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In which we address the hot new trend of "electronic video games" by comparing a game to the Dirty Projectors.
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God, we owe this woman a serious apology for all the things we've said about her.
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Whether Chelsea or Soho, tonight's art parties are all in Manhattan
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Mixed Greens , Denise Bibro , Leo Kesting , Cheim & Read , gallery openings , receptions , Dillon Gallery , Blank Space , Christopher Henry Gallery , Bridge Gallery , Viridian Artists , Glowlab
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What will become of Woody Allen's best wing man of the 80s and this production of The Royal Family ?
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Sadly Couples Retreat does not have a key party scene.
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Be prepared to have your mind blown, everyone.
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It's summer at Sterling Cooper, a time for travel and trysts.
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Claire Denis' jarring, scarring immersion in the poscolonial crucible.
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So there's never been a better time to go visit one of their museums–I'd recommend the UES's Cooper-Hewitt.
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Borna Sammak's colorful video abstractions take over the Noho shop's screens on Thursday.
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The veteran of stage and screen starts previews of her new show this week while undergoing treatment.
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Now if you'll excuse us, we're gonna go have some Peach Melba.
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Follow us on Twitter and we'll give you free stuff.
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Paul Anka, by the way, is still alive. We didn't really know this about him.
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The cinematic spokespersons for middlebrow Americana will exhibit works by their painter predecessor.
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From lush jungles to mystic deserts to the surface of the moon, the BEP posse explores the wild.
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Mostly we discuss the movies that're actually opening this weekend, but we didn't want to bury the lede.
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Residents of a London suburb are voting to keep one of the street artist's latest works.
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The dead victims of health insurance companies can now be remembered in one place.
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Foster's next film looks, um, interesting...
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And one of them is on my birthday, hint hint.
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Brooklyn's struggling library system grows a new Branch in Fort Greene.
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Distributor-less postcolonial silent-film pastiche from the Philippines. You do too care, you just don't know it yet.
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After feeling ill, the actor returns to the backstage comedy.
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Man, I was in the bar last night and I heard this song and holy shit did we all get sad (but kinda happy, too).
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Bill O'Reilly's website is going to beat us up for saying bad things about Jesse Watters.
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This weekend's rep film pick ages better than most contemporary CGI will.
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Which seems reasonable, I guess.
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Not that we were watching, but the meatloaf of television shows did something kinda bold.
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The nerdy MC's latest track off his upcoming album is so hot.
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The epic animated war between Canada and the U.S. is ten years old and free all month long.
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The rapper who took the rap for Diddy might be sent back to Belize.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , News , rap , nyc music , hip-hop , Shyne , P. Diddy , prison , Jennifer Lopez , Belize , immigration
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God, white people are predictable.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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And New York's monuments are A-OK. (But some of the world's most visited are seriously screwed.)
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Bill Beirne performs absurdist maintenance work in new public performance.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber brings his most famous character to an unlikely New York 'hood.
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At 2:30 this afternoon, something will happen. It will probably be awesome.
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Soft-spoken ladies in big, floppy hats think we need to relax. They're right.
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Seriously, am I the only one who just cannot stand this dude's voice?
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First they came for The Giver , and I did not speak out—because I was not a Giver...
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Sure, the Crosby Street Hotel is another sleazy boutique affair, but at least it's got good art.
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Ran Ortner brings a sweet quarter-million-dollar prize (contemporary art's biggest) back to Brooklyn.
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Michael Haneke's icy WWI-era whodunit shows how Nazis happen--or Islamofascists, or Palinheads.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , nyff '09 , white ribbon , michael haneke , nazis , funny games , WWI , village of the damned , german morality , islamofascism , palinheads
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A Manhattan restaurant mogul has his eyes on those new condo towers on Kent.
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Yeah, yeah, I know, it's one step below Arena Football. BUT I STILL LOVE IT.
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Gagosian announces its latest extravaganza, which will be worth waiting in line for.
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Ohio has 88 counties... so, 88 keys. New York has 62 counties, so, like, xylophone?
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Pieces on loan to the Obamas include pottery, abstract expressionism and the first telegraph.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Politics , Barack Obama , White House , Washington D.C. art , decorating the White House , Ed Ruscha , Nicolas De Stael , Edgar Degas , Samuel Morse , telegraph
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The city's latest public artwork is being assembled by a truck-sized cyborg.
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Munyurangabo , new on DVD, has your answer.
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An older gap-toothed man who is rich and powerful has admitted to having sex with female colleagues. Sun to set tonight.
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So let's try to take an interest in her work, rather than shrugging and saying, "never heard of her so who cares?", ok?
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Wow, we're throwing away over the half the shit we could be recycling. Sometimes it seems like there really isn't any hope.
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"Hey artist dude, don't you think your work will obsolete soon?" Yes, we are jerks.
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The multimedia performance piece about the energy giant's collapse opens in April.
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Reassembling a half-finished film by a pre-New Wave French master.
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Is the Nobel Committee seriously trying to start the next American Civil War?
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And Jimmy Fallon pretends to know who they are. Just ignore him.
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The big dumb supergroup played a big dumb music festival in a big dumb state last weekend.
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This year's NYFF closes up shop with, as they say, "minor Almodóvar".
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[Your film editor is glad he did not have to review Lars von Trier's genital mutilation movie, but mad that Henry's positive review means he's probably going to have to see it.]
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Why bands should actually stay the fuck off Twitter.
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Our national tradition of quiet self-pity and smug rectitude continues.
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The Museum of the Phantom City reveals unbuilt architectural dreams right where you're standing.
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The Obama administration reaches out to the Connecticut senator and noted queer icon.
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Cops basically ordered a photo of a 10 year-old Brooke Shields naked be removed from a London Pop art exhibition.
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The MTA is thinking about installing cameras on buses, which is just like Stalin's show trials. IT'S HAPPENING PEOPLE!!1!
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Yes, it's true, I'm going to be rocking the shit out of the Inspirational Humanist Radio Hour.
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But make no mistake about it, Little Joy is still the main attraction.
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This game might just be the plot (and soundtrack!) to the next Wes Anderson movie.
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And Pharrell stars in an incredibly weird short film.
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Central Booking offers books on art and books that are art objects.
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It's true. I'll be giving thanks for Alice Munro, The Canadian Shield, poutine, beaver tails and Luke Schenn.
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The finalists for the UK's biggest art award are a creepy bunch this year.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Enrico David , Roger Hiorns , Lucy Skaer , Richard Wright , Turner Prize , art awards , UK art , conceptual art , exhibitions , Tate
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But only because Snoop Dogg is already doing it.
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Sometimes "research" just means "aimless nostalgic wandering through the archives." Nice sweater, F. Lee.
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And there are soooo many lawyers working soooo hard to keep you from hearing it. Too bad you already know how to google "New Moon rar."
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Peter Coffin's new public exhibition (opening today) offers journey through the history of sculpture.
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The passionate promoter of the arts in New York will be remembered for the art and organizations she created.
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American networks won't take the Canadian culture-jammers' Monopoly money.
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If we've learned one thing from the 20th century, it's always, ALWAYS, listen to your generals.
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And we would like a pony. If only there were a website we could use to accept donations!
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But she doesn't even have the decency to tell us what they danced to.
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And an even better jump shooter, apparently.
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This is the best day of the year. BECAUSE IT'S THE ONE DAY OF THE YEAR ANIMALS CAN TALK.
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The Chelsea Brewing Company opens 40 casks of American beer this weekend.
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The American artist had one of photography's longest and most illustrious careers.
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There's a new Dead Weather video. We watched it, etc.
by Jon Blistein
Tags: Music , Dead Weather , I Cut Like A Buffalo , music video , Jack White , White Stripes , Allison Mosshart , The Kills , PETA , Kenny G , Video
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From the director of Memories of Murder and The Host , a semi-deadpan procedural with Oedipal overtones.
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Gambling will save literature.
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See the city changing while you commute.
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Hey, New Yorkers, why don't you tell us how you really feel.
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You should prepare yourself for what is sure to be a very long six months, with lots of arguing about cultural appropriation and privilege. Just like in 2008.
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It's Second Fridays gallery night in Williamsburg! Also cool art happenings in Midtown.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , La MaMa , NY Studio Gallery , Charlotta Janssen , Marybeth Ward , Grace Exhibition Space , nyc art , brooklyn art , Anya Liftig , performance art , williamsburg art , Exit Art , Like the Spice
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And, as hoped, it promises to be a spectacular sort of show.
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A credible, mystifying movie about a girl's crisis of faith.
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"This Is It" hit the internet this weekend, and it should have been much better than it is.
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A retro of Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn kicks off tonight with style, if not overmuch substance.
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The photographer who shot the most famous images of New York's avant-garde in the 1960s died on Friday.
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Plus Sal's pretty ties earn him some unwanted attention.
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No one has ever named anything after us, and it is laaaame.
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The urbanSHED design competition finalists have been announced, and they have pretty plans for our sidewalks.
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A mixed look at, Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, as seen from inside a tank.
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A warm late-career miniature from an octogenarian French New Waver with nothing left to prove.
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A new kind of blaxploitation, in which characters are abused not only by other characters, but by the filmmakers, too.
by Simon Abrams
Tags: Film , precious , the novel push by sapphire , mo'nique , blaxploitation , lee daniels , geoffrey fletcher , gabourey sidibe , queen latifah , david fincher , oscar bait , NYFF '09
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The perfect digital camera for people who don't have any friends, but still want to look cool on the internet.
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Another rap magazine is in danger.
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Todd Solondz returns to the Happiness , and draws out gimmicks and recycled jokes.
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A bunch of crappy niche magazines are now dead, plus Gourmet , which is sad.
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And, let's face it: You are going to watch the shit out of it.
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You doing anything at 6 o'clock tonight? Tickets are still available for this scary-good portrait of a relationship going to pieces.
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A chiaroscuro portrait of a singer at work.
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Returning to his Southern Gothic-punk roots, Harmony Korine has fashioned as crappy-looking a movie as possible.
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Is this the web journal that's going to save literature? Maybe. Yes, probably.
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Noms for the $100,000 prize favor video and performance, don't paint.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Guggenheim , art prize , nyc art , Hugo Boss Prize , Apichatpong Weerasethakul , Cao Fei , Hans-Peter Feldmann , Natascha Sadr Haghighian , Roman Ondák , Walid Raad
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They're in college now, after all.
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The author is planning an exhibition and programs around the theme of lists for the Paris museum.
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Apropos of nothing, really. I just happen to like Jawbreaker very much.
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Oh, don't roll your eyes, they just really want you to see thee 24 pages of photos!
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The surreal, subversive Aussie drag queen adventure is coming to New York (in 2011).
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Which makes us a little sad and a little happy.
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Books in Queens, performances in Midtown and Meatpacking, parties in Bushwick and Williamsburg: tough choices tonight.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , nyc art , openings , receptions , art parties , Exit Art , Pierogi , The Boiler , C.C.C.P. Gallery , New York Art Book Fair , Heeb , 92Y Tribeca , P.S.1 , White Columns , ICSP
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The bridge under which us L Magazine trolls live is having its century party.
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Everyone is wearing them this fall, so why not make your own and be the coolest kid on your block?
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In which your editor tries, and probably fails, to make anything about this mayoral election interesting or uncertain.
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We've never really liked Tao Lin. In this respect, it turns out, we resemble the citizens of Petaluma.
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The wingnuts aren't really going nuts over Obama's, er, coup... but the Democrats are.
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New on DVD this week, a Cat People -esque chiller, and a 70s body snatcher thriller with a hear-it-to-believe it title tune.
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Diddy's fall guy, Shyne, gets out today, and a member of the Wu got arrested for not paying taxes.
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The jailed MC and Jay-Z took top prizes at last night's taping, but the biggest ego was absent.
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A brave L Mag intern (with taste in footwear) wonders what recent studies can tell us about life's manifold mysteries.
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They work full-time in Manhattan and their new video was shot in Williamsburg: they are Brooklynites.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , The Roots , Late Night with Jimmy Fallon , How I Got Over , Williamsburg , Philadelphia , nyc music , nyc rap , hip hop , Brooklyn keeps on taking it , Video
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The Wall Street Journal stands up for the little guy fighting big business, which, huh?
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The Zurich-based gallery extends its empire, opening with a reinvention of a famous Allan Kaprow environment.
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What's a "Public Advocate" even do , anyway?
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Tonight's rep film pick: Cornel Wilde's Beach Red .
Album Reviews
Kid Cudi, one of the first up-and-coming MCs with a major label release, goes off the deep end.
Album Reviews
One of the year's most pleasant surprises, from one of indie rock's most confusing artists.
Album Reviews
Yoni Wolf’s sung-spoken rhymes and occasionally aggressive beats give way to folk-like pacing and timbre.
Album Reviews
More (very good) songs for young, bored sophisticates.
“No, really, I’m fine.” she had said. “Really. I actually drive better when I’m a little bit drunk.”
Film Reviews
Their latest, A Serious Man , gets real about family, religion and America.
Film Reviews
Zombies are so hot right now, but Zombieland is so far up its Hollywood K-hole it forgets what it's parodying.
Features
Wrapping up our coverage of this year's New York Film Festival, we talk to Bong Joon-ho, Catherine Breillat, Corneliu Porumboiu, Samuel Maoz and Don Argott.
by S. James Snyder and Nicolas Rapold
Tags: Features , Film , NYFF '09 , Bong Joon-ho , Mother , Catherine Breillat , Bluebeard , Corneliu Porumboiu , Police, Adjective , Samuel Maoz , Lebanon , Don Argott , The Art of the Steal
Film Reviews
Often overlooked amid hosannas for the screenwriters, actors and musicians he collaborates with, the Where the Wild Things Are director has been a true auteur since the skate videos that kickstarted his career.
Video Essays
On the Waterfront is often considered "a masterpiece with an asterisk", Elia Kazan's self-justification for naming names. In his latest video essay, Matt Zoller Seitz wonders whether the truth isn't more complicated.
Film Reviews
A hit-and-run portrait of "Britain's most violent prisoner."
Film Reviews
Drew Barrymore’s roller-derby directorial debut is just another sports movie.
Film Reviews
An Education is too hip to be just another square coming-of-age story.
Film Reviews
Ricky Gervais's The Invention of Lying feels as tossed-off as this review of it.
Film Reviews
Hanging out with the bohemians of Abel Ferrara’s shaggy Chelsea on the Rocks .
Film Reviews
A 50-year-old documentary is a singular film about a singular part of the world.
Film Reviews
The self-important Afterschool presses more buttons than an afterschool special.
Film Reviews
Get your cathartic agit-prop performance art kicks as The Yes Men Fix the World .
Film Reviews
Skip out on allegedly saucy Brit schoolgirl romp St. Trinian's.
Film Reviews
In Visual Acoustics , photographer Julius Shulman's pivotal role in developing West Coast modern architecture comes into sharp focus.
Film Reviews
Don't let false promises of fun and sex in the sun fool you into going on Couples Retreat .
Restaurant Reviews
Good, but not great, new Mexican food in the Slope.
Bar Reviews
Wow, this bar really sucks. Just to be clear.
Current Robert Frank and Dennis Hopper retrospectives from the 50s and 60s offer portraits of two starkly different countries.
Theater Reviews
Rocky Philly uses the boxing movie to explore the testimony of actual Philadelphia natives.
by Robert Tumas
Tags: Theater Reviews , Theater , Brooklyn theater , nyc theater , Bushwick Starr , Rocky , Rocky Philly , Sylvester Stallone , Philadelphia , Van Cougar , The Bushwick Starr
Theater Reviews
Robert Lepage's epic play at BAM will redefine how you think of and engage with theater.
Theater Reviews
Dorm room Gen-X angst disguised as intelligent dinner conversation.
Theater Reviews
The playwright's latest adjustment to her one-woman doc theater piece Let Me Down Easy shifts the debate to healthcare.
Theater Reviews
Tracy Letts’ tasty treat of Chicago realism, Superior Donuts , delivers sweet optimism with cynical sprinkles.
Theater Reviews
The choreographer tells us what he's seen and where he's headed ahead of his October 6 performance.
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types wonders about the dark secrets of the people inside the black box.
Speaking with Norwegian graphic novelist Jason about anthropomorphism, Westerns, modernist lit, deadpan comedy, and Tintin.
We should count ourselves lucky to now have this eminent Norwegian epic and inventive series available in English.
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types wonders how much ramen a college student can eat before he counts as genuinely impoverished.
The Conscientious Objector
Fashionville
As soon as one season starts to flourish, the fashion world starts gabbing about the next one. So yeah, spring is here.
The Power of My Proven System
The pain, the joy, the eventual realization that it's cool to be a sports fan.
Fare is Fair
Sadly, we have, like, 30-odd nemeses: the little guy at the deli who undercooked our eggs, the guy who publishes this magazine...
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Features
We look at who is saving this city... and who is destroying it.
Features
This candidate espouses the same principles we've held dear over the last 10 years. You should vote for him.
Features
In which Lauren has some very good investment opportunities for those of you willing to take a risk.
