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Come take your art world anger out on Warhol's big giant head.
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First they came for the Metro-North bar car, then they came for the AmTrak bar car...
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After a lifetime in space, a melancholy monkey comes back to earth.
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Giant corporations showing profits! Jobs added in New York! Someone please lend me $20!
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The visuals for "As We Enter" epitomize rap's "warehouse chic" music video subgenre.
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This weekend's repertory pick is a dispassionate melodrama of guarded people, from Otto Preminger.
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The street artist/countercultural branding guru will be ubiquitous by Saturday, when his show opens.
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The internet apparently only knows one way to signify gloomy hopelessness.
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A giant tower, filled with higher learning, to rule them all.
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Does "showerpooling" actually save that much water?
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A wacky Iranian fable with a stinging political subtext.
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Do you like art? Do you like young people? You're in luck.
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Fergie and will.i.am lend a few vocals to this scrapped surefire hit from Paper Trail .
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , T.I. , Unreleased songs , Paper Trails , will.i.am , Fergie , Black Eyed Peas , King Unleashed , Tom Tom Club , Video , Audio
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Why must we demand our elected officials subscribe to such narrow concepts of beauty?
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Also, B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray is out today, and it was worth the wait.
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New York takes a blow, but London faces its worst crisis since the Blitz.
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Saturday's rep film pick is every day's rep film pick, really...
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Revisiting our video essay on the first-ever PG-13 film, screening next week.
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Tonight's rep film pick recalls a politically charged video collective of the 60s and 70s.
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So M.I.A. is punk rock now, and what do you know, she's better at it than most everyone else.
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What's that? A popular, charismatic President engage in deficit spending? Shocking.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , Tea Party , Tea Baggers , Tax Day , protest , God's Country , Louis Malle , sad America , Farm Bill , taxes pay for nice things sometimes , Video
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Behold your Army of One (the last skinny child in America).
by Robert Tumas
Tags: News , obesity , the Army , fat , fatness , Jamie Oliver , Food Revolution , no fat kids , An Army of One Fat Kid , Too Fat to Fight , Mission: Readiness , sad America , fat America
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Building permits and a hesitant board of directors full of hundred-years-old Upper East Siders be damned, let's put some art up!
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Moving the pieces into place is neither rewarding nor frustrating.
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A new study shows that we have more bikers than any other U.S. city.
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Counting can be hard.
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You'll have to go over to the Entertainment Weekly website, but it's ok--you just might enjoy yourself.
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Ugh, Pedro Espada Jr.
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You may now geek out at collages of pod-shaped buildings and floating disco-cities.
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Fresh out of jail, T.I. goes pyro.
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The only things you have to lose are your aprons! (Also: internet commenters are stoopid.)
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Car windows smashes, garbage cans overturned, bubble tea impugned.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , American Apparel , Williamsburg , anarchy , vandalism , The Coming Insurrection , rioting , Bedford Avenue , hipsters , surprising initiative for an otherwise apathetic demographic , anarchists
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Natural selection is, indeed, a real, true thing.
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Brothers Ad and Droo have over 2,000 works hanging from power lines all over the city.
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Print? Is print dead? No, print is not dead.
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Faced with a possible eviction/bulldozing by city-backed real estate developers, Freddy's headed to West Slope.
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Jonny "Love Darts" Diamond and Ben "Ninja Slug" Sutton could not be reached for comment, which is weird because they're sitting like ten feet away from me. Huh.
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God, it is so much fun to laugh at the people trying to sell you stuff.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Food & Drink , TV , The Cooking Channel , The Food Network , Young , Hip , Edgy , Food Tatts , Beastie Boys , Zeppelin , GN'R , Video
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An appreciation of the woman who cut together the Bonnie and Clyde shootout, changing the world.
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You know, when I was a kid, I was never able to fly a kite. I was just really, really bad at it.
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Sunday's rep film pick is something like a Rosetta stone for Jean Renoir's cinema.
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Don't type "Alot" instead of "A lot," or our favorite new meme will come getcha!
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Really, Minneapolis is number one? Do they even have paved streets?
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Well Fuck You , Jan Brewer, this will be our top story all weekend.
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Yup, this happened.
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Soon there will be a Barcade in Philadelphia, which will make Philadelphia bearable. Maybe.
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What can I say? Dogs. They are my beat.
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Matt Stone and Trey Parker's The Book of Mormon to open on the Great White Way in March 2011. (Mel Gibson's The Book of Christ musical coming soon.)
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Theater , TV , South Park , The Book of Mormon , Mormons , Joseph Smith , Broadway , musicals , nyc theater , Matt Stone , Trey Parker , Avenue Q , Robert Lopez , Video
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Do not use his True Facts About the 44th President on quiz night at your local.
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Star of Zombieland spotted!
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And then pay for carbon credits to offset the energy your computer used to power the internet while you were watching it.
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We recommend something in all caps and with lots of exclamation points.
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Yup, there's evil afoot.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Reverend Billy , JP Morgan Chase , Jamie Dimon , Obama , Big Coal , environmental destruction , protest , Don Blankenship , Massey , West Virginia , coal mining , mining unions , Mountain Top Removal , Reverend Billy
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Which of the 20 guest-starring songstresses should play Marcos? Cyndi Lauper? Santigold? Tori Amos?
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , Theater , David Byrne , Cyndi Lauper , Fatboy Slim , Imelda Marcos , Musicals , nyc theater , Off-Broadway , Here Lies Love , Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson , Coraline
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In search of a more boring New Yorker .
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Now quick, go listen to Blood on the Tracks .
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Alongside works by eight local artists, Swoon showcases a housing prototype for Haiti.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Swoon , Wiliamsburg , nyc art , Brooklyn art , Street art , Swoon , Urban Art Projects , Public art , East River State Park , Video
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We walk under them every day, but these massive urban muralists are increasingly rare.
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Why, it's a bunch of scrappy dudes pulling of a series of daring missions!
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Oh, how I have not missed writing these things.
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Just in time for this weekend's Anarchist Book Fair and Film Festival! Nice timing, cops!
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , anarchists , Bushwick , police , cops , arrests , raids , hipster flophouse , Priya Reddy , Anarchist Book Fair , Anarchist Film Festival , Down with the Czar! , Tea Party , people who care
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There were lots of people, lots of beer, lots of short fiction, and lots of fun.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Talks and Readings , Literary Upstart , short fiction , readings , parties , I am drunk , drinking , drunks , drinks? , hangovers , The single greatest reading series in the history of mankind , Slideshow
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Seriously, MoMA's photo album of every sitter in The Artist Is Present is amazing.
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Jealous of the Pacific Ocean's popular plastic patch, the Atlantic is coming on strong.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , garbage patch , plastic patch , North Pacific Gyre , waste , plastic , plastic is bad , consumer society , throwaway culture , Conscientious Objector , The Repurpose-Driven Life , science , Atlantic Ocean
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Disenfranchise grandparents: their bigotry ruins the world.
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In which our hero discovers so much delicious food in the garbage she doesn't know what to do.
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Pretty pictures, pretty clothes.
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The future is so, so bleak for redheads with freckles.
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Hey, let's not keep families apart as their loved ones lay dying... 'K?
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FIFA commissioned an impressive roster of artists for a series of World Cup posters, but who would win in a tourney?
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They looked like they were almost about to start breaking stuff, which would have been super awesome.
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Spring is here, spring is here, life is skittles, life is beer.
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Rich people's trash to continue to miraculously disappear from their doorsteps each night.
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Hey, musicians? Get off the internet and go be musicians.
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It's a global mispronunciation disaster of epic proportions!
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In the end, the Sun will destroy us all.
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When I was 18, I had Sub Pop stickers all over most of my belongings, which is maybe as impressive as actually being signed to the label? Maybe?
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Which is good, because immigrants have historically been armed to the motherfucking teeth .
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In which the Conscientious Objector weighs all the garbage in New York City.
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Man, I love me those polar bears.
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Geocities-izer reminds us how the internet got prettier with age.
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For posterity? But isn't that what the internet is for in the first place?
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This Italian interactive multimedia arts group's funny new video proposes a classical canon of video game art.
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Next time you hear that ice cream truck coming, look for Nihalani's latest work to come jingling down the block.
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His HOPE-ness will reportedly be on Bowery painting his mural on Sunday.
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Ha! A mob boss would own a portrait sculpture made of frozen blood.
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Marina Abromavic inspires a groping frenzy, because people just straight-up don't know how act .
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Or, how can the best albums of the past 25 years bear so little resemblance to the best albums of the past 20 years?
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You know environmental end-times are upon us when the insects start protesting.
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This summer, I plan on becoming fat.
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Rats! There are rats in New York City!
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Greed kills. And so do ancient Indian curses.
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Fighting institutional anti-Hispanic bias one hollow broken frustrated quixotic gesture at a time.
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Next time you're dropping acid, check out the beautiful little masterpiece someone took the time to design for your tab.
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This dull totalitarian future is part 1984 London, part Pleasantville .
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When an artist who's in jail "releases" a new music video, we should have very low expectations.
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Lincoln Center asked us to throw an 80s movie party, which is a sight that should not be missed.
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The fate of all major legislation rests, uncomfortably, in the weave of the Nebraska Democrat's awful toupee.
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This job has taught me more about marketing than I ever thought I'd know.
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Tonight is the night The L Magazine lets its beautiful hair down.
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Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif) is a big dumb asshole.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , immigration , illegal aliens , Brian Bilbray , Chris Matthews , MSNBC , Hardball , ignorance , racism , prejudice , Cheap crap from China clothes the entire global underclass so how can you really tell the difference between a poor American and a poor Mexican? , Video
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This is what happens when your state passes idiotic laws: You don't get to go to indie-pop shows anymore.
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Is the reverse-club video the new club video?
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The next visual spectacle to hit the Great White Way is quickly turning into a spectacular disaster.
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Ok, the second one isn't real, but given how great the first one is, it shouldn't be too far off.
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Help a trio of bicyclists from Brooklyn spend the summer working on farms all around Europe.
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This plan has its drawbacks.
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He's doing this just to infuriate me.
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Is it totally crazy that the Park Slope Food Coop is claiming Barneys Co-op is infringing on its brand? Maybe.
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We've got your hot pics of plastic bags and a golf ball covered in marine mammal bile!
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The rich eat piles of poultry and potato chips, and dig up their own carrots at the Brooklyn Museum.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Food & Drink , Nightlife , Brooklyn Museum , Andy Warhol , Jennifer Rubell , Jackson Pollock , Food art , Brooklyn Ball , Bruce Nauman , Marcel Duchamp
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Like Tiny Tim channeling Joseph McCarthy.
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Jay Shells' viral postering campaign to curb sloppy eating, religious proselytizing and noise pollution on the subway.
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Don't get too excited, though: it's just a big, boring OBEY ad.
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Funny new illustration blog interprets your tweets very, very literally.
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Some people just bring out the bully in me. Space nerds being those people.
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Just because a crazy person called you up doesn't mean you have to write down what he says and put it in the paper.
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Spock tucks into some key lime pie at dusk in this unpredictable meme's latest mutation.
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Jeez, I want to walk across America with my dogs.
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The Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn co-founder finally moves out of Pacific Street.
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A huge suburban supermarket will (eventually) replace the historic officers' houses at Flushing and Navy.
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It is probably not ok that I'm doing this.
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From game show musical cues to helpful voice samples like "It's a trap!", you're now a qualified sound designer.
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Plum Island has all the historic ruins and hazardous germ labs that a movie villain could possibly want.
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A round-up featuring British council life, headstrong orphans, privileged Brooklynites, and Brigitte Bardot eating pickles.
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The original nightlife photographer offers timeless advice in this interview.
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Really could have used this that time I was all like "it's such a great honor to meet you Mister Dee Lie Lo."
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Now work really will be a picnic!
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(On the off chance that you're just a little bit sick of reading about Courtney Love and Billy Corgan.)
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The Conscientious Objector is documenting an entire year of trash finds (even the edible stuff).
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The smooth, uniquely skilled and sensitive rap legend died of cancer yesterday.
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Raise your hand if you assumed this record had already been released and that no one cared about it?
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Today's rep pick is a woolly story of the '68 generation regrouping.
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A Times film critic describes a movie much as the Tribeca Film Festival does.
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Expect this to be ignored incessantly during the debate over the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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A history of L.A.'s last good gangsta rapper's best series of songs.
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How many librarians have ever had sex in a library? Survey says...
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I simply cannot believe that PourOneForMyHomies.com is available.
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Nicolas Cage, who is a superhero in real life, plays a superhero in a movie that opens this weekend.
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Who will get the $100 grand and solo Gugg show? We'll find out in November, but here's who should win.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Cao Fei , Hans-Peter Feldmann , Roman Ondak , Walid Raad , Natascha Sadr Haghighian , Apichatpong Weerasethakul , Hugo Boss Prize , Art prizes , Guggenheim , Predictions , Video
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So, they're not really anarchists. (They're radical feminists against the patriarchy. And windows.)
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , anarchists , feminists , Williamsburg , Bedford Avenue , rioting , always bet on black , dissent , unrest , Bubble Tea , smashingness , Take Back the Night , violence against windows
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The ants protest pesticides, and this octopus protests intrusive, paparazzi-like photographers.
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Not the kind of pageviews you want.
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Sometimes I could really use a magical key to open all the doors...
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Outliers, man... outliers .
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Rep film pick: two hours off the grid in a Scotch cult-movie paradise.
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We'll believe it, and buy it, when we see it.
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In which a logarithm provides answers to your very subjective queries about the intelligence of the internet.
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Short fiction, dollar beers, and literary brilliance tonight at the Slipper Room.
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The NYPD now thinks its on border patrol in Arizona.
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And for once, it has nothing to do with Napster.
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In this lengthy disquisition we learn that computers help people to do things.
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When, exactly, did the dream die?
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Back in 1937, the Nazis assembled an exhibition of banned art that became the most widely attended show in history. Now you can visit.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Degenerate art , Historical exhibitions , Nazis , Emil Nolde , Otto Dix , Marc Chagall , Max Beckmann , Wassily Kandinsky , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Dada , Surrealism , Expressionism
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He's had 45 years to cool it, brothers.
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Last year we dreamed up an idea to refurbish an old SI industrial rail line, and now it could happen.
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It's at the website of the NY Times , which is exactly like Stereogum, only with a print component.
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I love the human brain ('cept mine).
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Epic blog explores distant under-appreciated universes of dragons, lizard-people and interplanetary romance.
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At which time the remaining pedal-power pipe bombs will be thrown into the ocean along with out of service subway cars.
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Meet all your favorite L Magazine editors at New York City's hottest tea party... tonight!
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So, um, grab your HOPE poster and get down there for an autograph?
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An interview with the documentarian Alina Marazzi, as a feminist film series kicks off.
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Chopsticks vs. Taxi Driver : who ya got? What about... Akron, Ohio vs. Jack Black? Tough, right?
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You're not punk, and I'm telling everyone.
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Figures in the British sculptor's Madison Square Park show look suicidal.
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This one's gonna get ugly, folks: family claims the rapper was unconscious for two months before dying, couldn't have written final letter.
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The gates to Williamsburg's biggest, most beautiful industrial relic will be open to all for three hours Sunday afternoon.
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Today's rep pick is The Silence , so all signs point to... [crickets].
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Dersu Uzala returns to Film Forum this week.
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Lin's "last memorial" features beautiful videos of soon-to-be extinct species from all over the world, right in Midtown.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Maya Lin , environmentalism , installation art , nyc art , Creative Time , Times Square , What Is Missing? , video art , public art , Video
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Nation of northern losers actually winning the international ecstasy racket.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Chuck Schumer , Canada , Canadian border , drugs , heroin , cocaine , ecstasy , smuggling , War on Drugs , Mexico
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Creatively re-cut Snickers ad suggests you try the contemporary philosopher's satisfying work.
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Richard felt abandoned and lied to, but now he's reinvigorated. So are we.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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The president came to town this morning with a message, and he left with hundreds of New Yorkers' bicycles.
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The sheer number of hairpieces in Congress is the most damning indictment of our broken democracy that I can think of.
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Sorry, haters: it's here to stay, and it's not just for avatars anymore.
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In which we host a fiction competition and manage not to embarrass ourselves.
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You mean there wasn't already an online poster generator for this?
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On film festival lineups, which are of incredible political significance.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , Cannes Film Festival , New York Film Festival , NYFF '09 , J. Hoberman , A.O. Scott , NYFF Selection Committee , Film Society of Lincoln Center , Film Festivals , Politics of Film Criticism , Nobody Cares
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Next up, legal coke dens (hey, remember Cokie's?)
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If you were looking forward to being able to light your tap water on fire, you're out of luck.
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So maybe there weren't black balaclava-clad agitators hurling cobblestones at Czarist agents. What do you want?!
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , anarchists , Bushwick , police , cops , arrests , raids , hipster flophouse , Priya Reddy , Anarchist Book Fair , Anarchist Film Festival , Down with the Czar! , Tea Party , people who care , actual reporting , Video
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Souls to continue dancing through early July.
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After Bobby covered Vampire Weekend (also included), he and T.I.P. rap over Coldplay–and it's really good!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , B.o.B. , T.I. , New music , Vampire Weekend , Coldplay , rap , hip-hop , B.o.B Presents The Adventures of Bobby Ray , King Uncaged , Audio
Album Reviews
Congratulations doesn't have the obvious monster hits but... but... It's good.
Album Reviews
Ghostface, Method Man and Raekwon take up the Wu coat of armor for a short, sharp swordfight.
Album Reviews
Sometimes, you just need to play a little rock and roll.
Film Reviews
Sensitive satire overwhelms the busy, sometimes overwrought ensemble drama in the contemporary art comedy Boogie Woogie .
Film Reviews
In his rare sci-fi epic World on a Wire , Rainer Werner Fassbinder explores the artifice of all lives.
Film Reviews
The famously anonymous graffiti artist Banksy turns the camera away from himself, again, in his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop .
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Go real underground with Iran's indie music scene in No One Knows About Persian Cats .
Film Reviews
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009's Best Foreign Film!) mostly just reminds you of better movies.
Film Reviews
Yeah, we're talking about Pornography: A Thriller (isn't it always?).
Film Reviews
A superhero for the MySpace generation, with a touch of the old ultraviolence.
Film Reviews
A MoMA retro reveals hidden depths in the work of midcentury cinema's quintessential British charmer.
Film Reviews
The Joneses , as in "keeping up with," wastes its satirical premise.
Film Reviews
Welcome to our preview of the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, featuring a perhaps surprising number of scrappy little quality films.
Film Reviews
A mini retro of the zombie-movie maestro revels in his early films' satirical bite.
Film Reviews
Burlesque doc Behind the Burly Q sashays down memory lane.
Film Reviews
... but one based on a semi-popular comic book , it's the breezily decent The Losers .
Video Essays
Our latest video essay is a tribute to the undervalued art of costume design, and the somewhat less undervalued art of the heinous 70s necktie, brought together definitively in David Fincher's contemporary masterwork.
Features
How Marco Bellocchio's Mussolini soaper reappropriates a long-standing literary and cinematic tradition.
Bar Reviews
You should probably drink more whiskey in your life... Maybe just a wee dram.
Restaurant Reviews
Paulie Gee brings great pizza to Greenpoint.
Tips for Tips
We'll go ahead and say it: yes.
Paintings and photograms get rocked in their two-man show at Causey Contemporary.
The Biennialist reaches surprising heights in new works at The Boiler in Williamsburg.
Theater Reviews
Abingdon Theatre's exciting Engaging Shaw sets the young playwright on his way to the theater pantheon.
Theater Reviews
Bugs get their freak on in Ovo , Cirque du Soleil's big top spectacle on Randall's Island.
Theater Reviews
Richard Sheinmel uses sitcom humor and a beautiful ghost story to move us into Post Modern Living .
Sam Lipsyte's latest hits very close to home... Astoria, to be exact.
Ian McEwan sure is good at creating jerks for characters. It's a little suspicious.
Fare is Fair
Taking cabs isn't very eco... unless it's a hybrid.
Fashionville
Surfer looks proliferate on and off the beach for summer. (But for our purposes, off.)
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Sometimes fantasies are best when they're kept to ourselves.
The Conscientious Objector
In which our hero eats out of the trash, and records every minute of it.
Art Fag City
Are these Charline Von Heyl paintings truly original works of art? Yes and no.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
"March 26th: You denied me sex because you 'had to finish washing your New York Islanders jersey.'"
Features
How two guys using mushrooms will save the planet. Seriously, mushrooms.
Features
by Deirdre Hering and Henry Stewart
Features
How one little fork is destroying the planet.
