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As Breathless starts its 50th anniversary victory lap, a plea to look past the safest choice in repertory programming.
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Not the final, or the final reading (which is the final). The final semifinal.
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Here are two disproportionately interesting interviews to do with the recent unveiling of BMW Koonsmobile.
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The Madness of Art mocks the madness of art, and the madmen who sell it.
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Unless you're still listening to those two Arcade Fire songs. You're still listening to those two Arcade Fire songs, aren't you?
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Only laughter can save us now!
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Welcome to the internet!
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Don't you dare start talking about the "cycle of life." Fuck that, this shit is sad.
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This story is so adorable it's like snorting opiates through your ears.
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I don't know what the preferred etiquette is for spoilers the morning after, so... spoiler alert, obviously.
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Watch the Canadian indie-pop band play a very promising track from their forthcoming full-length, The Five Ghosts .
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Here is the nerdiest thing you will watch today.
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It's not as good as the Guitar Hero trailer, but it's pretty good.
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In which a fight to the death is narrowly averted.
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Coopers Beach is the nicest beach in America, a fact that some of you might care about.
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The youngest of last weekend's famous deaths was a funny, death-obsessed Manhattan designer.
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Did you guys know you can listen to the radio on the internet? It's crazy.
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This is how you stay visible, even though you're in jail and just released a terrible concept album.
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Joyce Carol Oates is coming to Brooklyn to still our life force.
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Score one for tolerance.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Cordoba House , Cordoba Initiative , mosque , Community Board One , 9/11 , lower Manhattan , Mark Williams , good news , God Bless the Real America , American values , religious tolerance , World Trade Center
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Ligeti's opera burlesque needs more burlesque and less Ligeti.
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Three Brooklyn neighborhoods are having huge art festivals today through Sunday, and here's what you need to know about 'em.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Bushwick Open Studios , Brooklyn art , Art fairs , Art festivals , Atlantic Avenue Artwalk , Red Hook Fest , Bushwick , Red Hook , Atlantic Avenue , Open studios
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Welcome to tiny Rosendale, New York, where you can eat a bahn mi while watching Mercury Rev soundtrack a silent film.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Rosendale , Market Market , Trippy Thompson , Jennifer Constantine , Williamburg , hipsters , Hudson Valley , gentrification , Tivoli , Bard College , Griffin Dunne , the Times notes a trend four years after it noted the same trend , places I might like to live
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Two separate John Prine items currently appear on our homepage. This is how we're going to reach the coveted hipster demographic.
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Hmm, yeah, I would definitely hang out with Lady Gaga's dad.
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Oh world, oh life.
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It's not quite de-gentrifying, but Soho's mall culture is dying.
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But you can watch the epic, super-sad trailer right now!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Film , Food & Drink , News , Freddy's , Atlantic Yards , Eminent Domain , gentrification , Documentary , indieScreen , Brooklyn International Film Festival , Video
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No one is ever as smart as we want them to be.
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Here's a handy website that puts the shit over your hometown.
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As I type this, my neural paths are changing and I'm becoming sad.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Media , computers , gadgets , Twitter , iPhones , email , attention , the brain , New York Times , the Internet , going crazy , stress , dopamine
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"My ten-year-old genre writing kid could do that!"
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Books , Lee Child , Martin Amis , genre fiction , crime fiction , literary fiction , novels , Night Train , Jack Reacher , pissing contests , Henning Mankell , Georges Simenon
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Did you know that Jay-Z is rich? And that he is dating Beyonce? And that he knows politicians? Well you do now.
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Even tonight's rep film has World Cup fever.
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Phew. That was the worst.
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Sneezing is extremely un-smooth in this funny new short.
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We have this music, film and art festival in three weeks, and so much free stuff to give you. Please help!
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Somebody with a longer memory tell us: have this many marquee players every been injured before?
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Now you can finally stage the Banksy vs. Damien Hirst battle for British art star supremacy!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , David Byrne , Ron English , Banksy , Damien Hirst , Cindy Sherman , R. Crumb , nyc art , Fuse Gallery , action figures , Mike Leavitt , Artist action figures
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This is a crazy story. Seriously.
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And I decide that maybe I like Frightened Rabbit.
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Wow. Sometimes the good guys win one.
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The biggest deal in the New York art world in over a decade is looking like a sure thing.
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Go ahead, do it. Then next time you hear Neon Indian, be all like, "What? That's not chillwave, I'll show you chillwave."
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From Turkey to New York, Crystal Gwyn talks with Su Beyazit about the evolution of style.
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Boys and ladies get their empty-headed escapism, and that's fine.
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Our favorite tape artist is at it again, making your streets so much prettier.
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You know how every time Brooklyn Vegan posts about Northside, at least one commenter goes, "POLVO!!!"? Yeah, that actually isn't us, but we totally agree.
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Weezy takes full advantage of his freedom high above Miami Beach.
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My advice to aspiring writers: don't read this.
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This is as close to time travel as we'll probably get for at least the next week.
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Sutton and Stewart outrun a Persian time-sand storm of superficial liberalism and tea partytastic politics.
by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , Blockbluster , Summer movies , Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time , Video games , Jake Gyllenhaal , Iraq , Iran , 300 , Aladdin , Disney , Gemma Arterton , Tea Party , Alfred Molina
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Baby, it's hot outside.
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How is it possible that a constituency continues to re-elect this lunatic?
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In (mostly) tribute to a life lived very much according to its own rules.
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You should know that Hurricane Season 2010 is underway today, especially if your name is Alex, Bonnie, Colin...
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Piece to be temporarily renamed, from "Box Office" to "Watering Can."
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Oh, hahaha... I'm actually crying right now.
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In this weekend's rep film pick, Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman consider the essence of love, and its place in the world.
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No story, no posse, not even a rapper, just pretty models and a sexy song.
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Volunteer at Northside and hang out with all the really good looking L Mag staffers.
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We got your first look inside Williamsburg's independent film house.
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From oil spills to immanent tar sands exploitation, that green flower isn't quite dirty enough.
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Hey squatters, there are 73 abandoned construction projects in North Brooklyn alone! Come on down!
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , real estate , Brooklyn , construction , stalled construction , abandoned sites , condos , Greenpoint , Williamsburg , bubbles , busts
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The pop star (is she even a pop star anymore?) just discovered Bon Iver, wonders why it took her so long.
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Soft Skull announces a new line of writers-at-the-movies books, starting this fall with hott Lethem-on-Carpenter action.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Books , Film , Soft Skull , Deep Focus , 33 1/3 , BFI Classics , Jonathan Lethem , Christopher Sorrentino , They Live , Death Wish , Film Criticism
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Just a lonely boy talking with his lifeless tiger toy...
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"At the end of the day, goddamnit I'm killing this shit," he says. And he's pretty much right.
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A new graphic design project will feature one Anderson character for every letter.
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From Queen to early 90s dance and Paul Simon, Em will rap over anything.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , Eminem , Recovery , Paul Simon , Malcolm McLaren , Queen , Haddaway , Michael Jackson , Sampling , Hip-hop , Lil Wayne , Listicles , Le Pamplemousse , Video , Audio
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At least they put City Island back on the map.
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An ambitious, inter-borough public artwork by Paul Ramirez Jonas begins today.
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The city's most well-liked talent booker got fired today, and no one will say why.
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Catch the next art star really, really early.
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I like Marmaduke. Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
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Lead your little pixels into battle for hours and hours of pretty little wars.
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Geez, cops are a tempestuous bunch, ain't they?
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Whatever that means.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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He's not joking about being a superhero anymore, dude is straight up Iron Man, without the humor.
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The internet is going to make it through this alive.
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It's really hard to write pithy subheds while contemplating memory's erasure.
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Maybe the Pixies aren't totally in it for the money?
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Music , Pixies , Israel , Tel Aviv , Gaza , blockade , flotilla , Turkey , Kim Deal , Klaxons , Gorillaz
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All those cities in the 90s with dropping crime rates? Higher immigration rates.
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"Walcott" will never be bad, but it comes close here.
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I find drinking on an empty stomach gets you quite drunk, thank you very much.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Food & Drink , Christopher Hitchens , Martin Amis , drinking , drunks , advice , Rules for Drinking , memoirs , shitfaced , Hitch-22 , somebody pour me a cab
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Every metaphor ever used to describe her abstract compositions just got frightfully literal.
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Do you think they'll play "We Rule the School"? I bet they will.
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Photographic evidence that just because the BK borough prez thinks something is a bad idea doesn't mean he'll get his way.
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If you could see us, we'd be sticking out our tongue, because we told you so.
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All anybody really wants is someone to love.
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Because man oh man, it had just been too long since M.I.A. was in the news, right?
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Graydon Carter throws like a girl.
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"Real hip-hop" is the verdict, whatever that means. (It just means it doesn't sound like 808s , probably.)
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Note: Jesus Christ will not actually (to our knowledge) be appearing at this show.
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Sutton and Stewart can't take Greek 's anally administered money-grabbing and misogyny.
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First time we've ever typed that sentence.
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And then enjoy your weekend.
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Flea does in fact rhyme with twee, now doesn't it?
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Just when you thought it was safe to ask Google about "infant with triangular shaped face," a new website started watching your searches.
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A memorial to the Soho gallery's ambitious façade projects.
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Her epic MoMA performance is over: how many real artists came out?
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Bugs Bunny totally lived in a glassy Philip Johnson house in the 1948 WB short Long-Haired Hare .
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Follow @MarinasChair and get semi-regular, mostly fictional updates from her performance partner.
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The waterfront might be safe, but the rest of the UWS is sorely lacking bike infrastructure (slightly less so after last night's CB7 vote).
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It's not often we see celebrities acting with common sense. Woot.
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They have a new album coming out, you know.
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With two outs in the 9th. Poor Armando Galarraga.
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There are way more than 29, probably. We were so shocked we assume we missed some.
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"We Are the World"-type song forthcoming about how music community despises GOP.
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No, not Christian Bale.
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The most important female artist of the last half-century died Monday at her home in Chelsea.
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Is it too early to start drinking?
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Upper West Siders no longer have excuse of that patchy section between 83rd and 91st Streets for not biking to work.
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Very handy, very random 20-foot stretch of Bowery bike lane could be start of something big.
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This time, the Islamo-Communofascists in Washington have gone too far.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , job creation , congress , New York City , teens , youth employment , American Jobs act , socialism is actually pretty good , God bless Eugene Debs , hysteria , social safety nets , real America is right here in New York
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Because sometimes those 1,000 words pictures are speaking need a little perking up.
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Even the news has summer hours.
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Things just got really hot down here under the bridges.
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Everybody knows where Newtown Barge Park is right? RIGHT?
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Full approval on 2,400 new southside apartments expected shortly, with a few less parking spaces.
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But can the city afford to create the necessary giant concrete platform?
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I'm pretty sure I'm the L's Christina Hendricks correspondent?
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First it was Pareene, now it's Newell... At least Gawker will be smart again.
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Do you live in real Brooklyn or fake Brooklyn? How many generations has your family been in Flatbush?
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , hipsters , Gawker , Brooklyn , real Brooklyn , fake Brooklyn , cred , authenticity , navel gazing , I'm obsessed , I'll stop soon
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Hey, wood is ugly and concrete is beautiful right?
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The curator of her MoMA retrospective may have revealed a shocking detail about her tear-inducing endurance performance.
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How unlucky can you get?
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Corgi lost, Corgi found.
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Take that, e-KindleNookThing.
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Call me a goon if you must, but sometimes I find violence has an appealing clarity.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Kenneth Starr , doorman , knock out , KO , papparazzo , photographer , punch up , punch out , fisticuffs , donnybrook , knuckle sandwich
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So, tell us who they missed.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Books , Media , New Yorker , New Yorker Fiction , 20 Under 40 , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Chris Adrian , Daniel Alarcon , Sarah Shun-lien Bynum , Joshua Ferris , Jonathan Safran Foer , Rivka Galchen , Nicole Krauss , C. E. Morgan , Tea Obreht , Karen Russell , Salvatore Scibona , Gary Shteyngart , Wells Tower , Upon Reflection Ed Park wuz robbed
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I am definitely going to watch this tonight.
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Also, Rostam is dressed like a villain in an 80s movie.
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Just one more night, you guys.
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We did not really see this one coming.
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Get Him to the Greek 's racial consciousness might make it the savviest Hollywood comedy of the year.
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The Lower East Side gallery scene: it's not just for folks priced out of Chelsea anymore!
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Iranian artists aren't even safe from their repressive government in dissenting artists-loving Europe.
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The Gulf oil spill could either be Obama's Katrina or his Dunquerke... I'm not sure yet..
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , oil spill , Katrina , Obama , BP , Gulf Coast oil spill , Louisiana , disasters , bitching , Obama's Katrina , Obama's Selma , Obama's Lexington , Obama's Scarsdale , Obama's Shreveport , Obama's Watergate , Obama's Obamagate , Obama's Whitby , Rand Paul
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Covered in hyperdynamic light streaks, the car looks like it's flying even when it's parked.
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New park! New ferry launch! Governors Island reopens! Suits stand awkwardly in the way.
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Backed by a band of life-sized puppets, Big Boi raps real fast and turns his face into a Rolodex. Yup.
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Our society's frame of reference is narrowing appallingly.
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Amanda Park Taylor kicks the eco-knowledge at RadioHive.org.
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Seriously, if you live in Bushwick (or anywhere nearby) keep your eyes peeled for a Corgi named "Puppy."
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Yeah, cars really do suck. And we all have to pay for it.
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Soon you can bike safely from Soho to Penn Station. But forget about reaching Port Authority.
Northside Festival News
Music's pretty cool and everything, but movies rule.
Features
Or, how a 63-year-old country singer might be exactly the thing hipster Brooklyn has been looking for all along.
Album Reviews
The Brooklyn band writes what could have been the soundtrack to Kevin and Winnie's first kiss.
Album Reviews
Tracey Thorn's Love and Its Opposite is a sparse, folk-tinged record that's just begging to be tinkered with.
Features
Talk Normal channels utilitarian playfulness in one pieces and picking up clothes off the floor.
Features
Your favorite bands tackle some of the most important issues of the day.
Film Reviews
Micmacs: Another Jean-Pierre Jeneut whirligig that goes nowhere.
Film Reviews
Sexual repression becomes artistic oppression during 101 minutes of intercourse denied.
Film Reviews
Survival of the Dead , George A. Romero's latest zombie opus, is as low-stakes as its title.
Film Reviews
Behind the Scenes Bravery on Breathless and The Father of My Children
Film Reviews
A doc about modern art and the birth of the cinema is insightful, but its thesis isn't as specific as it thinks it is.
Film Reviews
In his Anthology Film Archives retrospective, Finn feeds a squirrel from his mouth and skewers Cold War political rhetoric.
Film Reviews
When you can't escape the escapism, it's time to start worrying.
Film Reviews
In Ondine , a fisherman lands a mysterious lady, and much "mystery" and "magic" ensue.
Film Reviews
Labcoated meddlers get more than their comeuppance in genetic and generic hybrid Splice .
Film Reviews
Latter-day verite doc Convention is a part practical, sorta sappy look at Denver 08.
Film Reviews
The new doc Living in Emergency captures do-gooders confronting the limits of idealism.
Film Reviews
Visionaries travesties the avant-garde cinema it means to salute.
Film Reviews
Cine-essay Double Take is a dialectical doppelgangbang starring Hitchcock, Kennedy and Kruschev.
Film Reviews
Cropsey delves into the dark deeds and unsolved mysteries of NYC's outer limits.
Film Reviews
At least that's the impression one gets from the cryptically one-sided oncology-doc doc Burzynski .
Tips for Tips
Seriously, c'mon, the answer is pizza, people.
Restaurant Reviews
A little bit of (no longer secret) Caribbean homecooking in Fort Greene.
Bar Reviews
Rivers Cuomo meets Wes Anderson and they drink wine.
Features
Summer's here, and you'll never have to go inside again.
Features
Don't be afraid, the food is better than you think.
Features
Bad luck, black magic or arson? Some restaurants just don't make it.
A new exhibition showcases artists who have day jobs in the art world.
Theater Reviews
With her new self-serious comedy, Elizabeth Meriwether seems like Diablo Cody's less focused younger sister.
Theater Reviews
Jack's Precious Moments tries to glue a fractured Christian family from the Midwest back together.
Theater Reviews
The 2010 Bushwhack Series at the Bushwick Starr featured dance and a drunk cephalopod.
I Was Looking for a Street tells an honest tale of adventure.
Purge : the hardest thing to survive is sometimes the self.
The aging bad boy of English letters talks sex, feminism and Tina Brown.
Fashionville
They've always good for carrying stuff. Now they're cool .
The Conscientious Objector
Cheap and easy tips for beating the NYC heat.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Audrey talks with dildographer extraordinaire, Hallie Lieberman.
Art Fag City
Greater New York is a big place. You need a map to find the good parts...
Features
Su offers eclectic street chic courtesy her relatives (and the streets of Fort Greene).
Features
Our very own Derek Keogh (L Mag 's Dublin correspondent), will be rooting for the US of A in the World Cup. What about you?
by Derek Keogh
Tags: Features , World Cup , USA , Brazil , Italy , Argentina , England , Spain , Germany , France , Holland , Ghana
