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In which titans clash.
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Don't mean to shout, but POETRY IS ALL THAT CAN SAVE US NOW.
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And decades of feminist theory, maybe, but that's ok.
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They beat up the Easter Bunny.
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If you don't go to this you are a stone-cold sucker.
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Unicyclists planning to unicycle over every New York City bridge claim that people who hate bikes will love unicycles.
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On the logic behind an incredibly uncomfortable bit of Freudian marketing.
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Will enough expensive rosé make me forget this ever happened?
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An institution obsessed with being young and hip has a chief curator who hates, hates, hates bloggers (aka the young and hip).
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Also, Christmas to become Take Your Mistress to Work Day.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Gang Initiation Day , gangs , youth , violence , delinquency , colors , Times Square , Fuck the police , mayhem , chaos , riots
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Turns out the DEA likes a good pun just like the next guy.
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Yup, rumor has it there's a dormant cow tunnel beneath 34th Street. Where cows would walk.
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Oh yeah, for-profit health care is really just a bad idea.
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The L lusts after your short fiction, and your company.
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It's... hard to explain.
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Klaus Bisenbach totally made Gaga cry at a gala dinner.
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Paul D'Agostino is haunting my dreams, leaving funny blog comments under my pillow.
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Clash of the Titans is better online than in theaters.
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Justin Bartha can't sing; what's worse is that the audience can't tell.
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I Love You, Phillip Morris is shelved "indefinitely."
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Today's rep film pick is a passionate drama of modern French youth, directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, later the Ovid of female masturbation.
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It's too bad when a 160-year-old hospital in a prosperous neighborhood is forced to basically close down because of money problems.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , St. Vincent's , St. Vincent's Hospital closing , Edna St. Vincent Millay , Dylan Thomas , health care , health care reform , budget trouble , Why not raise taxes a bit? , Greenwich Village , bad news
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We liked Hipster Kitty back when it played obscure chat rooms and blogs.
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The time has come to clean your home. Here's how to avoid poisoning yourself.
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Everybody thinks that everybody else talks funny. Which is pretty much true.
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Now I can finally get rid of my enormous collection of yogurt containers.
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Because being attacked for covering up sexual abuse is a lot like a millennium of persecution.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Catholics , abuse , sexual abuse , The Vatican , cover-ups , scandal , Good Friday , Bad Friday , Pope Benedict , travesties , The Jews , false equivalencies , Italians do it better , Raniero Cantalamessa
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Reset your bookmarks to continue receiving L Mag politics posts before they're published, or indeed written.
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Now they do a cover of Beach House's "Zebra."
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Not quite a Wong Kar Wai movie, but pretty damn close.
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Do people still play hooky to catch day games? Because you should seriously consider it, it's the American thing to do.
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In the art car race in our minds, Koons crashes into Jenny Holzer in the approach to turn 12.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , The L stands for BMW , Jeff Koons , BMW Art Car , nyc art , Art vehicles , Roy Lichtenstein , Alexander Calder , Andy Warhol , Frank Stella , Video
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The first ever professional theater production on Twitter is two days into its real-time re-enactment of everyone's favorite fated romance.
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Unlike Rush.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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Keeping up with the latest trend in literary chastity porn for teenage girls.
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Read all about it, on Slate.
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Yup, blogs confirm there's a secret cop tunnel beneath Joralemon Street. Where couter-terrorism forces walk.
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Another gallery gets an upgrade: is the art market booming again?
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Wheelchair + Sunglasses = Imitation of Life.
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Aw, man, the overweight performance artist is totally getting voted out of the studio in the first episode.
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Seriously, Pygmy girls' initiation chants but no ZEPPELIN?!
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Seriously. On Sunday.
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The best way to defeat cynical, profiteering demagoguery is to write a poem.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , Glenn Beck , haikuglennbeck.com , haikus , poetry , liberals , wingnuts , paranoia , absurdity , lashing out , Tea Party , sad America
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This season's best Off-Broadway shows, apparently, were especially concerned with racial and sexual difference.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Theater , nyc theater , Public Theater , The Pride , Off-Broadway , Lucille Lortel Awards , Awards season , Tony Awards , Pulitzer Prize for Drama , Nominations , Emperor Jones
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Two of the best rap producers who can't rap but always try to will be putting out records this year. (Probably, really.)
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The Open Space Alliance wants to make North Brooklyn's biggest park a little bigger, and a little less car-friendly.
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If this record leaks in time for me to listen to it on my way home from work today, I will be so fucking happy.
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Adventures in home cataloging with the world's oldest man.
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"Brooklyn doesn't have an Apple Store?!... My god, even Staten Island has an Apple Store!"
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This makes me as happy as that Mates of State "Laura" cover made me sad.
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I haven't smoked weed in 11 years, but still, I now have more respect for this dude than ever before.
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Did Arnold and the Predator really look this cute in their jungle deathmatch?
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The art recession isn't over, and that's why the largest galleries are upgrading on the cheap.
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"It's not a record that a young person would write," she says. Yikes.
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Cheap beer, short fiction, and thou.
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Tonight's rep film pick gets at the abstract pulse of a city and its environment.
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It'll be worth it, but for the next few weeks cyclists and pedestrians will be rubbing elbows.
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The Sex Pistols manager died of cancer in Switzerland earlier today.
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You know, there might be a reason the Prospect Park people haven't laid out a bunch of towels in a designated "sunning area." Just sayin'.
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Fabo has a hyper-contagious disease that kills anyone who comes close, which'll make his shows... interesting.
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Cute cats spouting conservative slurs.
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But more importantly? Who the fuck is going to play Kris Novaselic?
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Fingerprinting a billion people sounds like a pain in the ass.
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The British animator takes internet meme logic way beyond its logical conclusion.
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But only because I wouldn't have been able to do "What Goes On."
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The first video from rap's biggest (slash most boring) rising star has flashy lights and dull lyricism.
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Senior citizen to swim in toxic waterway in search of more bandwidth for his granddaughter's live-journaling.
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Liberals more likely to appreciate America's greatest invention, study shows.
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Describe single as, "pretty Pains-by-numbers. It's got 3 chords, a fuzz pedal and lots of feelings."
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The only thing I've ever truly wanted was to see Werner Herzog make a documentary about James Cameron in the Amazon.
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When you type "Nancy Pelosi," what does the internet think you're looking for?
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Pacman eats up subway stations and Tetris blocks destroy the Empire State Building one row at a time.
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Jack In The Box takes on a whole new meaning in this demented music video.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , Rad Omen , Fast food , Fast food mascots , Ronald McDonald , Burger King , Jack in the Box , Strip club , Wendy's , KFC , Video
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Just two and a half more months!
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In which the author loses his mind a bit doing a close reading of the pain in Joey Potter's eyes.
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Back in February, your favorite photographer of hipster pastorals was in Vancouver shooting the Olympics.
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The chair of the jury for this year's Pulitzer complains about prize board's "blinkered New York mentality."
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Hey, cool, new legislation to piss off both the Right and the Left!
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , offshore drilling , oil , Obama , climate bill , drilling for oil , drill baby drill , compromise , Democrats , Republicans , progressives
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Thank you, New York Magazine , for a cover story that explains why nobody should care about its subject.
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Video game art as elegantly-scored 8-bit spelunking.
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The neglected Janet Gaynor stars in Murnau's Sunrise and Borzage's Street Angel , two newly revived peaks of silent cinema.
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Did you guys know that was the name of Jimmy Kimmel's show? I did not.
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So many pretty black and white pictures of jobless Americans sitting in picturesque yards and streets!
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The n+1 editor's first book is a real bonus baby.
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What happens when a Murdoch tabloid attempts to explain an infamous, racially charged miscarriage of justice?
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He should stick around for the weekend instead of jetting right off, maybe a day trip to Two Lights tomorrow (the Lobster Shack just opened for the season!), there's lots to do.
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You're not, at all, but it's going to happen anyway.
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Oh my god, I want to go home.
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Rediscovered and preserved Sandinista footage, century-old ethnographies, cult hits and smuggled Iraqi home videos and more screen this week.
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Powdered drinks will double in price under Governor Paterson's proposed "Fat Tax."
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , David Paterson , Fat Tax , sugary drinks , soda , powdered drinks , Kool-Aid , Gatorade , obesity , childhood obesity , poverty , class war , sad America
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I have a felling today is about to be a very Good Friday... It's Jesus time!
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Art , Jesus , Jebus , Good Friday , blasphemy , the Internet , Hell , He is risen , He is risen in Photoshop , space ghosts , Christian outrage , Slideshow
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The massive project to remake the first Star Wars movie from over 900 DIY 15-second clips is almost finished.
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It's like everyone wants to fight Steve Malkmus today, right?
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After two months and eight pages of posts, a book deal has been bequeathed.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Media , Hipster Puppies , Tumblr , memes , publishing , book deals , travesties , this is why your industry is dying , somebody please publish my novel , meme fatigue , cute detachment , detached cuteness
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Tonight's rep film pick is one of the neglected classics of political cinema.
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Go behind the scenes to witness rock and roll history. DO IT.
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The Showgirls director screens Life of Brian and discusses his new book, Jesus of Nazareth .
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Gavin McInnes and Vincent Gallo are kind of reactionary aren't they?
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One of the most common reasons for becoming a pop star is to spread a message of temperance and self-control.
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So many beards. Then so few beards. Then so many beards again.
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First they came for the azaleas, I did nothing. Because I am lazy.
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A few weeks back some dude climbed that giant wall, and now some artists will use it as a screen.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Manhattan Bridge , Dumbo , Video art , outdoor movies , nyc art , Alex Villar , Daniel Leeb , Tamas Veszi , Christine Schulz , Video
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The rising Downtown company's continues its recent string of successes.
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The internet, presumably, rolls its eyes.
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You want green investment, go to China.
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Manhattan coyotes were so much harder back in 2006.
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After taking over our factories, the armies of unemployed robots want our restaurant jobs.
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No, it doesn't sound like "The Funeral," because probably nothing will ever sound quite like "The Funeral" because "The Funeral" is ridiculously awesome.
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That's not honey in those eggs!
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Drinking cocktails and reading poems... April is so not the cruelest month.
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One long flashsideways? And it's the best episode of the season so far? How can it be?
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Online viewing tip: a monologue-montage from Matt Zoller Seitz.
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If the internet were in charge of university presses, we'd be reading a lot more papers about cannibalism.
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Internet blogger hates iPad, loves pageviews.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Media , Boing Boing , Cory Doctorow , iPad , Apple , Cupertino Politburo , gadgets , trends , fads , insanity , the future
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You simply cannot convince me that it is ok to cover a Death Cab For Cutie song.
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I've dreamed about many possible ways to die, but "underwater supervolcano" wasn't one of them.
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Does "I Am the Resurrection" count as Christian Rock? Christian Britpop?
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More improvements for Brooklyn cyclists aimed specifically at bike-commuters.
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This season's Brooklyn bike wars moving from Williamsburg to Park Slope.
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But which young heartthrob should share A Life in the Theater with the well-aged RSC legend?
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Two staples of the city's modern dance community, at least one of which is several million dollars in debt, pool their resources.
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That law and order stuff is "acting".
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The evidence is overwhelming: Prospect Park is straight-up haunted.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , swan death , swans , swan on swan violence , swans are mean , ghosts , animal parts , Prospect Park , Ghostbusters , weird shit , Video
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The murder of an awful racist demagogue could really anger other awful racist demagogues.
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"Oh hey honey what movie do you want to see tonight? I know nothing about movies." "Neither do I. Ooh, how about this 'Date Night' movie?"
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Change comes to all things. Bye for now.
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The Times introduces us to Loyola Productions (not that there's anything new or novel about priests making art, but still).
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There's simply not the political will to appoint a comparable successor.
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Because nobody likes the smell of urinal cakes.
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A fascinating interview (on a 24-hour news channel!) about social media's possible uses for activism.
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Well, we do like sitting, so we suppose this is good news?
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We expect trailers to be dishonest. But this crosses a line.
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There is hope for us yet, people.
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Don Blankenship is just so evil .
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Don Blankenship , Massey , Montcoal Mine , mining disaster , West Virginia , coal mining , mining unions , Mountain Top Removal , Joe Manchin , MSHA , Reverend Billy , disasters , Tea Party
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But remember: at least he's not playing Kurt Cobain .
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Also throws out the best Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reference ever.
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The NBA's biggest internet star is all alone, singing to his computer in his darkened, empty home.
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There are now two things any God-fearing patriotic American should be buying: gold and machetes.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , Glenn Beck , Arguing with Idiots , Snake oil salesmen , Sad America , Hutus , Tutsis , propaganda , genocide , Rwanda , WTF? , The Awl
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But should they have had to?
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Two years later, which is still too soon for some.
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What if you put gambling addicts and alcoholics together? (You'd have Christmas at the Diamonds! Zing.)
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Artist's infographic offers helpful guide to every animated character from bugs to cars.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Film , Pixar , Up , Monsters Inc. , Toy Story , The Incredibles , Ratatouille , Finding Nemo , Charticle , Infographic , Juan Pablo Bravo
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The Vegetarian Agenda is real... We're coming for you AmeriKKKa!
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , Steve King , Iowa , Meat Industrial Complex , Humane Society , HSUS , vegetarians , The Vegetarian Agenda is a real thing , dogs , mutts , purebreds , dog shows , PETA
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The only thing that soothes the big fella more than petting a comically tiny dog is chugging beer-flavored water.
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God, their name looks really good in futura.
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In case you're wondering what Malaysian barbecue is like, it's fucking delicious.
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Didi Benami is sent packing, and I begin to wonder if I will be wrong about anything ever again, for the rest of my life.
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And now I suddenly really want to hear their new album. I also really want to watch Ghost , though.
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Forget "an eye for an eye," this Christ is a sexist, classist, war-mongering racist.
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"American anarchists" consisting mainly of college kids and the rhythm section of Rage Against the Machine.
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The paper of record celebrating the woman who's run the place since the bad old days.
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A closer look at a slimy, opportunistic, execrable congressman.
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Hey, it's a hot new trend! People photographing what they eat and showing you!
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Food & Drink , The Internet , New York Times , food , food photography , obsessive-compulsive , OCD , technology makes us boring , the void , fear of the void , the void can't come soon enough
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If you can't say something nice, put it on a sign.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , Teabonics , Tea Party , Tea Partiers , Tea Baggers , racism , nativism , Republicans , libertarians , anarchists , protest , Tax Day
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You cannot have a conversation about great moments in pop nudity without it.
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On potential CIA assassinations of American citizens, and the expansion of executive power.
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Tonight's rep pick is a series of uncanny, haunting shorts (including one world premiere) to be introduced by the director.
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Security and liberty are not as mutually exclusive as some would have you believe.
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And for just a minute, everything everywhere is perfect.
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"Nose Job in a Can" and other great TrustoCorp products now available from your local grocer.
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Join us for Commie-killin', hip-hop dancin' and free drinkin'. At Lincoln Center.
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Cops say local drunks beat up cops.
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It could have been worse, which is as good as it gets these days.
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Does your new computer tablet cuddle you at night and whisper "I love you"? No, really, is there an app for that?
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by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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If you have to do something for someone before they tell you a secret, they're scamming you.
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by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , John McCain , Republicans , flip flops , maverick , not maverick , maverick? , MAVERICK , Top Gun , Goose , Iceman
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Obama is the same pragmatic centrist today that he was in 2008. Deal with it.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , offshore drilling , oil , Obama , climate bill , drilling for oil , drill baby drill , compromise , Democrats , Republicans , progressives , betrayal , James Inhofe
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And now you do.
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Never get lost on Krypton or in the labyrinthine Batcave again.
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In which demographic analysis from an online dating site (run by a musician and the SparkNotes guys. It's a lot to process).
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His motives remain opaque.
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The controversial "La Douleur" will make its U.S. premiere at the Met's huge Picasso retrospective.
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This pixelated valley is just one long smorgasbord.
Album Reviews
The experimental soul diva tries to love again on New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) .
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Usher's attempt at a split-personality record is half good, half bad.
Features
So, a couple Saturdays ago, we were gonna go get drunk at the Bushwick Country Club. And then we thought, "Hmm, let's invite the eight best young, mostly unknown bands in the city and take lots of pictures of them."
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Catching up with the Class of '09
Features
It ain't easy bringing classical music to the people, especially in Williamsburg.
Poetry
"Stuck halfway through Genesis./I get bored with/all the begetting."
Film Reviews
The gods are gonna be pissed about man's latest aberrant blockbuster folly.
Film Reviews
That's more or less all there is to his sweet-natured, conflict-free documentary, The Thorn in the Heart.
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Warlords is a Chinese period epic that understands just how mucky and needy history can get.
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Frequently frustrating doc The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom talks about means and ends with the Dalai Lama and others.
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Is Nicholas Sparks-Miley Cyrus merger The Last Song the most numbingly virtuous movie ever made?
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Local indie Breaking Upwards embodies the virtues and drawbacks of the young-white-people-breaking-up-with-each-other genre.
Film Reviews
A fast-talking, Depression-era new series on The Newspaper Picture shows America learning to love the sound of its own voice.
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Tina Fey and Steve Carell's romantic dinner adventure quickly turns to disaster.
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...but this Aussie import is a solidly made neo-noir.
Film Reviews
It Came from Kuchar offers a loving history of cinema’s greatest Bronx-bred 8mm parodist twins.
Film Reviews
Death-and-the-maiden drama After.Life should have been a terrific black comedy.
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A new German drama reminds you just how rarely movies about relationships capture what really goes on between a couple.
Film Reviews
BAM's monthlong retro offers ""the clearest revelation of the nature of cinema" you'll ever have.
Film Reviews
The new doc When You’re Strange shows how.
Film Reviews
The new doc When You’re Strange shows how.
Restaurant Reviews
Smoked meat, poutine, chewy delicious bagels... Mile End imports everything but the pizzaghetti.
Bar Reviews
Hyperlocal beer bar Matt Torrey's opens in Bushwick... where everybody knows your name.
Tips for Tips
We've been trying to start The L Magazine Rockin' Soul Review for years now. It hasn't really worked.
A new exhibition of photo and video striving to show what has disappeared is rarely as eerie as it sounds.
by Deirdre Hering
Tags: General , Art , Gabriel Orozco , Sophie Calle , Paul Chan , Andy Warhol , Robert Rauschenberg , Barbara Kruger , Robert Mapplethorpe , Cindy Sherman , Jeff Wall , An My Le , Merce Cunningham , Tacita Dean , Photography , Video art , Roland Barthes , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
NADA Emerging Artists
Matthew Lyons is a critic and curator who has organized exhibitions throughout New York City and written extensively about performance art.
Theater Reviews
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson tells the musical history of our first populist president.
Theater Reviews
Caligula Maximus is Roman legend as a circus sex party.
Theater Reviews
This Wooster Group classic gets a little lost at sea.
Theater Reviews
The new revival of 1986's Lend Me a Tenor reaches even further back for its relentless, mad-cap humor.
Theater Reviews
Rescue Me puts obscure Euripides on CNN in a pink Elvis costume.
Kevin Sampsell's new memoir is simple, direct and affecting
Edward Jay Epstein breaks down the Hollywood financing system, but doesn't do much more...
An interview with the prolific American metafictionist and moviegoer, about his new novel Noir (among other things).
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Risk versus pleasure... The age-old question.
Fashionville
Jerome Dreyfuss moves in on Broome Street, bringing a little bit of Paris along with him.
Fare is Fair
The last time someone asked what our favorite band was we threw up on their slacks (food poisoning).
The Conscientious Objector
Three legislative fixes for a greener New York.
Art Fag City
Is the art market expanding because more stuff is considered "art"?
Features
Anime + Doc Martens = "Hey that looks really good."
