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Dr. JK compares his army of assistants to a family, and thinks the best art is the most impractical.
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Life at the bottom (of social media) is rough: "toss some crumbs at me. i like milano cookies."
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The Japanese firm's best buildings melt away into their surroundings.
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An MC we only listen to because he keeps getting on better artists' songs is now one syllable shorter.
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Mark your calendars and submit your stories accordingly.
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The museum will now catalog and credit every time it uses the ubiquitous symbol.
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But for now, we have to talk about "Samantha."
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How about, Jack's a high-powered attorney working on a big case? Or, Hurley's a crime scene investigator?
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And just like that, your day is much better.
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Safer cyclists, more trees, fewer cars and traffic jams, and, presumably, many outraged opponents.
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Early favorites Well Hung come in close second, vow to assemble art faster and more prettily next year.
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History has been made, America. WELCOME TO COMMUNISM.
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Did she not see Ratatouille ?
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The Howard Hawks Western, Clift's Hollywood debut opposite John Wayne, screens tonight at BAM.
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Some days, the world gives you free ice cream. Today is one of those days.
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This weekend sees theatrical releases for two films we caught up with on last year's festival circuit.
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Despite star cast, latest revival will fold one month after opening.
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And pay special attention to the Swedish Elin's awesome Italian/Scottish accent.
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In which we are moved to start the first suicide hotline for depressed animals.
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Yup, good Christian soldiers planned to kill a man then attack his funeral.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Christians , Militias , Christian Militias , Hutaree , sedition , Michigan , Tea Party , Free Republic , civil war , Civil War II , Civil War part deux , Obama , the Constitution , scary shit , Sisters of Mercy , paintball , Video
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You should listen to this because it is horrible, and probably reflects a surprisingly large number of people's attitudes towards cyclists.
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You'd think he would have learned a thing or two about respecting the population you're storming in to help, by now.
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A drag and a queen trump a drag queen.
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Today's helpful single-function website tells you whether or not your computer is on.
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And, amazingly, it doesn't involve unicorns vomiting rainbows or cats wrestling with babies.
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Or, rich businessman plays poor hippie at event to coax money from other rich businessmen.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Politics , Theater , Hair , Michael Bloomberg , Snooki , The Situation , Jersey Shore , nyc theater , Broadway , Inner Circle , Charity , Video
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Every day and every way we are killing ourselves with our food.
by Ashleigh Lewis
Tags: Food & Drink , Cheez Whiz , Spam , Lifewater , chemicals , preservatives , Food-Industrial Complex , sodium nitrate , cochineal , trisodium phosphate , the yucky things we put in our mouths
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The short story is saved!
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For the first time in years, the Drama doesn't suffocate the drama in a Christophe Honore movie.
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Our favorite comedian is maybe right outside our office door like right now!
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I don't know. I don't really feel like listening to She and Him anymore, and I hear glo-fi is totally over, so...
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The L's long-awaited guide to the decade's cult-film sensation.
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Yup, here's a video of a car stuck to a truck at 60 mph. You're welcome.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , England , cars , trucks , wasting time , lorries , trousers , flats , aluminium , colour , Video
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Everyone go home and watch Ikiru tonight.
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I know this isn't really news, but someone has to keep caring, right?
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It's (basically) summer out, why not wander all over Downtown sipping box wine and seeing new art?
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The Zapruder film never looked so sexy.
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Michel Gondry's "My Family" doc is inoffensive and somewhat pleasant, also self-indulgent and pointless.
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An exciting show crammed full of new work that's at its best when it's most collaborative.
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Today in meaningless feuds!
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At a performance last night, the New York-based artist set a ship of singers, actors, writers and artists adrift.
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Vulva Original makes your x smell like xxx. But why?
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Remember last summer's Heineken-hazed weekend of music and art? That was a blast. Let's do it again.
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Also, we think we might actually like MGMT now? Is that ok?
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In which I nod along as other critics share actual facts and opinions.
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For one day, just ignore the right wing noise and think of sick kids having a bit more hope.
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Well done, everyone, but we still haven't forgotten what you did to Lily.
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One of the city's most interesting galleries gets more room to play with.
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Are you drunk yet? If not, you might not appreciate this offensive (on, like, eight different levels) video.
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For starters, we'd be able to bike across the country in a day.
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Proving that on Broadway stars sell, but Off-Broadway you pretty much have to have an orgy onstage to make a buck.
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Because nothing fights a hangover like free corned beef hash.
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Peace with honor!
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One of the creepiest TV homes of all time would be perfect for a small, loving family of three.
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That private basketball school in the Bronx is all growed up.
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Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner plays guitar with Spoon at Radio City, Beulah kind of reunites, the Ruby Suns are better than you think, and there’s a Brooklyn band that sounds pretty much exactly like Belle & Sebastian.
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Seriously, guys, there's nothing "freak" about getting doored.
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There are over 5,000 tons of space garbage floating around the Earth right now. Ew.
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The ballsiest comico-politico pranksters in history will make you laugh. Or cry.
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I am going to be so fucking sad if I don't like this album, you guys.
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Paranoia is the latest trend sweeping the state's capital.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , David Paterson , David Ravitch , Sheldon Silver , Albany , corruption , paranoia , budget crisis , double agents , spying , sabotage , New York Assembly
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The only way President Obama could've known little Murray State was going to beat Vanderbilt was if there was a second gunman.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , March Madness , NCAA Tournament , college basketball , gambling , NCAA bracket , Obama , conspiracy theories , Vanderbilt , Murray State , health care reform , John Tanner
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I'd still rather get anticlimactic answers than see another flashsideways.
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Goddamnit. A little piece of our coming Civil War Part Deux comes to Brooklyn.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , Tea Baggers , Tea Party , health care bill , Hutaree , Civil War , really lame Civil Wars , vandalism , liberals , Park Slope , Obama
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Now that we can control the minds of sea creatures, anything is possible.
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"I... am... wonderful."
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The Jersey boys premiere their video for The Monitor 's opening track (also one of the best songs released in 2010 thus far), "A More Perfect Union."
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After coma and surgery, the smooth-toned MC is in stable condition but short of breath.
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I've got a beef with the Endless Summer taco truck. And yes, I'm a crank.
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A great interview traces the aesthetic lineage of the smoggy telephoto shot of Southern California (among other things).
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What? Oh yeah, no I'm leaving for SXSW in, like, a couple hours.
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Last movies, day parties and misconceived products and personal choices.
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This could really be a weekly, or perhaps even daily feature, now that we think about it.
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If all of Revolutions Per Minute turns out to be this good we might have a classic album on our hands.
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Although don't we pretty much know who's gonna win already (Fela Kuti, Christopher Walken, etc.)?
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The Big Star frontman, and probably the most underrated songwriter in the history of rock and roll, died Wednesday night.
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If nostalgia were a found photo blog, it would look a lot like Young Me-Now Me .
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And yes, it does feature a woman with a saddle on her back thrashing like a wild bronco. (But no, T-Pain does not ride her, in reverse or forwards.)
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To be fair, though, that one was really good.
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Everyone everywhere is trying to make sense of this whole thing, and we think it's safe to say it's going great!
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Proof that it's not just "bad boy" artists making dough in today's art world.
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Often annoying in 4-minute doses, hip-hop music videos in two-second fragments are very catchy.
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So if you're in Austin, perhaps you could get off Twitter for a little while and check this out.
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That doesn't bode well for the future of classical music.
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Introducing Norman LeBoon, crazy anti-Semitic YouTube expert.
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What the hell, the sun is shining, go home already.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , the weather , sunshine , spring , hope , despair , office space , artificial life , soul erosion , Katherine Heigl , Falling Down , leaving , gone fishin'
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This time it's in a place you haven't heard of because you don't travel beyond the boardwalk between the Parachute Jump and the Aquarium, do you?
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Art prankster's hyper-phallic performance doesn't go over so well.
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No matter what I say, there is basically no use denying that I will listen to this album every day this summer.
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Plus, Roger Ebert suggests that Ben Lyons is worse than cancer, which he really is in a position to say authoritatively.
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Juicy gossip straight from the set of a year-old Woody Allen movie!
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You do, you look like you need a good cry.
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Our morbid fascination with North Korean depredation continues!
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Jesus, what am I doing? Who do I think I am trying to stay sober on St. Paddy's?
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Food & Drink , St. Patrick's Day , St. Paddy's Day , drinking , drunks , drink? , Christy Moore , Sinead O'Connor , In This Heart , to be Irish is to know your heart will be broken in the end , the heart keeps breaking , I'll be in the bar , Video
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But it's full of just enough behind-the-scenes concert footage to keep you watching.
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Plus, thinking back on the last few decades of animated film (which generally features less sideboob).
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , How to Train Your Dragon , Lilo and Stitch , Waking Sleeping Beauty , Disney , Dreamworks , Animation , Hot Tub Time Machine , The Hangover , Chloe , Sideboob
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God, I love being right. But sometimes it makes me so sad.
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Everything dies, baby, that's a fact--even our legacies.
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Jean-Pierre Melville's exquisite penultimate film is this weekend's rep film pick.
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If there's one thing St. Patrick's Day in New York is known for, it's restrained and tasteful clothing.
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In later years, Cage used his music to push his macrobiotic diet plan on his fans.
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Because rock and roll is supposed to be fun.
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Now if you'll excuse us, we have a very important meeting in Greenpoint.
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She did not, though.
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There's progress on the new East side line; really nifty-looking progress.
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Also, speaking of High Places, the "8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear" issue is out in a couple weeks.
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The hipster is dead, long live the hipster (otherwise we'd just be Boston).
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Haha. It's funny to look at what the past thinks of the future.
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Computer glitch, conspiracy, or a hometown "Amityville" house?
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Tonight's episode might suck, so enjoy yourself now.
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New lane to separate cyclists and pedestrians; nothing new to protect anyone from cars.
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Conversely, when I lose my job, I promise you will be the last to know about it. Or, wait...
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How indie rock's least exciting band became one of its most loved--and one of its best.
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Equal parts journalism, miniature military gaming, installation and performance art, Brian Conley's small worlds are immense.
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The best new development in crime fighting involves a cop in a box suspended high above you.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Skywatch , cops , policing , Myrtle Avenue , Murder Avenue , crime , Fort Greene , Clinton Hill , stupid things , gun violence , if everybody is watching everybody else all the time then everybody will be fine , surveillance , totalitarianism
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The Cudder gets his nerd on in the "Soundtrack 2 My Life" video.
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Jon Pareles bitch-slaps glo-fi, Julian Casablancas leaves the Strokes, sorta, Tom Hanks loves Green Day, etc.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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Today's rep pick, a true story of Civil War adventure on iron horse-back, features Keaton's greatest choreography.
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After Memphis and The Addams Family , Michelle, Sasha and Malia should probably go see A View from the Bridge .
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Does the firing of one wayward Canadian neo-con augur the Great Right Wing Schism?
by Allen McDuffee
Tags: Politics , David Frum , American Enterprise Institute , Republicans , Tea Party , health care , health care bill , schisms , rupture , rapture , here's your third party , Obama , the ghost of Barbara Frum begins once again to be proud of her son
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Is Williamsburg ready for another 6,000 people? How about the L train?
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Then go home and listen to every Harry Nillsson record ever made.
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Like this new one, the "I Wanna Rock" remix. It's so good Snoop invented a new word for it: "The G-Mix." Wow!
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In which several national drinking holidays converge on Austin.
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In this example, lava would be like Senator Joe Lieberman. Or wait, that would be shale?
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Damn, Moby, why you always gotta be like that?
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Fess Parker died; two down, one to go?
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Wouldn't it be nice if just one time, someone would come up with a new way of saying all the same old shit?
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The young star photographer's latest show drew a huge crowd of boys and girls, though his female nudes were the main attraction.
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Talk amongst yourselves as to why both Bottle Rocket and Greenberg open with the protagonist discharged from a mental institution.
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Luke's posts on @ShitMyDarthSays show the lighter side of the dark side of the force.
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Newt Gingrich pretty much throws out the idea of principles being a part of politics.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , health care , health care reform , civil rights , Newt Gingrich , Paul Krugman , cynicism , Republicans , Democrats , Dixiecrats , the Southern Strategy , LBJ , awful old white men
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Some dude: "This is better than Chelsea!"
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Cuteness and cultural cachet co-exist in these found photos of celebs with their felines.
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In which a couple of films are watched, and we mingle amid the surroundings.
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The blog You Say Potato–I Say Fuck You tracks all those tacky and tactless cartoon salespersons that populate our visual culture.
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Tonight's rep film pick is Marxist-Barthesian-Foulcauldian-Godardian-Brechtian-Warholian cine-essay.
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The famous artist and illustrator has created an expletive-covered line of accessories for Porter and Supreme.
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And Letterman has no idea who she is.
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It's Willy Wonka for mumbling hipster-types!
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See who can hold up awkwardly shaped and heavy artworks the longest and them pack them for shipping to rich collectors the quickest?
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In which the American film industry remembers to release movies after a couple of weeks of not really doing so, so much.
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Keeping an eye on all the angry white dudes who want to kill you, since 1997.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , health care , health care bill , Tea Party , Free Republic , civil war , Civil War II , Civil War part deux , Obama , the Constitution , scary shit
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Really, now is when you "activate" our subway security plan? Yikes.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Moscow subway explosions , subway attacks , terrorism , NYPD , security , terror alert , Chechnya , Chechen separatists , Muslims , Moscow
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Oddball docs, Western music in the Muslim world, and Carl Th. Dreyer, in between bouts of "social networking."
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Why should any progressive be thankful for a Democratic majority when it won't end a war and can barely reform healthcare?
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Hayley Williams could definitely beat this dude up.
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Barely a false step in tonight's poignant convincingly naturalist rep film pick.
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Tonight's rep film pick is a surprisingly nonexploitative drama about a schoolgirl with a crush.
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Woohoo! So glad I'm not at SXSW! Haha! I just killed myself!
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music , TV , American Idol Recap , Crystal Bowersox , Siobhan Magnus , Lacey Brown , Andrew Garcia , Tim Urban , Didi Benamo , Aaron Kelly , Paige Miles , Lee Dewyze
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Jasper Johns is out after the first round; can anyone stop Ellsworth Kelly?
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Someone faxed a noose to James Clyburn's office.
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J.R.R. Tolkien would be happy his characters are inspiring the next conservative revolution.
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This conflict-resolution strategy seems to be catching on.
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Hacked Prospect Heights sign becomes possessed with spirit of borough, proclaims "Fuck Ratner."
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So now, I guess, is when you start bitching about how much you hate Terminal 5.
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Hey, this plan saves money and helps people, so Republicans will continue to trash it.
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Puppies, flowers, sunshine, skin, drunkeness. Spring comes to Brooklyn.
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Polaroid makes even the slightly retro look totally retro and romantic.
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When perfectly reasonable people who don't care about college basketball decide to gamble.
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My Greenberg problem is that I can't keep my big mouth shut, apparently.
Features
The Morning Benders talk about their busy week in Austin, about their move to New York City, and about being in a band with your brother.
Album Reviews
A look at like-minded new albums by These New Puritans and Liars.
Album Reviews
Attention backwards-looking indie-pop bands: Do not release your debut full-length the same week there's a new Black Tambourine record. We're looking at you, Dum Dum Girls.
Album Reviews
How low will Luda go before he gets back to the number one spot?
Film Reviews
If you don't pay your medical bills the Repo Men are gonna come getcha!
Film Reviews
In the soothingly satiric Hot Tub Time Machine , pathetic men practically drown in privilege.
Film Reviews
The new film Lbs. takes a bite out of obesity.
Film Reviews
Noah Baumbach's sensitive latest makes something interesting of male midlife malaise.
Film Reviews
Teen-girl rock saga The Runaways is imbued with local color and punk spirit.
Film Reviews
Presenting Vincere , Marco Bellocchio's mystifying Mussolini melodrama.
Film Reviews
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sexes up Stieg Larsson’s Swedish publishing sensation.
Film Reviews
A revival of Joseph Losey’s lurid, sophisticated The Prowler .
Film Reviews
The outsized performances in the crowd-pleasing City Island help it to overcome its silly script.
Film Reviews
Gentle farce Mid-August Lunch skews a culture of filial responsibility.
Video Essays
A new video essay on The Prowler , a 1951 film noir that brings the genre's social critique into the harsh light of day.
Film Reviews
With Bluebeard , Catherine Breillat retells a classic tale of innocence and experience.
Film Reviews
A revival of Abbas Kiarostami's Iranian art-house landmark.
Film Reviews
The erotic thriller Chloe is every bit as lurid and preposterous as you'd hope.
Film Reviews
Playwright Conor McPherson delivers the slight, enjoyable Eclipse .
Features
Presenting a glossary guide to 1970s Los Angeles, the better to appreciate the unique local institutions that launched the band that's the subject of the movie.
by Benjamin Strong
Tags: Features , Film , The Runaways , Los Angeles , Rodney Bingenheimer , Cherie Currie , Joan Jett , Foxes , Robert Romanus , Mayor of the Sunset Strip , The 70s
Film Reviews
Inside story Waking Sleeping Beauty is the appropriately happily ending story of Disney animation's revival in the 80s and 90s.
Bar Reviews
Just in time for the World Cup, a nice little wine bar for watching footie.
Tips for Tips
Our time-wasting blog is... oh wait, we blog for a living. So that, that blog.
Restaurant Reviews
It's back! Pies N' Thighs is back! Yeehaw!
Restaurant Reviews
The best vegetarian ramen in the city is right here in Williamsburg.
Bar Reviews
Simple pleasures make life worth living.
In his exhibition Plasma Pool , every fluid and facet of life is a clue to finding true identity.
The South African painter's new series at David Zwirner explores politicized spaces in the Middle East.
The photographer's Cake Mixx series suggests that a good relationship is a piece of cake.
Theater Reviews
The quirky star never loosens his grip on Martin McDonagh's new black comedy, A Behanding in Spokane .
Theater Reviews
Residents of Clybourne Park today and in the 50s grapple with the racial repercussions of real estate.
Theater Reviews
The rising Downtown company's latest, Happy In The Poorhouse , dreams up a solution to economic and emotional depression.
Jakov Lind led one hell of a life. And lived to write about it.
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
In which The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types invokes the transformative power of art.
Fare is Fair
One man's art is another man's scribbling, especially in this city.
Fashionville
Could the downtown boutique chain become the Barneys of this decade?
Sex With the Natural Redhead
You know, the drapes don't always match the carpet.
The Conscientious Objector
When short-term solutions create long-term problems: it's cheaper to prevent unwanted animals than it is to kill them.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Sometimes the control tower isn't really in charge of the plane.
General
Everything you'll need to see to seem smart at dinner parties. You like dinner parties, don't you?
General
Video game scores at Carnegie Hall? Gamers at the Whitney Biennial? Yup.
Features
Has art in New York reached its lowest point ever?
Features
It's here, it's art, and these guys do it best.
Features
Behold the rise of the 8-bit Beethovens.
Features
Everything you need to see to seem smart.
Features
Think you know how to rock a white tee and black pants? Think again.
