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David Small's illustrated memoir examines (with great visual detail) the emotional and physical pain of his unfortunate childhood.
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Padgett Powell's playful new novel(?) asks many questions. Literally.
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This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types gets unexpectedly frisky.
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Electric Literature editor Andy Hunter thinks the short story was made for the digital age. Because yes, Carver on an iPhone.
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In Michael Kimball's novel, a suicidal weatherman tells his side of the story, in letters to everyone he ever knew.
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This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types is careful not to step on a butterfly or anything.
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In which Pop Scene gets just a little bit heavy. But then relaxes and has fun.
- by Mike Conklin and Mike Dougherty
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Real Estate's self-titled debut full-length hits all the right nostlagiac notes.
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Swedish Norwegian pop darling Annie refuses to stop, releases album called Don't Stop.
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Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox is fun, but probably won't heal the great Andersonian LOVE/HATE divide.
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In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog indulges our nuttiest movie star's every scenery-chewing whim.
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In Blondes in the Jungle (Saved by the Bell meets Werner Herzog), some blondes go to the jungle... along with an awesomely 80s soundtrack by Brooklyn indie rockers.
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An infamous lawyer’s daughters grapple with his legacy in William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe.
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In Uncertainty, a young NYC couple might be living in one of two movies, neither of which are particularly good.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman can’t rescue Pirate Radio.
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Women support each other, in their underwear, in Women in Trouble.
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In his LOLpocalypse 2012, all our political symbols are destroyed (again!), and only the most worthy survive.
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Almodovar's Broken Embraces honors its influences, and satisfies in its own right.
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Red Cliff, John Woo's epic return to the Chinese film industry, is undercut by its own gigantism.
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Yoav Shamir's documentary Defamation examines the uses of prejudice.
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Mammoth is Lukas Moodysson's profoundly impersonal everything-is-connected zeitgeist-grab.
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With The Sun, Alexander Sokurov looks East, to Hirohito's surrender.
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Jacques Tati's classic comedy M. Hulot's Holiday is literally timeless.
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South Korean festival fave My Dear Enemy is a variation on a tired theme.
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In retro sci-fi animation Planet 51, an American astronaut invades a planet that looks a lot like 50s America.
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This cozy, romantic, not-quite-finished Park Slope hideaway is perfect for holiday dating.
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This new LES Mexican joint is too loud and too big.
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Our dream bar would have reasonably priced beer, veggie hot dogs and a television that only played hockey games. Also, a talking dog for a bartender.
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If you don't already, by the end of Only God Knows I'm Good you'll know she's good.
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A new exhibition at Factory Fresh showcases four of the most prolific street artists in the country.
- by Kathleen Massara
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Tags: Factory Fresh, Street Art, Graffiti, Deeker, Bushwick, GoreB, Darkcloud, Armer, Skewville, Orchard Street Gallery, Hobo Art, Broke Rodriguez, Colossus of Roads
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"Theater as a form of expression is just bizarre, everything shouldn't work. It only works on the basis of the audience wanting it to work."
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August Strindberg's sexy Scandinavian cross-class romance gets a stiff British update.
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Anne Marie Healy's What Once We Felt sets the death of print in a sci-fi future.
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Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater rethinks Shakespeare, at 16 inches.
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Just because winter is here doesn't mean we're stuck with charcoal knits... Floral prints forever!
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As the meat-eating season descends upon us, it's a good time to look at the true cost of our carnivorous habits.
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At this rate, we'll probably have flying cars before we have a Second Avenue subway.
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How to take sexy pictures of yourself without even trying.
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Stephen Irwin upholds the fine art tradition of rubbing out porn images.
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Who knows why some artists make it big and others don't...
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We like to dance. You like to dance. The entire city of New York likes to dance. Let's award ourselves, shall we?
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Mark Rowan investigates the year 1964 to see what exactly is in store for Mad Men's fourth season.
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It's cheap, it's elegant, and if you're lucky, the new Sandy Bullock movie will be playing. You're welcome, Mr. President.
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Despite all the talk of eating at Popeyes, the Virginia duo is definitely at Brownsville's presidential chicken joint.
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Zach van Schouwen has created a cool history of all the buildings ever built on Eldridge between Stanton and Rivington.
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But they fall short of admitting that no one actually listens to those Outkast records anymore.
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Apparently it only takes an army of one to stop a mugging. Or, you know, ID.
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The greatest actor in the history of cinema (really!) was born 100 years ago today.
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Watch the video for "Must Be Santa" because it is the best thing he's done in a long time. Dylan, not Santa. Santa does great work every year.
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With the possible exception of "Love is a Battlefield."
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One of our top-five favorite bands ever sits down for an interview with David Fricke.
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Silent Futurist films with soothing live accompaniment on noise-intoners.
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I never realized that Batman needed a beard, but Vanja Mrgan has opened my eyes.
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Twilight star would happily reveal new moon if "the role was right."
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Seriously, why the hell do I always get stuck with the masturbation stories? I'VE NEVER EVEN DONE IT.
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Hot shirtless Christian teens, plus the second-longest State-of-Nicolas-Cage address the L has published this week.
- by Jesse Hassenger
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Tags: Your Weekend at the Movies, Twilight, New Moon, Wolf T-Shirts, Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant, Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodovar, The Blind Side, Planet 51, Animation, Red Cliff, John Woo, Face/Off
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The Public Enemy MC and VH1 star hasn't checked his clock in a while.
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Mass: We Pray could become the best-selling Christian video game since Mortal Kombat.
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It's definitely not the job of major newspapers to provide context sufficient to educate an enraged populace, or anything.
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Do people still say dirtbag? They definitely should.
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Some times you really don't know why you ended up in a place, and that can be a sad thought.
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But what does it all mean? Not much.
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Plus a word on Hooves on the Turf's Secret Garden series.
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Art students have designed nabe-specific cash, most of which is totally priceless (literally: it's worthless).
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Is this just art world cliquishness, or is it more sinister? (Or is Jeff Koons really that good?)
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The French artist who, with her husband, draped whole buildings in fabric, died last night.
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DON'T WORRY, EVERYTHING IS OK IN AFGHANISTAN, THEY FOUND THE DOG.
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He's done asking for your forgiveness. Now he just wants to have sex with you until you start to make noises that resemble his singing voice.
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Fine, here you go. Vampires vs. Werewolves.
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Roland Emmerich will not be denied.
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Our new favorite poster-slasher actually slashes the throats of people on posters.
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Six artists have created alternate universes for a Public Art Fund project in Downtown Brooklyn.
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Meet your new favorite events guide and one-stop shopping circular: The Duane Reader.
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We're definitely gonna get sued for this headline.
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A Warhol silkscreen of the pop star wasn't the biggest sale, but it exceeded projections.
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A new box spotlights the lesser-seen works of the cigar-chomping auteur.
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This brilliantly staged opera is attracting crowds, thanks in part to the appeal it holds for UWS blue-hairs of a certain persuasion.
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Graffiti artist KAWS designed a pretty pink cover for Til the Casket Drops.
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"Now a liberal, he drives a car like this... AMIRITE? Helloooo?"
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And she doesn't even seem to hate gay people or foreigners.
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The coyest announcement in the history of announcements.
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No shirt, no shoes, no sensory deprivation hood, no service.
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Great grandson of Hitler said to be mulling over cameo on 30 Rock.
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Lo-fi for the rest of us.
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This experiment could turn out to be a viable alternative to the big auction houses.
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What may be the city's most intimidating museum welcomes you with open arms.
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The opera event of the season is like like a bully who won’t stop poking you in the shoulder.
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I have a philosophy degree you know. So if I wanted to, I could discuss the creeping ontological nausee at play in the mind of Mambo Dog. Just sayin.
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For the love of god, please, cyclists, travel in the right direction in the bike lane and get off your FUCKING CELL PHONES.
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Or buy yourself a nice house in Upstate New York, just off Metro North.
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And every other John Prine video on YouTube.
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The NBA superstar selected artists for an upcoming show about scale at the Flag Art Foundation.
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Pledge your allegiance, get your black tees on, etc.
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Good, great... why not just do away with Mad Men and candy and puppies while we're at it?
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We've got indie-pop visitors from the San Francisco, so please be on your best behavior.
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This is the best song we've heard in a long time.
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Me. Pick me. (Because I bet even if you asked, Zadie Smith wouldn't do it.)
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The CSV Center will be abuzz with performances of all sorts tomorrow night and Saturday.
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What did Perez Hilton call her again? We're not allowed to call her that, right?
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Just all your favorite songwriters pretending to be in the army.
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Which is what we think, also.
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Choose between Williamsburg and Midtown for your evening in art.
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Presenting the most infuriating and/or satisfying healthcare story of the weekend.
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Golly, that "Teenage Girl" song sure is likable.
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But, like, actually do help. Don't just read a blog post about it, please.
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A rare glimpse of an earlier version of the long-delayed Broadway production.
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But have you ever arranged geometric block forms into even lines... with your feet?!
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It's only a matter of time before fish start tweeting us back.
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And other insights from a roundtable discussion about the role of record labels in 2009.
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Producers for the Hitchcock-adapted comedy hope to follow Avenue Q to the New World Stages.
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(No, that's not a joke about how he actually died in a real plane crash.)
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Add-Art removes ads and adds art to your web browsing experience.
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If you are an editor or a writer or a designer you should probably start learning how to shoot a gun.
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Go-to nabes Chelsea and Soho are where you should, um, go to tonight, for art and free wine.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: nyc art, art events, panel discussion, art openings, soho art, chelsea art, Glowlab, Mixed Greens, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, P.P.O.W. Gallery, book signing, art parties
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Does one of modern dance's seminal (and most naked) works still work?
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In one week, Mase will put out more material than he has since he started rapping 12 years ago.
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In which The L tearfully discontinues its popular feature, "Oprah for Dummies."
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Just in case you thought that ugly building rising downtown was a monument to something other than capitalism.
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We love contests because it gives a chance to lovingly read the thousands of entries you submit to us.
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That's it, we're moving to Canada. Or, wait, I guess New Jersey would work just as well.
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But it probably won't make New York City streets any safer for cyclists.
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There's also a language requirement: to graduate all students have to speak fluent English, with a heavy German accent.
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Tells reporter: "I want more gay love!"
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Click on this post for HOT GIRL-ON-GIRL ACTION (courtesy Philip Roth).
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And they should totally call it "Le Roi du Pop." Or just "Moonwalkers."
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A new MoMA show reveals the lighter side of Hollywood's Gloomy Gus.
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icon magazine wants to publish your 100-word short stories (provided they fit a very, very specific theme).
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It wouldn't be quite accurate to call tonight's rep film pick, The Overcoat, a neorealist work.
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Hawke picked big New York theater names for his revival of the Sam Shepard psychological thriller.
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Check out this cute stop-motion spot the director made for his new show.
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Relapse: Refill to feature five brand new tracks, two bonuses and holiday cheer.
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We don't know, exactly, but a bunch of people tried to explain it in a Times piece from earlier in the week.
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NYC's indie-rock duo du jour.
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Pop Up Lunch wants to help you eat on the street without spilling your meals.
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The musical about Fela Anikulapo Kuti is taking the Broadway tendency towards star power in a new direction.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Fela!, nyc theater, Broadway, musicals, ?uestlove, The Roots, Bill T. Jones, Jay-Z, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, producers
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The summer of '98 seems so very long ago.
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My goodness, she is awful. Just fucking awful.
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Also creates a multi-faith hotline to whichever god you'd like to speak to.
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And just about any name would be better than the one T-Pain, Lil Wayne and Ne-Yo's moms picked.
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Because I just can't get enough of the vicarious sentimentality that is Veterans Day.
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The entire borough awaits with bated breath, the arrival of its queen.
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Banning books is totally cool with me, as long as they're crappy books.
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Animal Collecetive, Solange Knowles, the xx, and Darius Rucker. Always Darius Rucker.
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Catch emerging artists from Central and South America in Chelsea this weekend.
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No mailbox is safe from the marketing machine behind the band's new record, Contra.
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Disney's Robin Hood, and by extension your film editor's childhood, ftw.
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The identity-shifting feminist photographer wins Man Ray Award for identity-shifting artists.
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No one has ever wanted to be in a feud as much as Matthew Friedberger.
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The monthly 2nd Friday Williamsburg gallery party is tonight, so that's probably where you should go.
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Sam Bassett's tape sculpture didn't amuse the art world's elite. (The NYPD liked it though!)
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Swear to god, she BETTER have picked up that fucking box.
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They will hide at our bus stops, against our brick walls, and in front of our road signs.
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And they should probably give the $100,000 to the performance artist who would spend it on coke.
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Remember when people just used to stand in front of white screens and pretend to play their songs?
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But that doesn't mean that the art world isn't still in a recession.
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Judging by the designs for the real thing, George W. Bush does.
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The Errand Boy, at a new Anthology series, sees the lowbrow comic getting back at the movie business, with slapstick and sight gags.
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Weirdly, even as we're increasingly able to separate yacht rock from the kitsch culture surrounding it, Toto remains underrated.
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In which they're all wearing really creepy contact lenses.
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A new hamster-themed hotel room in Nantes lets you eat grain pellets (yum!) and sleep on hay (cozy!).
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Or "Quote-Unquote The Who" as we've taken to calling them.
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"From Nov. 19-Dec. 31, the 59th St./Columbus Circle station will be closed due to the construction of Mayor Bloomberg's underground lair." Funny and true.
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What could be better than a Woody Allen-esque sex farce? A Woody Allen-esque sex farce in French.
