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Megan McAndrew's coming-of-age novel goes all the way to Paris and back.
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Laura van den Berg's debut collection is a wonderful assortment of finely wrought relationships and scary monsters.
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This week's respondent to The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types doesn't quite buy the starving-artist myth, either.
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The trials and tribulations of a gay Christian are the subject of this anguished novel.
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This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types parses the finer points of anatomy and influence.
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Nevin Martell treads nervously around our treasured memories in this critical biography.
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Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar set Jack Kerouac to music... the wrong type of music but music nonetheless.
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The UK duo releases an album of seven wordless, pulsing electronic music. And they're still called Fuck Buttons.
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Local noise-rockers release their debut full-length, prove once and for all that patience is a virtue.
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We just realized there hasn't been any good indie-pop records released this year. Until now.
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Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire will uplift you even if it has to smash your head with a skillet to do it.
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House of the Devil does the horror genre proud.
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The Donnie Darko and Southland Tales director tries to make a studio movie, but instead turns in the gratifyingly weird, unresolved The Box.
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Everything we've read about digital technology and studio greed suggests we should greet any movie proclaiming to be “real” with disbelief. And yet, The Fourth Kind...
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Process-oriented documentary legend Fred Wiseman watches the making of a dance in La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet.
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Seriously, this new Christmas Carol is really, really meh. (Also, it's the first weekend in November).
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Concerning a double-feature revival of vintage horrors Scream of Fear and Theater of Blood.
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Jared Hess's Gentlemen Broncos delivers diminishing returns.
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Sorry. Anyway. The Men Who Stare at Goats. Not as funny as it thinks it is.
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Boondock Saints 2 does its best to please the fan base, but won’t work for anyone else–unless you’re Irish.
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Chris Smith’s peak oil-prophesizing Collapse is exactly as interesting as its wingnutty subject.
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New doc Labor Day plays up the SEIU’s role in Obama’s election.
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In Act of God, Jennifer Baichwal talks to survivors of lightning strikes.
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Trick or treat: in our latest video essay, we approach (slowly) the old dark houses, vacant motels, mansions on hills, bell towers, torture chambers and spaceships that've freaked us out over the years.
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This Is It paints a restrained, kind portrait of Michael Jackson, in all his complexity.
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Weathered patriarch Hal Halbrook makes the rest of That Evening Sun look even worse than it is.
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The FIAF celebrates the eager, urgent premature late work of François Truffaut.
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Berry Park puts a biergarten in a loft... and it works.
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One time we went as ourselves five years in the future. It totally freaked everybody out, for reals.
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Fast food done nearly perfectly at Williamsburg snack counter, Saltie.
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The feud between Cru Beaujolais and Beaujolais Nouveau is almost as bad as werewolves vs. vampires. Seriously.
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In the first of a series, Katie Robbins profiles the people behind New York's great ethnic restaurants.
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A small family restaurant on Atlantic Avenue tells the story of New York City.
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The young Swiss artist's takeover at the New Museum creates distorted environments.
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Performa 09 remembers performance art's past while moving boldly forward.
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Idiot Savant is experimental theater bliss, especially thanks to Willem Dafoe's spectacular performance(s).
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A new production of Albert Camus' torturous family tragedy can't grasp its destructive energy.
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Robert Wilson's Quartett might be the most beautifully ugly theater you'll ever see.
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Temporary Distortion's de-construction of Japanese horror movies doesn't know what to make of the bits and pieces.
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Leave the poor Moon alone. Don't we have enough trouble occupying other countries, let alone other planetoids?
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What Sex and the City was to the late 90s, Mad Men is for the late 00s.
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If you've ever considered adopting a rescue pet, now's the time. The furs need you.
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If you have to ask if it's ok to watch your ex-girlfriend in a three-way...
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Yes, people honestly do love the big, rich Yankees.
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Two new shows rely a little too much on the head and not enough on that other, bloodier part of the body.
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In which Audrey gets angry about the "sex number."
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You could probably eat out every night in New York and go to a different restaurant every time. Start with these...
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On Election eve, Henry Stewart looks back at the gadfly campaign of Reverend Billy, and what it means to local democracy.
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Diana Levine's photo booth highjinks are always fun. As they were last Friday night...
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Today, when you're pulling the lever to decide who'll be our next (ha!) municipal overlord, remember just how weird it can get.
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Thinking a little more about gay marriage votes in Maine and elsewhere.
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One cast to perform Merchant of Venice and Winter's Tale on alternating nights.
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One of these rappers is better at being a D-list celebrity. Hint: It's not the one who wanted his fight fixed.
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Museum posts 902 letters (with sketches!) by the perpetually poor post-Impressionist.
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We never met a poem we couldn't turn into a movie quiz.
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Some love it, others wonder if he realized that he maybe, just maybe, looks a little bit like a woman.
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This is not going to end well.
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The one-time rap star and cooking show host continues to expand his media empire.
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And still, no mention of Tunnel of Love.
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This is probably how the robot revolution begins, with free, supposedly harmless cyborg chairs on the sidewalk.
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"Watusi" won't fit in Michelle Obama's White House office.
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Hint: It has nothing at all to do with the New Moon soundtrack.
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Free art, music, movies and beer tastings in Dumbo tonight!
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In first ever attempt, artists do awards ceremony right.
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Well, they'll probably just postpone the thing, but they should really kill it.
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This NYC/Philly rivalry is way more important to us than the World Series.
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It's been clinically proven that dog owners have more sex.
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First Method Man, now Eminem, which rap star will make the 3D movie leap next? (Where's MC Hammer the one time we need him?)
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We love it when Gawker cares. And by Gawker, we mean Pareene.
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Also the Northside Festival! (Not true.)
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MoMA and the Bronx Museum are challenging urban designers to plan for the city's future.
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Will American Idiot be the new Spring Awakening?
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And now we have to figure out something else to look forward to for the next eight hours.
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A big FAIL for Interscope's distribution department.
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And we respond with a list of notable lit-rock songs.
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Club Animals' latest public performance in the subway happens tonight at Union Square.
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Yes, it's totally stupid, and no, I don't care.
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Me: "Have you guys heard that old Smashing Pumpkins EP called Lull? It's totally amazing and underrated."
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They'll get better, I'm sure.
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Nothing blew up, no small mammals were crushed, nobody got lost. Hooray for fresh food!
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Luis Buñuel goes native with Death in the Garden, new on DVD this week.
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I may never watch The Last Waltz again. (Not true.)
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But who's going to play the giant lizard Pugsley is holding in this picture?
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In which Matt Lauer crawls out of an X-Wing Fighter and says, "Sorry I'm late, I was on my laptop." Ha!
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The self-exiled Hudson Valley museum has big (as-yet unknown) plans for its digs in West Chelsea.
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Compton's last gangsta rapper drops definite article, singles for his new album.
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And Dave Matthews is performing? What year is this?
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Jay-Z must have been in a touristy state of mind when he approved this.
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They should not be, though, should they?
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Three artists have been waging a bloody, all-out beast war since 2006.
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Anticipating opposition to his 47-story condo tower (well, duh) a developer makes some crazy promises.
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Yes, I made up half of that quote.
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On our favorite misleading headline of the day.
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Arto Lindsay led an army of trench coat-wearing dancers through the biennial's opening performance.
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But it is the second most dangerous place in the world to own art.
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One of the East Village's oldest and best performance spaces keeps doing what it does.
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Update: Gay marriage is not in fact legal in the state where I grew up, and fuck them (and the NY state legislature, for that matter).
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If so, consider yourself warned about the new Say Anything 20th anniversary DVD.
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A half-decent duet (Eminem's half) just leaked, along with the hilarious album cover for Before I Self-Destruct.
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Graphic designer Logan Walter re-imagines Wu album covers as inoffensive jazz records.
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A modest proposal: movie studios please delay the release of holiday movies until The L's film editor knows what he's doing for Thanksgiving.
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The AirBoard, a personal hovercraft, will get you from A to B like such a badass.
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And yes, we rolled our eyes about it, but we also acknowledge that we are going to buy it.
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2010 is going to be really good, you guys.
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Promises to blow 3D weed smoke at the camera every two minutes.
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Or, why do people still go to Vice Magazine parties?
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When seemingly reasonable nonpartisan arguments... aren't.
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See how timely? So timely.
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For today the President suggests a zip-up hoodie over a turtle-neck sweater with jeans and sneakers.
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Because Joe Perry is delusional, to the max.
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College Humor's parody of the iconic Pixar animation is surprisingly smart.
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Talking with Vagabond, writer-director of Machetero, about guerilla politics and guerilla aesthetics.
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Does this woman not own any shirts or pants?
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And we guess there's a chance it could actually be ok.
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Because he bloody well should.
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We should probably be annoyed by this, but definitely are not.
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Not exactly the most surprising news of the day, but news nonetheless.
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And marvel at how nice her skin is! (Also at how smart and mature she is.)
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The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of forty thousand years...
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In the interests of impartiality, I will not be showing you the Pedro Martinez Blingee I designed before last night's game.
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Why not squeeze Joe Jackson in there while we're at it?
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In Kanye's books, dinosaurs walk through walls of flames and computers shoot asteroids at you.
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Jay-Z performs "Empire State of Mind" at the Yankee parade earlier today.
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You really need to adopt a dog, RIGHT NOW. This is obvious to us. You should adopt Levi.
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Don't worry, though. It's just a bad Twitter joke.
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And we wanted to pretend it wasn't good, but we can't.
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If we're lucky, in a few short years the Republican Party will be reduced to a couple dozen "pure" conservatives, who will then kill and eat each other.
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And it'll come with a copy of the Young Money album (yay?).
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We're probably not supposed to say this, but ugh, we really wish she stop taking herself so seriously.
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Don't worry, though: He's still staring blankly too.
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America's favorite author is a little too obsessed with a certain corn snack. Or he's just a lousy writer.
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Every so often something happens that makes me very proud to be French. This is one such occasion.
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The DoT will outfit old meters with bike rack rings.
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B.Y.O. Mountain Dew for this all-night slasher sequel triple feature.
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In which Italian men in rented tuxedos kicked soccer balls at Alexis.
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Call within the next ten minutes and they'll also throw in a sheep, free of charge.
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The North American book-industrial complex is trying to get rich off challenging South American writers. AND IT MUST STOP.
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If the simple act of smiling is supposed to make you happier, this is the happiest invention ever.
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And really, we wish they hadn't.
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Brooklyn's best drummer died at a party in Williamsburg this weekend. Terrible.
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A revival of Neil Simon's sequel to Broadway Bound closed yesterday, one week after opening.
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Japanese tavern Sui Ren blows my mind with its rich, creamy broth.
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In his new video Fitty fantasizes about living in the suburbs and dressing his kids in the cutest matching sweater vests ever.
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Indie bookstores are winning! (At least that's how things look from Dumbo.)
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Say what you will, but it's a pretty good song.
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Ivy Leaguers paint their faces green, scare the shit out of the rest of us.
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Loret is crazy for Halloween. CRAZY. It's scary.
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Proclaims: "Billy Elliot ain't got shit on me!"
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Howard Hawks goes on safari with tonight's rep film pick, Hatari!
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Justice for a dead gay poet delayed is justice for a dead gay poet denied.
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No, "Ghetto Techno" is a bonus track, so it doesn't count.
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Poor Sufjan... so troubled
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Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts protests casting of Abigail Breslin in The Miracle Worker.
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Hey: You've seemed lonely and sad lately... You should probably adopt an adorable puppy before you kill yourself.
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There's a chance I will watch this all day long.
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Assuming you've already watched the Jay-Z video from earlier.
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Free big top show of modern art headed to the poor urban and rural parts of France in late 2010.
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The paralyzed people in the scary movies you watch this Halloween are audience surrogates--and their fates say a lot about the movie they're in.
- by Henry Stewart
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Tags: wheelchair, horror movies, Halloween, spectatorship, rocky horror pitcure show, changeling, bubba ho-tep, hitchcock, rear window, whatever happened to baby jane, scream of fear, misery, monkey shines, friday the 13th 2, texas chainsaw massacre
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And she totally called that one Jonas Brother a douche bag.
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Tonight Canvas New York Art opens a survey of 24 Iranian artists in an unlikely venue.
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The Italian war-mongering avant-garde boys' club had at least one woman in it.
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If you're biking home over the Williamsburg or Queensboro Bridges tonight you're in for a nice surprise.
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Hey, even if you don't go vote for Reverend Billy, you should probably go vote. You know, democracy and everything.
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The art world's elite to gorge themselves on BBQ, peanuts and Jeff Koons rabbit.
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Will Canadians get all the jokes about the smelly toxicity of New Jersey?
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It's ok to feel like you're better than everyone else.
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They wrote one of my favorite songs of 2009, and because I care about you, I've included the video in this post.
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He shot no subject with more love and depth of feeling than his own neighborhood.
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The Bronx native gets $50,000 to make more dark neons and poppy silkscreens.
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Edgar Allan Poe shenanigans at Anthology's Roger Corman series.
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Will the new roommates drive each other mad or make beautiful collaborative exhibitions?
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Chase Utley's hair: all your questions answered!
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Mary Mattingly, of the artists' community barge The Waterpod, hatches an idea for a rooftop chicken coop residence.
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And here is a picture of it. Now let's move on.
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Weirdly, there aren't a lot of art parties tonight, so make the most of it out in Bushwick.
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It's mostly about North Brooklyn tonight, with a few interesting things goin' on in Chelsea.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: X-Inititative, art parties, screenings, performance art, Pace Wildenstein, Parker's Box, Under Minderva, Grace Exhibition Space, ISCP, Brooklyn Art Studios, Artbreak Gallery, nyc art, brooklyn art, Secret Project Robot
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As if you needed another reason to wake up early this Sunday morning!
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Heaviest starting pitching matchup in Series history?
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I never know what we're allowed to say here because of spoilers.
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Only one thing happened this episode, so I'll try not to JFK it here. Oops.
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In which Joe Buck undermines Tim McCarver, and America giggles uncontrollably.
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You're not gonna use it, obviously, but, you know... we're just sayin'.
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It is unhealthy how much we dislike this band.
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An absurdly wealthy man pays absurd sums of cash to keep another absurdly wealthy man's dog looking pretty.
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Everyone else to feel like their ideas are really lame.
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The bright young things of Beverly Hills don't get N.E.R.D.
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She'll learn to talk just because she's so sweet and cute damn it!
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(Please, don't anyone tell Beanie Sigel we said that.)
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Truly, nothing is scarier than the written word.
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Condo dwellers in Williamsburg clearly had no idea they were actually purchasing condos in Williamsburg. Where there are bars. Jerks.
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In which Mark Asch, a white movie critic, raises objections to Armond White's review of the reviews of Precious.
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These dudes are gonna own 2010.
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There are no winner, obviously. Except for maybe Harry Partch.
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Tomorrow, BAM screens what is possibly the strangest of all possible Halloween films.
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Because, you know, Halloween is this weekend.
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Twenty years ago a big wall came down in Berlin and everyone was happy.
