New work from Jacques Audiard, Fatih Akin and more, at the fall film season's kick-off event.
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New York's biggest, best and freest art fair kicks off tonight and continues through Sunday in Dumbo.
by Allie Esslinger
Tags: Art , Dumbo , Dumbo Arts Center , Art Under the Bridge Festival , art fairs , festival , Wade Kavanaugh , Stephen B. Nguyen , John Montieth , Reina Kubota , Artcodex
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That dilapidated set of disks in Flushing Meadows Corona Park has been landmarked, at last.
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Remember when bands used to play in record stores? Oh, god, this is sorta like a record store now, isn't it?
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Catch the next slate of musical super-productions while ticket prices are still affordable.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Theater , New York Musical Theater Festival , Tony Awards , musicals , off Broadway , Broadway , theater festival , Judas , Frankenstein , Superheroes , vampires
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The sculptor and installation artist gets surgery after being assaulted and threatened by officers last month.
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And agrees with my assessment of District 9 's racist depiction of Nigerians.
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God, we would have gotten so drunk if we were at this show.
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Real men. Doing real things.
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Hey, it's video of a naked guy. Finally.
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And the L Magazine editorial staff offers to buy presents for your kids.
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And someone should have told Conor Oberst that Don Draper would never wear sunglasses that don't fit his face perfectly.
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And they plan to get them by annexing a concrete softball field.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: News , McCarren Tennis , McCarren Courts , tennis , McCarren Park , Williamsburg , Open Space Alliance , public space , outdoor sports , softball , Summerscreen
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Because fans never, ever get upset when a foreigner tries to buy their favorite team.
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Short version: happy and successful, which makes us jealous and unhappy beyond the telling of it.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Books , News , Media , Fiction , Alumni Updates , Helen Phillips , Emma Straub , Danielle Evans , Patrick Somerville , Kaui Hart Hemmings , Creative Frustration
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The first of our reports from the Toronto International Film Festival features blackout transgressions, Herzog & Cage going Bad , half-sentient instinct, and Vikings.
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[This post also featuring your film editor's all-time favorite Tucker Max joke.]
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NPH was the only thing worth watching last night, unless you enjoy watching Glenn Close rob Elisabeth Moss.
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You should all probably be wearing one of these this fall. Even you, fellas.
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No more writing about Kanye, we promise. Unless people keep making up really funny rumors about him.
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The Met tries something new and the Uptown crowd voices its disapproval.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Music , Theater , Puccini , Tosca , Opera , classical , reactionary arts criticism , Peter Gelb , Metropolitan Opera , Franco Zeffirelli , fear of change
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A London museum plans on showing the modern painter's (presumably nightmare-inducing) work as a decorator.
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The Peter, Paul & Mary singer died of Leukemia yesterday.
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The two MCs confirm my fantasy visions of what rappers do in their down time.
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Along with shiny new community center and 300 "green-collar" jobs.
Album Reviews
Get Color, finds a band with a distinctive sound, that hasn’t yet figured out how to write effective songs.
Album Reviews
An epic antidote to the creeping half-assedness of independent music at the decade’s end.
Features
How hip hop’s generational divide plays out in the choice between tight and baggy denim.
Album Reviews
The production is outstanding, the songs are complex and often gorgeous, but something's still missing from Time to Die .
Features
A Sunny Day in Glasgow's Ben Daniels talks to The L about his band's enormously ambitious—and very successful—new album.
Features
Pearl Jam's legacy as a Great American Rock Band would be far more justified if anyone actually seemed to like their records.
"I gave her a long meaningful look of approval but she didn't notice. She was smiling and apologizing reflexively like a fool. It was clear that the poor dear had no idea who I was."
Film Reviews
The New York Film Festival's series on Maoist film makes us think about national cinema in authoritarian states, and our own prejudices when looking at same.
Film Reviews
Love Happens has a title like a bumper sticker and a story to match.
Film Reviews
Jim from The Office 's David Foster Wallace adaptation is faithful to a fault.
Film Reviews
Claire Denis seems to have solved some basic problem of rendering experience in movies.
Video Essays
Exactly a decade ago, NBC premiered the most memorable high school TV show of our time. In this video essay, we leaf through our old yearbook and remember the spot-on moments of adolescent awkwardness and 80s pop culture references.
by Matt Zoller Seitz
Tags: Video Essays , Film , Freaks and Geeks , The 80s , The 90s , High School , NBC Shows , Judd Apatow , James Franco , Seth Rogen , Video
Film Reviews
Bright Star , Jane Campion's tactile, metaphysical Keats romance.
Film Reviews
His new Capitalism: A Love Story leaves the rabble roused but uninformed.
Film Reviews
Diablo Cody's infantilizing Jennifer's Body exhausts its charms very quickly.
Film Reviews
Michael Almereyda's collage-film Paradise pushes its ephemerality.
Film Reviews
The Informant! is Steven Soderbergh's 1,251th movie, and it kinda shows (not in a good way).
Film Reviews
Audrey Tautou plays an unconventional designer in the pretty, conventional biopic Coco Before Chanel .
Film Reviews
Ace literary adaptor John Huston's bruised boxing story is one of his best.
Film Reviews
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell doesn't even have the stones to be truly obnoxious.
Film Reviews
Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson try to hit their marriage's reset button in Blind Date
Film Reviews
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs doesn't live up to its beloved source or allegorical potential.
Film Reviews
The film adaptation of Nobel-winner J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace exacerbates its source's problems.
Film Reviews
Make fun of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga's patented jumbled chronology all you want, but it's what he doesn't do with his structure that ruins his directorial debut.
Film Reviews
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers really, really wants you to get into recent American history.
Film Reviews
The linked vignettes of Cédric Klapisch's Paris could take place anywhere.
Film Reviews
Mumblecore-adjacent Harmony and Me asks: "You know how when you're watching a movie, and you're half-way through and you realize you don't care about the characters anymore?"
Film Reviews
Diablo Cody’s infantilizing Jennifer’s Body exhausts its charms very quickly.
Tips for Tips
Sure, ee know it's for old people and journalists but we still like it.
Restaurant Reviews
Bia Garden is more than just a clever name.
Bar Reviews
Great beer, a great jukebox, a great garden, great bartenders and, above all else, great dogs running around.
Catch familiar favorites and make rewarding discoveries in this grand survey show.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: General , Art , Vasily Kandinsky , Guggenheim Museum , expressionism , Takashi Murakami , Julie Mehretu , Constructivism , Suprematism , Moder art , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , Cubism , Jackson Pollock , Wassily Kandinsky , Piet Mondrian , Kazimir Malevich , Raoul Dufy , Paul Cezanne , Pablo Picasso , Guernica , pointillism
The Japanese master’s latest work at Gagosian has pop art going dark.
Aperture’s survey of Dutch photography and video art reveals a thoroughly suburbanized, post-nature nation.
Theater Reviews
Thomas Bradshaw’s new sex farce, The Bereaved , works as comedy, but could be much gloomier.
Theater Reviews
Weaving together the Herman Melville adaptation’s loose threads is a (mostly) fun adventure on a boat.
Theater Reviews
Jessica Blank, co-writer and director of Aftermath , discusses displacement and documentary theater.
Theater Reviews
Participants in the 1st Irish theater festival’s production of Spinning the Times and the festival's organizer talk process and gender politics.
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types is gratified to hear that people liked the new Assayas.
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types also hears its first honest-to-god Starving Artist story.
How 19th-century New York's eagerness to accept mythology as history set the tone for the city's attitude.
Fare is Fair
Our worst habit is probably driving with our eyes closed.
Art Fag City
Mike Kelley and Michael Smith's Baby IKKI takes a trip to the desert in an effort to fit in.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
They should really market My First Vibrators, and they could have a picture of Robert Pattinson on them.
The Conscientious Objector
The only really good green fashion is no fashion at all. Don't buy new.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Does the smell of an old paperback make you really horny? It's cool if it does.
Art Fag City
What does it mean to blur the line between the "commercial" and the "artistic"? Does such a line even exist?
Features
Welcome to Breezy Point, a beachfront conservative enclave right here within the city limits. Just don't try to visit.
Features
Stop being a jerk to those people on the street with clipboards who ask you for money. What have you done lately for a good cause?
Features
In which Lauren wonders deeply about her role in life, and if she'll ever have as much fun as Jean Genet.
Features
Thirty percent of the time is basically given over to sexually harassing my coworkers, so there's that.
Features
Daniel Nester throws himself into the skinniest pair of pants he's ever worn—and tells us all about it.
Features
Crazy shoulders, huge platforms, draping... BEST. FALL. EVER.
Features
The city's coolest boutiques give tips on who they're most excited about this fall.
